Georg Nerlich

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Georg Nerlich (born January 6, 1892 in Opole , Silesia , † April 17, 1982 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Georg Nerlich's grave

Georg Nerlich studied from 1912 at the Breslau Academy of Arts and Crafts with Hans Poelzig , Karl Hanusch , Max Wislicenus , Otto Pankok , and Fryderyk Pautsch . In 1917 Nerlich passed the state examination as an art teacher. He then worked as a painter, graphic artist and teacher in Wroclaw, Katowice and Opole. In 1920 he was a member of the Künstlerbund Silesia and the German Werkbund . From 1926 he went on study trips to Italy , southern France , Austria , the Alps , the Dolomites , the Curonian Spit and the Baltic Sea .

Nerlich painted with expressive colors and in cubist forms. Nerlich was at the u. a. Involved in the Lower Silesian Art Gau exhibition funded by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. On the other hand, several of his works were confiscated as degenerate . A large part of Georg Nerlich's work was lost in the Second World War .

From 1948 to 1957 he was professor of painting and graphics at the Technical University of Dresden , where in 1958 he organized the exhibition of the works of his Wroclaw teacher “Studies and Sketches by Karl Hanusch”.

Nerlich died in Dresden in 1982. His grave is in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery . A street was named after him in Dresden.

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Max Barthel : Earth beneath your feet. A new trip to Germany . Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin, 1929
  • Hans Niekrawietz: Oder songs. Schlesien-Verlag, Breslau, 1942

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1947: Dresden, first exhibition of Dresden artists. Department II , Clubhouse of the Kulturbund
  • 1948: Leipzig, Dresden artist , Museum of Fine Arts
  • 1950: Berlin, German homeland in the east , exhibition halls Berlin
  • 1951: Berlin, artists create for peace , building a museum on Kupfergraben
  • 1952: Dresden, September exhibition of Dresden artists , Dresden State Art Collections
  • 1953: Dresden, Third German Art Exhibition Dresden 1953 , Albertinum
  • 1954: Dresden, first district exhibition of the Association of German Artists , Albertinum
  • 1955: Berlin, German Academy of the Arts. Spring exhibition 1955 , German Academy of the Arts
  • 1955: Berlin, Contemporary German Graphics , Pergamon Museum
  • 1955: Dresden, Reinhold Langner , Georg Nerlich, Heinz Röcke , art exhibition Kühl
  • 1956: Darmstadt, East German artists in the 20th century , Mathildenhöhe
  • 1956: Stuttgart, East German artists in the 20th century , Württembergischer Kunstverein
  • 1956: Dresden, 750 years of Dresden , Albertinum
  • 1957: Bautzen, travel sketches, watercolors and sculptures by Reinhold Langner, EA Mühler, Georg Nerlich, Heinz Röcke , City Museum, Bautzen
  • 1957: Fulda, Contemporary Art of the German East , Vonderau Museum
  • 1961: Dresden: Watercolors and etchings by Georg Nerlich in the art exhibition Kühl
  • 1964: Dresden, Technical University
  • 1970: Berlin, The Twenties (I). German art from 1914 to 1923 , Galerie Nierendorf
  • 1972: Dresden, Georg Nerlich , art exhibition Kühl
  • 1972: Karl-Marx-Stadt, Georg Nerlich Dresden. Paintings - watercolors - graphics - sketchbook sheets. Exhibition in 1972 on the occasion of his 80th birthday , Städtische Kunstsammlungen Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1977: Dresden, Galerie Kunst der Zeit
  • 1978: Dresden, small gallery in the Unionshaus
  • 1981: Dresden, small gallery in the Toepler building of the Technical University
  • 1981: Altenburg, Dresden graphics from the 'Brücke' to the present day , State Lindenau Museum
  • 1985: Dresden, painting from Dresden 1945-1985 , Galerie Rähnitzgasse 8, center for art exhibitions of the GDR
  • 1988: Berlin, artist in class war , Museum of German History

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Berlin, Nationalgalerie (inter alia interior - sick girl; oil painting, 1918)
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (including flower still life; oil painting, 1945)

literature

  • Artist of Silesia. Published by the Silesian Artists Association. Verlag L. Heege, Schweidnitz: 1925
  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions of the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Jürgen Schieferdecker : The Nerlich Foundation. In: Wissenschaftl. Journal of the TU Dresden. 34, 1985, issue 5/6,
  • Painting watercolors graphic . Catalog for the exhibition at TU Dresden October 15 - November 5, 1981.
  • Nerlich, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 469 .
  • Nerlich, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 391 .
  • Georg Nerlich. In: Hans Niekrawietz: Oderlieder. Silesian Book Community, 1950.
  • Georg Nerlich, Dresden, sketchbook sheets. Catalog for the exhibition June 15 - July 30, 1978.
  • Georg Nerlich, Dresden, painting watercolors graphic. Catalog for the exhibition October 15 - November 5, 1981.
  • Georg Nerlich. In: Max Barthel: Earth beneath your feet. Gutenberg Book Guild, Berlin 1929.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nerlich, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 469 .
  2. ^ Lower Silesian Art. Gau exhibition from October 9 to November 5, 1942 (exhibition catalog). Lower Silesian Art Association V. and Kunstdienst Berlin e. V. (editor); 1942
  3. ↑ Martin Papenbrock: Nerlich, Georg . In: “Degenerate Art”, exile art, resistance art in West German exhibitions after 1945. A bibliography with commentary . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-09-X , p. 505 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061106.93 .
  4. ↑ a b picture index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Nerlich, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1982
Place of death Dresden