Georg Scholz (painter)

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Georg Scholz (born October 10, 1890 in Wolfenbüttel , † November 27, 1945 in Waldkirch ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity .

Life

Born in Wolfenbüttel, grew up from 1898 as the foster son of Julius Elster , studied from 1908 to 1914 at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and at times also with Lovis Corinth in Berlin and joined up with other young painters to form the progressive group Rih .

His works are sometimes reminiscent of the socially critical images of post-war society by George Grosz or Otto Dix , such as the watercolor newspaper carrier from 1921, which shows a fat, monocle-wearing cigar smoker in the back of an automobile, while the newspaper carrier walks emaciated and hunched in front of an industrial backdrop . The industrial farmers are even more monstrous in a painting from 1920 that is now in the possession of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . In 1920 he took part with the industrial farmers at the First International Dada Fair in Berlin.

In 1925 he became a professor at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and exhibited in Mannheim as part of the Neue Sachlichkeit exhibition . In 1933 he was dismissed from his office as a “ degenerate artist ” and moved to Waldkirch, where he died soon after the end of the Second World War. Shortly before his death, the French occupation forces appointed him mayor of the place where the Georg-Scholz-Haus now offers a setting for temporary exhibitions.

literature

  • Karl-Ludwig Hofmann, Ursula Merkel (ed.): Georg Scholz. Writings, letters, documents. Info Verlag, Bretten 2018, ISBN 978-3-88190-667-8 .
  • Michael Schwarz (editor): Georg Scholz. A contribution to the discussion of realistic art. Book accompanying the exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, August 31 to October 12, 1975. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 1975.
  • Gerd Presler : Georg Scholz. Sarcastic idylls . In other words: splendor and misery of the 20s. The painting of the New Objectivity. dumont TB, Cologne 1992, pp. 68-72, ISBN 3-7701-2825-7 .
  • Gerd Presler: Georg Scholz and Dr. med. Theodor Kiefer. An exchange of letters exposes the twenties, in: Georg Scholz, 1890–1945. Painting, drawing, prints, Waldkirch 1990, pp. 10–12
  • Gerd Presler: The justification of the fears. New Objectivity, in: WELTKUNST 49, 1979, No. 1
  • Felicia H. Sternfeld:  Scholz, Walter Hans Georg Curt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 457 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Felicia H. Sternfeld: Georg Scholz (1890–1945). Monograph and catalog raisonné. European university publications. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-631-52967-6 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1945
Place of death Waldkirch