Vollrath Hoeck

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Vollrath Wilhelm Hoeck (born August 17, 1890 in Hamburg , † July 8, 1968 in Soest ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hoeck, one of three sons of the captain Klaus Johann Hoeck and his wife Johanna, grew up in Shanghai . The father died there in 1896. The mother moved to Schwelm in Westphalia in 1898 with her new husband and three sons . Hoeck completed secondary school in Schwelm. From 1908 to 1912 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Then he was drafted into military service. During the First World War he was deployed on the Eastern and Western Fronts. In 1918 he was taken prisoner by the French, from which he was released two years later.

He became acquainted with the works of Paula Modersohn-Becker at an expressionist exhibition in Düsseldorf . Then he moved to Northern Germany. In Worpswede he joined the circle around Bernhard Hoetger and Martha Vogeler . He discovered East Frisia. In 1924 he exhibited together with Hoetger, Alfred Kollmar , Modersohn-Becker, Christian Rohlfs and Hans Trimborn in the Kiekbimutt coffee house on Norderney . He lived on Norderney, in Leer and Aurich until 1926 , after having worked temporarily as a miner in Bochum in 1923 .

In 1926, Hoeck worked as a church painter in Cologne . In the following years he completed a journeyman's and master's examination as a decorative painter while he lived with his mother in Sonnborn . As a painter, he exhibited his works at the time, which can be classified as Impressionism and Expressionism, in Düsseldorf, Munich , Berlin , Hamburg and Dortmund . In 1929 he married the teacher Katharina "Käte" Faber (1900–1981). The couple, which had two sons, lived in Bochum, and from 1939 in Soest. In 1933 he took over the chairmanship of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft (BKG) from Diet Plaetzer in Wuppertal . In the same year he joined "at the request of his colleagues" of the NSDAP in to the artist club before the DC circuit to preserve. This plan failed: the following year the BKG was dissolved. In January 1938 works by him were declared as " degenerate ".

Artistically marginalized, he decided in 1939 to join the Wehrmacht . He became a "site officer" in Soest. When he was to be transferred to the Forellkrug prisoner of war camp in 1943 , he preferred to switch to the management of a forced labor and prison camp of the Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion . After a short time he was released there. As a participant in the Second World War, he was again taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1947. Then he began to work artistically again. He became a member of the Soest Kunstring and the BKG in Wuppertal, which was brought back to life after the Second World War, where he exhibited in 1952. After temporarily producing abstract art during this time, he turned back to representational painting. From the end of the 1950s, increasingly affected by Parkinson's disease , he died at the age of 77 in Soest.

exhibition

literature

  • Harald Nowoczin: Vollrath Hoeck - an artist of high standing, but almost forgotten . In: Heimatkalender des Kreis Soest , 2004, pp. 30–36.
  • Hans Jürgen Hoeck, Jutta Höfel, Harald Nowoczin: Vollrath Hoeck (1890–1968) . Volume 1: His life as a painter. Art policy and exhibition practice during National Socialism. To the chronology with examples for Westphalia . Volume 2: Directory of Works . Verlag Althoff, Soest 2010, ISBN 978-3-0003-1699-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Sander : Murderous Finale. Nazi crimes at the end of the war . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8943-8388-6 , p. 59
  2. ↑ 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft - a chronicle . In: Michael Alles et al., Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft e. V. (Ed.): 100 Years Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft e. V. 1905-2005 . Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-00-016342-5 , pp. 71-74 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Hoeck, Vollrath
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoeck, Vollrath Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1968
Place of death Soest