Jo Pieper

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Jo Pieper , eigtl. Josef Pieper, (born August 1, 1893 in Recklinghausen , † September 30, 1971 in Essen ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Stylized tulip as the logo of the Grugapark on the Grugaturm

Born in Recklinghausen in the Ruhr area , Jo Pieper studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund between 1910 and 1914 . He was a soldier in the First World War . He had contacts with the artist circle around Mother Ey in Düsseldorf and in 1922 he settled as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Essen, where he designed posters. For example, in 1929 he created the stylized tulip on the occasion of the opening of the Great Ruhr Land Horticultural Exhibition (GRUGA) , which is still today, in a slightly different form, the symbol of the Grugapark and is located on the Grugaturm , among other things .

In the 1930s, Pieper took on a job as a part-time teacher at the Folkwang School in Essen, where he taught freehand, plant and figurative drawing. In 1958 he resumed teaching at the Folkwang School of Design, the City of Essen's art school, specializing in nude and figurative drawing . He carried out this task until shortly before his death, when he had to give it up for health reasons.

As a painter, Pieper was interested in the subjects of gypsies, mother and child, portraits, nudes and landscapes of the North Sea. He also painted his memories of his travels to Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Austria. Paris and Tyrol in particular are reflected in his paintings.

Pieper was a member of the board of the Ruhrland Artists Association Essen (RKB). He exhibited with other artists, including Josef van Heekern, including at the Great Art Exhibition in Essen in 1947, at the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen in 1951, at the exhibition of the Hellweg artists' association in 1952, in the Amerikahaus Ruhr and in the Kunsthaus Bielefeld in 1953. Today is Some of his works are privately owned, but also in public hands, for example in the state parliament and the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the cities of Bochum, Düsseldorf, Essen, in the Gelsenkirchen art museum and in the city of Lünen .

Fonts

  • Jo Pieper: My thoughts on the art of advertising . In: Der Schacht 4 (1927/28), issue 14, pp. 182–6.

literature

  • House of Essen History / City Archives : Jo Pieper's personal file
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 272 .
  • Christof Belmann-Weinrich (Ed.): Jo Pieper 1893-1971. Painting and graphics from Recklinghäuser private collection , exhibition cat. Galerie im Drübbelken, Recklinghausen, April 22 to June 2, 2018, Recklinghausen 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Recklinghausen city and vest archive , registry office inventory, birth register for Josef Pieper.
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieper, Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1971
Place of death eat