Josef Karl Nerud

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Josef Karl Nerud (* 13. August 1900 in Simbach am Inn , † 9 July 1982 ) was a German painter of modernity . His works are expressionistic , factual and expressive in nature.

Life

Josef Karl Nerud attended the technical school for glass painting in Zwiesel . He studied from 1921 to 1927 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where after three semesters as a master student of Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl he got his own studio.

In 1929 Nerud went to the Juryfrei , an artist group that offered hitherto little known or recognized artists the opportunity to exhibit and sell their works. There he developed into an artist who had a formative effect on the group and who had numerous exhibitions. Nerud was one of the strongest characters of the jury-free group due to his idiosyncratic colors and expressiveness, along with Josef Scharl and Wolf Panizza. He exhibits at Thannhauser and in the Graphisches Kabinett in Munich; his collective exhibitions and the exhibitions of the artist group in the Glaspalast, in Germany's major cities and abroad, in which he eagerly participated, gave his name an early sound. Many oil paintings and watercolors grapple with the closest, with motifs of daily life, the hometown and the Lower Bavarian landscape, which was never neglected even in later years.

The takeover of power by the National Socialists ended this phase. The year 1933 brought an abrupt end to the euphoric, forward-looking hustle and bustle of the jury-free time. The Reich Chamber of Culture Act of September 22nd gave the artist the choice between participating or emigrating. Nerud chose inner emigration . Living in secrecy, as it were, with a change of residence between Simbach, Klingenbrunn in the Bavarian Forest and Kutterling near Brannenburg, he renounced public recognition, but continued on his own path with tenacity. Portraits in the 20s and 30s of Simbach personalities such as B. Ferdinand Aufschläger, Josef Hellmannsberger, Johann Gerngroß, self-portraits, portraits of his wife Annemarie and portraits of friends and relatives played an important role for JKNerud.

After the Second World War , in 1947, Nerud met the architect Franz Ruf , the builder of the Parkstadt Bogenhausen . Strict skyscraper fronts with a balanced color scheme, blank walls as a monumental invitation to enliven them with calmly balanced groups of figures using a contouring cut technique, will be a welcome task for Nerud over a longer period of time. Examples of this are the murals in the Munich University Dental Clinic, in the Freimann elementary school, the stunt school, the Holzkirchen church, on residential buildings by Heimbau-Bayern and on many public and private buildings. Since 1948 Nerud was regularly represented at exhibitions in Munich, Hamburg, Essen, Mannheim and other cities and soon enjoyed recognition from the professional world.

In October 1952 Nerud received a commission that made him an internationally recognized graphic artist. The Neue Zeitung , the press organ of the American occupying power for Germany, asked him to illustrate the German first publication of Hemingway 's master story “ The old man and the sea ”. In 1953 and 1954, staying longer in Ibiza became a central experience for Nerud. The shadowless light on the chalky house walls and calmly moving human figures walking in their traditional costume like in regalia allows Nerud to find his special language. The luminous white, with sparse colored stays, is Nerud's fundamental insight that white does not mean colorlessness, but rather exciting, intensely radiant colors.

Nerud never forgot to deal with his Lower Bavarian homeland. His biographer Josef Egginger writes about this, ... it was now a matter of finally giving expression to the topics that were most important to him throughout his life. To show the landscape between Inn and Rott, the gently rolling hills with fertile fields, dark wooded parcels, church villages and remote farmers in a new perspective, seemed to have been his priority task. As with Ibiza, he now drew an extract from the motifs of the hill country, as it were, which was able to express its essence in the purest possible way ... chalk-white church towers and houses dominate, but also rust and earth-brown, gray and black wooden sheds and roofs mix together and form with tree tops varying in green, the “gaze stays” under a deep blue sky. In solo exhibitions and together with the “ Danube Forest Group ”, of which Nerud was a member, his work continued to be presented in major cities at home and abroad. His works are represented in many public and private collections.

Awards

  • In 1970 the Upper Austrian provincial government recognized him as a consultant for art care.

Publications

  • The white island. A trip to Ibiza . 16 linocuts by Josef Karl Nerud, text by Sepp Egginger, Schachtl, Munich 1955.
  • Hand drawings. with Erwin Liewehr as editor, Vierlinger, Simbach am Inn 1977, ISBN 3-921707-07-2 .
  • Josef Karl Nerud. Watercolors. Erwin Liewehr, Otto Grimm (eds.) Introduction by Friedrich Prinz, biography by Josef Egginger, Passavia, Passau 1980, ISBN 3-922016-06-5 .

literature

  • Collective exhibition in the Braunau gallery in the Führer birthplace . 2 sheets of 4 headscarves by Josef Karl Nerud, exhibition catalog, Innviertler Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunau am Inn 1944.
  • Herwig Stöckl: Josef Karl Nerud and his art. 1970.
  • Josef Egginger: Josef Karl Nerud. Son and interpreter of Lower Bavaria. In: Niederbayern, magazine for art and culture, past and present, No. 2 III, 1980.
  • Christian Hornig: Josef Karl Nerud. With illustrations by Josef Karl Nerud, Hirmer, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7774-7720-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nerud, Josef Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Simbach am Inn
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1982
Place of death Simbach am Inn