Hermann Glöckner

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Hermann Glöckner in front of a work by Horst Bartnig in a private exhibition in Dresden in 1974

Hermann Glöckner (born January 21, 1889 in Cotta near Dresden ; † May 10, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German constructivist painter and sculptor.

Life

“Breakthrough” - metal sculpture by Hermann Glöckner in front of the Bundeshaus in Bonn

From 1904 to 1911, Hermann Glöckner attended evening courses with Edmund Schuchardt and Kurt Fiedler at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1923/24 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy under Otto Gussmann .

Hermann Glöckner and his wife Frieda attaching the work “Wall sundial” to the two-family house Heinrich Wentzel in Radebeul in 1938

In 1945 was due to the war lost much of his work. From 1945 to 1948 Glöckner was a member of the artist group " Der Ruf ". After the Second World War he lived and worked in the GDR , and in the last years of his life also in West Berlin .

As a co-founder of constructivism , he was denied recognition until the 1950s. Nonetheless, undeterred, withdrawn from the art world, in his late work he created a large number of building-related commissions, sculptures and collages that were made available to a wider public through friends.

In 1983 he received the Hans Grundig Medal and in 1984 the National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class. In 1984 the documentary filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher made a biographical film about him with the title “Short visit to Hermann Glöckner” (35 mm, color, 32 minutes). His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery . In 2006, in the same district of Dresden, a new street was named after Hermann Glöckner. In 2000 he was voted one of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”.

Construction-related "bread" works (excerpt)

Sgraffiti on the house at Meißner Strasse 443
Wichernstrasse 21 / 21a , Albertplatz side
Grave of Hermann Glöckner in the Loschwitz cemetery (stele by Peter Makolies )

As a result of the Nazi campaign Degenerate Art, cut off from the possibility of earning a living with his art directly, Glöckner turned to so-called “building-related 'bread' works” in the years 1937–1944. After he was able to work and exhibit undisturbed artistically in the years 1945–1951, this time the SED-led formalism dispute in 1951 excluded him from the GDR art scene . This time too, Glöckner secured his livelihood through numerous handicrafts on the building until the mid-1950s.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Glöckner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yvonne Fiedler: Art in the Corridor: Private Galleries in the GDR between autonomy and illegality . Zugl .: Leipzig, University, dissertation, 2012. 1st edition. Ch.links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-86153-726-5 , p. 81–82, 159–160, 340 (400 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 23, 2019]).
  2. ^ Streets and squares in Loschwitz. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved May 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .
  4. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
  5. ^ Hermann Glöckner estate: The artist
  6. ↑ An unusual event: The attempt to save a plaster painting in Reichenberg.
  7. ↑ Patriarch of Modernity in Welt am Sonntag of October 12, 2010, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Bell ringer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Cotta (Dresden)
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1987
Place of death Berlin