Gottfried Trimborn

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Gottfried Trimborn (born July 16, 1887 in Meckenheim , Rheinbach district , † March 19, 1948 in Bonn ) was a German landscape painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Rhine ferry , around 1920

Trimborn, son of the Meckenheim beer brewery employee Johann Simon Hubert Trimborn and his wife Franziska Elisabeth Busch, grew up in a middle-class family. After school he probably did a three-year apprenticeship in a typesetting or printing shop. From 1906 he attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts under Peter Behrens and Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke . There he - like his college friend Josef Urbach - majored in typography and took part in the school's performance shows. Attracted by landscape painting, he attended exhibitions by artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1908 he moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , where he took the subject "free painting" and was introduced to open-air painting under Christian Landenberger . Other important teachers of this time were the impressionist Robert Poetzelberger and Adolf Hölzel as "pioneers of modernity". At the end of 1913 or beginning of 1914, Trimborn received the “Akademiebrief” that formally concluded his studies in painting in Stuttgart.

Charcoal drawings depicting war indicate that he participated in World War I as a soldier. From the beginning of the 1920s, Trimborn traveled to various areas in Germany - from the North Sea to the low mountain ranges to the high Alps - and Italy. In Düsseldorf he soon came into contact with the gallery owner Johanna Ey and her painter milieu, Das Junge Rheinland . He exhibited some of his works with her. In 1926 Trimborn was represented as a guest or member at the "Summer Exhibition" of the Bonn Artists' Association of 1914 , and also at the "Big Christmas Exhibition" of the Municipal Museum in the Villa Obernier . In 1929 he was registered as an “artist” at Koblenzer Straße 24 in Bonn. From 1930 Trimborn was friends with the Bonn landscape painter Carl Nonn , chairman of the Bonn Artists' Association . This allowed him to take part in meetings and projects of the artists' association as a non-member. In 1933 Trimborn took part in the exhibition “Young Bonn Artists” in the Suermondt Museum in Aachen, and in 1936 he was represented at the “Christmas Exhibition of Bonn Artists” in the Villa Obernier.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Trimborn was no longer obliged to do military service at the age of 53. Nevertheless, no new paintings by him have been found since that time.

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  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Trimborn, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Meckenheim , Rheinbach district
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1948
Place of death Bonn