Hans Gött

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Hans Gött (born June 8, 1883 in Munich ; † February 12, 1974 there ) was a German draftsman, graphic artist and painter.

Life

The son of the classical philologist and grammar school teacher Georg Gött (1848–1921) and his wife Mathilde, b. Karrer (1853–1924) grew up in Munich. Since the father resisted the wish to study art, Gött first studied architecture. In 1904, his father allowed a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Gött enrolled in Gabriel von Hackl's drawing class . In 1907 he continued his studies in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and then at the Académie Matisse . He was one of the German artists of the Café du Dôme . After a trip to Brittany and southern France in 1909, he returned to Munich.

In Munich he worked in Paul Ludwig Troost's office before setting up his own studio on Baldeplatz in 1912, where he worked for 60 years. 1914-1918 he did military service in Belgium, France and Transylvania. In 1919 Gött was accepted into the Munich New Secession and regularly took part in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . He was mainly friends with Adolf Schinnerer . When the Munich New Secession was forcibly dissolved in 1937, two paintings by Götts from the Bavarian State Painting Collections were also confiscated as degenerate art . Nevertheless, Gött was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1944. He held the office until 1952. One of his students at the academy was Georg Kiste .

Hans Gött was a full member of the German Association of Artists and, from 1957, of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

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Hans Gött was mainly active in the classic genres of portrait, nude and landscape painting. In printmaking, he preferred etching . In Paris he became acquainted with the painting of Henri Matisse , but remained committed to painting by Paul Cézanne except for a few strongly colored attempts . In Munich painting of the 1920s, like Hugo Troendle , he represented a classicist, clarified conception of landscape and body. During this time he was acquainted with the theologian Johannes Müller and there are still numerous works by Gött in Schloss Elmau . In the summer of 1928, the architect Paul Ludwig Troost asked him to equip the luxury steamer Europa of North German Lloyd .

Gött only took part once, in 1938, with a landscape painting in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. Otherwise he struggled through the years of dictatorship with private sales.

In the 1950s he still had orders, including a cosmic landscape for the German Museum for the geological department and a large mosaic for the Bavarian State Surveying Office in Munich. From 1970 he could no longer work due to weak eyes.

Gött's works can be found in the State Graphic Collection in Munich and in the Bavarian State Painting Collections .

Illustrations

  • Ovid: Three books on the art of love . Munich: Georg-Müller-Verlag 1920. Lithographs.
  • Christoph Martin Wieland: Musarion or The Philosophy of the Graces. A poem in three books . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag 1924. Etchings.
  • Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis . Munich: Drei Masken Verlag without a year (1927). Etchings.

literature

  • Werner Zinkand / Nina Raffalt: Hans Gött 1883–1974. Life and work . Munich: CH Beck 2000. ISBN 3-406-39998-3
  • Hans Gött. 1883-1974 . Exhibition catalog Kunsthaus Bühler. Stuttgart: Kunsthaus Bühler 2010.
  • God, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 266 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register book of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  2. ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum Entartete Kunst , Volumes 1 and 2, complete list of works confiscated from German museums, 1937-1938, Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
  3. ↑ However, there is no evidence of this on the homepage of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich [1] .
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Gött, Hans ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 August 7, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ GDK Research
personal data
SURNAME God, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1974
Place of death Munich