Otto Grassl

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Otto Grassl (born April 26, 1891 in Munich , † November 22, 1976 in Dachau ) was a German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and art teacher.

Family and education

Otto Grassl's father Karl Grassl (1869 - after 1926) had moved from Landshut to Munich with grandfather Engelhart Grassl in 1870. Here he opened an antiquarian and art bookstore and married Friederike Franziska Bader, Otto's mother. After elementary school, Otto attended the first three classes of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1902 to 1905 and spent most of his free time in his father's antiquarian bookshop. He first switched to the municipal trade school and studied from 1908 to 1910 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich with Julius Diez and Max Dasio , among other things in illustration . His entry into the Munich Art Academy is documented on October 27, 1915 , where he trained in painting technique in Franz von Stuck's painting class and under Max Doerner . In 1919 he married the merchant's daughter Franziska Breinbauer.

activity

From 1919 Otto Grassl worked as a teacher for arts and crafts painting at the Munich School of Arts and Crafts, and from 1942 in Dachau. Here he died at the age of 85. The city of Dachau dedicated a street to him, the Otto-Grassl-Weg . He was a member of the Münchner Künstlervereinigung Bund , the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB), the Bund Deutscher Graphiker (BDG) and the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands (RvBK). As a painter, draftsman, commercial artist and illustrator, he preferred figurative scenes and individual representations and later devoted himself mainly to religious topics. The latter found its way into his articles on church furnishings .

Grassl's early works were the tempera painting Orpheus (1910) and a graphic cycle Kuss , which appeared in 1913 with a total of ten sheets. Around 1916 he devoted himself to another series of graphics on the life of St. Francis of Assisi . In 1912, before entering the art academy, he took part in the spring exhibition of the Munich Secession and was able to show a selection of works at the Munich Art Association. From at least 1915 until the end of the 1920s, his work was also represented in the annual Munich exhibitions. He showed oil paintings and gouaches , drawings and prints with mostly Christian motifs, including the oil paintings St. Hubertus and Flight to Egypt (1919), The Redeemer and Mother of Sorrows (1920), Dream of St. Joseph and Martyrdom of St. Erasmus (1922) or John on Patmos (1926). Works that were already intended as altarpieces were also on display, including Descent from the Cross (1922), Give Us Today Our Daily Bread (1923) and another three-part painting (1929). No exhibition participations are known from the time of National Socialism . Only since 1949 and until around 1970 did he take part in the exhibitions in Munich's Haus der Kunst , mostly with tempera paintings and now often with secular themes.

Selection of works

  • Bad Heilbrunn , parish church of St. Kilian , motifs of the Stations of the Cross in Baroque style, 1940.
  • Bad Wörishofen , St. Justina parish church: 14 depictions of the Stations of the Cross in the nave, 1938.
  • Bühl (Baden), retreat chapel Mariahilf: Stations of the Cross.
  • Dachau-Augustenfeld, St. Peter: Maria and Josef, wall painting 1952.
  • Dachau, Parish Church of the Assumption: Lenten cloth ; Ecce Homo and St. Joseph (design), mosaics; Execution: Wilhelm Dieninghoff; Kahren.
  • Kahren, parish church: high altar of the monastery church of the Good Shepherd in Trier; Design: Walter Sebastian Resch and Otto Grassl; Execution: Julius Schneider, Munich 1929.
  • Munich , Archbishop's Palace : Christ the King .
  • Nieberndorf near Erlangen, church: altar leaves for the side altars.
  • Reichenhall , Alexischor of the St. Zeno Basilica : crucifix, station pictures ; Altarpiece.
  • Scheinfeld , parish church: Herz Jesu , oil painting.
Illustrations
  • The bouquet of St. Francis of Assisi. Newly translated from the original text by Dr. Otto Kunze. With eight pen drawings and a final vignette by Otto Graßl. Publishing company Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Munich 1921, OCLC 260125301 .

Literature (selection)

  • WB: Grassl, Otto . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 542-543 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Grassl, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter - The artist place Dachau from 1801-1946. Verlagsanstalt Bayerland, Dachau 1981, pp. 147–151.
  • Claudia Schmalhofer: The Royal School of Applied Arts Munich (1868–1918) and its influence on the training of drawing teachers. Munich 2005, also: Munich, Univ., Diss., 2005: p. 372 ff., No. 1490.
  • Chris Loos: The Dachau painter Otto Grassl (1891–1976). Diss. Univ. Munich; Writings on art history. Volume 9. Hamburg 2005. (With catalog raisonné.)
  • Siegfried Weiß: Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 370–374 (Fig.)
  • Christian art .
    • Josef Kreitmaier : Otto Grassl. In: The Christian Art. 18 (1921/22), pp. 19–28 (fig.)
    • Julius Nitsche: Otto Grassl, a Munich painter. In: The Christian Art. 29 (1932/33), pp. 1-9.
  • Josef Kreitmaier: Of art and artists. Thoughts on old and new artistic questions. (Article about O.Grassl, among others). Herder, Freiburg 1926, pp. 215-232.
  • Minster. 2, 1948, p. 89 (ill.).
  • Grassl, Otto . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 4 : Görres – Hittorp. KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , p. 108 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration documents (PMB) Karl Grassl and Otto Grassl : Munich, City Archives; Registration cards created: December 20, 1926 and December 1, 1928
  2. ^ Matriculation, certificate records and annual reports 1902/03 to 1904/05: Maximiliansgymnasium, archive.
  3. ↑ matriculation 1884-1920: 05505 Otto Grassl matrikel.adbk.de : Munich, Academy of Fine Arts.
  4. ↑ * December 13, 1896 in Bischofsmais, District Regen; Daughter of Benedikt Breinbauer, a businessman in Munich, and Franziska, b. Danzer; the second wife Mathilde (birth name unknown) survived the artist.
  5. ↑ Catalogs of the annual exhibitions in the royal glass palace in Munich 1915, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925. 1926, 1927, 1928.
  6. ^ Catalogs for the large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970.
  7. ^ Dachau News. December 5, 1951; 11./12. October 1952; 28/29 November 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Grassl, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graßl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1976
Place of death Dachau