Georg W. Borsche
Georg Wilhelm Borsche (born March 27, 1922 in Hanover , † April 3, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German painter and musician.
Life
His father was a musician, his mother a dancer and his brother Dieter Borsche became an actor. Borsche studied music, art history and philosophy in Würzburg in 1939/40, was drafted into the military and, after the war, became a member of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1947 . From 1954 to 1985 Borsche was a viola in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra .
Borsche was a self-taught painter. One of his role models was Paul Klee , with whom he shared the dual talent of music and painting. His lively, colorful, abstract paintings in oil and acrylic are the best examples of Informel . By using Japanese brushes, the lightness and elegance of artistic movement was fixed on the canvas. Will Grohmann wrote in 1965: “What matters is what the hand pulls out of the fullness of experience at the moment of the event”. This applies to both the painter and the musician GWB.
Over 40 solo exhibitions took place from 1952 to 1996 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and the USA.
His works are in the possession of the Kupferstichkabinette Berlin and Dresden, the Albertina, Vienna and the Art Institute Chicago.
The Artothek of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein owns a lithograph by Borsche from 1987, the Graphothek Berlin lists five works by Borsche in its holdings. The Kunstverein Göttingen eV also owns at least one work by Borsche, probably also in the Artothek's holdings.
The composer Wolfram Fürstenau implemented several of his pictures in his composition Ch'i-yün or The Principle of Intense Life in Peace .
Literature (selection)
- Will Grohmann: Recent work . Catalog, Berlin 1965.
- Will Grohmann: The big unit . Tokyo 1967.
- Heinrich Hahne: "Vogelflug" - opening in the Galerie Palette Wuppertal on November 7, 1971 from "Art and Artists" - speeches and essays by Heinrich Hahne. Publishing house Fr. Staats GmbH. Wuppertal.
- Catalog of the exhibition "Georg W. Borsche: Works of the Last Years" in the Villa Oppenheim , Berlin 1996.
- Ursula Prinz in the catalog of the exhibition "Georg W. Borsche: Paintings, Acrylic Paintings, Watercolors and Lithographs" in the Galerie Pels-Leusden Berlin from February 7th to March 12th 1983.
- Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8
- Johannes Vesper: "Memories of Georg W. Borsche" in www.musenblaetter.de (April 3, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg W. Borsche. New Berliner Kunstverein e. V., accessed on July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Entries: Borsche, Georg W. Graphothek Berlin, accessed on July 5, 2017 .
- ^ Kunstverein Göttingen eV - Register ( Memento from April 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ch'i yün or The Principle of Intensive Life in Peace (1968). Institute for Musicology at the University of Innsbruck, accessed on July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Memories of Georg W. Borsche. Muse Blätter, April 3, 2009, accessed July 5, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borsche, Georg W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borsche, Georg Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1999 |
| Place of death | Berlin |