Johannes Grützke

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Johannes Michael Wilhelm Grützke (born September 30, 1937 in Berlin ; † May 17, 2017 there ) was a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist and medalist .

Live and act

The writer Wiglaf Droste in front of a painting by Grützke in Potsdam (2006). The right head is a self-portrait of the artist.

Johannes Grützke was born as the fourth of five children as the son of businessman Wilhelm Grützke and his wife Dörthe in Berlin-Karlshorst . Except for four years of war and post-war chaos, he grew up in Berlin-Moabit .

Johannes Grützke studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1957 to 1964, first with Hans Orlowski and then as a master student of Peter Janssen . In 1962 he took part in the course at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg , led by Oskar Kokoschka . In Bad Godesberg , where he moved in 1964, he had his first solo exhibition in the same year in the Pro gallery , which was directed by Johannes Wasmuth . The following year, back in Berlin, he founded the music ensemble Die Erlebnisgeiger , with which he performed irregularly in public. In 1973 he was a co-founder of the School of New Magnificence . In 1974 the Neue Berliner Kunstverein organized the first Grützke retrospective in Charlottenburg Palace , which was then exhibited at the Freiburg Art Association , the Nuremberg Art Gallery and the Mannheim Art Association . In the same year, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein also organized the first joint exhibition of the School of New Magnificence . In 1986 he was awarded the art prize of the Heitland Foundation , Celle .

In addition to being a painter , draftsman and printmaker , Grützke also worked as a stage designer for the theater. 1979 began a long-term collaboration with the director Peter Zadek . From 1985 to 1988 he was its artistic advisor at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and designed various productions, including the legendary original version of Lulu by Frank Wedekind , Yehoshua Sobol's Ghetto and Weininger's Night as well as Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Vienna Burgtheater (also costumes, stage together with Wilfried Minks ).

In 1976/1977 Grützke taught as a guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg . In 1987 he returned to the International Summer Academy in Salzburg , this time as a lecturer to succeed his former teacher Oskar Kokoschka . In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the Künstleronderbund in Germany . From 1992 to 2002 he was professor for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . Johannes Grützke was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg .

Grave of Johannes Grützke, Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof, Berlin.

From November 2011 to April 2012 a comprehensive exhibition of his works under the title The Retrospective took place in the “Works and Documents” series of the German Art Archives in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg . In connection with this, Grützke bequeathed a legacy to the museum . In 2012, a selection of paintings, drawings, pastels and a sculpture by the artist from the Horn collection was on view at the Marburger Kunstverein . On the occasion of the award of the Hannah Höch Prize of the State of Berlin 2012 , the Stadtmuseum Berlin showed a retrospective of his work from five decades under the title “the whole world in my mirror” . In 2013 works by Grützke were exhibited as part of the exhibition “ Jacob Jordaens and the Modern Age” in the Fridericianum in Kassel.

Johannes Grützke died in May 2017 at the age of 79 and found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtischen and Friedrichswerder parishes at Chausseestrasse 126 in Berlin .

Stylistic positioning

Johannes Grützke was a co-founder and most famous painter of the school of new splendor . He painted in a figurative , very independent style. The people he portrayed and the scenes in which he placed them seem ironically overdrawn. As a portraitist, he did not idealize his models, but tried to approximate the characteristics and physiognomy of the sitter by distorting them. The Stadtmuseum Berlin wrote: "His pictures are ironic reflections of historical, mythological and religious subjects, bizarre descriptions of social behavior and relentless self-questioning".

Awards

Important public works

Murals

Grützke's Hecker monument on the town hall of Constance
From the history of trauma surgery (excerpt)

Works in the possession of public collections

Exhibitions

Medal work

  • Cast bronze medal on James Simon . Obverse: head portrait three quarters after r. Back: Seven lines of text: A person / is no more / than another / if he does not / does more than / another. / Cervantes . Literature: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt Nr. 10, 2006, pp. 449-450, illustration
  • in: Ulf Dräger, Andrea Stock: The world in miniature: German medal art today, 2000–2006. Moritzburg Foundation, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-937751-54-2 , ( Die Kunstmedaille in Deutschland. Vol. 23, on the occasion of the exhibition Die Welt "en Miniature" . 2000–2006, July 15 – October 7, 2007 in Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt).

Quotes

  • "A painter who means business calls himself a painter, and what he does is painting."
  • “The brush is my research tool, just like the term is used by the philosopher. The picture is not the goal, but a waste of my research work. "
  • "My pictures are an expression of my personal experiences, [...] and I document general experiences in my pictures, representing many. [...] With the help of an excerpt from reality, I paint the whole of reality. The small reality that surrounds me [...] is representative of the entire great reality. As a result, my person is representative of everyone. "
  • Don't think before painting, painting is thinking.
  • Art is not modern, it is always.
  • Anyone who knows me is lucky. Those who are lucky love. I love you. Because I love myself.
  • The brushstroke on a canvas is only a brushstroke if it is just a brushstroke. It is more when it is more than a brushstroke. Well, it is no longer, but it becomes more through its power of suggestion.

literature

  • Bernhard Holeczek: Johannes Grützke. Catalog raisonné of the paintings 1964–1977. Sydow Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-921520-03-7
  • Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.): Johannes Grützke. Paulskirche. The procession of the people's representatives, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3458330593
  • Jutta Bacher: Johannes Grützke - Of course, Aachen / Leipzig / Paris 1995, ISBN 3039549073
  • Birgit Jooss (arrangement): Johannes Grützke. The retrospective, Nuremberg 2011
  • German contemporary erasers. Kunstverein Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 78f.
  • Johannes Grützke - Visiting Tübke. With a contribution by Johannes Grützke, Edition Galerie Schwind, Leipzig 2007
  • Directory of prints by Johannes Grützke No. 1 1958–1963. Ed. Ladengalerie Berlin u. Andreas Pospischil, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-926460-92-X
  • Bernhard Holeczek: Johannes Grützke, prints 1964–1978. City Gallery Wolfsburg 1978
  • Johannes Grützke: Catalog raisonné of prints no. 3 1978–1998. Published by Ladengalerie Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-926460-61-X
  • Johannes Grützke: Catalog raisonné of prints 1998–2015, no. 351 – no. 598. Ed. Andreas Pospischil, Valentin Müller, Ladengalerie Müller, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945208-04-5
  • Georg Reinhardt (Hrsg.): Johannes Grützke: Colored drawings and prints. Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-926460-69-5
  • Diethelm Kaiser and Bénédicte Savoy (ed.): The school of the new splendor. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-579-5
  • Eduard Beaucamp and Simon Elson: Johannes Grützke "Art is not modern, but always", Young Art, Volume 4, Munich 2012, ISBN 3943616037
  • Johannes Grützke, Tilman Lehnert: The women's tunnel. ISBN 978-3-95732-020-9
  • Johannes Grützke, Tilman Lehnert: Pauvre Bobo. A bundle. ISBN 978-3-95732-021-6
  • Johannes Grützke, Tilman Lehnert: 30 years of drilling. ISBN 978-3-95732-023-0 (preferred edition), ISBN 978-3-95732-022-3
  • Johannes Grützke, Christoph Haupt: Bongs stall. ISBN 978-3-95732-024-7

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Painter Johannes Grützke died ( Memento from May 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ "Painting is an instinct". In: Die Welt , May 23, 2003
  3. ^ Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
  4. ^ Marburger Kunstverein: Johannes Grützke, 2012 ( Memento from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Website of the Stadtmuseum Berlin
  6. ^ Website of the Stadtmuseum Berlin
  7. ^ Johannes Grützke: Mural for the professional association accident hospital Hamburg , 2nd edition. Gifkendorf 2004.
  8. ^ Artfacts.net: Grützke in possession of public collections
personal data
SURNAME Grützke, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grützke, Johannes Michael Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 2017
Place of death Berlin