Joseph Fassbender

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Joseph Fassbender (born April 14, 1903 in Cologne ; † January 5, 1974 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Tapestry "Gobelin modern" by Joseph Fassbender. Location: North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , Düsseldorf

Life

Joseph Fassbender was one of the most important German exponents of abstract painting in the post-war period and was one of the most influential artists on the Rhineland art scene from the late 1940s to the 1960s. His art is an independent position in abstract painting. Coming from Rhenish Expressionism , he developed an independent, abstract language of images and forms.

He was actually supposed to take over his parents' pastry shop, but from 1926 to 1928 he studied painting with a focus on oil and wall painting with Richard Seewald at the Cologne Werkschulen , which, under the direction of the architect and designer Richard Riemerschmid, followed the Werkbund thinking about the Rhineland had also gained in reputation.

In 1929, Joseph Fassbender celebrated his first success with receiving the Villa Romana Prize from the German Association of Artists for his work "Red Anchor". The prize was awarded for the first time after the First World War. In 1934 Eugen Gottlob Winkler wrote his Eassy "The Exploration of the Line" about Fassbender's artistic work. In 1936 his contributions to the Hamburg exhibition of the German Association of Artists were confiscated. In 1940 Fassbender succeeded in placing the last echoes of modernity in the form of a trade fair stand at the Foire Internationale de Bruxelles.

"Coincidentia Oppositorum" - wall design by Joseph Fassbender in the Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule (formerly Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium Bonn )

In 1947 Fassbender founded the Thursday Society at Alfter Castle near Bornheim together with the painters Hann Trier and Hubert Berke and others , which had set itself the task of reviving cultural events in the Rhineland after the end of National Socialist oppression. In 1949 Fassbender was a founding member of the New Rhenish Secession . In 1950 he received the Karl Ströher Prize from the city of Darmstadt together with Hann Trier. In 1951 Fassbender took part in the first São Paulo Biennale , in 1953 in the second. In 1954 Fassbender curated a Ferdinand Hodler exhibition at the Kunsthaus Lempertz , which at that time lent its rooms to the Cologne Museums' general management for major traveling exhibitions. 1954-1955 Fassbender was a guest lecturer at the Hamburg State Art School .

He was represented as a participating artist at documenta 1 in 1955, documenta 2 in 1959 and documenta III in 1964 in Kassel .

From 1956 to 1958 Joseph Fassbender was head of the graphics department at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld (today: Hochschule Niederrhein ). In 1958 Fassbender was appointed professor for painting and graphics at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He remained a professor until 1968. In 1964, Joseph Fassbender and Norbert Kricke formed the German contribution to the Venice Biennale within the German Pavilion , which was redesigned by Herbert Selldorf for the occasion. In 1967 his picture "Metamorphosis I" was shown at the world exhibition EXPO 67 in Montreal in the Pavilion of the European Communities.

Fassbender died on January 5, 1974. At the funeral in Cologne's southern cemetery , Hann Trier gave the funeral oration .

In addition to painting, his graphic work and the poster and book designs as well as the signet designs are considered remarkable. Among his greatest works are his works in the context of art in architecture .

Awards

Recurring major exhibitions

Collections

Works for public and semi-public spaces

Pupils

Joseph and Anna Fassbender Prize

Fassbender's wife Anna donated the Joseph and Anna Fassbender Prize , which has been awarded to graphic designers and hand drawn artists through the city of Brühl since 1990 .

Catalog raisonnés

  • Herzogenrath, Wulf (ed.), Joseph Faßbender - painting between figuration and abstraction, with a catalog raisonné of the colored works by Uwe Haupenthal, Cologne 1988
  • Trier-Franzen, Alice, applied graphics by Joseph Faßbender (with a catalog raisonné), master's thesis, University of Bonn 1989
  • Trier-Franzen, Alice, The graphic work of Joseph Faßbender, with a catalog raisonné of the graphic work, Alfter 1994

literature

  • Aust, Günter, Joseph Fassbender, Recklinghausen 1961

Newspaper articles

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personal data
SURNAME Fassbender, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1974
Place of death Cologne