Yusuf Abbo

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Yusuf Abbo in the 1940s
Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Reichpietschufer 92, in Berlin-Tiergarten

Jussuf Abbo , originally Jussuff Abbu (born February 14, 1890 in Safed , Ottoman Empire ; died August 29, 1953 in London ) was a Palestinian Jewish artist working in the German Empire and Great Britain.

Life

Jussuff Abbu was born into a large Jewish family of farm workers. He won a scholarship to attend the school in Jerusalem run by the Alliance Israélite Universelle . The German architect Otto Hoffmann employed him in his architectural office in Jerusalem and gave him a place to study at the University of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg , where he studied painting and sculpture from 1913. In 1919 he had a master's atelier at the Academy of Arts as a sculptor and became a member of the German Association of Artists , at whose 25th annual exhibition (1929 in the State House of Cologne ) he was represented with a bronze female torso and a cast of lead . In August 1921 the von Garvens gallery in Hanover dedicated a solo exhibition to him. Abbo became a member of the Hanover Secession . After he had participated in a collective exhibition in the Berlin art salon Ferdinand Möller in 1923 , another exhibition followed in 1926 in the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden. In the twenties, Abbo belonged to Else Lasker-Schüler's circle of friends , who wrote a poem on him. He worked as a sculptor and burned his ceramic works in Otto Douglas-Hill's workshop .

In 1935 he and his wife Ruth Schulz had to emigrate from National Socialist Germany to Great Britain, he still had Egyptian citizenship. He had to leave his sculptures behind at first and was thus prevented from presenting his work in the host country with an exhibition and gaining a foothold. In 1937 he was only able to make up part of it. His work was branded as Degenerate Art in Germany in 1937 and removed from the public museum holdings.

In 1937 Abbo received an order for a bust of the politician George Lansbury . In 1939 he met Charles Despiau in Paris . During the war he could not use his studio in London and got by with odd jobs. In 1945, Abbo, disappointed, destroyed a large part of the works made in England.

His financial situation as well as war, flight and the hard physical work lead to physical and mental suffering. After a long illness, Jussuf Abbo died in London on August 29, 1953.

His son Jerome Abbo (1935-2016) also worked as a sculptor.

On August 29, 2018 , a Berlin memorial plaque was unveiled at his former home, Berlin-Tiergarten , Reichpietschufer 92 .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Abbo, Jussuff . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 3 .
  • Andreas Hüneke : Abbo, Jussuff . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 61.
  • Hajo Hahn (Ed.): The blue rider has fallen: Else-Lasker-Schüler-Jubiläumsalmanach, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft; Documentation of a quarter of a century and the XX. ELS Forum from March 27th - 30th, 2014 in Solingen and Wuppertal . Hammer, Wuppertal 2015 [Articles about Else Lasker-Schüler and her friendship with the sculptor Jussuf Abbo]

Web links

Commons : Jussuf Abbo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files in: Berlin State Administration Office, Department I - Compensation Authority, Berlin Fehrbelliner Platz.
  2. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House , M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929, p. 13: Abbo, Jussuff, Berlin. Cat.no. 11: woman's torso (br.), 12: head (lead cast).
  3. ^ Henning Rischbieter: The twenties in Hanover . Ed .: Kunstverein Hannover. Kunstverein, Hanover 1962, p. 45, 68 .
  4. ↑ s. Abbo, Jussuff . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 3 .
  5. ^ Else Lasker-Schüler: Jussuff Abbu (poem), in: Berliner Börsen-Courier , July 15, 1923.
  6. ↑ a b Burcu Dogramaci: Failure and existence in a foreign country. German-speaking artist in exile in Britain after 1933 . In: Uwe Fleckner, Maike Steinkamp, ​​Hendrik Ziegler (eds.): The artist abroad: Migration - Travel - Exile . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, p. 267 and note 8 on p. 280.
  7. ↑ [1] Thomas Gerlach: Back to consciousness . In: TAZ , November 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bust of George Lansbury by Jussuf Abbo, 1937 ( Memento from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), at phm, 2016.
  9. ^ Special exhibition by Jussuf Abbo Grafik , sprengel-museum-hannover.de, accessed December 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Abbo, Yusuf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abbu, Jussuff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Safed
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1953
Place of death London