Johannes Karl Herrmann

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Johannes Karl Herrmann (born March 31, 1893 in Wernshausen ; † 1962 ) was one of the first Bauhaus artists who set up the avant-garde art school in Weimar together with Gropius .

Life

Herrmann, who was a trained stonemason and studied sculpture at the Grand Ducal Art Academy in Weimar, emerged at the Bauhaus after the First World War with non-representational, dynamically expressive plaster sculptures, from which Johannes Itten was inspired for his cube sculpture. Herrmann's influences can also be found in the monument by Gropius who fell in March.

Herrmann and his wife, the artist Doris Herrmann, born in 1953, answered crucial questions of modernism such as the relationship between art and life. von Mohl (1894–1959), in his own consistent way, which pursued life-reforming and probably also socially utopian principles.

By 1921 Herrmann participated in four exhibitions in Herwarth Walden's Sturm-Galerie in Berlin . In that year he also created woodcuts in which constructivist and De Stijl influences can be seen.

In the mid-twenties he gave up the abstract experiments again because their social relevance no longer seemed to him. He then devoted himself to cautiously expressive landscape watercolors until his death.

Exhibitions

  • 2015: Förderverein für Stadtgeschichte eV Neustadt an der Orla, the artist couple Doris and Johannes Karl Herrmann
  • 2017–2018: Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum .

literature

  • Brigitta Milde: From the Bauhaus to Arnshaugk , ISBN 978-3-939718-83-3
  • General Artist Lexicon (AKL), Vol. 72, Berlin a. a. 2012, p. 379f.
  • Rainer Stamm: Karl Peter Röhl and Johannes Karl Herrmann. Two 'Bauhaus members' from the very beginning. In: Weltkunst, 67th year, H. 9 v. May 1, 1997, pp. 932-934
  • Rainer Stamm: In the sign of change. A memory of Johannes Molzahn and Johannes Karl Herrmann. In: new visual art, Berlin, H. 3/1993, pp. 55–56
  • Rainer Stamm: Unknown early Bauhaus graphics on book covers. For the hundredth birthday of Johannes Karl Herrmann (1893–1962) . In: From the Antiquariat, H. 4/1993, P. A 137-A 139

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Laudation for Herrmann" on "Westfälische Nachrichten" of September 24, 2017
  2. ↑ a b The Bauhausler Johannes Karl Herrmann, Departure into Modernism in the Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum . Retrieved January 21, 2019
  3. ↑ Brigitta Milde: From the Bauhaus to Arnshaugk
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Johannes Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernshausen
DATE OF DEATH 1962