Karl Julius Joest

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Karl Julius Joest (born July 8, 1896 in Solingen , † March 14, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) was a painter from the Lower Rhine region . He became known for his paintings such as city portraits from Düsseldorf, commissioned works from the Solingen industry and impressions from the Austrian Alps .

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Karl Julius Joest was the son of a Solingen steel goods manufacturer. His interest turned to the fine arts early on. At the age of 13 he was given a job at the Solingen drawing school for craftsmen. After two years of military service on the Western Front , during which he also painted in the positions in the Champagne region before Reims and in Verdun , Joest came to Düsseldorf. There he attended the arts and crafts school on a scholarship from the Friedrich Vohwinkel Foundation and from 1919 studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, first with Wilhelm Döringer , later with Max Clarenbach , Ludwig Heupel-Siegen and Willy Spatz , where he completed his studies in 1922.

Since 1925 his pictures - landscapes, especially still lifes , but also industrial pictures - were to be found in many large exhibitions, for example in the old art gallery and in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. At that time he belonged to the group "Eiland" led by Leo Poeten . Together with the painters Ernst Brand , Albert Henrich and Bernhard Templin , he received the City of Düsseldorf's Culture Prize in 1931, an award that was combined with a travel grant . The most famous stations, which are also documented in some paintings, were Palermo , Tripoli and Tunis . Later painting trips took him to Paris , Lugano and Lake Garda, among others .

He paid little attention to the changing art movements of the past decades; at a young age he had found the way to his own artistic expressiveness, which he remained true to until his death.

During the Second World War he was a soldier from 1939 to 1940 and from 1943 to 1945, and at the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the United States. He spent the period between 1940 and 1943 in Alpbach, Austria .

From 1954 he was a board member of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists . In 1960 some of his works were presented in a solo exhibition at the Malkasten Artists' Association in Düsseldorf. In 1961 an exhibition was opened in the German Blade Museum in Solingen on the occasion of his 65th birthday. In 1971 he received the “Iron Plaque with Gold Eagle” for his 50-year membership in the artists' association Malkasten.

In Düsseldorf he recorded - also in etchings - some long-defunct motifs from the old town or the old Buscher mill. He took part in the annual Bergische art exhibitions in Solingen and in major art exhibitions in the city of Düsseldorf as well as in Munich, Hagen, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Hameln and Florence. Joest worked mainly in Düsseldorf and was also referred to as the "painter of the Düsseldorf court garden".

Karl Julius Joest married in 1928. From his marriage to Maria Lydia Joest geb. Zimmermann comes from a son. The marriage ended in divorce after the war.

Joest lived and worked until the end of his life in his studio in the Künstlerhaus Düsseldorf on Sittarder Strasse, the seat of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists . He fell ill and died on March 14, 1975 in Düsseldorf. He was buried in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf .

Through his sister Helene Joest, he was brother-in-law of the Solingen painter Willi Deutzmann from 1924 .

The Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf , the Museum Kunstpalast , the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Solingen Blade Museum all have pictures of his hand.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in: Neue Rheinzeitung from July 17, 1956.
  2. ↑ "The School of Applied Arts". Applications for waiver of school fees for SS 1918: (…); Joest, Karl, draftsman, * 8 July 1896 (2nd semester); (all war-damaged; all scholarship holders of the Friedrich Vohwinkel Foundation), in files of the Düsseldorf city administration from 1876–1933 ( archive.nrw.de )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Karl Julius Joest, Solingen Industry. In: GermanArtGallery. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Article in: Rheinische Post , Düsseldorf, July 7, 1966.
  5. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. (Selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  6. ↑ a b Namesake of the Hofgarten, big and small. In: Solinger Tageblatt
  7. ↑ Article in: Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . August 6, 1967.
  8. ↑ Book One Hundred and Fifty Years of Artists' Association Malkasten. ISBN 3-00-003401-3 , 1998.
  9. ^ Biography of Willi Deutzmann
  10. ^ Supplementary part to the official exhibition catalog of the Great German Art Exhibition 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich, p. 13
  11. ^ Supplementary part to the official exhibition catalog of the Great German Art Exhibition 1942 in the House of German Art in Munich, p. 14
  12. ^ Catalog Great German Art Exhibition 1943 in the House of German Art in Munich, p. 39
personal data
SURNAME Joest, Karl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1975
Place of death Dusseldorf