Joseph Loher

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Joseph Loher (born October 18, 1907 in Munich ; † December 6, 2002 in Frotzhofen near Anzing ) was a German painter.

Life

Joseph Loher was born in Munich in 1907, where he initially studied for a higher education in drawing at the Technical University. It was there that he met his future wife Gretel Schmeck . The unconditional desire to become a painter led Loher to the Munich Art Academy . His teacher Prof. Karl Caspar helped shape Loher's expressionist style of painting. After the first exhibitions, further public activity was prevented from 1937 by the National Socialists through the escalating persecution and defamation of modern painters (" degenerate art "). Joseph Loher left the academy in solidarity with Professor Caspar, who was ostracized by the Nazis. A short time later, after being denounced, he himself narrowly escaped internment in the Dachau concentration camp . In 1940 Loher and his wife retired to Frotzhofen, where both lived until their death and worked as an artist until the 1980s. Loher always retained the style of expressive realism . In 1964 he received a late recognition from the city of Munich. The establishment of the Loher Archive (1999) is part of a renewed interest in painting by the lost generation . In 2003 the first comprehensive monograph on Joseph Loher and Gretel Loher-Schmeck was published; a large retrospective was shown in Ebersberg .

Works

  • Homestead near Munich. Oil on canvas, 105 × 85 cm (1935)
  • Still life with bottle. Oil on canvas, 64 × 34 cm (1936)
  • Picture of a girl. Oil on canvas, 58 × 46 cm (1946)
  • Melancholy (Ruth Kerschner). Oil on canvas, 46 × 61 cm (1947)
  • Horses. Oil on canvas, 90 × 80 cm (1947)
  • Testa di Donna. Oil on canvas, 42 × 52 cm (1956)
  • Gaia. Oil on canvas, 92 × 105 cm (1956)
  • Interior. Oil on canvas, 66 × 78 cm (1961)

literature

  • Joseph Loher and Gretel Loher-Schmeck. Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation . Edited by Kristina Kargl, Natascha Niemeyer-Wasserer and Heinz Runte. Neustadt / Aisch 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Loher, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2002
Place of death Frotzhofen near Anzing