Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler

Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler (born October 18, 1902 in Hofgeismar , † May 22, 1945 in Zell am See ) was a German painter.

Life

Early years and studies at the Bauhaus

Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler is the grandson of the architect Wilhelm Bogler and brother of the ceramist Theodor Bogler . He first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then, according to unsecured information, studied at the art academy in Kassel and Hamburg. From 1921 he studied at the State Bauhaus in Weimar . Johannes Itten and Gertrud Grunow were among his teachers . He was one of the main actors in the Bauhaus stage workshop under the direction of Oskar Schlemmer . From 1922/23 to 1925 he worked in the textile class and in the stage department at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler worked on several pieces on the Bauhaus stage. 1923 to Kurt Schmidts and Georg Teltscher's “Mechanical Ballet”, 1924 to Kurt Schmidts, “The Man on the Switchboard” and in the same year to Xanti Schawinski's “Circus”. In 1924 he performed his only self-composed piece, “Rocococot”. Between 1925 and 1929 Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler worked as a fashion tailor in Berlin and Potsdam .

Relocation to Knüll and membership in the Willingshaus painters' colony

In 1929 he built himself a studio house, the Bogler Kate , on Knüllköpfchen near Ziegenhain . Bogler withdrew to the rural solitude of the Knüllgebirge south of Kassel , where he became the most famous painter. He belonged to the nearby Willingshausen painters' colony . In 1933 and 1939 he made trips to Italy and toured the island of Capri . In 1939 he married.

Military service and death

In 1940 he was called up for military service and was slightly wounded in 1944. Bogler died in 1945 of exhaustion in a military hospital in Zell am See.

Today a training center in the Schwalm-Eder district near the Knüllköpfchen commemorates the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler. The training center was built on the site of the Bogler Kate.

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Bogler initially oriented himself towards the Bauhaus , later towards the New Objectivity . The landscape of the Knüllgebirge and its inhabitants were his preferred motifs. He was considered a virtuoso and most perfect watercolorist.

He painted and watercolored many landscapes with figure staffage, but also figure pictures and portraits in the style of New Objectivity with a romanticizing, old-masterly touch. In his pictures he designed a very differentiated color scheme in predominantly green and brown tones.

Works in museums and collections

Albert Schweitzer School, Hofgeismar
Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel: “Potato Fire”, watercolor
Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel: “Edertalsperre”, watercolor
Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel: “On the Knüll above Treysa”, oil, around 1939
Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel: “The Knüll in the Snow”, 1941
University Museum Marburg: "Marburg View into the Ziegenhain Plain", watercolor 1930.
Garnerus Collection, Munich: “Holy Family”, with Joseph as a self-portrait. Oil and mixed media on wood, Berlin 1926.

Exhibitions

1937 Galerie Fricke, Berlin,
1962 University Museum, Marburg,
1940 Hillekamp art show, Kassel,
1956 Adolf Faust and his students, Hofgeismar
1980 Orangery, Kassel: The Willingshausen painters' colony
2002 Hofgeismar City Museum
2002 Municipal Wessenberg Gallery
2006 Schwalm Museum in Ziegenhain
2017 Galerie Brusberg, Berlin

literature

Municipal Wessenberg Gallery (Ed.), Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler. An artist's life between Bauhaus and New Objectivity . Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Konstanz (October 12 - November 24, 2002). 79 p. With 26 color and 40 b / w illustrations. ISBN 3-929768-10-0
Galerie Brusberg (ed.), Friedrich Wilhelm Bogler, 1902-1945 , Kabinettdruck 47 Edition Brusberg, Berlin 2017

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personal data
SURNAME	Bogler, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hofgeismar
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1945
Place of death	Zell am See