Gottlieb Pot d'Or

Gottlieb Pot d'Or (born January 19, 1905 in Bremen , † March 26, 1978 in Schweringen ) was a German artist. The family's ancestors came from Flanders .

Pot d'Or lived and worked in Schweringen ( Lower Saxony ) since 1932 . He was active as an artist in the region and is best known for his large-scale murals and mosaics . In the 1950s and 1960s he was instrumental in the artistic design of schools, savings banks, banks and churches in what was then the county of Hoya .

Study trips took him to Norway, Italy, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, England, France. He received impulses from the greats of modernism, such as Kokoschka , Chagall , Picasso ; He paid special attention to the artists of Expressionism , Cubism and Surrealism .

Pot d'Or's work cannot be clearly assigned to a particular style, as he developed his own language of colors and forms, ranging from representational to abstraction. He expressed his view of things in hand drawings, prints, altar and panel paintings, wall paintings, glass windows, mosaics and sculptures, and private collectors, banks and municipalities have acquired works from him far beyond the district.

Life

The Worpswede artist Heinrich Vogeler encouraged Gottlieb Pot d'Or to study at the Bremen School of Applied Arts (8 semesters). Then he worked for a year in a Bremen printing company. A trip abroad lasting several months took him to Norway, then (1932) a six-month study trip to Italy to Florence and Rome. After his return he received orders for the restoration of churches (carvings on church altars, picture restoration and wall painting) in what was then the county of Hoya. In 1932 the company moved to Schweringen.

During the Second World War , Pot d'Or was used as a soldier in various countries (Soviet Union, Poland, Ruhr area) from 1940 to 1945. The war years of 1941/42 left formative impressions on Belarus. During his time in Soviet captivity , he made many sketches and drawings. After the war he returned to Schweringen and lived and worked there for over three decades. In 1977 - a year before his death - he made his last study trip to Italy.

Exhibitions

From 1952 onwards, Pot d'Or presented his art to the general public in many exhibitions, both in the vicinity of his home in towns such as Schweringen , Hoyerhagen , Bücken , Balge , Nienburg , Verden , Hoya , Wechold , Syke , Heiligenrode , Nordwohlde , but also and especially in Bremen , Worpswede , Aachen , Amsterdam , Rotterdam , Copenhagen and Salzburg . He also took part in exhibitions in Düsseldorf , Minsk and Smolensk . A cross-section of his works in the original and in the form of photos is exhibited in the Heimatstube Schweringen; sketchbooks can also be viewed here.

Works

Numerous oil paintings, wall paintings, panel paintings , large mosaics and church windows in schools, savings banks, banks, churches etc. a. at various locations in what was then County Hoya .

Dated works

• 1932: Mural, Schweringen cemetery chapel (no longer available)
• 1938: Altarpiece, Probsthagen Church
• 1947: Woman with a man's head. Oil on canvas
• 1952: Painting jacket like pants (oil on paper)
• 1954: Mural (almost destroyed) and clay reliefs, Schweringen youth home
• 1955: Mural, Kreissparkasse Hoya (no longer available)
• 1958: Mural, Heiligenrode School
• 1961: Mural and glass window, Hoyerhagen school
• 1961: Stained glass windows, Barrien cemetery chapel
• 1964: Stained glass window, choir of the Heiligenrode monastery church
• 1965: Mural, Barrien Elementary School
• 1966: Mural, auditorium of the 'Schule am Weserbogen' Wechold
• 1966: two wall objects, forum of the Hacheschule Syke
• 1967: mural, center school Nordwohlde
• 1968: Mosaic of the Resurrection of Christ , Schweringen cemetery chapel (it replaced the mural painted in 1932)
• 1970/1971: The City ( Triptych )
• 1971: Mosaic, Hoya nurses' home (no longer available)
• 1977: Mosaic from Weser pebbles, facade of the Schweringen gymnasium

Undated works

• Painting After the tank battle of Bobruisk
• Painting The Hanged Partisan
• Altarpiece ( triptych ), Schweringen Church
• Blackboard painting, Sparkasse stooping
• Mural, primary school Melchiorshausen (1960s, no longer available)
• Mural, Bruchhausen-Vilsen Retirement Home (1960s, no longer available)
• Mosaic, teacher's house in Schweringen (1960s)
• Blackboard paintings, Hoya District Hospital , internal department (1960s, no longer available)
• Wall object knight and abbess (metal with enamel ) in the Syke district building (around 1970)
• Large-scale wall work, Volksbank Schweringen (1970s)
• Panel painting, Volksbank Bücken (1970s)
• Mural, Volksbank Wechold (1970s)

literature

• Gottlieb Pot d'Or: Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen . Bremen 1979.
• Ortschronik Schweringen. Schweringen 1987, pp. 657-659.
• Cornelia Heising: Pot d'Or. (Ed .: KulturKontor), Bremen 1995.
• Cornelia Heising: From Bremen to Nienburg. In the footsteps of the painter Gottlieb Pot d'Or. In: Wendula Dahle (ed.): In the land of moors and dykes. Excursions left and right of the Weser. A travel and reading book. Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-86108-466-X , pp. 181-189.

Web links

• Church window in the St. Marien monastery church in Stuhr-Heiligenrode
• Mural primary school Melchiorshausen
• Gottlieb Pot d'Or on heimatverein-schweringen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gottlieb Pot d'Or on artnet