Georg Vogt (painter)
Georg Vogt (born August 26, 1881 in Munich ; † May 24, 1956 there ) was a German painter , craftsman and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg .
Career
After training as a decorative painter, Georg Vogt studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1898 to 1904 and was a student of Martin Feuerstein and Carl von Marr .
From 1905 to 1911 he worked at the Steinicken & Lohr metal workshops in Munich. Many of his art nouveau works (jewelry, boxes, mugs, centerpieces, ceramics, lamps, bowls, tabernacles, leather cuts, mosaics) date from this period.
In 1911 he was appointed professor at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts (from 1928 State School for Applied Arts, from 1940 Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg ) as head of the specialist classes for natural drawing, mosaics, devices, vessels and carvings as well as glass painting , with glass painting in the foreground of his teaching activities was standing. During his time in Nuremberg he created numerous glass windows for churches in Franconia, most of which were destroyed in the Second World War.
From 1943 to 1954 the academy was relocated to Ellingen Castle . Since he was one of the few politically unencumbered professors at the academy, he stayed at the university after the end of the National Socialist regime (class for painting and illustration) and built together with Max Körner (class for applied graphics) as acting director from the summer semester of 1946 and four new appointments ( Fritz Griebel , Hermann Wilhelm , Wunibald Puchner and Hermann Schorer) started their art classes there again. In 1948 he retired.
Georg Vogt was a member of the Luitpold Group , a community of visual artists, especially painters who represented moderately modern goals, and worked for the magazine Jugend .
Stained glass windows by Georg Vogt have been preserved in the St. Rochus Church ( Zirndorf ) and paintings on the tabernacle of the Art Nouveau Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Augsburg 's Pfersee-Süd district .
student
Georg Vogt's students were among others Gertrud Eichenmüller-Sonntag (1908–1995) painter and Elisabeth Pfaffenberger (1916–2009), graphic artist and etcher.
Awards
- In 1906 Georg Vogt received the silver medal at the Third Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden,
- In 1918 he received the golden medal of the King Ludwig Prize Foundation.
- Vogt exhibited several times in the House of German Art in Munich.
literature
- German art and decoration. In: Illustr. Monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art etc. artistic women work. Volume 30, 1912, ill. P. 334
- Rudolf Rösermüller: Nuremberg contemporary art. Augsburg 1928, pp. 18-19.
- Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (ed.): Geartete Kunst. The Nuremberg Academy under National Socialism. Accompanying volume to the exhibition in the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg 2012. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2012, p. 50
Web links
- The Reformation window of the St. Rochus Church, Zirndorf. Illustration of the work and short biography with a portrait of Georg Vogt
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/findbuch.jsp?archivNr=292&tektId=105&id=2117
- ↑ https://trauer.infranken.de/trauerbeispiel/elisabeth-pfaffenberger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogt, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, craftsman and academy professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1956 |
| Place of death | Munich |