Oswald Voh
Oswald Voh (born February 18, 1904 in Buchau near Karlsbad in Bohemia , † September 11, 1979 in Ambach ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
life and work
In 1919, the 15-year-old baker's son came to the ceramic college in Teplitz . Two years later he became an employee in the advertising studio of the company in Aussig . From 1924 to 1929 he was a master student with Julius Diez at the Munich Art Academy . Hunger years followed with occasional graphic work for the magazines Jugend und Leben .
During this time friendships developed with other artists such as Karl Weinmair , Eugen Cordier and Max Lacher . The first artistic successes were the purchase of the painting Mädchen am Bach by the Modern Gallery in Prague and a first prize in the academy competition for a cover picture for the magazine Die Woche .
He created murals for the conference room in his hometown of Buchau and became a freelancer for the Scherl Verlag in Berlin, where he finally moved in 1931. Commercial graphic work for HAPAG, among others, led to overseas trips to Guatemala and Mexico . In 1939 Voh married his colleague Gisela Schmiedeberg, whom he had met in Berlin , shortly before starting his military service. He completed this from 1939 to 1945 in a propaganda company, in which he was able to continue working as a painter. After a short time at the end of the war in 1945 as a laborer in western Bohemia, the wandering with his wife took him to Marburg an der Lahn in autumn . Nearby, the Voh couple and their daughter found accommodation in a hunting lodge near Sterzhausen for five years. During this time, he created landscape pictures, many portraits, especially of local children, and figural compositions in poetic realism. After a first exhibition in Lauterbach / Hessen, he participated in the annual exhibition in the Marburg University Museum and others in Vienna, Geretsried, Stuttgart and Marktredwitz.
In 1952 the couple moved to Tutzing on Lake Starnberg and began building a house in Ambach in 1953. Trips to Libya and Malawi followed. Voh died in 1979 after a long illness.
literature
- The art of the lost generation. German expressive realism painting from 1925 to 1975. Econ, Düsseldorf and Vienna 1980 ISBN 3-430-19961-1 (also dissertation at the University of Marburg 1986); Revised new edition under the title: Expressive Realism: Painting of the Lost Generation . Hirmer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.egerlandmuseum.de/der-zug-ist-abgefahren-kunstwerk-des-monats-februar-2002/
- ^ Rainer Zimmermann : Expressive Realism, Munich 1994
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voh, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buchau near Karlsbad , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1979 |
| Place of death | At the river |