Richard Oelze

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Richard Oelze (born June 29, 1900 in Magdeburg , † May 27, 1980 in Gut Posteholz near Hameln ) was a German painter. He is assigned to surrealism .

Life

From 1914 Oelze attended the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts , where he trained as a lithographer until 1918 . In evening classes he learned life drawing . From 1918 Richard Winckel and Kurt Tuch were among his teachers there . From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the same school on a scholarship . From 1921 to 1925 he was a student at the Bauhaus , first in Weimar with Johannes Itten , then in Dessau , where he received a teaching position at the Bauhaus in 1929. From 1926 to 1929 he lived in Dresden , took part in an exhibition at the “Dresden Secession”, and from 1929 and 1930 in Ascona , Switzerland , where he got to know the works of surrealism through reproductions . After a short stay in Berlin until 1932 , he stayed in Paris from 1932 to 1936, after a longer stay on Lake Garda , made the acquaintance of André Breton , Salvador Dalí , Paul Éluard and Max Ernst and incorporated surrealism in his work. In 1933 he was accepted into the "Salon des Sur-Indépendants". In 1936 and 1937 he lived again in Switzerland and Italy . In 1938 he moved to Germany , where he settled in the Worpswede artists' colony in 1939 .

From 1939 to 1945 he did military service and was in captivity. After the Second World War he went back to Worpswede, where he worked until 1962 and then moved to Posteholz. Richard Oelze was a participant in documenta II in 1959 and in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 . From 1959, Richard Oelze took part in a number of annual DKB exhibitions as a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1965 he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . From 1951 to 1957 he was married to the writer and publicist Hedwig Rohde .

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Oelze was among the less well-known participants in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. His most important work is probably The Expectation (1935/1936), where a group of people stares into an empty landscape with their backs to the viewer. This picture is considered an essential picture in the history of painting. Richard Barr , who met Oelze in Paris in the summer of 1936, acquired the picture for MoMA in 1940 .

Oelze is regarded as one of the most important German painters of surrealism . Typical of his work is the mysterious depiction of landscape and figure compositions with the details of the old masters.

Oelze exerted a significant influence on the French late Surrealist Christian d'Orgeix . The Kunsthalle Bremen has a Richard Oelze archive which contains numerous documents and works from the estate of Ellida Schargo von Alten.

Honors

Oelze is the recipient of the Max Beckmann Prize , received the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize of the City of Hagen , the Great Art Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Lichtwark Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg and was awarded the Lower Saxony Prize in the culture category in 1980.

The city of Magdeburg named a street after Oelze, the Oelzeweg ; in Worpswede there is the Richard-Oelze-Ring.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 2, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Detlef Krumme: Rohde . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area . 2nd, completely revised edition. tape 9 : Os - Roq. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022044-5 , pp. 705 .

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SURNAME Oelze, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surrealism painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1980
Place of death Gut Posteholz near Hameln