Vincent Weber

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Vincent Weber (born November 16, 1902 in Monschau ; † March 6, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter.

Life dates

Weber studied from 1920 to 1923 with Johannes Itten , Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer at the State Bauhaus in Weimar. After studying in Rome and Stuttgart, he returned to the Bauhaus in 1924. From 1926 to 1928 he studied in Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris and Antwerp, and he was in contact with August von Brandis . In 1929 and 1930 he was assistant to his former teacher Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart. In 1931 he traveled through East Asia. From 1934 to 1941 he was head of the painting and graphics class at the Werkkunstschule Stettin. One of his students was Hans Laabs .

His participation in an exhibition in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne in 1937, which was closed as degenerate , was decisive for his life . Vincent Weber was banned from exhibiting until 1945 and therefore accepted a visiting professorship at the Academy of San Paolo in Rome in the Department of Christian Art. From 1945 to 1952 he was its head.

From 1954 to 1965 he was director of the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden, which is now part of the Rhein-Main University of Applied Sciences . After the end of his academic career, he went on study trips to South America and Africa again. Vincent Weber died in Frankfurt am Main at the age of 87.

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Weber's work was initially shaped by the avant-garde views of his teachers at the Bauhaus . His early experimental material collages attacked conventional viewing habits and challenged the traditions of the institution of art. Later he turned more to conventional representations, which did not stop at the decorative.

Weber's work is contrary to the development of art in the 20th century: while the art of the 20th century follows the path from aestheticism to the anarchic avant-garde, Weber takes this path back: from the anarchic-avant-garde aesthetic opposition to aesthetic-decorative art.

Exhibitions

1931 Exhibition in Beijing. Exhibition ban from 1937 to 1945. After 1945 exhibitions in Cologne, Rome and Caracas. From 1973 numerous international exhibitions and exhibition participations. 1999 Exhibition in the Haasner Gallery, Wiesbaden. 2002 exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar; 2004 exhibition in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen; 2008 retrospective of life and work in the art and culture center of his hometown Monschau . An exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden followed in 2012.

literature

  • Alexander Hildebrand: The portrait, Vincent Weber. In: Wiesbaden International. 4/1977, p. 33 ff.
  • Vincent Weber: Near and Far. Collages under the spell of colors and poetry. Heiderhoff, Eisingen 1987, ISBN 3-923547-40-4 .
  • Vincent Weber. Catalog of the Haasner Gallery, Wiesbaden 1999.
  • Michael Siebenbrodt (Ed.), Vincent Weber (Illustrator): Vincent Weber, Zauberteppich. (Exhibition of the Weimar Art Collections, Bauhaus Museum, November 16, 2002 - February 9, 2003) ISBN 3-929323-30-3 .
  • Ulrich Schuppener: The painter Vincent Weber (1902–1990), head of the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden. In: Nassau Annals . 117, 2006, pp. 485-546.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Hildebrand, Confession to Measure and Harmony, The painter Vincent Weber (1902–1990), Wiesbadener Leben, vol. 39, 6/1990, p. 32.
  2. ^ Nassauische Annalen: Jahrbuch des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, Volume 117, p. 492.
  3. ↑ With the colors and shapes of the Bauhaus in: FAZ of February 2, 2012, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Monschau
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1990
Place of death Frankfurt am Main