Ludwig Godewols
Ludwig Godewols (born October 29, 1870 in Gnoien , † 1926 in Bielefeld ) was a German painter and professor at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts .
Life
Ludwig Godewols was born in Gnoien in 1870. From 1885 to 1891 he trained as a painter. After completing his military service, he then worked as a painter's journeyman in Bremen and Hanover. From 1898 to 1903 he attended the Hanover School of Applied Arts and Crafts and graduated with a qualification to teach painting, lithography and bookbinding. In 1903 Godewols went to Bielefeld as a teacher at the technical school of the painters' guild. In 1907 he switched to the then newly founded craft and applied arts school in Bielefeld .
As a teacher (professor) in the painter and lithographer class, Godewols made a significant contribution in the coming years to making the Bielefeld School of Applied Arts a recognized place of modern art . Together with his students he visited the outstanding art exhibitions of the time such as the Folkwang Museum in Hagen in 1909 and the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912 . These exhibition visits were formative for him and his students.
In addition to his teaching activities, Godewols was also active as an artist. After he initially committed himself to a traditionally academic, dark-toned painting style, he found stronger colors in his paintings at the beginning of the 1920s. In 1923 an exhibition was dedicated to him for the first time in the Städtisches Kunsthaus in Bielefeld. Godewols died in 1926 at the age of 56.
The works of Godewol and some of his students are now assigned to the style of "Westphalian Expressionism".
Student (selection)
- Peter August Böckstiegel (1889–1951)
- Eduard Herterich (1905-1994)
- Heinz Lewerenz (1890–1939)
- Else Lohmann (1897–1984)
- Erich Lossie (1886–1944)
- Gustav Mennicke (1899–1988)
- Ernst Sagewka (1883–1959)
- Hermann Stenner (1891-1914)
- Richard Sprick (1901–1968)
- Carl Strüwe (1898–1988)
- Theodor Steinkühler (1894–1921)
- Victor Tuxhorn (1892–1964)
- Wilhelm Wrobel (1900–1961)
literature
- Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld (ed.): Godewols and his students . Bielefeld, 1953 (exhibition catalog)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, Thomas Kellein : Der westfälische Expressionismus , Verlag Hirmer 2010, ISBN 3777431710
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Godewols, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gnoien |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1926 |
| Place of death | Bielefeld |