Paul Holz (draftsman)

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Paul Holz (born December 28, 1883 in Riesenbrück near Pasewalk , † January 19, 1938 in Schleswig ) was a German draftsman . Wood and its art has been recognized in numerous exhibitions. As an autodidact , he quickly developed into "one of the great German draftsmen of our century, because he seldom possessed the ability to sense the dramatic, almost tragic constellation in human existences and to reproduce them with the always appropriate means of his drawing style " (quote: Helmut Börsch-Supan ). Realism, but also expressive alienation, shape his artistic signature.

The barren, wide landscape of his Pomeranian homeland, villagers, people and animals in the circus, fairground scenes, sick people and tramps made wood the theme of his work. In addition, he made many drawings for works of literature, especially for Dostoyevsky's “ The Brothers Karamazov ” and Knut Hamsun and Gogol's “ The Coat ”.

Life

From 1904 to 1924 he worked as a primary school teacher in Pomerania . In 1924 Holz passed his state examination as a drawing teacher and then taught at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Breslau from 1925 to 1933 . In 1926 the artist became a consultant for drawing lessons in Silesia, and a year later for Pomerania. The trained elementary school teacher soon received an appointment from Oskar Moll to the renowned State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau , where artists such as Alexander Kanoldt , Carlo Mense , Otto Mueller , Hans Scharoun and Oskar Schlemmer taught. He taught methodology and blackboard drawing. His first solo exhibition also took place there in 1926.

As a result of the 2nd Prussian Emergency Ordinance , the academy was closed on April 1, 1932. In Breslau, Holz was a member of the pedagogical examination office. He was removed from this office in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. His artistic work was denigrated as " degenerate ". For this reason he moved to Schleswig in 1934, where he worked at the cathedral school until his death in 1938. His last exhibition took place in 1937 in the von der Heyde gallery in Berlin. Sidelined by the National Socialists, his art was wrongly forgotten for a long time.

Some of his works are in the Kupferstichkabinetten Berlin and Dresden , furthermore in the collection of drawings and prints of the State Museum Schwerin , over 300 drawings and bibliophile books in the art collection of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the collection of the Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz , the collection of the Pomeranian Foundation in Greifswald, the collection of the Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig, the collection of the East German Gallery in Regensburg and in other houses in Europe and America (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena).

In the museum of the city of Pasewalk , which is also the Paul Holz artist memorial, 20 of his steel pen drawings are on display in the gallery. In addition, parts of the original furniture and household items of the north German artist from the estate of his daughter Christiane Holz (1918–2006) can be viewed here.

In October 2018, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his death, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, is hosting a large exhibition ( Paul Holz - Butcher of a Good Conscience ) with around 100 works by the artist.

literature

  • Ulla Heise : Wood, Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 343 f.
  • Käthe Kollwitz and Paul Holz - drawings and graphics on European literature , Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum 1988
  • Angelika Förster: Paul Holz - draftsman - monograph on life and work , Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1998, ISBN 3-356-00790-4
  • Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe : Paul Holz 1883–1938 Drawing as Dialog , Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-86106-033-7
  • Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg: Exhibition catalog Paul Holz , Regensburg 1984
  • National Museums in Berlin: Exhibition catalog Paul Holz , Berlin (East) 1983
  • Galerie am Pfaffenteich: Exhibition catalog Paul Holz , Schwerin 1994
  • Graphic cabinet of the Pels-Leusden gallery, Paul Holz exhibition catalog , Berlin 1979
  • Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Paul Holz exhibition catalog , Munich 1970
  • Eberhard Troeger, Paul Holz the draftsman , Freiburg 1947
  • VEB Verlag der Kunst, Paul Holz , Dresden 1963
  • Jan Matura, Historia Polic od czasów najstarszego osadnictwa do II wojny światowej , Police 2002
  • Ernst Scheyer : The Breslau Art Academy and Oskar Moll , Würzburg 1961.
  • State Museum Schwerin: From Otto Mueller to Oskar Schlemmer. Artist of the Wroclaw Academy . Exhibition catalog 2002,
  • Silesian Museum zu Görlitz: Modern workshops. Teacher and pupil of the Breslau Academy 1903–1932 .
  • Academy of the Arts, Berlin: Poelzig - Endell - Moll and the Breslau Art Academy 1911–1932 . Exhibition catalog 1965.
  • Detlef Krell: His language, the black lines . In: Silesia Nova, Dresden / Wrocław 4/2008, ISSN  1614-7111
  • Roland Gutsch: "Verso. Artist novella about Paul Holz." Spica Verlag, Neubrandenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-943168-19-8
  • Museum of the City of Pasewalk: "Paul Holz - inventory catalog, Museum of the City of Pasewalk, Paul Holz Artist Memorial " Ed .: Museum of the City of Pasewalk, Friends of the Museum of the City of Pasewalk eV, Pasewalk 2018, ISBN 9783000587641
  • Nina Schleif: Butcher of a good conscience - the draftsman Paul Holz: 1883–1938 . Ed .: Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. Klinkhardt & Biermann. 2018, ISBN 978-3-943616-53-8

Web links

Commons : Paul Holz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Paul Fechter in Deutsche Zukunft , January 30, 1938
  2. ↑ Book review: Angelika Förster: Paul Holz - drafter
  3. ^ Schleif, Nina: Butcher of the good conscience - The draftsman Paul Holz: 1883-1938 . Ed .: Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg. 1st edition. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-943616-53-8 , pp. 176 .
  4. ↑ Sabine Reithmaier: With a stroke of the pen . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 20, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Giant bridge
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1938
Place of death Schleswig