Josef Doerr

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Josef Doerr (born May 2, 1914 in Speyer ; † November 14, 1999 there ) was a German painter and organist .

Life

education and profession

After attending the humanistic grammar school and the teachers' college in his hometown, Josef Doerr was drafted into the armed forces in 1939 . He fought in various theaters of war and returned home in 1945. From 1947 he worked as a primary and secondary school teacher in various places in the Palatinate , and since 1962 in Speyer. In 1977 he retired. In addition to his work, he was organist in the seminary in Speyer and in the Speyer Cathedral from 1962 until his death in 1999 .

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As with many representatives of his generation, Doerr's horizon of experience was shaped by suffering both world wars. In 1948 he turned to painting , which for him had become a constant exploration of color and form until his death. The pictures from his late creative period in particular are exemplary of the “organic-dynamic form structures that seem to easily remove the contrast between abstraction and representationalism” (quote from Manfred Zach ).

Doerr remained true to himself artistically throughout his life. He confidently represented his own consistent style and always painted on the easel . Most of the paintings are works in mixed media, in oil and also in acrylic . Doerr developed shapes that gave his colors a hold, but did not play the first role themselves. The development towards abstraction is very clear . Figures were seldom an issue for him. Vincent van Gogh's art gave him the first impulses for his creative process.

Doerr translated the micro- and macrocosm of nature into round and flowing forms - sometimes filigree ornamental, sometimes extensive, as if it were an enlarged section. Forms did not flow, they did not lose their hold. Rather, he developed dynamism and a powerful charisma with intense and idiosyncratic coloring. Again and again he dissolved color surfaces in an impressionistically vibrating manner. However, he was not considered an impressionist and repeatedly confronted art historians with the problem of classifying him.

Works by Doerr are owned by the city of Speyer and the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz , among others .

Private

Doerr was married and has four children. He died in Speyer at the age of 85.

Exhibitions

  • 1955: Kaiserslautern: Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt (The Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts 1955 - group exhibition)
  • 1964: Munich: Studio Heydn
  • 1967: Speyer: Sparkasse
  • 1968: Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Karl Otto Braun Museum
  • 1969: Frankfurt am Main: Ly Goldbach; Parma: Vetrinetta; Aalestrup, Denmark
  • 1971: Kaiserslautern: Pfalzgalerie ; London: Charles & Co.
  • 1973: Speyer: Kunstverein
  • 1974: Cologne Gallery Glaub; Mannheim: Gutenberg Book Guild
  • 1975: Speyer: City Hall
  • 1977: Gstaad: Galerie Arts Saaneland; State pavilion Baden-Württemberg
  • 1979: Munich: Small Castle Gallery; Römerberg: Zehnthaus; Ludwigshafen: Adult Education Center
  • 1980: Speyer: Art Association
  • 1992: Dudenhofen: community center
  • 1994: Speyer: Stadthaus (exhibition for the 80th birthday)
  • 1999: Speyer: Kunstverein (exhibition for the 85th birthday)
  • 2004: Speyer: Altstadtgalerie (exhibition for the 90th birthday - from object to abstraction)
  • 2014: Speyer: Städtische Galerie Speyer (exhibition for the 100th birthday)

literature

  • Bernhard Meuser : The Christian theme with Josef Doerr, in: Das Münster 45 (1992) pp. 50–53.
  • Clemens Jöckle : Doerr, Josef . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 28, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22768-X , p. 254.
  • Josef Doerr: Josef Doerr - Biomorphic Abstraction , Galerie Glaub, Cologne 1974
  • Bernhard Meuser, Manfred Zach: Josef Doerr , Pilger 1989, ISBN 3-87637-040-X
  • H. Dellwing: Dies Irae , Verlag Bild und Kunst, Harthausen 2004
  • Josef Doerr: Sour milk and powder steam ... When art was still asleep. , Pilger, Speyer 1999. ISBN 3-87637-065-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadtgalerie.de
  2. ↑ Bibliography in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography rlb.de. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern. BM Bak, Hedi Bak, Josef Doerr. Paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints. May 19-13, 1971 . Exhibition catalog. Kaiserslautern 1971
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadtgalerie.de
  5. ↑ http://www.morgenweb.de/region/schwetzinger-zeitung-hockenheimer-tageszeitung/speyer/aus-schatten-und-bildern-zur-wahrheit-1.1650568


personal data
SURNAME Doerr, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and organist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1999
Place of death Speyer