Richard Ott (pedagogue)
Richard Ott (* 1908 in Chojnów , Lower Silesia, German: Haynau; † 1974 in Peißenberg , Upper Bavaria) was a German art teacher , reform pedagogue and painter .
In the post-war period , Richard Ott's ideas on art education received a certain amount of attention beyond the specialist circles of art educators and reform pedagogues. For example, Ott published in Die Zeit . The mirror reported on him, if not very favorably.
Richard Ott's main work is the archetype of the soul . In it, as in all other writings, he advocated free, creative self-development for children in their artistic work.
Live and act
Richard Ott was born in 1908 in Chojnów (German: Haynau) in Lower Silesia .
From 1928 Richard Ott attended the art academy in Breslau , where Otto Mueller and Oskar Schlemmer taught , among others . His office with the passed exam as an art teacher was the Karl Marx School in Berlin. After its closure in 1934, the art teacher changed schools around two dozen times, always after six months at the latest. “Political unreliability” and unconventional teaching methods were the reasons.
After the war, Richard Ott moved to Munich. He did not get a teaching position there, so that he devoted himself to painting and various projects. One of the projects that Ott started was a “museum for childlike art”, set up in his Munich studio and consisting of 12,000 children's drawings, and an “institute for research into the archetypal and early forms of artistic expression” that was never realized. With artists such as Fritz Kortner and Walter Kiaulehn , the establishment of a "Free Academy" was intended at the end of the 1940s, but this was not realized either.
In 1952, the reform pedagogue's name once again attracted a little attention in the literary scene when Alfred Andersch included the “American Diary of Richard Ott” in the first six editions of the “studio frankfurt” of the Frankfurt publishing house .
Richard Ott withdrew from Munich to the Upper Bavarian town of Peißenberg , where he died in 1974.
Pedagogical ideas
Richard Ott rejected conventional school art lessons as "stunted", "stuffy" and "torture". The still existing childlike impartiality and naturalness would not come into play in the existing school system. In the manner of the later so-called anti-authoritarian education , he demanded that painting and drawing lessons should be carried out by visual artists and children themselves. “The child's present happiness” is always decisive.
Richard Ott saw a coming “world age of art” in which the artist would be the dominant type of person and no longer the “hardened people of the 20th century”.
Critics criticized a “one-sidedly directed development of the subject of art education on the expressive side”.
Works (selection)
- Ott, Richard: archetype of the soul. Bergen: Müller & Kiepenheuer 1949.
- Ott, Richard: Art lessons without cliché. In: Nürnberger Zeitung, October 8, 1951.
- Ott, Richard: The American diary of Richard Ott. studio frankfurt 2. Frankfurt: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1952.
literature
- Lindner, Hans: The reform pedagogue and painter Richard Ott. A source-based analysis of his art educational and artistic concept. Dissertation. Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, 1998.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b EDUCATION: Let children teach . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1949 ( online - 15 April 1949 ).
- ↑ http://www.kunstpaedagogik-adbk.de/quellenkupaed/Urbilder%20SeeleOTT.pdf
- ^ Art seminar of the Luitpold-Gymnasium Munich (Uli Schuster): From 'Art Education' to 'Art Lessons', pp. 4–5. http://www.lpg.musin.de/kusem/pdf/kap11.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ott, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reform pedagogue, art teacher and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chojnów |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1974 |
| Place of death | Peissenberg |