Paul Gross (painter)

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Paul Groß (born August 26, 1873 in Dresden ; † 1942 ) was a German draftsman and painter and full-time art teacher.

Life

Groß studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in his home town of Dresden from the beginning of the 1890s . He taught art and drawing at St.-Annen-Gymnasium in Dresden, for whose auditorium he also created portraits of the rectors. As an art teacher, he published the textbook in 1912: Taste-building workshop exercises . His drawings and illustrations have appeared in various periodicals such as B. the Saxon homeland published. With a few exceptions (e.g. Great Dresden Art Exhibition, solo exhibition in St. Anne's Gymnasium), he does not seem to have participated in the exhibition business of his time. He was in contact with the circle of artists around the architect Martin Pietzsch and his artist house in Loschwitz, as well as with the painter and silhouette artist Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann . In the last years of his life he lived in the Dresden district of Blasewitz .

As an independent artist, he devoted himself particularly to works on paper: watercolor , gouache and pastel as well as etching as a graphic artist . The works of the 1910s are still influenced by Art Nouveau style and content . From the beginning of the 1920s he turned to a representational, objectifying style of painting, for which the epoch term Neue Sachlichkeit was coined in 1925 , and which in Dresden many prominent artists such as Otto Dix , August Wilhelm Dressler , Bernhard Kretzschmar, Wilhelm Lachnit , Richard Oelze and Georg Siebert were assigned. Like Franz Lenk , Paul Groß brought a seemingly dispassionate objectivity, a personal note of subjective feeling and atmospheric individuality into his depictions, which brings his art closer to neo-romanticism.

From the 1920s onwards, Paul Groß concentrated almost exclusively on the landscape. The motifs come mainly from central Germany, from Saxony and Lusatia via the Harz Mountains to the Baltic Sea , as well as from Silesia and Bohemia . The accuracy of nature observation is thanks to the plein-air creation of many works. As a graphic artist, he is characterized by the virtuoso mastery of the etching technique and the precision of the line, like the old masters.

Works in museums and public collections

  • Dresden Municipal Gallery
  • Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz
  • Letter Foundation, Cologne
  • Daulton Collection, Los Altos Hills, California

Publications

  • with Fritz Hildebrand: workshop exercises to create taste . Leipzig, Dürr 1912

literature

  • Great, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 318 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meike Hoffmann, Nikola Kuhn: Hitler's art dealer: Hildebrand Gurlitt 1895-1956 . CH Beck, Munich 2016, p. ? .
  2. ↑ Architecture remains! Architecture Day 2018 on June 23 + 24 in Saxony , at aksachsen.org, accessed on April 22, 2019
  3. ↑ Birgit Dalbajewa (Ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, p. ? .
  4. ^ Wilko von Abercron: Franz Lenk 1898-1968 retrospective and documentation . Cologne 1976, p. 14 .

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personal data
SURNAME Great, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1942