Johann Kluska

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Johann Kluska (born May 16, 1904 in Berlin ; † April 11, 1973 in Berlin) was a German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Career

Johann Kluska 1965

File: Exhibition in the gallery Das Bild with Johann Kluska and Heinz Schmidt from September 1965. Henschel photo inventory, signature B01 0011 24-26 fhxb jh b01 0011 26 1500px.jpgKluska, son of the master tailor Johann Kluska and his wife Marie, visited his City of birth Berlin the elementary school. At the age of twelve he was already painting watercolors , so that in the same year he began to promote his talent . He finished 1916 to 1918 afternoon and evening classes at the Royal Art School in Wilmersdorf the Director Philipp Franck , the painting techniques learned the painter Hermann Friling 1918-1921, while at the same time from 1918 to 1920 at the National Arts and Crafts School in Charlottenburg under studied with August Blunck and completed his training at the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1920 as the last master class student of Max Friedrich Koch . He then worked as a graphic designer for Berlin magazine publishers for many years. From 1942 until the end of the war he served in the medical replacement department. From 1945 he was a freelance artist . In addition to his artistic work, Kluska also taught at various adult education centers in Berlin. From October 1946 to November 1951 he was a member of the Berlin Artists' Association . In 1973 Kluska died in Berlin.

Artistic work

Kluska is best known for his figurative compositions - often heroic scenes in a realistic or mythical- impressionistic style - especially for Dante's Divine Comedy . In addition, through female nudes , still lifes and landscapes, religious motifs and portraits. This includes numerous commissioned works . He was opposed to abstract painting (“not being able”) and pop art (“fashion”).

He participated in the “Great Berlin Art Exhibitions” from 1925 to 1941. He had solo exhibitions in 1943 in the City Museum in Leipzig , in 1948 in the Berlin Art Magazine, Kleiststrasse, and in 1954 in the Art Cabinet, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . In addition to his centers of activity in Berlin, Munich and Leipzig, he was often in Florence . After he narrowly missed the first prize and wanted to continue participating, he was prevented from participating in the “Concorso Internazionale di Pittura, Italia 2000” in Naples due to illness and death.

With the painting "Venus" from 1940, which presumably depicts his wife, he took part in the " Great German Art Exhibition " in 1941 in Munich. Peter Adam referred in his book Art of the Third Reich (German edition: Art in the Third Reich ) to this picture by Kluska: There were the sensual and lingering nudes of Karl Truppe, Gerhardinger, Graf, Ernst Liebermann, Johanna [sic !] Kluska, Schult, Richard Klein, and many others furnished the exhibition with 'healthy Aryan flesh' (“There were the sensual but traditional acts by Karl Truppe, Gerhardinger, Graf, Ernst Liebermann, Johann Kluska, Johann Schult, Richard Klein and many others, they furnished the exhibition with 'healthy Aryan bodies' ”).

After the Second World War, he created portraits of the Federal Presidents Theodor Heuss (1954), Heinrich Lübke (1960) and Gustav Heinemann (1970) for the newly established, private collection of the Federal Presidents' Gallery in the Tiergarten City Hall .

Exhibitions

  • 1925–1941 major Berlin art exhibitions, exhibition participation, Berlin
  • 1942 Large art exhibition, exhibition participation in Munich
  • 1943 City Museum Leipzig , solo exhibition, Leipzig
  • 1948 Schöneberg art magazine, Kleiststrasse, Berlin
  • 1954 Art Cabinet Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
  • 1968 (approx.) Concorso Internazionale di Pittura - Italia 2000, Naples
  • 1965-1970-1972 Gallery "Das Bild", Berlin Vernissage 1965 Johann Kluska
  • 2015 Galerie Barthelmess & Wischnewski Berlin, Berlin impressionists

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Great German Art Exhibition 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich: Official exhibition catalog. 1941, supplement p. 14. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. ^ Illustration in Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich , vol. 6, 1942, no. 3, p. 80.
  3. Peter Adam: Art of the Third Reich. Abrams, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8109-1912-5 , p. 155. ( Google Book Snippet ).
  4. ^ Gallery of the Federal Presidents in the Tiergarten town hall. Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin, 2912 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . With illustrations. (PDF; 1.5 MB). Retrieved March 22, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  5. Exhibition shows Berlin Impressionists. BZ, October 14, 2015, accessed September 2, 2017 .

Web links

  • Kluska, Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 148-149 .