Otto Luick
Otto Luick (born October 5, 1905 in Sulzgries ; † 1984 ) was a German painter and member of the Stuttgart Secession .
Life
His father, a craftsman himself, did not like it that his son first attended the arts and crafts school after completing his apprenticeship in painting - and then, in 1926, began studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
There he studied with the professors Arnold Waldschmidt (drawing), Anton Kolig (painting) and Heinrich Altherr (composition), became a master student, later assistant to Heinrich Altherr and Anton Kolig. At that time, the Stuttgart Academy played a key role in terms of the conditions under which the visual arts in the Stuttgart region were further developed and maintained.
Artists like Adolf Hölzel , Heinrich Altherr and Willi Baumeister taught there. They encouraged their students to come up with different life and work plans. These in turn formed groups of artists, such as the 1923 Stuttgart Secession, of which Otto Luick was a member, who more or less programmatically appeared in public at numerous exhibitions. Accordingly, they contributed to the intellectual debate in the country - but also beyond.
In addition to the professors and artist colleagues of the Stuttgart Secession, the rural and craft environment in what was then Sulzgries shaped Otto Luick's work, as did later study trips to Italy, Greece and southern France.
His colorful landscapes express the typical Swabian and Mediterranean regions. Abstraction and objectivity characterize his dynamic compositions and still lifes. Apart from his landscapes, the portraits have an important place in Otto Luick's works. Luick began as a portraitist in the classic sense in the tradition of the 19th century. But he soon broke away from traditional guidelines and began to exchange the stiff and staged pose for a natural pose for the model.
literature
- 2. Galleries of the city of Esslingen am Neckar (ed.): Otto Luick, catalog for the 1995 exhibition , Bechtle Druck, Esslingen. ISBN 3-931238-02-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luick, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and member of the Stuttgart Secession |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulzgries |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |