Otto Gefers

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Otto Gefers (* 3. May 1908 in Dolgov , † 6. December 1965 in Isernhagen ) was a German painter graphic artist and amateur - documentary .

Life

After the Second World War, Otto Gefers lived in a house in Isernhagen at the end of the 1940s, in the middle of the forest on the outskirts of Hanover in what was then the artists' colony In der Große Heide , a wooded area between the A2 motorway and the Wietze . Towards the end of the British military government , Gefers was one of the jurors of the Kunstverein Hannover , together with the sculptor Hermann Scheuertstuhl , when he wrote a letter to his jury colleague on December 12, 1948 under the letterhead of Gertrud Gefers -Handweberei  , which later became part of the estate of Chafing chair in the Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin.

Gefers was in lively contact with the painter Carl Buchheister , with whom he sometimes telephoned for an hour every evening on art matters.

Otto Gefers was chairman of the Association of Visual Artists Northwest Germany from 1952 to 1965 . During this time, in 1953, as one of the artists in West Germany, he sent the Third German Art Exhibition organized by the State Commission for Art Affairs of the GDR in the Albertinum in Dresden , actually the third art exhibition in the GDR . But Gertrud Gefers also made a name for herself in those years, winning the Lower Saxony State Prize for the creative craft in 1958, for example . In 1961, the hand weaving master, who at the time lived in the Isernhagen-Süd district of Hanover at the address In der Große Heide 26 , exhibited, for example, a tapestry with a partial view of the New City Hall of Hanover .

Day attack on Hanover in 1943

A few days after the air raids on Hanover on July 26, 1943, Otto Gefers secretly and illegally took pictures with an 8-millimeter film camera at various locations in the destroyed inner city of Hanover. The total of around 3 minutes long film material in a box with the inscription "Day attack Hanover 1943" was posthumously given in 2018 by an acquaintance of the family in the Historical Museum Hanover , who allowed the free screening of the film document in the foyer of the house for the period from 26. by July 29th of the year through the daily press.

Well-known works (selection)

  • Day attack Hanover 1943 , film document (approx. 3 minutes) from the time of the air raids on Hanover after July 26, 1943, in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum
  • 1964: Large mural with a section through Africa from east to west, former predator house in the zoological garden , Hanover

literature

  • Gefers, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 215 .
  • Otto Gefers: a painter from Lower Saxony. Special exhibition for the 50th birthday of the painter in the Künstlerhaus Hannover , Hannover: Otto Gefers, 1958
  • 54 Autumn exhibition of Lower Saxon artists in the Kunstverein Hannover from August 21 to September 18, 1966 , Hannover: Kunstverein Hannover, 1964
  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden : Otto Gefers. 1908-1965. bbk gallery in the artist house. 3–31 October 1968 , catalog for the exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Hannover , ed. from the Association of Visual Artists for Lower Saxony Group (Hanover), Hanover: Association of Visual Artists for Northwest Germany, 1968
  • Johanna Di Blasi: Rubble Blossom. The painter Otto Gefers was born a hundred years ago - an exhibition in the BBK gallery commemorates him ; In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ), 2008
  • Gunnar Menkens: Three minutes of destruction and everyday life / The Historical Museum is showing an unknown film by the painter Otto Gefers, taken after the air raid on July 26, 1943 , in: HAZ of July 26, 2018, p. 17

Archival material

Archival material from and about Otto Gefers can be found, for example

  • as a typewritten letter under letterhead Gertrud Gefers-Handweberei  dated December 12, 1948 in part of Hermann Scheuertstuhl's correspondence in the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, archive signature HS.1; 1; 1; 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o.V. : Gefers, Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in processing on May 6, 2008, last accessed on August 30, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Reinhold Hufnagl: In the beginning there was the artist colony , in this: Isernhagen-Süd - yesterday and today. From the settlement of medieval forest smiths in the Wietzeniederung to the green district of Hanover , 2nd edition, Hanover, Isernhagen-Süd: Bürgererverein Isernhagen-Süd, 2012, p. 165
  3. ↑ a b c Gunnar Menkens: Three minutes of destruction and everyday life / The Historical Museum is showing an unknown film by the painter Otto Gefers, taken after the air raid on July 26, 1943 , in: HAZ of July 26, 2018, p. 17
  4. ↑ a b Compare the information provided by the museum about the Kalliope network
  5. ^ Gerhard Bott (ed.), Elisabeth Buchheister, Willi Kemp (arrangement): Carl Buchheister (1890–1964) , Vol. 1: Catalog raisonné of abstract works. Paintings - collages - material pictures - gouaches - watercolors - drawings. - sculptural work - printmaking - typographic work - carpet designs / carpets. With an introduction by Susanne Thesing (= scientific volumes to the Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums , Vol. 2), [Hanover]: [Edition Libri Rari Schäfer], E. Roether, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7929-0138-0 and ISBN 3-7929-0138-2 , p. 24; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Jochen Staadt (Ed.): “The Conquest of Culture Begins!” The State Commission for Art Affairs of the GDR (1951–1953) and the SED's cultural policy (= studies of the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin , vol. 15 ), Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York City; Oxford; Vienna: Lang, 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60548-6 , p. 149 and other; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Sabine Wilp (text): The winners since 1958 , in this: Lower Saxony State Prize for the Design Craft 2016 (PDF document), ed. in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport , Hanover: Handwerksform Hanover, 2016 [no page number]
  8. ^ Georg Pollmann: Handwerksform. Services of the creative handicraft in Lower Saxony , state handicraftsman at the Lower Saxony Chamber of Crafts Hanover with support from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics and Transport, Hanover: Landeshandwerkspfleger, 1961, p. 8ff., 88; Preview over google books
  9. ^ Karl-Hermann Schlueter : Our new zoo , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 19, 1965, Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, p. 219; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ Likewise; Preview over google books
  11. ↑ Likewise; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Gefers, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolgow
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1965
Place of death Isernhagen