Paul Gangolf

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Paul Gangolf (* 13. October 1879 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † 12. August 1936 in Esterwegen ) was a German artist of Expressionism . He worked as a lithographer , wood cutter , eraser , painter, collage artist and art writer, among other things .

Life

Paul Gangolf was born Paul Löwy in Königsberg in 1879. The family was of Jewish faith. Paul Löwy spent his youth in Wiesbaden. From 1901 he lived in Berlin. It is not known when he used the stage name Gangolf.

Gangolf trained as a bookseller. The Hamburg collector Gustav Schiefler acquired a small oil sketch by Gangolf in 1912/13 and planned to create a catalog raisonné of Gangolf's prints, as he had previously done for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Emil Nolde , Max Liebermann and Edvard Munch , among others . However, due to Schiefler's death in 1935, this plan was never realized.

In 1913 Gangolf stayed in Jersey and traveled through France.

During the First World War he served as a volunteer recruit in Ihringen . In 1915 he was a soldier in Wismar and the following year in Macedonia.

From 1919 Gangolf was based in Berlin again. He was mainly concerned with lithography . In the same year the 1st Paul-Gangolf portfolio was published. Through the mediation of Schiefler, the Hamburger Kunsthalle acquired some of his works. In 1923 the Metropolis folder was published by Malik Verlag in Berlin and the Großstadt folder was published by Oskar Wöhrle in Konstanz. From 1926 onwards, further works by Ernst Rathenau (1897–1986) were published by Euphorion Verlag in Berlin .

In 1926 Gangolf moved to Paris, financially supported by Heinrich Stinnes . There he occasionally took part in exhibitions. After 1930, Gangolf's situation worsened considerably. He lived temporarily in London, returned to Paris and from August 1932 lived again in Berlin. In the spring of 1933 an exhibition of him took place in the art club. Gangolf was arrested after the NSDAP came to power following a denunciation on the street in Berlin, spent a few months in the Columbia-Haus concentration camp and was deported to the Esterwegen concentration camp . At the end of May 1935 he was shot and treated in Sörgel hospital. In August 1936 he was returned to the Esterwegen concentration camp and shot in a nearby forest on August 12, 1936.

Collections

Gangolf's works can be found in the Museum of Modern Arts in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the National Gallery of Art , Kettle's Yard , the British Museum , the Scottish National Gallery and the Hamburger Kunsthalle .

Gangolf has also been exhibited in the Ernst Barlach House .

literature

  • Forgotten modernity. Art in Germany between the World Wars, International Days in Ingelheim, Ingelheim 2019, pp. 44–57.
  • In Memorian Paul Gangolf, edited by Ernest Rathenau, New York 1964.
  • Helmut Kronthaler: Gangolf, Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 48, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22788-4 , p. 380.
  • Gangolf, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 196 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Folkwang - Online Collection - Paul Gangolf: ›Metropolis‹, 1922 sequence of 9 lithographs on the topic of ›Metropolis‹. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Gangolf | MoMA. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Paul Gangolf | LACMA Collections. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ METROPOLIS, nine lithographs by PAUL GANGOLF ... Accessed May 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Paul Gangolf - Collection Database. Retrieved May 1, 2019 (UK English).
  6. ↑ Street with a whore. Retrieved May 1, 2019 (UK English).
  7. ^ Pavement Artist. Retrieved May 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ Exhibition Barlach. Accessed May 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gangolf, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewy, Paul; Löwy, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1936
Place of death Esterwegen