Gert Heinrich Wollheim

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Gert Heinrich Wollheim (* 11. September 1894 in Loschwitz in Dresden , † 22. April 1974 in New York ) was a painter of Expressionism .

Life

International Congress of Progressive Artists , Düsseldorf 1922

Gert Heinrich Wollheim was born the son of the machine manufacturer Heinrich Wollheim (1855–1927) and his wife Gertrud Wollheim (1867–1944). His older brother was the surgeon Hasso Heinrich Wollheim .

In 1919 Wollheim lived in an artists' commune in the country. Together with Otto Pankok , whom he had met at the art college in Weimar, he wanted to found an artists' colony in Remels (East Frisia). At the end of 1919 both left Remels and went to Düsseldorf , where they joined Adolf de Haer in an art project for the literary magazine “Neues Rheinland”. Max Ernst and Otto Dix also belonged to this group . In 1920 he became a founding member of the artists 'association Das Junge Rheinland and publisher and employee of the magazines "Der Aktivistenbund", "Das Ey" (after the art dealer Johanna Ey ) and "Das Junge Rheinland", as well as co-founder of the workers' settlement "Freie Erde" in Düsseldorf-Eller . In 1921 he married the pianist Leni Stein, to whom he dedicated a “bridal portfolio” with 12 lithographs. In 1922, together with Adolf Uzarski , he initiated the “1. International Art Exhibition ” in Düsseldorf and the 1st Congress of the Union of Progressive International Artists . In 1924 he created his oil painting Farewell to Düsseldorf . In 1925 Wollheim was a member of the November Group in Berlin.

In the time of National Socialism he was persecuted as a " degenerate artist ". He fled via Saarbrücken to Paris and later to Switzerland . In exile in Paris in 1937 he was one of the founders of the German Association of Artists, known from 1938 as the "Freier Künstlerbund" (Union des artistes libres). There he was also the life companion of the dancer Tatjana Barbakoff . He was arrested in 1939, but escaped in 1942 and lived in hiding in the Pyrenees .

Finally, in 1947, with the help of the International Rescue Committee, he managed to emigrate to New York; Affidavit giver was Leonhard Frank . There he married Mona Eisemann, née Loeb. Her best man was Leonhard Frank.

Pitt Kreuzberg , charcoal drawing by Gert Heinrich Wollheim (1925)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1920 Exhibition at Galerie Johanna Ey, Düsseldorf
  • 1920 Great Düsseldorf Art Exhibition, May 15 to October 3 as a member of Junge Rheinland (represented by 5 works)
  • 1921 The Young Rhineland - Exhibition from February 27 to March 29, 1921 in the Städt. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (represented by 23 works)
  • 1922 International Art Exhibition Duesseldorf, May 28th - July 3rd (represented by 3 works)
  • 1922 Great Berlin Art Exhibition, State Exhibition Building at Lehrter Bahnhof, May 20 - September 17 as a member of Junge Rheinland (represented by 2 works)
  • 1925 Das Junge Rheinland Düsseldorf - first traveling exhibition (represented by 15 works)
  • 1925 List of pictures from the exhibition of Young Rhineland in the Berlin Secession from April 15 to May 24, Berlin (represented by 15 works)
  • 1993 retrospective: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof, January 24 to April 18, 1993
  • 1938 three of his pictures in the Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art"
  • 2000 In the autumn of 2000, the August Macke House in Bonn held a highly acclaimed exhibition.
  • 2001 Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf: "From the fire-breathing mountain to the Don Quixote"

literature

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notes

  1. ↑ For the archive see Hans Rudolf Hartung
  2. ^ Farewell to Düsseldorf , 1924 by Gert H. Wollheim , in the Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
personal data
SURNAME Wollheim, Gert Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Loschwitz near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1974
Place of death new York