Theo Glinz

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Theo Glinz (born September 6, 1890 in Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau ; † May 10, 1962 in Horn TG in the canton of Thurgau ; resident in St. Gallen ) was an artist , above all a painter , draftsman and graphic artist in Switzerland .

Career

Theo Glinz grew up in Lenzburg, where his father taught as a drawing teacher at the district school. Glinz completed an apprenticeship as an embroidery draftsman at the industrial and commercial museum in St. Gallen. He then went to Paris, where he designed fabric samples and wallpapers. 1911 Glinz held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was designed by Franz von Stuck taught

Back in Paris he became a student of Édouard Vuillard . From 1914 until the end of the war, Glinz lived in the area of ​​the Sabriner Mountains . In 1915 he returned to Switzerland and lived first in St. Gallen, then as a newly married husband in the Wiggen castle above Rorschach and from 1927 in Horn Castle on Lake Constance . There the artist lived in the entrance floor of the castle and painted the greenhouse, which was renovated in 2000/01, including its wall paintings.

From there, his study trips to England , Corsica and Ticino took him to his gleibetes Carona . In St. Gallen, he was part of the art scene in the legendary Hotel Schiff in Multergasse, which was demolished in 1972.

The talented draftsman illustrated the books Die Kinder from No. 67 by the well-known children's book author Lisa Tetzner , as well as the two-volume first edition The Black Brothers 1940/41 by Lisa Tetzner / Kurt Held from the Sauerländer publishing house . In 1937 Glinz created the imposing mural Odysseus and Nausicaa in front of the teachers' room in the St. Gallen canton school on Burggraben . The picture was covered over during renovation work in 1991, but with paint that was easy to remove. Fifteen other works by the artist are in the possession of the Canton of St. Gallen. Pictures by Theo Glinz can be seen in the art gallery of the Kornhaus Museum in Rorschach .

Some works

  • Southern landscape , oil painting
  • The Church of Carona , oil on panel
  • Large garden landscape , oil on plywood
  • Forest clearing , pen and pencil on paper
  • Altenrhein , oil on plywood
  • Bad Horn , oil on canvas, 1933.
  • Landscape near Grünau, Horn , pen drawing on paper, 1941.
  • He speaks to his people , Oil on Plywood, 1942.
  • Farm workers taking a break , oil on panel, 1947.

Meetings

He speaks to his people

1942, oil on plywood, format 54 × 65 cm, private collection

The oil painting "He speaks to his people" is a pictorial implementation of the satire filmed by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator 1940 about the ostracized "leader" of German National Socialism, who was portrayed in a ridiculous manner. The picture painted by Theo Glinz and the title he has chosen are both profound and symbolic in two ways. At a fair, a clown speaks to the crowded visitors from a covered stage. To the left of the clown the red-haired Eva, at his feet, subordinate, the people looking up at him, in the background the still turning carousel. The people are amazed with their big eyes and open mouths. Only three visitors presumably see differently, they wear (red, green and blue) glasses. "And he spoke to his people" is borrowed from the original Bible, Exodus (Exodus) 1.9.

Odysseus and Nausicaa

1937, mural, art collection of the canton of St. Gallen, inv. No. 1184

The scene in which the king's daughter Nausicaa bravely confronts the shipwrecked Odysseus while her maids hide in fear, was painted in the 1930s by the painter, draftsman and graphic artist Theo Glinz. It decorated the wall in front of the staff room in the canton school at Burggraben, together with the depiction of the hero's return. The two scenes were created as part of an artistic redesign of the canton school, in which the artists Chr. A. Egli, Josef Büsser, August Wanner and Peter Fels also played a role. The paintings were covered over during the renovation in 1991, but with an easily removable paint so that they are not "lost". The canton has 15 other works by the artist.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: 1911, entry in the register book for Theophil Glinz. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ Necrology for Theo Glinz. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 38, 1963, ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 16, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Glinz, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg , Canton of Aargau
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1962
Place of death Horn TG , Canton of Thurgau