Gerd Meyer (painter)

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Gerd Meyer (also called Georg Bernhard Meyer and Gerd Meyer-Helldiek; born November 28, 1894 in Oldenburg , † August 29, 1987 in Delmenhorst ) was a German painter .

Life

Meyer was born as the son of the railroad joiner Friedrich Gerhard Meyer (1859–1952) and his wife Thedje Marie Catharina born. Renken (1863–1948) born in Oldenburg. He attended the city boys' school and after finishing school began an apprenticeship at the railway administration in Osnabrück , but switched to financial administration a few years later. Here he rose quickly and finally worked as a major auditor at the tax offices in Bremen , Cuxhaven and Delmenhorst. In Delmenhorst he also became deputy head of office. After retiring as a tax councilor in 1952, he continued to work as a tax advisoractive. In addition to his professional work, Meyer received artistic training at an early age and took drawing lessons from Richard tom Dieck as early as 1914 .

During the First World War he served as a soldier on the Eastern Front from 1915 to 1918 and made fine drawings on the side. From 1919 he attended the arts and crafts school in Bremen , where he had lived since 1920. In 1923 he joined the Bremen Artists' Association and was also part of its board. With his work Meyer turned as one of the few Oldenburg artists as early as the early 1920s, painterly and graphically, from abstraction to the point of nonrepresentation. Excerpts of the work he has survived, which can be seen in the Oldenburg City Museum and in the State Museum Oldenburg , is divided into seven groups that also show his wide range of creativity: Cubist-Expressionist landscapes (around 1921/22), still lifes and interiors with partly non-representational details (1922), landscapes (1922), abstractions with ornamentation and geometry (1923), free colors with drawn elements (1923), vase pictures with experiences of cubism (1923) and finally purely constructivist works (1924 and 1925). After 1930 Meyer painted and drew motifs more realistically. Meyer participated in exhibitions in Bremen, Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. The Bremen art gallery , the Folkwang Museum in Essen and the State Museum Oldenburg bought his work. In 1937 six of his works were confiscated from the Museum Oldenburg and destroyed as Degenerate Art . Because of a careless statement he was under observation for several months and was required to report to the NS organs.

When the Association of Visual Artists was founded in Oldenburg after 1946 , he joined it, but then switched to the Oldenburg Artists Association , to which he belonged until it was dissolved.

Works (selection)

  • Mother and child. 1922 ( woodcut )
  • White calla. 1922 ( watercolor )
  • Abstract composition. 1923 (watercolor)
  • Composition 9. 1923 (pencil / watercolor)
  • Composition with cup. 1923 (pencil / watercolor)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Meyer. In: Hans-Joachim Manske and Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (eds.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. On the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Bremen from September 6 to November 15, 2009, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938795-10-1 ; Pp. 85 and 87.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Georg Bernhard; Meyer-Helldiek, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1987
Place of death Delmenhorst