Johannes Ignaz Kohler
Johannes Ignaz Kohler (born June 8, 1908 in Zwickau ; † October 7, 1994 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
From 1922 to 1925 Kohler trained as a porcelain painter at the "Zwickau School of Applied Arts". After he was a student trainee at the "Staatliche Grafische Akademie" in Leipzig from 1926 to 1932 , he settled in Berlin in 1933 as a freelance painter and graphic artist .
In 1942 he married the poet , expressive dancer from the school of Mary Wigman and later watercolorist Alice Dublé. During the Nazi rule he was banned from working and exhibiting. From 1945 to 1955 he lived in Prien am Chiemsee . There he developed an independent artistic style, which was shaped by the encounter with Franz Xaver Fuhr , who was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1946 to 1966 . His work was exhibited at the major art exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst in Munich . The Prien market has received numerous watercolors, prints and designs as gifts from the artist's estate and is exhibiting his work on site (autumn 2012).
From 1955 he lived in Munich , where he was friends with the painters Max Hauschild and Andreas Bleeker . Kohler worked for decades on the board of the “Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft”, including as a juror . He regularly took part in the Great Art Exhibition in the House of Art , in many group and solo exhibitions. In 1961 he had a collective exhibition in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle .
In addition to watercolor and oil painting, he was also interested in printmaking, brush drawings with ink, sgraffito and mosaics .
Many of his works are shown in reading books, calendars and on postcards and are in the holdings of important museums such as the State Graphic Collection in Munich and the Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus in Munich.
In 1957 he received the Max Pechstein Prize , which the City of Zwickau awards every two years, and in 1976 the City of Munich's Water Lily Prize .
In 1983 his wife Alice died.
Southern exit (watercolor)
Ponte angelo, Rome (watercolor)
St. Eulaia, Ibiza (watercolor)
Gardeners (woodcut)
Girl with mirror (linocut)
Ignaz Kohler on his work
“What I could say about my work: To design the eternal, living things like humans, animals and landscape in the expression of our time in an abstract and essential way is my artistic endeavor. There are also characteristics of cities that are documented by churches, bridges and houses. I turned the watercolor from the conventional, often more fleeting, into a painting that is on a par with oil painting - large-format, strongly colored, stylized and strictly constructed. The south gave me the greatest inspiration, I traveled there many times - Ticino, Italy, Sicily ... "
(From: JI Kohler, Pictures from Three Decades - Bruckmann-Verlag 1973)
Individual evidence
- ^ H. Carl: Kunstchronik - Volume 14 , Central Institute for Art History in Munich, Association of German Art Historians, 1961, p. 147
literature
- JI Kohler: Pictures from three decades , Bruckmann-Verlag 1973, 22 pages
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohler, Johannes Ignaz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohler, Ignaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1994 |
| Place of death | Munich |