Hermann Poll

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Hermann Poll (born December 6, 1902 in Bielefeld , † September 18, 1990 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

Life

Hermann Poll was born in Bielefeld as the fourth of seven children of the teacher and vice-principal Johann Hermann Poll and his wife Magdalena (née Dohrenkamp) . His childhood was shaped by a devout Catholic but also revealing parental home. After graduating from high school in 1924, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Wilhelm Herberholz , Heinrich Kamps and Heinrich Nauen . There he worked with Otto Dix and Peter Janssen, among others, and maintained contact with Mother Ey , who promoted the artist group Das Junge Rheinland .

In 1926 he moved to Berlin to continue his studies at the State Art College with Bernhard Hasler and Georg Walter Rössner . Three years later he passed the exams for artistic teaching and became Hasler's master student. In Berlin he was further supported by Max Liebermann and Paul Westheim . He worked as a freelancer until 1931 and took part in the Young Artists exhibition between 1929 and 1931. During this time he traveled to Italy for the first time , which shaped his art. Regular stays followed, mainly on the island of Ischia . There he met Werner Gilles , Eduard Bargheer , Max Peiffer Watenphul , Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen , Jenny Wiegman and Gabriele Mucchi .

From 1931 until it closed in 1939, Poll was an art teacher at the Canisius College in Berlin - Lietzensee . During these years he also had contact with the atelier community at Klosterstrasse with Werner Heldt , Ludwig Kasper and Hermann Blumenthal . From 1935 he shared his studio with his sister Christel in Berlin-Grunewald .

In 1941 he was drafted into the German armed forces in the course of the Second World War . He survived the war and then traveled through Germany ( Ballenstedt , Bad Blankenburg , Bielefeld and Berlin). In 1947 he moved to Düsseldorf and took a position as an art teacher at the Max Planck Gymnasium. Furthermore, he became a member of the Rhenish Secession , the West German Artists 'Association and the Malkasten Artists' Association, with numerous exhibitions and solo exhibitions. From 1949 he traveled several times to the island of Ischia, where he set up a second residence. In 1964 he was awarded the Tokyo International Art Exhibition Prize.

Hermann Poll died on September 18, 1990 in Düsseldorf .

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Hermann Poll's early works are influenced by the Düsseldorf School of Painting against the background of the painting culture of the French realists. When he started traveling to Italy in 1930, the artist's pictorial themes changed. He is increasingly concerned with the tension between classical antiquity and Christian culture in the southern landscape. In this respect, Poll's work can also be viewed as a successor to the German Romans of the 19th century. His sensitivity for the colors of the south is shown in often lyrical still lifes , especially in the landscape watercolors, which cover up the transitions between abstraction and figuration. In later pictures and pastels there are suggestions of the French painting of the post-Impressionist period, for example citing models like Robert Delaunay , Henri Matisse and the pointillists .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Hermann Poll: pictures, pastels, watercolors, etchings from the years 1924–1971 . Berlin 1972.
  • Eberhard Roters and Yvonne Friedrichs: Hermann Poll, pictures, drawings and etchings 1924–1979 . Publishing house of the Poll Gallery, Berlin 1982.
  • Rainer Zimmermann: The Art of the Lost Generation. German expressive realism painting from 1925 to 1975 . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 978-3430199612 .
  • Yvonne Friedrichs: Hermann Poll, pictures, drawings and etchings 1924–1973 . Artists' Association Malkasten, Düsseldorf 1988.
  • Lothar C. Poll and Eberhard Roters: Atelier Trabener Straße. Hermann Poll in Berlin. House on Lützowplatz . Berlin 1993.
  • Images of light and silence. Hermann Poll (1902-1990). Work documentation , ed. v. Lothar C. Poll, edited by Uli Hermens u. Milagros Vasquez-Otero, with contributions by Jürgen Schilling, Joerg Probst, Claus-Dieter Fröhlich and Eberhard Roters; Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931759-30-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Hermann Poll at De Gruyter
  2. ^ Die Form: Journal for creative work - exhibitions, issue 5.1930
  3. ↑ Internet site of the salon gallery »Die Möwe« , accessed on July 6, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Poll, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1990
Place of death Dusseldorf