Günter Schöllkopf

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Günter Schöllkopf (born May 23, 1935 in Stuttgart , † June 30, 1979 in Stuttgart) was a German draftsman, graphic artist and painter. He drew his picture ideas mainly from the fields of world literature, music, history and politics. When he died at the age of 44, he left a complete oeuvre of around 1,000 works.

Günter Schöllkopf, Photo: Hugo Jehle

Life

biography

Schöllkopf was a member of the Artists 'Association of Baden-Württemberg and the artists' group of the Hans Thoma Society.

The graphic techniques

Schöllkopf is one of the most outstanding representatives of printmaking in Germany. How he sees himself and the development of his artistic work is best read in an excerpt from his own diary texts:

“I am a metal man. I have to have zinc, zinc sheet, copper, steel pen, Swedish steel around me. When I work in metal, I can do anything. Whether I engrave or work with the wonderful acid that eats into the metal plate, it doesn't matter; I feel painful pleasure ... I have a very strong relationship with painting, the color is something different, but I bathe myself in the rigor while painting. The intention is the same as in metalworking. I layer the colors as I layer the shadows when engraving, I lay layer by layer on top of each other in rigor and discipline. In this, too, there is self-mortification. The canvas, the yielding one, the layers of paint are copulations, weddings, triumphs and defeats ... "

In addition to etching , Schöllkopf is also fond of painting in oil , watercolor and lithography . Not to forget the considerable number of drawings in black and white. This also includes the many illustrations for books and newspapers.

And once again Schöllkopf himself is quoted in another entry in his diary, as he sees his own professional ethos:

“... But you have to be real, learn your craft thoroughly, sift through, uncover elective affinities, practice your subject, technically realize your inclinations ... The difficult route begins at the main portal, not at the back door. Experience, read, hear, learn, believe, create the fundus in yourself, as a starting point. Then, all by itself, in decades, slowly the artistic production arises, everything then becomes visible. One leaf emerges from the other ... The search for oneself, the way inward, without blinkers, begins, no, one is already in the middle of it. Everything comes naturally ... "

Awards

Schöllkopf in the German Literature Archive Marbach

Günter Schöllkopf had a close relationship with literature throughout his life, so that, as he once wrote himself, he designed most of his etchings and drawings as “cyclical interpretations of major themes in Western literature”. So it made sense to hand over Schöllkopf's prints legacy to the German Literature Archive in Marbach as a deposit. The work, which has been deposited in one of the world's most important literary institutions, contains 350 etchings and lithographs as well as seventy sketchbooks and diaries.

The work

Schöllkopf left behind more than a thousand works, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, oil paintings and, above all, etchings. In addition, he has made numerous book illustrations and drawings for the daily and weekly press, some with his own texts. The etchings in particular are grouped into cycles:

The cycles (selection)

Drama Hausbrand, 1968, from the cycle "Dramas, Comedies, Idylls", catalog raisonné 388 (R)
Apocalypsis cn figuris, 1976, from the cycle "Zu Doktor Faustus", catalog raisonné 619 (R)

Illustrations in books and newspapers (selection)

Günter Schöllkopf made a precise distinction between his work as an illustrator for current literary works as well as for newspapers and the etching cycles. And his work as an illustrator has certainly inspired him in his cycles.

  • Charles Dickens , New Years Bells. Stuttgart, Riederer-Verlag 1957
  • Voltaire , Candide. Stuttgart, Riederer-Verlag o. J.
  • Oscar Wilde , two short stories. Stuttgart, Riederer-Verlag 1957
  • Wolfgang Schumann, ed., The most beautiful stories from 1001 nights . Stuttgart, German Book Association 1959
  • Fritz Gordian, Stories about Rome. Mühlacker, Stieglitz-Verlag 1967
  • Fritz Gordian, The Speeches of the Etruscan Mastarna. Mühlacker, Stieglitz-Verlag 1969
  • Fritz Gordian, On Italian Fireplaces. Mühlacker, Stieglitz-Verlag 1970
  • Guy de Maupassant , Allowed and Forbidden Stories, Mühlacker, Stieglitz-Verlag 1963
  • Romain Rolland, Meister Breugnon, Berlin, Verlag Rütten & Loening o. J.
  • Giosuè Carducci , Poetic Works, Zurich, Coron-Verlag 1969
  • William Shakespeare , A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stuttgart, Verlag Druckspiegel o. J.
  • Thaddäus Troll, Germany Your Swabians, Hamburg, Verlag Hoffmann and Campe 1967
  • Thaddäus Troll, Praising with many beautiful speeches, Hamburg, Verlag Hoffmann and Campe 1972
  • Thaddäus Troll, Tafelspitz, Hamburg, Verlag Hoffmann and Campe 1979

Illustrations for various texts from 1962 to 1976 appeared in the following publications:

The diaries

Irene Ferchl , who dealt intensively with Schöllkopf's diaries, writes in her “Portrait of the Artist as a Serious Joker” (published in 2000 by Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn) among other things:

“… 'You never get through with him', is a half-fascinated, half-resigned statement of the people who deal with his work… Knowledge of his biographical background, reading the diaries in which the painter and draftsman are, offer a certain access , Eraser also proves to be a talented writer: the synopsis for new cycles could have been realized with words except with the eraser ... In addition to an unbelievable wealth of ideas and plans - he seemed to know how little time he should have to execute them - reflected Schöllkopf wrote about himself in dozens of exercise books, wrote down sometimes serious, sometimes self-deprecating thoughts on his role as a person and artist ... "

The diaries - there are around 70 booklets full of texts of the most varied kinds and sketches, many of which can be found in his works - are now in the depot of the German Literature Archive in Marbach. Interested parties can see this treasure trove about the ideas and thoughts of a brilliant graphic artist and draftsman there.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions from 1957 to 2020 (selection)

  • 1957 German Book Association, Munich
  • 1958 Galleria d'Art Totti, Milan; University of Strasbourg
  • 1959 Howard University, Washington
  • 1964 Städt. Gallery The Ferry , Saulgau; Goethe Institute: Exhibitions in various cities in * India (1964) and Italy (1972)
  • 1968 Gallery of the City of Stuttgart
  • 1972 Studio Gallery of the Hans Thoma Society, Reutlingen (and 1980)
  • 1973 Hans Thoma Society, Reutlingen (retrospective 1952–1973)
  • 1979 Galerie Schloss Remseck memorial exhibition
  • 1981 Villa Merkel , Esslingen (retrospective)
  • 1982 Heinrich Heine Institute , Düsseldorf
  • 1985 Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Dätzingen Castle
  • 1987 Goethe Gallery, Bozen
  • 1988 Hanenhof Gallery, City of Geleen / Holland; Thomas Flora Gallery, Innsbruck
  • 1989 City Gallery Böblingen
  • 1996 Hedi Probst Gallery, Nonnenhorn
  • 1997 Peter Fischinger Gallery, Stuttgart (and 1998)
  • 1999 Gallery Edition Domberger, Filderstadt
  • 1999 Hedi Probst Gallery, Nonnenhorn
  • 2000 Culture Althoheneck, Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck
  • 2005 House of Literature Stuttgart (Doctor Faustus)
  • 2007 Galerie Burg, LE-Musberg (and 1989)
  • 2009 Goethe-Institut Weimar, Weimar
  • 2011 Gallery in der Lände, Kressbronn on Lake Constance
  • 2014 Hermann-Hesse-Höri-Museum, Gaienhofen / Bodensee
  • 2015 Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation, Nürtingen
  • 2015 Gallery Schloss Ettersburg, Ettersburg
  • 2019 Literaturhaus Stuttgart (All illustrated books by the illustrator Günter Schöllkopf)
  • 2019 Gallery of the Kreissparkasse, Leinenfeld-Echterdingen
  • 2020 Gallery Wendelinskapelle

Group exhibitions from 1952 to 2019 (selection)

  • 1952 Academy exhibition in Munich
  • 1953 Academy Exhibition Stuttgart (and 1954, 1955, 1956)
  • 1955 The graphic cycle, Berlin
  • 1956 Bibliophile Society, Dresden; Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • 1957 collective exhibition, Munich; Int. Triennial for colored graphics, Grenchen / Switzerland and Moscow
  • 1960 Haus der Kunst , Munich (and 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1971)
  • 1961 Goethe Institute, Beirut
  • 1962 The Gallery of Art, College of Fine Arts Howard University, Washington; Gazi Egitim Inst., Ankara: Dtsch. Graphic artist Dürer, Schöllkopf, Grieshaber
  • 1963 Akron: Bermuda, New Delhi, Cairo, Beirut, Barcelona, ​​Madrid
  • 1964 City Hall Gallery, Hamilton: French and German Artists
  • 1973 Galerie Valentien Stuttgart "Resistance"
  • 1976 Art in Stuttgart, St. Louis, USA
  • 1977 State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
  • 1982 State Representation in Bonn and City of Heilbronn: Artists from Baden; Württemberg work in Rome - Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo
  • 1983 graphic cycles after 1967 in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1994 Weimar Classic Foundation , Belvedere Palace, Weimar
  • 1996 Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach "Karl Rössing and his students"
  • 2002 Gallery in der Lände, Kressbronn on Lake Constance
  • 2004 City Ostfildern Gallery, Bad Rappenau moated castle “Ed. Mörike "
  • 2005 Zehntscheuer Böblingen, Fellenberg Castle , Merzig, Bad Soden City Museum "Illustrations for Schiller's works"
  • 2007 Martin Walser and the arts, Überlingen
  • 2008 Kreuzkirche Nürtingen, view of the municipal art collections
  • 2010 Tabak Gallery, Renquishausen, "In Dialogue Schöllkopf - Schepelmann-Groz"
  • 2011 Rathaus Galerie Balingen "Balinger Balance - the tip of the balance"
  • 2014 Kreisgalerie Schloss Meßkirch, Meßkirch
  • 2016 Stauffenberg Memorial , Stuttgart, "Artist's Views: Images of Resistance"
  • 2019 Art Museum Albstadt, "Cyclical Memory - Alfred Hrdlicka and Günter Schöllkopf"

Quotes on Günter Schöllkopf

With his work, Günter Schöllkopf touched the boundaries of our visible world down to the peripheral areas, measured it with his hands and made these spaces of thought into which he entered tangible. With the results of his work he has shown us how material loses its materiality and becomes a carrier of ideas, how his ideas - through work - can move matter. ( Otto Herbert Hajek , Stuttgart)

He loved the plates of hard metal, etched, scratched, carved with a needle millimeter by millimeter into what was still bare, into fields of speaking emptiness, fine, delicate: but with what impetuosity of the imagination, with what wild lusts when dreaming together! … Well, Schöllkopf was hardly a philanthropist. ... sometimes he could be busy and tidy, also jokingly sociable and charming, a tender cynic, if you will. ... But how tricky it was to deal with him, this introspective hothead, who nevertheless drilled our eyes so deeply, crooked-necked, an intellectual shoe with drooping eyes. Schöllkopf, the most defiant of all friends, so ravenous in his threatening erudition. ( Ruprecht Skasa-Weiß in the Stuttgart Literature House )

Schöllkopf is the epitome of a literary artist. ( Werner Lehmann in Aalen, Galerie Zeiß)

Schöllkopf was always contemporary in his etchings and drawings ... For example with the etching from 1974, which is simply called "Stauffenberg", a portrait of the resistance fighter ... in the conversation that the catalog of this exhibition contains, Martin Walser only touches on what he is fascinated by this picture. How Schöllkopf depicts the Stauffenberg, you can write a novella about the loneliness of this Stauffenberg. That is very closely related to writing. ( Martin Zingg in the Städtische Galerie Überlingen)

He seems to have suspected that he had little time. Art was a kind of pact with the devil for him. He got the art, but a short life and maybe cheated the devil by the immortality of his art. ( Rudolf Greiner in Tübingen)

There was something inexorable in this artist, beyond irony and sadness. ( Günther Wirth in Pliezhausen)

“Intellect and heart - everything grows from this, including errors” (Günter Schöllkopf). With this maxim, coupled with infinite artistic imagination, Schöllkopf created an oeuvre that, due to its subject matter, its artistic quality and its wealth of nuances, can be counted among the classical works of German modernism. ( Hans Dieter Mück , Marbach / Böblingen).

Schöllkopf was not only the imaginative narrator and mocking juggler from which he confronts us from many of his figurative sheets. Behind his smiling face, his Swabian wine bliss and his ironic aphorisms hid a highly sensitive moralist, whose eraser was at the service of committed concern and sharp-eyed criticism of the times. ( Karin von Maur in the Remseck Castle Gallery).

This is eerie; Günter Schöllkopf is dead. The trouble it was good for is missing. I no longer have a conservative boyfriend. Who is calling me in the mornings from a hell where beauty is made? I complain because I miss him ... He shouldn't have died at forty-four. He should have lived eight years longer, then it would have been less embarrassing. But nothing will be the same as it was ... Good night, Günter. ( Martin Walser , Überlingen, diary entry on the death of Günter Schöllkopf).

literature

  • Alfred Hagenlocher (Ed.): Günter Schöllkopf. Catalog for the exhibition in the Spendhaus, Hans-Thoma-Gesellschaft, Reutlingen, 1973
  • Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Dätzingen: Günter Schöllkopf 1935–1979. Catalog 38, 1985
  • Municipal gallery Albstadt: Günter Schöllkopf 1935-1979. Exhibition catalog, 1988
  • Hans-Dieter Mück Ed .: Günter Schöllkopf draftsman + painter. Böblingen Municipal Gallery, 1989
  • Remseck Castle Gallery: Günter Schöllkopf 1935-1979. Catalog for the memorial exhibition, 1999
  • Irene Ferchl: Portrait of the artist as a serious joker. Ulrich Keicher publishing house, Warmbronn, 2000

Catalog raisonné

  • Rudolf Greiner: Günter Schöllkopf catalog raisonné. Gerd Hatje publishing house, Stuttgart, 1981

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Döhl, Reinhard: Gruppe 11 and Stuttgarter Gruppe / Schule - A bibliographical reference, http://www.stuttgarter-schule.de/gruppe11.htm
  2. ↑ On the title page of this issue, Schöllkopf's first name is incorrectly given as "Dieter", but correct in later editions.
personal data
SURNAME Schöllkopf, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1979
Place of death Stuttgart