Gerhard Neumann (painter)

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Gerhard Neumann (born August 15, 1907 in Opole ; † November 13, 2004 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

On the recommendation of Cirillo dell'Antonio , the director of the wood carving school in Bad Warmbrunn, Neumann applied to an art academy in Wroclaw . After working samples, the then director, the Art Nouveau artist August Endell , accepted him into the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw in 1925 . His teachers were the expressionist Otto Mueller and the impressionist Oskar Moll . Following Otto Mueller's advice, the budding artist decided to become an art educator because of his financial independence. In 1927 he passed the state examination prematurely with special permission and the following year the educational state examination for teaching in secondary schools

In 1928 Gerhard Neumann went to Paris and worked in Fernand Léger's studio . He studied composition at the Louvre . During his stay in the French capital he met well-known artists such as Georges Braque , André Lhote and André Lurçat .

In 1931 Neumann became Oskar Moll's assistant in Breslau. In 1932 the art academy was closed. With interruptions, Neumann taught art education at various high schools. In 1942 he became a war painter, first in Russia, then in Greece and on Crete. In 1943 he was called up for military service, in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released at the end of the year.

After fleeing from Silesia in 1946, he lived with his family in Kirchheim (Thuringia) , and in 1950 he managed to escape from the GDR to West Berlin. There he found a job in the school service again in 1951 and in the same year exhibited his latest work in the "Galerie am Zoo". In 1952 he designed his first large glass window in Potsdam . Gerhard Neumann became a co-founder of the "Bauhütte für Christian Künste" in Berlin-Dahlem.

Gerhard Neumann: "The open window" - stairwell of the Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule , the former Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in Bonn - Bad Godesberg

In 1954 he received a call to the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, which was still independent at the time . He worked there as an art teacher until his retirement in 1973.

Gerhard Neumann, The Mole, 1989

His pictures became more and more abstract, but never without a meaning. He himself called it "abstraction based on visual experience". "Gerhard neumann consciously combined what he learned from Otto Mueller, drawing, with color, the mastery and use of which Oskar Moll imparted to him , and he observed the compositional art of Fernand Leger and created a highly independent work from all of this" (" Tübingen in focus ”, edition of January 15, 2010 - Monika Wenke, MAS:“ gerhard neumann - painter of the lost generation ”).

Curiosities

It was important to Neumann that his name was written in lower case because all letters are equally important.

Awards

Work (selection)

  • 1952 - first glass window in Potsdam
  • 1957/58 - Design of a window wall in the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium
  • 1958 - Wall mosaic in the reception hall of the Federal Press Office, Bonn
  • 1960 - Design of 5 windows in the Bonn-Endenich cemetery chapel
  • Coat of arms window in the Siegburg district building
  • Stained glass window in the Lehnersdorf cemetery chapel
  • Wall mosaic in the girls' high school St. Josef in Rheinbach

Many pictures in oil, pastel, watercolor. Some of his works are z. B. in the Bonn Art Museum and in the East German Gallery in Regensburg.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1926 - Max Glauer Gallery, Opole
  • 1929 - Galerie Wenzel, Breslau
  • 1930 - State. High school, Cosel
  • 1932 - Max Glauer Gallery, Opole
  • 1951 - Galerie am Zoo, Berlin
  • 1953 - Neukölln town hall
  • 1954 - Galerie Vertiko, Bonn
  • 1955 - Galleries in Lucerne and Zurich, Arndt House, Bonn
  • 1956 - Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
  • 1959 - Electoral Gardener's House , Bonn
  • 1964 - Lörrach festival hall
  • 1968 - Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, House of the German East, Düsseldorf
  • 1970 - Märkisches Museum, Witten
  • 1972 - Portimao, Portugal
  • 1974 - Zons District Museum
  • 1978 - Bonner Kunstverein, Galerie Deutschlandhaus, Berlin
  • 1979 - Rheinbach Glass Museum
  • 1982 - Galerie Rolandshof, Rolandseck
  • 1985 - Foreign Office, Bonn
  • 1987 - Schwörhaus Esslingen, Otto-Richter-Halle, Würzburg
  • 1989 - Meersburg Castle
  • 1990 - Art Academy in Breslau / Wrocław, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Art Academy in Breslau / Wrocław
  • 1992 - House on the Redoute , Bann-Bad-Godesberg
  • 1997 - “Artists from Silesia” shown in Glogau, Ratibor, Breslau, Görlitz
  • 1997 - gerhard neumann at the 90th, Landesmuseum Schlesien Annenkapelle, Görlitz
  • 1997 - gerhard neumann at the 90th, Museum an der Redoute, Bonn

literature

  • La Revue Moderne. Paris 1930
  • Neumann, Gerhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 474 .
  • Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Recklinghausen 1967
  • Hugo Borger: Abstraction based on visual experiences. In: Or 1970. Höhr-Grenzhausen 1970
  • Margarethe Jochimsen, Dierk Stemmler, Günter Krüger: In: Catalog Gerhard Neumann, pictures 1967 to 1977 , Städt. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonner Kunstverein 1978
  • Günther Ott: artist profiles. Bonn 1981
  • Nino Erné: Laudation for the Lovis Corinth Prize 1983. In: Die Künstlergilde. 1984
  • Exhibition catalog for the exhibition "gerhard neumann" in the Breslau Art Academy on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Breslau Art Academy in 1990
  • Exhibition and work catalog for the 90th birthday, published by the Landesmuseum Schlesien, Görlitz, 1997
  • Tübingen in focus, edition of January 15, 2010 - Monika Wenke, MAS: gerhard neumann - painter of the lost generation

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographies/neumann-gerhard-2
  2. ↑ http://kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographies/neumann-gerhard-3
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2004
Place of death Bonn - Bad Godesberg