Karl Hermann Trinkaus

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Karl Hermann Trinkaus (* 1904 in Stötteritz ; †  1965 in Leipzig ) was a German collage artist.

Life

Karl Hermann Trinkaus began his artistic career in 1926 at the Bauhaus Dessau ; he was supported by Josef Albers , Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky , among others . He had lessons with Josef Albers in the carpentry workshop, with Joost Schmidt in the printing and advertising workshop and with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Herbert Bayer. In the early 1930s he worked as a creator of time-critical collages. Since 1935 he worked in aircraft construction at Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke in Dessau as a graduate engineer. From 1950 he was employed at the Museum of German History as a speaker in Berlin, according to the German Historical Museum . In 1964 he returned to Leipzig and was probably assigned to the Georgi Dimitroff Museum as a speaker; He committed suicide at Christmas 1965.

The New York Museum of Modern Art showed his work in their exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity ; Parts of his work are in the Bauhaus collection archive.

In 2019/20, on the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary year , the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig is showing the first retrospective of the artistic work of Karl Hermann Trinkaus, thus tracing his artistic development. The accompanying catalog not only presents a comprehensive catalog of works with 377 items for the first time, but also revises the hitherto incomplete biography and contextualizes his artistic work.

Works (selection)

  • Untitled (bottles) (1926)
  • City (1927/28)
  • Rasputin (1927/28)
  • The Big Game (1933)
  • Is your heart heavy? (1933)

Exhibitions

  • 2019/20: Karl Hermann Trinkaus. Bauhaus - The New Man , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, curator: Fabian Müller.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Photography at the Bauhaus , Berlin 1990
  • Grisebach. The journal. Issue 3, autumn 2013 , Berlin 2013, pp. 34–41
  • F. Kaderabek, Karl Hermann Trinkaus, catalog raisonné, Leipzig 2017.
  • Daniel Thalheim. Karl Hermann Trinkaus, published in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL), Berlin 2018.
  • Daniel Thalheim. Brought to light - the rediscovered Bauhaus artist Karl Hermann Trinkaus, published in: Artefakte - The Journal for Building Culture and Art in Leipzig, Leipzig 2018.
  • Karl Hermann Trinkaus. Bauhaus - Der neue Mensch, exhibition catalog Leipzig 2019/20, ed. by Alfred Weidinger , Marcus Andrew Hurttig and Fabian Müller, Verlag für modern art Vienna 2019; with contributions by Daniel Thalheim and Fabian Müller.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Sachs: A fine mess in Munich in FAZ (2013)
  2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ The Museum of Modern Art, Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity. Catalog 2009/2010
  4. ↑ Collection archive - the second largest Bauhaus collection in the world
personal data
SURNAME Trinkaus, Karl Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collage artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Leipzig