Gustav Wolf (painter)

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Gustav Wolf (around 1918)

Gustav Wolf ( June 26, 1887 in Östringen - December 18, 1947 in Greenfield , USA ) was a German painter , printmaker and wood cutter .

Life

Polygon forest in Flanders during the First World War
untitled (1938/42)
The superdictator (1945)

From 1904 Wolf studied at the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe , where he was a student of Hans Thoma . In 1916 he became an art teacher in Schwerin and in 1921 he founded , among others with Richard Benz , the community Die Pforte in Heidelberg , which published books, posters and other printed works according to his own ideas. In 1920/21 Gustav Wolf taught graphics as a professor at the State Art School in Karlsruhe.

Because of anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in the Nazi era had to Gustav Wolf, who was of Jewish descent in the United States in 1938 to emigrate and escape as the Holocaust . There he continued to work as an artist and lived in New York until 1942. In the last years of his life he and his wife moved to an artists' colony. He died in the USA at the age of 60 after thinking about returning to Germany.

Gustav Wolf Art Gallery

After extensive renovation of one of the oldest half-timbered houses in Östringen, the Gustav Wolf Art Gallery was opened in the autumn of 1994, which preserves the artistic estate of Gustav Wolf.

literature

  • Johann Eckart von Borries: Gustav Wolf. The graphic work . State Art Gallery, Karlsruhe 1982.
  • Barbara Brähler: Gustav Wolf, creator of visionary art . Gustav Wolf Art Gallery, Östringen 1995 (with bibliography)
  • Barbara Brähler: Gustav Wolf (1887–1947) - a worldview in pictures. Catalog raisonné of the artistic estate in Östringen . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 2000 (available as sw microfiche in libraries)
  • Svenja Gerhardt: "The prodigal son". The Baden artist Gustav Wolf - Insights into the Gustav Wolf Art Gallery in Östringen . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research, volume 18, 2003, pp. 211–226.
  • Barbara Brähler: Wolf, Gustav, printmaker and painter. In: Baden biographies . NF 5. 2005, pp. 295-297.
  • Birgit Jooss: Gustav Wolf. Heroes and the like - a picture book from the First World War. In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 2010. Ed. By G. Ulrich Großmann, Nürnberg 2011, pp. 296–297.
  • Wolf, Gustav , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 391

Web links

Commons : Gustav Wolf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Wolf. Arts in exile, accessed on August 16, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ History of the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 21, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstakademie-karlsruhe.de
  3. ↑ Dr. Birgit Jooss Dr. des. Matthias Memmel: Arts in exile. GNM Nuremberg, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Östringen Local History Museum: Gustav Wolf. City of Östringen, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Oestringen
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1947
Place of death Greenfield