Otto Gleichmann

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Otto Gleichmann (born August 20, 1887 in Mainz , † November 2, 1963 in Hanover ) is considered one of the great loners of German Expressionism .

Life

Otto Gleichmann studied from 1906 to 1910 at the art academies in Düsseldorf , Breslau and Weimar.

In the middle of the First World War , he married the painter Lotte Giese in 1915 . From 1919 he lived in Hanover; from 1923 art teacher at the secondary school.

His work includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs and mixed media, which u. a. are shaped by the experiences and impressions of the First World War, in the twenties and thirties and by the catastrophic threat of National Socialism . From 1915 he was in the front line of the First World War, in 1916 he suffered a wound there, which was followed by a stay in a hospital. In 1918 he and his wife joined the artist group "Hannoversche Sezession", which included artists such as Kurt Schwitters . Gleichmann had an intensive friendship with Theodor Däubler .

In 1936 an exhibition ban was imposed by the NSDAP . In July 1937 three of his works were despised at the Nazi exhibition Degenerate Art . 27 of his works were confiscated by the National Socialists. His grave - and that of his wife Lotte - is in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover.

Works (selection)

  • Self-portrait , 1913, pencil on paper
  • Sturm Herrschaft , 1915, pencil on paper
  • Irrenparadies II , 1918, pencil on paper
  • Rays - Stuerzen , oil on canvas, 1920
  • In front of a dark landscape , oil on canvas, 1920
  • Things are incomprehensible, incomprehensible to him , pen and watercolor on paper, 1920
  • In der Loge , lithograph, 1922
  • Head of an old woman , mixed media, 1927
  • Funeral Feast , 1925

literature

  • Otto Gleichmann 1887–1963 . Exhibition catalog, edited by Norbert Nobis. Sprengel Museum Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-89169-035-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen : Gleichmann, (1) Lotte. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 223.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 185.

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personal data
SURNAME Same man, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd, 1963
Place of death Hanover