Justus Uder
Justus Honoré Uder (born July 30, 1912 in Hamburg-Harburg as Gustav Uder ; † October 24, 2001 in Aschau im Chiemgau , Upper Bavaria ) was a German artist.
Life
Justus Honoré Uder was born Gustav Uder in 1912 in the city of Harburg near Hamburg. He was the only child from the marriage of Minna Auguste Uder and her husband. In 1917 his biological father died in World War I and the mayor of Harburg became his guardian . His striking talent for drawing and painting was recognized early on and at the age of 13 he was given the opportunity to exhibit his works in the Harburg town hall .
1929 allowed him his mother - probably on cajoling his guardian - trained as a commercial artist in the studio of Paul Theodor Etbauer. During his apprenticeship years until 1931 he replaced his first name Gustav with Justus and added the French honorary title “Honoré”, which could be translated as “the honored”. Due to his outstanding talent, he received a scholarship in 1931 at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (a forerunner of today's University of Fine Arts ) and only became a student of Arthur Illies and, after his departure, at Bollmann (at the now renamed Landeskunstschule).
During the Nazi era , his scholarship was revoked in 1935 because of his “anti-Nazi attitude”. He moved to Switzerland , where a friend's father placed him in his holiday home in Locarno for a year . Here he was also a frequent guest on Monte Verità near Ascona , an artists' colony . After the excitement had subsided, he moved to Aschau near the Chiemsee in 1936 and lived there in the so-called “yellow house”, a widely known meeting place for artists. It belonged to the daughters of Cramer-Klett, a wealthy industrialist who resided in a castle very close to Aschau and always had an open door and probably a “stock exchange” for the artists. Here he also met his future wife, Luise Pick, known as "Tutti", who lived nearby with her daughter.
In the Second World War he was a soldier from 1940 to 1945, first in France and then on the Eastern Front , where he served as a draftsman for the course of the front. At the end of the war he found himself in East Prussia and here he managed to escape on a torpedo boat to Neustadt in Schleswig-Holstein in early 1945 .
After a stay in Freyersen with his sister, he lived in Harburg for a few months and became a co-founder of the Hamburg “Gruppe 45”.
In 1946 he returned to Aschau and became a member of the professional association of visual artists in Munich and co-founder of the Munich “ New Group ”, together with Max Beckmann , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel . In 1947 he left the "New Group" and finally moved to Hamburg.
From 1947 until his death he was a member of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg. From 1957 he was employed as a technical draftsman at Blohm + Voss because he could not make a living from selling his pictures.
He has exhibited regularly since 1935, and from 1957 he was part of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg for years .
In 1968 he won a tender for the design of a wall for the Ritterstrasse elementary school, today's Hasselbrook elementary school in Eilbek . In 1989 he received the prestigious Lichtwark Society Prize . The Arnold Fiedler Prize followed in 1990. In 1988 and 1991 the only exhibitions devoted only to his works took place.
In 1995 he and his wife, whom he married in 1968, moved to a nursing home in Aschau. He died there on October 24, 2001 at the age of 89. His wife survived him by a year and died in the same home at the age of 106.
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Uder's work is determined by different epochs. The time in which he painted and drew nudes and portraits is very pronounced . Due to the persistent bad financial situation, Uder had to work with coal or pencil. Often his leaves are just scraps of paper, cardboard or waste products on which the work was then created. There are various sheets that were painted on both sides by Justus Uder in order to save costs. During his exploration of Cubism, we find nudes in shades of blue that are reminiscent of Picasso's work, or at least are shaped by his technique (e.g. Female Nude , 1935).
“The self-portraits are one of his strongest works. If Uder had no students or friends who could make themselves available to him - he lacked the money for models, especially until 1945 - he made portraits of himself or relatives (sister and wife). His ability to bring structure and depth into his work with a sparse line is reminiscent of the technology of the time around Käthe Kollwitz. His colored portraits later become particularly expressive, as Uder reflects the person, the face and his charisma through different color combinations - unusual for his time. The last self-portrait was made in November 1994. Since then, the artist's ability to concentrate has decreased significantly. "
We find the technique of the old masters particularly in his still lifes, which appear very three-dimensional in dark colors and with thick layers (e.g. still life with a pipe , 1935, still life with a skull and clay pipe , 1970).
The artistic content was primarily in the "abstract representational". Throughout his life he has endeavored to penetrate new areas of expression.
“Painting can be understandable. For me, the abstract does not mean non-representational painting; but for me it does mean the necessary advance into new areas of expression. "
Although he began working on materials in the early 1970s (e.g. Industrie , 1972), he later limited himself to using cardboard and paper similar to collages, from pasted canvases with thick oil paints. The dissolution of the representational led him to the works Kulisse I and Kulisse II (1978); both works were awarded. The oil painting Phantom was awarded 20 years after its creation, a male person who can only be identified by shading (plus the sister picture men in the same style) or Evolution , 1988, a completely informal work that was also awarded.
Uder's work has received several awards (e.g. Phantom , Evolution , Industry I and Industry II ). Acquisitions were made for the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, that of the federal states (permanent conference of the ministers of culture in Bonn) and for the state of Hamburg (art in architecture, 1968, design of a wall for the Ritterstrasse elementary school, today's Hasselbrook elementary school).
The painter was commemorated with an exhibition in September 2019 on the Kunsttreppe in the Museum Waldheim when the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture presented its Uder collection to the public.
Honors
- 1989: Prize of the Lichtwark Society in Hamburg
- 1990: Arnold Fiedler Prize
Exhibitions
- 1935: Ascona, exhibition of watercolors
- 1940: Berlin , Fritz Gurlitt Gallery at Behrenstrasse 29
- 1947: Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus together with other members of Gruppe 47
- 1947: Hamburg, "Young Art" gallery
- 1950: Essen , graphic exhibition
- 1953: Bremen , graphic exhibition
- 1956: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1956: Bonn , a watercolor is included in the collection of the permanent representation of the ministers of education in Bonn
- 1959: Hamburg, mosaic at the primary school Hasselbrookstrasse
- 1958: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1959: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1960: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1963: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1964: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1965: Hamburg, exhibitions of the professional association of visual artists in Hamburg
- 1978: Montevideo , graphic exhibition
- 1988: Hamburg, first exhibition devoted only to his pictures at Trautl Beermann
- 1989: Hamburg, Herbstsalon (exhibition BBK Hamburg) on the occasion of the Lichtwarkgesellschaft Prize
- 1991: Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg, exhibition on the occasion of the Arnold Fiedler Prize 1990
- 1996: Hamburg, gatehouse in Wellingsbüttel
- 2019: Waldheim (Saxony), city and museum house, solo exhibition
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Justus Uder | Artist directory. In: auktionshaus-stahl.de. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
- ^ A b Justus Uder , Ed. François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture, Hamburg, in-Cultura.com, ISBN 978-3-930727-66-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uder, Justus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uder, Justus Honoré; Uder, Gustav (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Harburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 2001 |
| Place of death | Aschau im Chiemgau |