Josef Block

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Joseph Block (also Josef ) (born November 27, 1863 in Bernstadt , Silesia , † December 20, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Block was a student at the Breslau Art Academy , where the lifelong friendship with fellow student Gerhart Hauptmann arose, and the Munich Academy , where he was trained in Prof. Bruno Piglhein's studio . Block was involved as a landscape painter in his Jerusalem panorama. On February 29, 1892, the Association of Fine Arts of Munich was founded in his studio on Theresienstrasse . The Munich Secession later emerged from this foundation . In 1895 he married Else Oppenheim, daughter of the banker and councilor Hugo Oppenheim and descendant of Moses and Joseph Mendelssohn . The daughter Anna Luise (1896–1982) was married to Karl Ludwig Duisberg (1889–1958), a son of Carl Duisberg , Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955) and Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989). The sons Hugo (1897–1989) and Otto (1901–1977) worked as a photographer and architect .

Joseph Block lived in Munich until 1896, where he was also involved in the Munich Secession. He then worked in Berlin as a painter of biblical histories , realistic genre paintings , portraits and still lifes . He presented u. a. at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in Paul Cassirer's salon . Block was also a co-founder of the Berlin Secession . He traveled a lot and loved to travel and was an avid photographer. Because of his Jewish ancestry, he was discriminated against since 1933 and had to sell paintings from his art collection under pressure from the Nazis. His apartment at Derfflingerstraße 16 in Berlin-Tiergarten was confiscated by the general building inspector under Albert Speer .

Josef Block was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Some of Josef Block's works

  • Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1887)
  • The last ray of sun (1888)
  • Bathsheba (1889)
  • The Prodigal Son (1890 in Munich, 1891 in Berlin Golden Medal)
  • Twilight (realistic interior, 1893 Chicago World's Fair Medal )
  • The New Lord (Munich Secession 1894)
  • Adulteress (1897)
  • Saul and David (1899)
  • Pietà (1902)
  • Judith (1904-1905)
  • Southern Italian scene (around 1930)
  • The Scientist (1942)

literature

  • Detlef Lorenz: On the biography of the Silesian painter Josef Block. In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau. 42-44 (2001-2003) [2003], pp. 709-714.
  • Heinz Dieter Tschörtner : Gerhart Hauptmann's last childhood friend Josef Block from Bernstadt (1863–1943). In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau. 38/39 (1997/1998) [1998], pp. 773-781.
  • Klaus-Dieter Spangenberg: Josef Block. Painter of the Berlin and Munich Secession. Centaurus Verlag & Media, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-86226-013-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Block, Josef ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 18, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Block, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Block, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernstadt , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1943
Place of death Berlin