Otto Gussmann
Otto Gussmann (born May 22, 1869 in Wachbach , Württemberg; † July 27, 1926 in Dresden ) was a German painter and professor of ornamentation and architecture-related painting and a designer, between Expressionism , Art Nouveau and Art Deco .
Life
After attending secondary school, the pastor's son Otto Gussmann began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Stuttgart . There he also attended the arts and crafts school . In 1892 he moved to the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . Four years later he began studying at the Berlin University of Fine Arts .
After completing his studies, he made a name for himself with new architecture-related painting and decoration on the new building of the Berlin Reichstag by Paul Wallot . Wallot brought him to Dresden as a teacher in 1897 . There he later became professor of the ornament school at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts , and eventually even director of studies (rector) until his death. From 1915 to 1919 Otto Gussmann was a professor at the Dresden Art Academy.
The academic master's atelier for decorative painting was opened under Gussmann's direction in October 1910. At the turn of the century Gussmann was a member of the Dresden Association of Visual Artists , the first Dresden Secession . In 1905 he became a member of the artist group Die Zunft . Gussmman designed the poster for the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906 , in which the members of the guild played a key role. He was also a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association and the artist group Die Brücke (1905). As a teacher for the Brücke artists, Gussmann took part in the first Brücke exhibition. His best-known student, also a member of the Brücke, was the expressionist painter Max Pechstein . The painter and graphic artist Otto Dix was also his pupil .
In 1904 Gussmann married Gertrud Herzog. The marriage had three children: Lotte, Fritz and Otto. Gussmann died of a heart attack in 1926 while preparing for the Dresden art exhibition. His grave is on the Tolkewitz urn grove .
Otto Gussmann was a member of the German Association of Artists .
Significant works
- 1901: Design of the Cafe Central in Dresden in collaboration with Max Hans Kühne , architect
- 1901–1902: Interior design of the mosaic dome and frieze as well as the glass windows of the fraternity monument in Eisenach
- until 1903: Vault painting in the Lukaskirche (Dresden) in collaboration with Georg Weidenbach
- around 1906: Lupprian tomb in the main cemetery in Braunschweig in collaboration with Wilhelm Kreis , architect
- Until 1907: Design of the conversation room of the Saxon State House in Dresden
- 1909: Ceiling and wall painting as well as glass window design in the Reconciliation Church , Dresden
- 1911: Painted interior decoration of the New Dresden City Hall
- 1911–1913: Interior decoration and secondary architecture in the Italian village , Dresden in collaboration with Hans Erlwein , architect
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Löffler: Gußmann, Otto Friedrich. In: German biography. Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Gussmann, Otto ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 4, 2015)
- ↑ Interior decoration . Issue 2/1903
- ↑ Modern designs . Issue 11/1907
literature
- Julius Zeitler: Otto Gussmann . In: Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) 151 (1918), No. 3919, pp. 158f.
- Erich Haenel (Ed.): Otto Gussmann. 60 panels . Limpert, Dresden 1927.
- Fritz Löffler: Gussmann, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 333 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Kurt Proksch: Gussmann . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1989.
- Adolf Smitmans, Anne Peters (Eds.): Otto Gussmann: 1869–1926 . Municipal Gallery Albstadt , Albstadt 1992.
- Timo Niegsch (Red.): Gussmann - Lange - Dix: Albstadt's Dresden art . Gallery Albstadt , Albstadt 2006.
- KR Henker (Ed.): Gravestone Art, 5th episode, A collection of masterpieces created in memory of the dead by artists of our days, Berlin undated (TU Berlin Architekturmuseum, Inv.Nr.B. 2363,04).
- Thomas Morgenroth, Ascension in Art Nouveau, in Sächsische Zeitung, 2017, https://www.saechsische.de/himmelfahrt-im-jugendstil-3777514.html
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Gussmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Gussmann's biography
- Article in Stadtwiki Dresden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gussmann, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gussmann, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wachbach , Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1926 |
| Place of death | Dresden |