Paul Goesch

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Paul Goesch (born August 30, 1885 in Schwerin , † September 5, 1940 in Hartheim Castle (officially), actually † August 22, 1940 in the Nazi killing center in Brandenburg / Havel ) was a German architect and painter .

Life

The father Carl Goesch was a district judge in Schwerin and later became a lecturer in Berlin, the mother was Dorothea Goesch. The boy spent his childhood in Schwerin and Friedenau near Berlin. From 1903 he studied architecture at the Technical University in Charlottenburg , then in Munich and Karlsruhe . During this time he made trips to France , Italy , southern Germany and the Baltic Sea . In 1909 he moved to Dresden to live with his brother Heinrich Goesch , who was there professor at the University of Applied Sciences. During this time Goesch created the painting of a gym in Dresden-Laubegast, which is still preserved today . He fell ill and spent half a year in clinics in Hedemünden and Tiefenbrunn near Göttingen. In 1910 he was still able to finish his studies as a government building manager .

In February and March 1914 Goesch was involved in the construction of the anthroposophical Goetheanum in Dornach , Switzerland. In that year he passed the 2nd state examination to become a government master builder ( assessor in public building administration) in Berlin. From 1915 to 1917 he was government master builder in Culm, West Prussia . There he suffered another mental crisis.

Around 1920 Paul Goesch was a member of several avant-garde artist groups and participated in exhibitions with architectural designs and colored drawings. In 1919 he joined the “ Arbeitsrat für Kunst ”, the “ Novembergruppe ” and the artist group “ Gläsernekette ” founded by Bruno Taut in 1920 .

At the beginning of the 1920s, Goesch retired to Göttingen , where his sister Lili, married Redepenning, lived and the brother-in-law worked as a psychiatrist and head of the Göttingen Provincial Educational Institute (today Göttingen prison). Goesch was a patient in the neighboring provincial sanctuary and nursing home. In 1935 he was transferred to the Teupitz state institute in Brandenburg . On August 22, 1940, Goesch was gassed in a collective transport in the course of the National Socialist murder of the sick at the Brandenburg / Havel killing center. As a camouflage, his death was recorded in Hartheim. His patient file has been preserved and is in the Federal Archives in Berlin.

The urn was buried on October 23, 1940 in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin. The grave site has been preserved.

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untitled (1928)

Paul Goesch left a multi-layered artistic oeuvre of over 2000 works. Most of them are colored gouaches , including architectural designs. The monumental format is represented by two room paintings (Dresden-Laubegast 1908; Berlin-Schöneberg 1920/1921, destroyed) and a wall painting (Göttingen, probably 1920). So far, nothing is known of any construction work; conceptual participation in projects by other architects cannot be ruled out.

The rediscovery of the work is thanks in particular to the research of the Cologne art historian Stefanie Poley. Works by Goesch can be found in several museums, for example in Germany. B. in the Akademie der Künste , in the Berlinische Galerie and in the collection-Prinzhorn, Heidelberg, but also outside of Germany, here v. a. at the Center canadien d'architecture in Montréal, Canada. Some of the pictures that were taken during his psychiatric stay have also been preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection ; In 2015, 350 works from different creative phases were added through a donation.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Paul Goesch, watercolors and drawings 1885–1940 . Exhibition by the Berlinische Galerie in the Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, November 27, 1976 - January 2, 1977. Berlin 1976.
  • Sabine Witt: From patient to euthanasia victim. The artist Paul Goesch (1885–1940). In: Landesklinik Teupitz (Ed.): Landesklinik Teupitz. History - architecture - perspectives. be.bra-Verlag Berlin-Brandenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89809-037-X , pp. 63-80.
  • Exhibition catalog Paul Goesch (1885–1940) - between avant-garde and institutional , Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-88423-539-3 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Gosch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesklinik Teupitz (ed.): Landesklinik Teupitz. Berlin 2003 p. 70
  2. ^ Paul Goesch. Chełmno (Culm) ,, accessed on February 14, 2020 . , detailed biography
  3. ↑ Stefanie Poley: His life. The external résumé. On: http://www.freundeskreis-paul-goesch.de , October 2005 (accessed on March 17, 2019). Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 673.
personal data
SURNAME Goesch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1940
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel