Mathias Barz

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Mathias Barz (born August 30, 1895 in Düsseldorf , † October 19, 1982 in Margraten , Netherlands ) was a German painter and was one of the artists prosecuted as ostracized under National Socialism .

Life

Hilde Barz, colored pencil drawing by Mathias Barz 1937

Mathias Barz grew up in a strict Catholic family and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1910 to 1914, together with Otto Pankok, he was one of the painters who frequented Johanna “Mother” Ey's coffee shop , and from 1920 it was these two who established the actual Ey circle. In 1919 he joined the KPD after an anti-war demonstration, for which he created many works. In the same year he joined the “ Young Rhineland ”. In 1928 he was a co-founder of the " Rhenish Secession ". In 1929 he married the Jewish actress Hilde (Brunhilde) Stein (1896–1965). In 1930 he became a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists . The city of Nuremberg awarded him the Albrecht Dürer Prize in 1932 .

Even before the first book burning in Berlin, "pictures and books were already burning on the market square in Düsseldorf, including the large anti-war picture by Mathias Barz 'The 15th Station', which was exhibited by Johanna Ey in 1924" and two more of his pictures. In 1935 he was banned from working. In September 1944 his wife Hilde received the order to report to the Düsseldorf slaughterhouse because she was half-Jewish . Barz went into hiding in the Eifel with his wife, who narrowly escaped being deported to a concentration camp . “For the past eight months we have moved from one hiding place to another like hunted dogs. We spent the longest time, two months, with Otto Pankok ”and his wife Hulda in their house in Pesch near Münstereifel. The two then found shelter with the Catholic pastor Joseph Emonds in Kirchheim , who hid them even when a small Waffen SS staff was housed in his house shortly before the end of the war .

After 1945 he worked again in Düsseldorf, among other things on socially critical issues. In 1973 he moved to Terneuzen in the Netherlands.

Place of remembrance of the old slaughterhouse

February 2016 was on the campus of the University of Dusseldorf , the former deportation slaughterhouses and stockyard Dusseldorf of remembrance Age slaughterhouse opened. The memorial also commemorates the couple and their rescuers in text and images.

Works (selection)

  • The 15th station , 1924 (destroyed in 1933)
  • Proletarian Children , 1926, oil on canvas
  • Jewish Quarter in Antwerp , 1932, oil on canvas
  • Inferno. Christ on the cross with Jews driven to death , 1946, oil on panel
  • Johanna Ey 83 years old , oil on cardboard
  • Spring in Kaiserswerth - cat on the balustrade , oil on canvas
  • Forest , color lithograph

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the 20th century. Leipzig 1955.
  • Avant-garde yesterday. The Young Rhineland and its friends 1919–1929. Exhibition catalog Haus am Waldsee Berlin-Zehlendorf, ed. from the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1970.
  • City Museum Düsseldorf: Mathias Barz. Paintings, graphics: For the artist's 85th birthday . Exhibition from September 10 to October 19, 1980, 8 pages
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: Otto Pankok and Mathias Barz in the Eifel. In: Persecution of Jews and Help for Refugees in the German-Belgian border area. Euskirchen, 1990, pp. 706-712.
  • Christian Hornig: Barz, Mathias . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 329.
  • Michael Hausmann: Johanna Ey: a critical reappraisal. University of Birmingham, 2010. Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bart: Johanna Ey and her circle of artists. Exhibition catalog Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf 1984, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Anja Walter-Ris: The history of the gallery Nierendorf . Passion for art in the service of modernity. Berlin / New York 1920–1995. Dissertation. Berlin 2003, p. 372.
  3. ^ Letter from Mathias Barz to Berto Perotti in: Berto Perotti, encounter with Otto Pankok, Progress-Verlag Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 33.
  4. ^ Letter from Mathias Barz to Berto Perotti in: Berto Perotti, encounter with Otto Pankok, Progress-Verlag Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Barz, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, ostracized and persecuted by National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1982
Place of death Margraten