Johannes Driesch

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Self-Portrait with a Woman (1925)

Johannes Driesch (born November 21, 1901 in Krefeld ; died February 18, 1930 in Erfurt ) was a German painter, graphic artist, ceramist and book cover designer.

Life

Johannes Driesch was the child of a large working - class family . He began an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Krefeld and then attended the Krefeld School of Applied Arts for three semesters. From 1919 he studied at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar in the preliminary course with Johannes Itten and Lyonel Feininger . In 1920 he went to the ceramics workshop of the Bauhaus in Dornburg , which was under the direction of Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan . Driesch married the Bauhaus student Lydia Driesch-Foucar (1895–1980) in 1921 , they had four children, which is why she had to finish her studies and earn family support through wage labor.

In 1922 he gave up pottery and turned to free art with the support of Marcks and Walter Kaesbach . Driesch sought his own style by studying and copying old masters . In 1928 he moved into a studio in the Deutschherrenhaus in Frankfurt am Main . Driesch died in 1930 while working in Erfurt.

Driesch's work was removed from public collections as Degenerate Art from 1935 onwards by the National Socialists .

  • photos

  • Thistle (1920)

  • Still Life with a Pot (1920)

  • Mojer Lisbeth 1921

  • In the railway carriage (1923)

  • Erfurt (1929)

  • Family (1922)

  • Pregnant women II (1924)

literature

Catalog (2001): Nude girl (around 1921)
  • Dankmar Trier: Driesch, Johannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 446.
  • Cornelia Nowak, Michael Siebenbrodt (editor): Johannes Driesch - From Bauhaus to Arcadia . Exhibition. Weimar Art Collections / Bauhaus Museum, November 18, 2001 - February 3, 2002; Angermuseum Erfurt, November 18, 2001 - January 13, 2002. Weimar: Bauhaus Museum. ISBN 3-929323-20-6
  • Klaus Weber, Daniela Sannwald (ed.): Ceramics and Bauhaus. History and effects of the ceramic workshop of the Bauhaus . Exhibition catalog. Berlin: Kupfergraben, 1989, short biography p. 263

Web links

Commons : Johannes Driesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magdalena Droste: Survival with shaped pastries , at Klassik Stiftung Weimar , September 26, 2017
  2. ^ Lydia Driesch-Foucar , at: Friedrichsdorf , website
personal data
SURNAME Driesch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, ceramist and book cover designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1930
Place of death Erfurt