Otto Griebel

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Otto Griebel (born March 31, 1895 in Meerane ; † March 7, 1972 in Dresden ) was a German painter of New Objectivity and proletarian revolutionary art.

Life

Otto Griebel - son of a master upholsterer - began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1909, a short time later he switched to the Royal Drawing School in Dresden, where he met Otto Dix . From 1911 until he was called up in 1915, Griebel studied glass painting with Josef Goller at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . And he painted his first oil paintings.

In August 1915 Griebel became a soldier in the First World War . After the war he was a member of the revolutionary workers 'and soldiers' council in Dresden and he joined the KPD . In 1919 Griebel became a master student of Robert Sterl at the Dresden Academy , and he met Oskar Kokoschka . In 1919/1920 he worked with the Dadaists and was part of the Dresden Dada group . Friendships were formed with George Grosz and John Heartfield . Griebel moved to Berlin . In 1922 he participated in the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 . He was also involved in the Dresden Secession 1925/26 , the artist group Aktion , the ASSO Dresden , the Free Art Association of Saxony , the New Dresden Secession 1931 and the Dresden Secession 1932 . He was a member of the Junge Rheinland in Düsseldorf , the Bielefelder Litter, the Berlin November group and co-founder of the “ Red Group ” in Dresden.

Griebel also became an important man for the art of puppetry. Through his friend Otto Kunze, a hand puppeteer born in Dresden in 1888, he came into contact with the puppet theater and “grabbed” Kunze's carved hand puppet heads, he also designed the corresponding stage sets. Griebel himself worked as a hand puppeteer. But he couldn't make up his mind to make puppetry his job. Griebel's "doll playful" estate is now in the Department of Puppet Theater Collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Griebel was founded in 1933 by the Gestapo arrested, his work was classified as feindlich- communist art. From then on he belonged to the circle of the upright seven who openly discussed their art and political stance in private. In 1937 he became the father of the later homeland researcher Matthias Griebel . According to Otto Griebel, most of his work was destroyed in the air raid on Dresden in February 1945 . After the war , Griebel worked at the faculty for workers and peasants at the Dresden Art College until 1960, in line with his political convictions . It is currently unclear whether he was a member of the SED. His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery .

The Schwabing art find from the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt , discovered in 2012, also contains two works by Griebel: Child at the table and the watercolor The Veiled .

publication

  • I was a man of the street. Memories of a Dresden painter . Edited from the estate by Matthias Griebel and Hans-Peter Lühr. Afterword by Manfred Jendryschik . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1986.

literature

  • Johannes Schmidt, Gisbert Porstmann (ed.): Otto Griebel. Directory of his works . Kerber Verlag Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0270-1
  • Emilio Bertonati: New Objectivity in Germany , Herrsching 1988, ISBN 3-88199-447-5
  • Catalog of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig: Otto Griebel. Painting drawing graphics . For the exhibition from April 21 to June 21, 1972
  • Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende. The Kiel impulse of Expressionism 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, ISBN 3-529-02728-6
  • Lars Rebehn: Otto Griebel and the puppet theater . In: Dresdner Kunstblätter 01/2003, ISSN  0418-0615 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (et al.) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 197-198, 368-369.
  • Otto Griebel . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 212-215 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende. The Kiel impulse of Expressionism 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 206.
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personal data
SURNAME Griebel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1972
Place of death Dresden