Karl Peter Röhl
Karl Peter Röhl (born September 12, 1890 in Kiel , † November 25, 1975 in Kiel) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
After leaving school, Karl Peter Röhl began an apprenticeship as a painter in Kiel in 1906 , which he completed in 1909 with the journeyman's examination. From 1908 to 1910 he studied at the municipal craft and applied arts school in Kiel. In 1910/11 Röhl left his hometown to expand his knowledge at the teaching establishment of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . This was followed by 1912-14 art studies with W. Klemm and F. Mackensen at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . In 1914 Johannes Molzahn asked him to organize an exhibition, in the same year he was drafted into the military and had to take part in the First World War (1914-18).
Röhl returned to Kiel and in 1919, together with Werner Lange and Friedrich Peter Drömmer, organized an exhibition of new painting "Special Exhibition of the Expressionist Working Group in Kiel" ( Kiel Revolution Expressionists ). Back in Weimar, Röhl became a master student and junior master at the Bauhaus in 1919 . The first Bauhaus signet “ Star Man ” is his design. In 1920 he exhibited at the Kunsthalle Kiel together with Drömmer and Lange and in Munich. In 1921 Röhl met Theo van Doesburg , the organizer of the “Weimarer Stijl ” group, and also took part in Dada campaigns .
From 1921 to 1926 he worked as a master class student at the Weimar Art Academy in the free studio. At the 1922 Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar, Jena and Hanover, Röhl came with Hans Arp , Lotte and Max Burchartz , Nelly and Theo van Doesburg , Cornelis van Eesteren , Werner Graeff , Hans Richter , Alexa Röhl, Kurt Schwitters and Tristan Tzara together. In addition to the Expressionist and Dadaist forms of expression, Karl Peter Röhl dealt with Constructivism and took part in Walter Dexel's Constructivist exhibition in 1923. A year later he exhibited together with El Lissitzky , Theo van Doesburg, Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter in Berlin. There were further encounters with well-known artist colleagues, u. a. with Lyonel Feininger , Walter Gropius and Paul Klee .
After the Bauhaus moved from Weimar, Röhl was one of those teachers who left the Bauhaus. In 1926 he accepted a position as a lecturer at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . After the Städelschule was gradually devalued to a crafts school under the National Socialists, he left the school in 1942.
After the Second World War , Röhl returned to Kiel in 1946 and worked as a freelance artist; From 1952 he taught at the Goethe School in Kiel until he was 65.
Karl Peter Röhl died on November 25, 1975 at the age of 85 in Kiel.
In 1996, his daughter founded the Karl Peter Röhl Foundation in Weimar.
Award
Exhibitions
- 1920 Exhibition together with Drömmer and Lange, Kunsthalle Kiel
- 1920 Galerie Goltz, Munich
- 1923 Participation in the Constructivist exhibition of Willi Baumeister , Erich Bucholz and Walter Dexel in Jena
- 1924 Exhibition with Theo van Doesburg, Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter, Berlin
- 1932 "Karl Peter Röhl", oil paintings and watercolors, Erfurter Kunstverein
- 1965 "Karl Peter Röhl", paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle
- 1999 "Expressionism in Thuringia", Galerie am Fischmarkt and Angermuseum, Erfurt
- 2001 "Karl Peter Röhl", Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug, Switzerland
- 2002 “Karl Peter Röhl. From the cosmic vision to the aesthetics of technology ”, Bauhaus University, Weimar
- 2002 “Constructions” paintings 1920-1937, Galerie Berinson, Berlin
- 2004 “Feininger and Klee are moving”, Bauhaus Museum , Weimar
- 2004 “Karl Peter Röhl, Departure 1947 - 1952”, experimental house on the Horn, Friends of the Bauhaus University Weimar
literature
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Karl Peter Röhl . In: ders .: Kiel artist. Volume 3: In the Weimar Republic and National Socialism 1918-1945 , Heide: Boyens 2019 (special publications by the Society for Kiel City History; 88), ISBN 978-3-8042-1493-4 , pp. 139–150.
- Michael Siebenbrodt, Constanze Hofstaetter: Karl Peter Röhl in Weimar 1912–1926. Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar 1997, ISBN 978-3-9293-2313-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Peter Röhl in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Röhl, Karl Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1975 |
| Place of death | Kiel |