Juro Kubicek

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Juro Kubicek (born February 8, 1906 in Görlitz , † May 21, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

biography

Kubicek's father came from Hungary , his mother from Brno . Until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, Kubicek was stateless . Kubicek began painting as an autodidact as early as 1926 . A South Sea portrait comes from this early period of his work. From 1933 he was mainly active as an advertising painter so as not to be considered a degenerate artist. After 1945 Kubicek was one of the Berlin fantasies who tried to process the events of war with a form of surrealism . Time-critical collages that Kubicek made for the magazine Ulenspiegel , as well as his free-spirited pictures in the Gerd Rosen gallery, drew the allies' attention to him. This led to heated discussions in post-war Berlin .

Meanwhile, however, Kubicek was the first German artist to perform at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. After his return to Berlin, he opened the Work and Art Studio in the Amerikahaus on Nollendorfplatz in 1949 to teach young artists holistically in the spirit of the Weimar Bauhaus . With the help of his contacts, he organized numerous exhibitions in Berlin. In 1954 he received a professorship at the University of Fine Arts , which he held until his death in 1970.

In 1956 he was presented at the Rose Fried Gallery in New York alongside Hannah Höch , Theodor Werner and Helmut Thoma as a representative of contemporary German collage. Works can be found in addition to numerous private collections and a. in the Berlinische Galerie, which owns both collages and an early oil painting by Juro Kubicek. The artist's daughter Franziska Kubicek manages the estate.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1947: Juro Kubicek, Galerie Franz, Berlin
  • 1948: Juro Kubicek, The Arts Club Gallery, Louisville
  • 1950: Photo montages by Juro Kubicek, traveling exhibition in German art institutes and in Hessian America houses
  • 1951: Juro Kubicek, America House on Nollendorfplatz, Berlin
  • 1953: Juro Kubicek. Bremer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1953: Juro Kubicek. Room gallery Franck, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1959: German artists from the east - The Artists' Guild , Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden
  • 1962: Juro Kubicek, New Works. Gallery Anna Roepcke, Wiesbaden
  • 1966: Juro Kubicek, picture montages a. Photo drawings. Gallery Springer, Berlin
  • 1982: Dada assembly concept. (Longitudinal sections 4), Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
  • 1999: Geert Koevoets, Sculpturen en Wek op Papier - De Vierde Dimensie, Mook en Middelaar
  • 2006: Description and works of art Juro Kubicek, Lehr - Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin
  • 2008: Fundstücke, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin
  • 2009: Art and Cold War - German Positions 1945-1989 Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, Deutsches Historisches Museum , Berlin
  • 2009: Art and the Cold War - German Positions 1945 - 1989, Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
  • 2009: Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A strange German. In: Der Spiegel , October 4, 1947 (accessed September 18, 2013)
  2. ↑ Juro Kubicek (1906–1970) , Pirckheimer Gesellschaft eV, August 6, 2013 (accessed on September 18, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Kubicek, Juro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1970
Place of death Berlin