Oswald Gette

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Portrait of Oswald Gette, around 1912

Oswald Gette (born June 30, 1872 in Ruhland , † 1941 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Weichselkähne near Graudenz

Gette's parents lived in Graudenz (now Grudziądz , Poland ), where the father was a government and building officer. When he was 9 years old, he developed scarlet fever, as a result of which he was completely deaf. Gette spent his youth in Graudenz, and this is where his relationship with West Prussia arose . He studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and lived in the Friedenau district . His teachers were Hans Fredrik Gude , Walter Leistikow , Eugen Bracht , Karl Hagemeister and Albert Hertel . His first works were exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1894. Since 1905 he has regularly participated in Berlin art exhibitions with paintings in oil, pastel, tempera and drawings.

In Graudenz he captured landscape impressions, but also painted other landscapes, e.g. B. in the Mark Brandenburg , in the Weserbergland and in Tyrol . From the mid-1890s, his pictures became lighter. From 1907 they were influenced by French impressionism .

Gette's landscapes adorned the Prussian state parliament and the town halls of the Schöneberg and Wilmersdorf districts in Berlin. However, these images are lost. Works by him are in the collections of the West Prussian State Museum in Warendorf and the Museum in Grudziądz.

In 1938 and 1940 his works were exhibited as part of the " Great German Art Exhibitions " in the House of German Art in Munich.

Works (selection)

View over the Schlossberg to Graudenz
  • Women working in the fields , 1894, oil on cardboard, 27 × 42 cm
  • Graudenz , 1904, oil on canvas / cardboard, 27 × 43 cm
  • Weichselblick , 1905, oil on canvas / cardboard, 36.6 × 54.4 cm
  • Cape Arkona on Rügen , 1908, oil on canvas, 70 × 52 cm,
  • The Arkensee in Tyrol , oil on cardboard, 40.5 × 56 cm
  • Spring in the Country , 1913, oil on canvas, 62.5 × 76 cm
  • The old Graudenz. View of the city from the opposite bank of the Vistula , oil on canvas
  • Graudenz, bank of the Vistula with weir storage facility , 1895, watercolor on paper / cardboard, 26.5 × 36.2 cm
  • The old Graudenz / view from the castle tower , 1909, oil on canvas, 138 × 106 cm
  • Berlin-Friedenau Winter Evening , 1910, oil on canvas, 49 cm × 59 cm
  • Steep coast near Graudenz. Evening on the Vistula , 1907, oil on canvas, 41.5 × 58 cm
  • Weichselkähne near Graudenz , before 1920, oil on canvas, 32.5 × 50.5 cm
  • The Arkensee in Tyrol , oil on cardboard, 40.5 × 56 cm
  • Autumn evening , oil on canvas, 101 × 60.5 cm
  • Water lilies , oil on fabric, (portrait format, approx. 60 × 72 cm)

literature

Web links

Commons : Oswald Gette  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gette, Oswald . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 501 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Gette, Oswald. In: Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Verlag Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1912, p. 194 ( compilation (scan) on Commons ).
  3. ↑ Rudolf Meyer-Bremen: Artist Lexicon East Prussia and West Prussia 1800–1945. Painter, sculptor, architect. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2012, p. 58.
  4. ^ Jadwiga Drozdowska: Grudziądz. Widoki miasta. Muzeum, Grudziądz 2001, p. 186.
  5. ↑ List of participants in the “Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944” on treffpunkt-kunst.net.
  6. ^ Oswald Gette (German, 1872–1941). artnet.de
  7. ↑ Oswald Gette at Leo Spik Actions ( memento from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 5, 2019 (picture as no.73 on the page)
  8. ↑ Oswald Gette in the Eva Aldag auction house ( memento of January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 5, 2019 (2 images as No. 14 and 15 of the auction on p. 3 of the PDF file)
  9. ↑ ZDF broadcast “Bares for Rares” September 3, 2018, 3:20 pm
personal data
SURNAME Gette, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhland
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Berlin