Oskar Coester

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Oskar Coester (born November 7, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 24, 1955 in Dachau ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Coester studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In October 1917 he exhibited at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich . In the following year he was represented at the summer exhibition of the New Secession . The art historian August Liebmann Mayer judged: “Coester still proves to be a strong talent and nobody will deny the visionary power of his pictures, nobody will be able to forget his highly personal palette. But there is something sick, one might almost say disrupted, in this art. "

In 1920 he took part in the exhibition in the New Secession in Munich . In the spring of 1925 he showed his works in the Thannhauser Gallery. In 1927 he went on a study trip to Paris. His works have been bought by museums in Basel, Stettin and Munich. He was a member of the German Association of Artists and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1951 he became an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts . He was based in Dachau. His most intensive sponsor was the Munich gallery owner Günther Franke .

“Coester's quiet art lives through the irrational visionary, through the unsettling dissociative ambiguity of the representational. The painter's pictures hardly ever end in the destructive nature of the catastrophe, but remain in the poem's floating conclusion. Coester's witty, bizarre humor, his tendency towards weird self-pupation as well as to 'excruciatingly enjoyable' savoring one's own state of mind seem in many ways related to Karl Valentin . Like him, Oscar Coester saw himself in his own modesty as belonging to the 'rear guard' in contrast to the ' avant-garde ', which his long-time friend Joachim Ringelnatz put into words as early as 1928 when he wrote: 'Because you are growing next to the century. You are the taller of the two of us'. "

The following works by Coester can be found in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen : The Gardener , Landscape , With Rails and Large Figure , Self-Portrait , Seated Woman with Glass , Abandoned Beer Garden and Musicians . An extensive inventory of his drawings and all of his prints, lithographs and linocuts are in the State Graphic Collection in Munich .

Awards and honors

In 1948 Coester received the promotional award for fine arts of the state capital Munich .

In 1956 the Oskar-Coester-Weg in the Munich district of Solln was named after him. In Dachau he was honored by naming Oskar-Coester-Strasse.

literature

  • Galleries Thannhauser in the central archive of the international art trade
  • Coester, Oskar in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 457)
  • German Art and Decoration, Vol. 42, Darmstadt September 1918, p. 295 ( online )
  • Kuno Mittenzwey, On Oskar Coester's Landscapes, German Art and Decoration, Vol. 45, Darmstadt March 1920, p. 283 ( Online )
  • Wilhelm Michel, Oskar Coester, German Art and Decoration, Darmstadt April 1925, pp. 304–311 ( online )
  • Michael Semff : Oskar Coester: Works on paper and pictures . Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 1994, ISBN 3-927803-11-1
  • Oskar Coester: a painter's life 1886–1955 . Catalog of the exhibition: "Because you are growing next to the century", Gemäldegalerie Dachau, 2001, ISBN 3-930941-29-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Coester, Oskar ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 10, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Michael Semff: Melancholy absorption as a comforting camouflage of the subject - about the art of Oscar Coester. In: Oskar Coester: Works on paper and pictures , p. 29
  3. ↑ Förderpreis Bildende Kunst münchen.de, accessed on December 13, 2013.
  4. ^ Hermann Sand : Sollner street names - Oskar-Coester-Weg. In: sollner-hefte.de. Retrieved December 14, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Dachauerstraße name dachau.de, accessed December 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Coester, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1955
Place of death Dachau