Johannes Boris Gurewitsch

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Johannes Boris Gurewitsch (also Juan Boris Gurewitch ; born August 6, 1909 in Moscow ; † February 10, 1996 in Hamburg ) was a Russian-German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and wall designer .

Life

After the October Revolution , the family fled to Germany. After finishing school in Hamburg, he did an apprenticeship as a craftsman under the direction of the painter Kurth Jager . He completed his studies with Erich Hartmann at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg. Here he studied nude and handicraft drawing. He became art director at Hoffmann-La Roche and taught there as an art teacher. As a Jew, he had to emigrate to Uruguay in 1937. His long stay in South America made him known there. Pictures of him are in the Uruguayan Public Collections Museums . In 1967 he returned to Germany.

Postage stamp from 1965 designed by Gurevich

Works

He mainly painted landscapes with powerful brush strokes on the spot, taking into account the position of the sun, the shadows and the air. Later he abstracted pictures with condensed colors and shapes as well as connections to the cosmic.

He also painted port pictures. He received orders for wall paintings, wall designs, reliefs in buildings in Montevideo and the Dankeskirche in Hamburg to feed the 5000. In 1980 he painted Aquamarina in Heiligenhafen (11 wall paintings).

The St. Annen Museum in Lübeck shows his drawings .

Exhibitions

  • 1957: Punta del Este: international exhibition.
  • 1959: Porto Alegre, São Paulo / Brazil: Museum of Modern Art
  • 1959: São Paulo: Biennale.
  • 1966: Hamburg Ibero America Association
  • 1977: Hamburg Galerie Agapi, Catholic Academy
  • 1980: Hamburg Hochhuth Gallery: group exhibition

Fonts

  • By a thread ... Confessions of a painter. Word and work, Nettetal 1984, ISBN 3-8050-0143-6 .

literature

  • Volker Detlef Heydorn: painter in Hamburg 1966–1974. Christians, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 , p. 125.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JB Gurewitsch: Am seidenen Faden, pp. 20-26
  2. ^ Museums Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg: Johannes Boris Gurewitsch: Self-portrait .

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personal data
SURNAME Gurewitsch, Johannes Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gurewitch, Juan Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and wall designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1996
Place of death Hamburg