Günther Graßmann

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Günther Graßmann (born October 14, 1900 in Munich ; † November 25, 1993 in Pöcking ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Graßmann did his military service briefly in 1918. In 1919 he passed the Abitur at the Old Realgymnasium in Munich. Graßmann studied architecture at the TH Munich from 1919 to 1921 , then from 1921 to 1923 he devoted himself to studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the class of Hermann Groeber . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . Graßmann then went on an educational journey that took him to the Rhine, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague and Delft (1923/1924). Graßmann was an eyewitness to the Hitler putsch on November 8, 1923 in the Bürgerbräukeller.

From 1925 Graßmann worked as a freelance painter, studying abroad in Serbia, Spain (including Mallorca) and the Netherlands. In 1927 he took part in the major annual exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . Travel to Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Vienna and Prague followed. On September 29, 1929, Günther Graßmann married Luise Planck (* April 12, 1902, † 1983), a niece of Max Planck .

From 1930 to 1937 Graßmann belonged to the exhibition group of 7 Munich painters . In addition to Graßmann, this group of artists also included Albert Burkart , Franz Doll , Wilhelm Maxon , Otto Nückel , Walter Schulz-Matan and Karl Zerbe , who lived in Munich . In 1931 two pictures by Graßmann burned in the Glaspalast disaster . In 1934 the artist exhibited at the Venice Biennale. Günther Graßmann often worked with the architects Bruno Biehler and Hans Döllgast .

In March 1931 he protested together with Adolf Hartmann , Christian Hess and Wolf Panizza against a Nazi event in Munich with Paul Schultze-Naumburg and Alfred Rosenberg . From 1933 until the forced dissolution in 1936, Graßmann was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and the Munich Secession (until they were banned in 1938). In 1937 three of his works were confiscated as " Degenerate Art ". After that he switched to work in barracks construction. B. Working on mosaics at the Munich North Bath . Together with Alfons Epple , Edgar Ende and Wolf Panizza, Günther Graßmann worked on around 38 orders from the Nazi regime for the painting of Wehrmacht buildings. Graßmann employed several artists, especially artists who were prohibited from painting. The construction management of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe as well as the Reichsautobahnen offered certain freedom in artistic work.

From 1939 to 1940 Graßmann did military service again. From 1941 to 1945 he worked as a teacher at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Against this background he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1943 he took part in the large exhibition Young Art in the German Reich in the Vienna Künstlerhaus with two works , one of the few Nazi exhibitions that was closed prematurely because of “suspected degenerate art”.

In April 1945 Graßmann returned to Munich. He lived from the sale of paintings, drawings, prints and the artistic design of buildings. In 1950 Graßmann painted the town hall tower in Passau, the hall of the Allianz General Directorate at the English Garden in Munich, built in the 1950s, was artistically furnished by Graßmann. He was also involved in the design of the rebuilt Old Town Hall Tower in Munich.

In Munich, Graßmann helped found the professional association of visual artists in the summer of 1945 . In 1946 he participated in the re-establishment of the Munich Secession. From 1955 to 1973 Graßmann was President of the Munich Secession , later its Honorary President, and since 1959 he has remained a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Graßmann's estate is in the German Art Archive .

Works

  • Art and reflection: the visible and the sayable: Lecture at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts on October 18, 1984 , Munich approx. 1984.
  • Art Theory - Measure or Presumption? Munich 1973.

Honors

literature

  • Carmen Behrens, Walter Schulz-Matan 1889-1965. A Magical Realist , Göttingen 2009.
  • Gabriele Frommer: Alfons Epple, sketches for a picture of life . In: Gabriele Frommer / Hans Bucher (eds.): Alfons Epple 1899-1948. Traces of an artist's life . Fridingen 1993, pp. 6-60.
  • Elke Lauterbach: Seven Munich painters: an exhibition group in the period from 1931–1937. (= Writings from the Institute for Art History at the University of Munich, Vol. 70), Munich 1999.
  • Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Building in National Socialism. Bavaria 1933-1945. Exhibition of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich and the Munich City Museum (= exhibition catalogs of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich and the Munich City Museum No. 9), Munich 1993.
  • Doris Schmidt: A painter as a contemporary witness. On the death of Günther Graßmann. Süddeutsche Zeitung, around November 1993.
  • Günther Graßmann, painting and graphics. Exhibition for the 85th birthday. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition and catalog in collaboration with Günther Graßmann, Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer. Garching 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data
  2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 48.
  3. ↑ 100 Years, the Countdown - Crazy Years 1920-1932 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / doku.cc
  4. ↑ 100 Years The Countdown 1920–1932 The Crazy Years, from 0:29:19 and from 0:31:02
  5. ^ Memories of Max Planck. In: Communications from the Max Planck Society , issue 2/1973, p. 91 ff.
  6. ^ Introductory part by Elke Lauterbach: Seven Munich painters. 1999 ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.utzverlag.de
  7. ↑ Inge Feuchtmayr: The path of a Munich painter through our century - Günther Graßmann on his 85th birthday . In: Günther Graßmann, painting and graphics. Exhibition for the 85th birthday. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition and catalog in collaboration with Günther Graßmann, Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer. Garching 1985, pp. 14-18.
  8. ↑ Carmen Behrens, Walter Schulz-Matan 1889-1965. Ein Magischer Realist , Göttingen 2009, pp. 442–443.
  9. ↑ Catalog of the exhibition, p. 75 : No. 2412 Dutch landscape , oil; No. 2413 suburb , oil. Graßmann exhibited at the "jury free". Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ See Der Stürmer No. 12, March 1931; Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Architecture Guide Munich. Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01211-0 , p. 129.
  11. ^ SPD press service, Munich, own wire report, March 6, 1931 [1]
  12. ↑ s. DKB membership directory 1936, in: 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 99)
  13. ↑ Cf. Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Building in National Socialism. Bavaria 1933-1945. Exhibition of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich and the Munich City Museum (= exhibition catalogs of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich and the Munich City Museum No. 9), Munich 1993, p. 354f.
  14. ↑ Inge Feuchtmayr: The path of a Munich painter through our century - Günther Graßmann on his 85th birthday . In: Günther Graßmann, painting and graphics. Exhibition for the 85th birthday. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition and catalog in collaboration with Günther Graßmann, Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer. Garching 1985, p. 18.
  15. ^ Gabriele Frommer: Alfons Epple, sketches for a life picture . In: Gabriele Frommer / Hans Bucher (eds.): Alfons Epple 1899-1948. Traces of an artist's life. Fridingen 1993, p. 37.
  16. ^ Catalog: Wilhelm Rüdiger (Ed.): Young Art in the German Empire. i. A. of the Reich Governor & Reich Leader Baldur von Schirach. Exhibition February - March 1943 in the Künstlerhaus Vienna. Ehrlich & Schmidt, Vienna 1943.
  17. ↑ Inge Feuchtmayr: The path of a Munich painter through our century - Günther Graßmann on his 85th birthday . In: Günther Graßmann, painting and graphics. Exhibition for the 85th birthday. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition and catalog in collaboration with Günther Graßmann, Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer. Garching 1985, pp. 19-20.
  18. ↑ German Art Archives - inventory list [2]
  19. ↑ Federal Archives - Central Database of Legacies [3]
  20. ↑ Office of the Federal President


personal data
SURNAME Graßmann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1993
Place of death Poecking