Georg Grulich

Georg Grulich (born April 3, 1911 in Zittau , † March 30, 1993 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

Life

Grulich was born the son of a customs officer in Zittau. In the course of the establishment of the First Czechoslovak Republic , he received its citizenship. From 1925 to 1928 he went to the higher commercial school in Zittau, after which he did an apprenticeship in the clothing industry and became a shop window designer and advertising painter . Self-taught, he began to paint as an artist. He also took lessons in Karl Paul's (1890–1969) painting school in Zittau. Study trips took him to northern Bohemia and Dresden , where he was a sporadic guest at the art academy . There he received lessons from Richard Müller . In 1931 Grulich became a member of the "Working Group of Lusatian Visual Artists". From 1932 to 1936 he lived as a freelance painter in Zittau.

In 1934 he met the artist Herta Junghanns there, with whom he moved to Düsseldorf in 1936. In 1936 he became a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . In 1939 he took German citizenship. In the same year he married Herta Junghanns. From 1940 until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, he worked as a technical draftsman and detail designer in a design office. Much of his early work was destroyed in an air raid in 1943 . After his release from captivity , he became a freelance painter again in 1946.

In Düsseldorf he documented the reconstruction after the Second World War and the arrival of modernism by painting , created monumental cityscapes of the new state capital and is still today considered “the” Düsseldorf city painter of the post-war and reconstruction years. His works have been shown in exhibitions in Venlo, Maastricht, Ostend, Geneva, Montecatini, Krakow and Moscow. He also participated in the design of the Düsseldorf Carnival . In addition, Grulich was a member of the artists' association Malkasten , the Rhenish Secession (1947–1957) and district chairman of the West German Association of Artists (1957–1971).

Works (selection)

• Self-portrait, 1948, Zittau Municipal Museums
• Birds in the Forest , 1957/1958, draft for an 18 m² tapestry for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , gift from the city of Düsseldorf to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , executed by the textile artist Alice Koch-Gierlichs
• Light City , 1964
• Technical area red , 1965, Knippenberg Collection
• Tightrope walker , 1965
• Lower shipyard in the evening , 1965
• In Bilk , 1972, “Art from NRW” collection, Kunsthaus Nordrhein-Westfalen Kornelimünster , Aachen
• Road to the train station , 1973
• Rhine front , 1975
• Winter on the Rhine , 1980

literature

• Marius Winzeler (Ed.): Georg Grulich. Zittau - Düsseldorf . Oettel, Görlitz / Zittau 2011, ISBN 978-3-938583-62-3

Web links

• Grulich, Georg ( Memento of 4 June 2016 Internet Archive ), Biography in the portal personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de (personal Wiki the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden )
• Georg Grulich , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus M. Martinetz: The independent one . In: Rheinische ART , 2/2011 ( online )
2. ^ Exhibition: Carnival art in the town hall . Article from January 8, 2008 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on June 5, 2016
3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on June 5, 2016
4. ↑ Grulich, Georg , entry in the Carnival Lexicon and media archive of the Düsseldorf Carneval Committee , accessed on June 5, 2016
5. ^ Marius Winzeler: Georg Grulich. Zittau - Düsseldorf. Path and work of a painter in the 20th century . In: Zittauer Stadtanzeiger No. 224 of February 10, 2011 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )