Rudolf Gahlbeck

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Rudolf Wilhelm Albert Gahlbeck also Rudolph Gahlbeck (born November 22, 1895 in Malchow , † October 4, 1972 in Schwerin ) was a German painter, graphic artist, art educator and author.

Life

Rudolf Gahlbeck was born in Malchow, Mecklenburg, in 1895 as the son of a businessman. Between 1908 and 1914 he attended the Realgymnasium in Güstrow , after which he was a soldier in the First World War . From 1916 to 1919 he studied German at the university in Rostock . These studies were continued at the Hamburg University , expanded to include art education with Arthur Illies at the State Art Academy, also in Hamburg , the practical training took place at a Wismar school. In 1921 the studies concluded with the examination for artistic teaching at secondary schools. First Gahlbeck was from 1922 drawing teacher at a private secondary school and then from 1925 art teacher at the Gymnasium Schwerin . For his own artistic training he used studies with Max Bergmann at his painting school in Haimhausen near Munich in 1926 . In 1944 Gahbeck was appointed a teacher.

From 1945 until his retirement in 1961, Rudolf Gahlbeck was an art teacher at the Goethe High School in Schwerin, and from 1946 also a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Schwerin. From 1945 he was a member of the visual arts section in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Rudolf Gahlbeck died in 1972 after a long illness shortly before the age of 77 in Schwerin. His grave is in the old cemetery on Obotritenring in Schwerin.

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Rudolf Gahlbeck was an all-rounder as an artist. In addition to his main job as an art teacher, he was at home in many types of art. He was a painter, draftsman, graphic artist. He created posters , signets and book decorations , wrote novellas , poems , opera libretti and cantata texts . He composed songs, played the violin in his youth and played the piano in a spirited manner into old age.

His Hamburg studies brought him the acquaintance of Prof. Georg Anschütz (1886–1953) from the Psychological Institute of the University of Hamburg, whose research focused on music psychology and synesthesia - here the connections between color and music. From then on, Gahlbeck also dealt with color-tone research ; synopsies and a number of watercolors (color studies) were created, the content of which was the conversion of the music he had heard into pictures. He also wrote technical articles on this topic. In 1927 he was a participant in the first congress of the Society for Color and Clay Research in Hamburg. He also became an employee of the Psychological Aesthetic Research Society at the University of Hamburg .

Works (selection)

An extensive list of Rudolf Gahlbeck's publications can be found at the LBMV (see web links).

Painter / graphic artist

  • Folk songs from Mecklenburg .
    Song selection and commentary: Hans Erdmann , cover and illustrations: Rudolf Gahlbeck, Petermänken-Verlag, Schwerin 1960
  • February sun: Monastery church Malchow iM
  • Barns in the evening (near Malchow iM)
  • Outlook: Fauler See near Schwerin iM
  • The old song
  • Winter sun , oil on canvas
  • Mecklenburg farmer's cottage , watercolor
  • Mecklenburg Lake District , oil on canvas
  • Evening mood on the Amper Canal , watercolor
  • Wismar harbor , 1922
  • Schwerin Cathedral on the Great Moor , around 1925
  • In the most beautiful meadow , 1938
  • Malchower Bridge , around 1940
  • March delegation , around 1940
  • In the Teufelsmoor , around 1940

Work on color-tone research

  • Color hearing (representations of the music in the picture).
  • Andante maestoso , around 1925
  • Six German musicians , 1924, watercolor cycles
  • Musical visions , 1925
  • Synopsies , abstract images on the music of Beethoven , Wagner , Richard Strauss and Ravel

writer

Stage works / music

  • Goya , opera in 4 acts, libretto with free use of a novella by Wilhelm Hegeler , music by Hellmuth von Ulmann , 1944
  • Flanders legend , 6 chants for alto and baritone with chamber orchestra, music by Robert-Alfred Kirchner, 1935
  • Knight, Death and the Devil: Cantata of the German Resurrection , music by Robert-Alfred Kirchner, 1935
  • Staub und Sterne , Vagabunden cantata for mixed choir, baritone solo, speaker and large orchestra, music by Robert-Alfred Kirchner, 1934
  • Die Brücke , opera in 2 acts, a prelude and an aftermath, music by Max R. Albrecht, 1934
  • Sacrifice to the Unknown Soldier , set to music by Robert-Alfred Kirchner as a requiem for solos, singing and speaking choir, large orchestra and organ, 1931
  • Marionettes: big city ballad . Operas in 8 pictures and an introduction, music by Robert-Alfred Kirchner, 1929
  • Peace hymn “Morgenrot flammt die Lande” , song for voice with piano accompaniment, words and music.

literature

  • Gahlbeck, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 186 .
  • Gahlbeck, Rudolf . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 10, Saur, Zurich (among others) 2007, ISBN 3-908255-10-4 , Sp. 387-388.
  • Gahlbeck, Rudolf . In: German Theater Lexicon . Nachtr. Vol. T. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin (inter alia) 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-028755-4 , p. 2.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3104 .
  • Werner Stockfisch: Color sounds: the artist Rudolf Gahlbeck . Demmler-Verlag, Schwerin 1995, ISBN 3-910150-28-4 .
  • Rudolf Gahlbeck: Color, Form and Sound: About the Representation of Musical and Other Acoustic Impressions in Art Class . In: Art and Youth . NF 7, volume 12. Bund Deutscher Kunsterzieher (Ed.), Stuttgart 1927, p. 258-260 ( digitized version - University of Heidelberg ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Rudolf Gahlbeck. Matriculation portal , University of Rostock, accessed on October 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Werner Stockfisch: Rudolf Gahlbeck. (No longer available online.) Malchow Monastery Cultural Center, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ On "hearing colors" and seeing tones. The artist Rudolf Gahlbeck and the color-tone research. (No longer available online.) Malchow Monastery Cultural Center, archived from the original on February 19, 2016 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Rudolf Gahlbeck: Color, Form and Sound: […] see literature
  5. ↑ Illustration in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , Vol. 1, Schwerin 1925, (digitalisat - PDF)
  6. ↑ Illustration in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , Vol. 1, Schwerin 1925, (digitalisat - PDF)
  7. ↑ Illustration in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , Vol. 1, Schwerin 1925, (digitalisat - PDF)
  8. ↑ Illustration in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte , Vol. 12, Schwerin 1936, (digitized - PDF)
  9. ↑ THE BARLACH-KANTATE of Karl Etti. We make a short note. Hamburger Abendblatt , January 2, 1954, accessed on May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gahlbeck, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gahlbeck, Rudolph; Gahlbeck, Rudolf Wilhelm Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, art teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchow
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1972
Place of death Schwerin