Lothar Toller

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Lothar Toller (born October 17, 1891 in Coswig ; † November 3, 1956 in Traisa ) was a German painter and etcher of the 20th century.

life and work

In 1919, after his military service, Toller came to Darmstadt , where he worked as a freelance artist. He was an autodidact . In the 1920s, the focus of his work was on painting. Landscapes and portraits were predominantly his subjects. He often chose motifs from Darmstadt. Among other things, he created the watercolors Last Snow (Städtische Galerie Darmstadt), Auf der Mathildenhöhe , Mädchenkopf and Kiefern an der Bergstrasse . He also dealt with the classic motif of the still life . Toller was a member of the "Darmstadt Group". It belongs to the New Objectivity style. Toller temporarily worked as a bookbinder, set designer, calligrapher , draftsman, graphic artist and etcher. The sculptor Wilhelm Loth was a student of Toller around 1935.

In an air raid on Darmstadt in 1944, he lost his family and all of the work that had been done up until then.

After the Second World War , he created watercolors , gouaches , drawings and, above all, very finely crafted etchings of Darmstadt and the surrounding area.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Toller, Lothar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 254 .
  2. ^ Biography Wilhelm Loth. (PDF).
  3. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 922 ( darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Great, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1956
Place of death Traisa