Johannes Boehland

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Johannes Boehland (born April 16, 1903 in Berlin ; † September 5, 1964 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Growing up as the son of the respected decorative painter Richard Boehland (1868-1935) and the painter Flora Gaillard, he began his artistic training from 1920 to 1926 at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin with Professors Oskar Hermann Werner Hadank and B. E. Scherz, as well as at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin under Emil Rudolf Weiß . At the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts, he worked for a long time as a master student of his teacher. After completing his training, he worked as a graphic artist at the State Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin from 1926 . However, he found his calling in teaching and began working as a teacher at a young age. From 1929 he taught at the municipal arts and crafts school in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He also taught in 1931 at the master school for graphics and book trade in Berlin , in 1945 at the Berlin University of Fine Arts , in 1951 as head of the graphics department at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden and in 1954 at the master school for graphics and book trade in Berlin. Johannes Boehland died on September 5, 1964 in Berlin.

During the time of National Socialism , Boehland was not banned from working. In 1940 he was represented with two works at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst . An evaluation of the art exhibitions of German contemporary art between 1933 and 1945, for which a catalog with the participating artists has been preserved, shows that Boehland was involved in five other exhibitions in addition to the GDK between 1937 and 1943. In addition, in June 1942 the Mainfränkischer Kunstverein in Würzburg showed him and Hans Haffenrichter under the title watercolors and drawings by Haffenrichter and Joh. Boehland .

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As early as 1938, a report on an exhibition described the difference between two stylistic trends in Boehland's oeuvre: “(...) one perceives a distinct contrast between particularly fine, almost delicate and particularly powerful works. The former include the cityscapes and architectural views, such as the pencil drawings made with sparing, thin lines (...) The strong and succinctly cut sheets and drafts include, in particular, the works for the new Germany, the Olympic bell and the Olympic certificates of honor, the State council certificate, as well as the drafts for the Prussian sovereign badge. ” Typical of the emphatically powerful Nazi style mentioned here is also the Winter Relief Organization poster from 1933; of the Madagascar book (1942) and the illustrations for Herbert Schindler's Baroque journeys (printed in 1964).

In the post-war period, his graphics and drawings were praised, albeit not for their originality and ingenuity, and larger works also met with reservations: “Boehland is a great talent, his commercial graphics, his font designs and drawings are extremely clean and well-balanced (...) The preliminary studies for painting a music hall are more problematic (...) and (that) would probably no longer be entirely up-to-date. "

His works include some very prestigious commissions with a long range, including the logo for the 1936 Summer Olympics , the Olympic bell, Protestant church hymn books and the (until 2014) authoritative Beethoven catalog of works.

Works (selection)

Working for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
  • Design of the Olympic bell (1932–1935) for the 1936 Olympic Games, Berlin, Olympic Stadium : with the imperial eagle, the Olympic rings and the text "I call the youth of the world" around the edge
  • Logo of the Olympic Games with the Olympic bell
  • Certificates of honor
Art in construction, building equipment
  • The area around the Königstor around 1730 , design for one of the six porcelain tile murals with historical Berlin views (1930) in the Alexanderplatz underground station , Berlin. In 1974 the cycle was supplemented by two more pictures. The originals from 1930 are lost, the reconstructions from the post-war period (1974?) Have been in the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation since 2006 .
  • Labeling on four pylons of the Berlin University for the fallen
  • Frieze in the large concert hall of the Kurhaus Wiesbaden
  • Wall paintings in the foyer of the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden
  • Wall paintings in the Mozart Hall of the Helene Lange School in Wiesbaden (around 1955?)
  • Frescoes in the restoration rooms of Frankfurt Central Station
  • Cartographic representation of Germany as a wall mosaic for the headquarters of Allianz Insurance in Cologne
  • Draft for the "Chronicle" of the National Theater in Mannheim (with 1500 letters forged in steel)
  • Design of glass windows for the stairwell in the Ernst-Reuter-Haus in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • Design of glass windows for the choir of the Martinskirche in Kassel: The choir windows designed by Hugo Schneider (1889-1892) were destroyed in World War II. Apparently Boehland's designs were never realized. Today's choir windows are by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen (1958).

  • Olympic bell (1932-1935)

  • 1936 Olympic Games logo

  • Porcelain mural: The area around the Königstor around 1730 (1930)

  • Postage stamp: Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring (1954)

Font design
  • 1942: Font “Reglindis”, unpublished
  • 1951: Brush script “Balzac” (presented by hand), for D. Stempel AG.
    Application example : Trilussa : The converted serpent and twenty-seven other fables . Transferred from the Roman popular dialect by Hans von Hülsen . With 6 illustrations by Werner vom Scheidt. Insel, Wiesbaden 1952 (3rd printing of the Trajanus-Presse, Frankfurt am Main, with types of the "Balzac" created by Johannes Boehland from the Stempel type foundry in Frankfurt am Main).
Postage stamp design
Posters
Book equipment, book illustrations
  • 25 years of private art school in the West. From 1904 to 1929. Head: E. Stalmann. Berlin / Charlottenburg . Berlin 1929, DNB  574514651 (at least the "very avant-garde (...) designed" cover is by Boehland).
  • August Winnig : Coming home. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 1935.
  • August Winnig : Europe. Thoughts of a German. Eckart-Verlag, Berlin-Steglitz 1937 (cover by Johannes Boehland), DNB 361893876 .
  • Friedrich Schnack: Big Island Madagascar . Dietrich Reimer / Andrews & Steiner, Berlin 1942 (cover design with drawing by Boehland).
  • Franz Höller: Play about love. Volk und Reich Verlag, Prague 1943, DNB 57477842X (cover: Johannes Boehland).
  • Leo Hans Mally: Prague. A book of poems. With drawings by Johannes Boehland. Volk und Reich Verlag, Prague 1943, DNB 361190115 and field post edition DNB 57497623X .
  • Rudolf Fischer: The women hunt. Comedy in 3 acts. Volk und Reich Verlag, Prague 1944 (cover: Johannes Boehland).
  • Poses. Drawings by Johannes Boehland. Eduard Stichnote, Potsdam 1944 (large-format portfolio with 14 drawings).
  • Rudolf Krämer-Badoni: Land of Open Gates . Drawings by Johannes Boehland. Erasmus print Max Krause, Wiesbaden 1951, DNB  452553873 (nine motifs from the Wiesbaden - Mainz - Kiedrich - Eberbach - Rüdesheim area).
  • Font graphics for Protestant hymn books in West and East Germany
  • Georg Kinsky : The work of Beethoven. Thematic-bibliographical index of all his completed compositions . Completed after the death of the author and edited by Hans Halm. G. Henle Verlag, Munich / Duisburg 1955, DNB  452411246 ("Cover design: Professor Johannes Boehland, Wiesbaden").
  • Ocular sketches. Excerpts from world literature. With illustrations by Johannes Boehland. Zeiss, Oberkochen / Württ. 1961, DNB 454732120 .
  • With one mouth. Single-part choir book for the service . Selected and compiled by Hermann Stern. Merseburger Verlag, Berlin 1964, DNB  576989835 (title drawing by Boehland).
  • Herbert Schindler : Baroque journeys in Swabia and Old Bavaria . With drawings by Johannes Boehland. 3. Edition. Prestel, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7913-0300-7 (1st edition 1964).

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • 1940: Great German Art Exhibition , House of Art, Munich
  • 1941: October exhibition , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
  • 1942: Watercolors and drawings by Haffenrichter and Joh. Boehland , Mainfränkischer Kunstverein, Würzburg
  • 1952: Christmas sales exhibition , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
Solo exhibitions
  • 1938: Rudolf Blanckertz Writing Museum , Berlin
  • 1951: Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden
  • 1955: Galerie Spitta & Leutz, Berlin
  • 1959: Gerd Rosen Gallery, Berlin
  • 1961: Galerie Manfred Stracke, Düsseldorf
  • 1963: Gutenberg Museum , Mainz
  • 1963: Galerie Gertrud von Kalkstein, Berlin
  • 1964: Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising Berlin
  • 1964: Municipal Museum Wiesbaden, picture gallery
  • 1965: Memorial exhibition of the city of Wiesbaden

literature

  • E. Purpus: Boehland, Johannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 127.
  • Boehland, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Boehland, Johannes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: The graphic artist Johannes Boehland. Enclosed in: Philobiblon , Volume 7, 1934, Issue 6, OCLC 602140665 .
  • Fritz Hellwag: Johannes Boehland. A monograph. (= Monographs of artistic writing , Volume 4.) Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin undated (around 1938), OCLC 38684696 .
  • Heinz Bartkowiak: Johannes Boehland. A tribute to the writer and graphic artist. (= Berliner Bibliophilen-Abend , annual edition 1970/71.) Self-published, Berlin 1971, OCLC 246001020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration of a drawn self-portrait: Johannes Boehland. (PDF) Klingspor Museum , accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Heinz Bartkowiak: Johannes Boehland. A tribute to the writer and graphic artist. Berlin 1971, p. 7.
  3. ↑ a b c Heinz Bartkowiak: Johannes Boehland. A tribute to the writer and graphic artist. Berlin 1971, p. 37.
  4. ↑ a b c Martin Papenbrock , Anette Sohn (arrangement): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions. Part 1: Exhibitions of German contemporary art during the Nazi era. An annotated bibliography . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 978-3-89739-041-6 , p. 377 and p. 396.
  5. ^ H. Pattenhausen: Johannes Boehland. Exhibition in the writing museum Blanckertz . In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 17, 1938 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).
  6. ^ Will Grohmann : Exhibition calendar . In: The New Newspaper . Berlin January 23, 1955, p. 13 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed on February 19, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Display board at the current location of the bell, Olympischer Platz 4
  8. ↑ Details on the creation process of the logo are described in the article 1936 Summer Olympics .
  9. ^ H. Pattenhausen: Johannes Boehland. Exhibition in the writing museum Blanckertz . In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 17, 1938 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Alexander Glintschert: Porcelain pictures on Alex. August 7, 2012, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  11. ↑ This probably refers to: “The preliminary studies for the painting of a music hall are more problematic, and it is difficult to imagine what the result will be, probably similar to the Slevogt in Kladow. But that was a long time ago and would probably no longer be entirely up to date. ”- Will Grohmann : Exhibition calendar . In: The New Newspaper . Berlin January 23, 1955, p. 13 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed on February 19, 2020]).
  12. ^ Draft in the collections of the Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel
  13. ↑ Ev. Church of Kurhessen Waldeck , sakrale-bauten.de
  14. ^ Gerhard Bott , Dieter Großmann, G. Ulrich Großmann , Erich Herzog : Hessen. Kunstdenkmäler (=  Reclams Art Guide Germany . Volume IV ). 5th edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-008466-0 , p. 297 .
  15. ↑ Johannes Boehland. (PDF) Klingspor Museum , accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  16. ↑ D. stamp - 1951 on typografie.info
  17. ↑ Johannes Boehland. (PDF) Klingspor Museum , accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Copy of the Museum im Kornhaus, Bad Waldsee : online, with illustration
  19. ↑ Verena Tafel: Chance finds. Research on loans for exhibitions from the holdings of the UdK library . In: Jürgen Christof, Andrea Zeyns (eds.): University libraries TU Berlin and UdK Berlin. Annual report 2017 . University Press of the TU Berlin, Berlin 2018, p. 66–74, here p. 73 with illustration . ( online )
  20. ↑ For the three named titles of the Volk und Reich Verlag: Murray G. Hall: Volk und Reich Verlag, Prague (Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam). Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Examples: Reich Association for Protestant Church Music e. V. (Ed.): Sings praise and thanks. Hymnbook for Protestant religious instruction. Illustrations: Paula Jordan, type design: Johannes Boehland. Henry Litolff's Verlag, Braunschweig without a year (probably 1939, apparently appeared in several editions at the same time, see DNB 576192201 , DNB 576192198 ). - Evangelical church hymn book. Edition for the Evangelical Church in Berlin Brandenburg. Typography: Heinrich Grote, font graphics: Johannes Boehland. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1955. - Evangelical church hymnbook. Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia. Typography: Heinrich Grote, font graphics: Johannes Boehland. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1958. - Evangelical church hymnbook. Edition for the Evangelical Church in Baden. Typographic design: Verlag Carl Merseburger, Berlin. Graphics: Johannes Boehland. Verlag Evangelischer Presseverband für Baden, Karlsruhe 1964. - More are listed in: Heinz Dietrich Metzger: Hymn books in Württemberg. Inventory . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2002, ISBN 978-3-476-01865-6 .
  22. ^ October exhibition 1941. Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Christmas sales exhibition. Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, accessed on February 19, 2020 .
  24. ^ H. Pattenhausen: Johannes Boehland. Exhibition in the writing museum Blanckertz . In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 17, 1938 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).
  25. ^ Will Grohmann : Exhibition calendar . In: The New Newspaper . Berlin January 23, 1955, p. 13 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed on February 19, 2020]).
  26. ^ Boehland exhibition. TV report of the evening show of the Südwestfunk . May 7, 1963, accessed February 19, 2020 (video, 2.06 minutes).
personal data
SURNAME Boehland, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1964
Place of death Berlin