Leo Grewenig

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Leo Grewenig (born June 16, 1898 in Heusweiler ; † February 3, 1991 in Bensheim ) was a German painter.

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a painter, Grewenig went to study with Kay H. Nebel at the Kassel Art Academy and later at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he took the preliminary course with László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers and then studied with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee . In 1925 he acquired the Bauhaus journeyman's certificate for wall painting . Grewenig passed the state examination as an art teacher at the Berlin Schöneberg Art School in 1931. After initial successes in Berlin, including at exhibitions of the Berlin Secession under Max Liebermann, the artist was banned from being exhibited by the National Socialists. Military service and illness meant further cuts in his artistic life. After the war Leo Grewenig worked as an art teacher in Saarland. In 1945 a new artistic phase began, which after gradual separation from representational painting in the course of the 1950s led to abstract painting. Although he had long since retired, Grewenig still taught eight to ten hours a week at the Old Electoral Gymnasium in Bensheim, where he lived from 1957 until his death until the early 1970s .

The time of his greatest artistic development began after his retirement. The result was a largely abstract work that reflects the beginnings at the Bauhaus as well as later trends in European art history of the 20th century. Characteristic of Leo Grewenig's work are small compositions that have been consistently developed from formal considerations and are subordinate to a larger outline figure. The colors are mostly subdued and enlivened with ornamental structures and develop a fairytale effect.

Leo Grewenig was a member of the German Association of Artists and the New Saar Group .

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (August 15, 1977)
  • Prize of the Württemberg Art Association in Stuttgart 1989

Exhibitions

  • 2008: Museum Bensheim: Scenes 1921–1931
  • since 2009: Museum Bensheim: permanent exhibition with 12 works by Leo Grewenig from the 1960s and 1970s
  • 2011: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Retrospective in the Kandinsky / Klee Masters' House
  • 2011/2012: Museum for town history and folklore of the district town of Heppenheim : Leo Grewenig. Cooperation event between the Museum Heppenheim and the Leo Grewenig cultural initiative
  • 2013: Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche , Aschaffenburg: retrospective
  • 2014: Diözesanmuseum Regensburg: retrospective forms in motion
  • 2018: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Ink animals
  • 2019: Museum Bensheim Bauhaus100 - Leo Grewenig and the new group saar

Works in museums (selection)

  • Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation and Saarland Museum - Modern Gallery, Saarbrücken
  • Municipal art gallery Mannheim
  • Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
  • Weimar Classics Foundation and Art Collections
  • Bauhaus Museum Weimar
  • Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
  • Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
  • Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Modern Art
  • Museum of the city of Bensheim
  • Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany

Literature / exhibition catalogs

  • The painter Leo Grewenig - stations of his work; Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, 1975
  • Leo Grewenig - pictures 1955–1977; Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1978
  • Leo Grewenig - pictures from 1916–1983; Edited by Michael Steiner, Peter Platzbecker, 1983
  • Leo Grewenig - visions of nature; Museum St. Ingbert, Saarland Museum, 2007
  • Leo Grewenig - Scenes 1921–1931; Museum Bensheim, 2008
  • Leo Grewenig - picture folder; Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 2011
  • Leo Grewenig - catalog raisonné; Institute for Contemporary Art, Saarlouis, 2011
  • Leo Grewenig - portfolio with 16 color plates; Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 2011
  • Leo Grewenig - ink animals; Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 2018
  • Leo Grewenig and the Neue Gruppe Saar; Museum Bensheim, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas von Machui: Leo Grewenig in July: The Bauhaus student at the AKG. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Grewenig, Leo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 23, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Not enough, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Heusweiler
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1991
Place of death Bensheim