Paul Thesing

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Paul Thesing (born April 12, 1882 in Anholt ; † December 6, 1954 in Darmstadt ) was a Darmstadt painter , draftsman , caricaturist , illustrator .

Life

Paul Thesing studied chemistry at the TH Darmstadt in 1902 , with occasional study visits to Switzerland. His artistic career began as a draftsman in Zurich, where he continued his chemistry studies, which he had begun in Darmstadt, in 1905. From 1907 onwards, socially critical caricatures were regularly produced for the Swiss workers' newspaper Der Neue Postillon .

From 1909 he worked as a draftsman for the renowned satirical magazine Nebelspalter . The events in Europe on the eve of the First World War, especially the politics of the great European powers, determined the draftsman's themes. Thesing went to Paris to study painting in 1909, where he met Rudolf Levy , Hans Purrmann , Oskar Moll , Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Franz Nölken , Walter Rosam , Rudolf Großmann and Albert Weisgerber in the German group of artists at the Café du Dôme . During the First World War , Thesing worked as a caricaturist in Mallorca and published drawings against the Entente in Spanish daily newspapers .

In the twenties he was one of the most important representatives of painting in Darmstadt. He had his first major solo exhibition in the Kunsthalle in 1926 , after receiving the Georg Büchner Prize of the People's State of Hesse in 1924 , whose capital was Darmstadt.

However, economic conditions in the 1920s forced Thesing to emigrate, he first tried to gain a foothold in France in 1929, then lived in Ibiza from 1931 to 1936 and on Ischia in Italy from 1936 to 1939.

After the end of the Second World War, he returned to Darmstadt to work as a teacher and art functionary. He was co-founder and president of the New Darmstadt Secession. He was the organizer of their first exhibition "Liberated Art", which was shown in December 1945 in the rooms of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Works by Klee, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Macke, Meidner and Heckel were shown. A picture by Thesing, which was also shown in the exhibition, led to severe criticism. In protest, Thesing had the exhibition closed early. Since he found no support in the Darmstadt Secession, he resigned from his office.

He was committed to founding an art school and was its first acting director from 1947. In 1949, after disputes with the city of Darmstadt, he left teaching. His successor was Fritz Schwarzbeck .

In 1948 he painted the painting Stiller Winkel in the E-Werk for the regional electricity supplier HEAG . From 1949 he worked again as a cartoonist.

He died in Darmstadt at the age of 72. The chemist Jan Thesing was his son.

Honors

  • 1924: Georg Büchner Prize.

literature

  • Susanne Thesing: Paul Thesing (1882–1954) . In: Klaus Kösters (ed.): Adaptation - Survival - Resistance: Artists in National Socialism . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12924-1 , pp. 211-218.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thesing, Paul Wilhelm Franz Maria. Hessian biography (as of April 12, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on May 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Thesing, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Anholt
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1954
Place of death Darmstadt