Helmut Goettl

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Helmut Franz Adam Valentin Goettl (born March 11, 1934 in Děčín , Czechoslovakia , † June 24, 2011 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman who was critical of society .

Life

After graduating from high school, Goettl began his art studies in Freiburg in 1954 with Rudolf Dischinger and in 1955 switched to Karl Hubbuch at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 1976 he was given a visiting professorship at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , and in 1978 a teaching position at the Mannheim University of Design . For many years he was chairman of the district association of visual artists in Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Künstlerhaus ( BBK ), whose development he played a key role. Goettl lived and worked as a freelance artist in Karlsruhe since 1959, for a long time in close proximity and friendship with the graphic artist and sculptor Wolfgang Trust .

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His encounter with Hubbuch, in whose tradition he worked, was formative for Goettl's art. Above all, biting, polemical and critical representations of social grievances shape his work and are an expression of a social and political commitment that Goettl never denied. But his detailed, elaborated pictures are also a joy of rough-erotic sensuality. Even more than painting, drawing was his main design tool. Goettl is one of the most important representatives of socially critical art of the post-war period in Germany.

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literature

  • R. Hiepe: The art of the new class , C. Bertelsmann Verlag 1973 (pp. 172-173), ISBN 3-570-08444-2
  • 125 years of BBK - 20 years of Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe , Engelhardt & Bauer Karlsruhe, 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Goettl, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goettl, Helmut Franz Adam Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German socially critical painter, graphic artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Děčín , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2011