Walter Young
Walter Junge (born March 9, 1905 in Sprenge , † January 2, 1990 in Salzgitter ) was a German painter and art teacher .
Education and life
Junge completed an apprenticeship in lithography and attended the Hamburg School of Applied Arts . After graduating from high school , he studied with Franz von Stuck and Adolf Schinnerer in Munich from 1923 to 1924 . From autumn 1924 to autumn 1926 Junge attended the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau and learned from Paul Klee , among others . From 1926 to 1930 he studied at the then art college in Berlin. He completed his studies in 1930 with the 1st state examination. Junge worked for a glass painter and as a graphic artist for a Hamburg newspaper and magazine.
During the time of National Socialism , Junge was considered a degenerate artist , which paralyzed his entire artistic activity. In 1943 the studio and the parents' house were destroyed by an air raid. Almost the entire work was destroyed, including 400 etching and 90 woodcut plates .
In 1949 Junge completed his legal traineeship in Frankfurt am Main and began as a study assessor at a grammar school in Marburg . In 1953 he moved to Salzgitter and took a job as a teacher at Crane High School in Salzgitter Lebenstedt . Until 1976 he worked here as an art teacher.
Walter Junge was married and had a son.
By founding the artists' association "Salzgitter Group" (1959) and the "Kunstverein Salzgitter eV" (1960), Junge continues to promote the fine arts in the city of Salzgitter to this day.
Contemporary reception
“You can feel that Junge is at home in Salzgitter, the city of blast furnaces, because many of these sheets, covered with flowing and blazing abstract shapes, translate impressions from the steelworks. Others show vegetative or geological structures. He usually grips it with a lot of swing and force, but in the midst of so much movement there are also calmer prints with sometimes very fine color gradations that testify to Walter Young's painterly culture. "
“[Boy] is undoubtedly one of the 'moderns'; not only that he paints abstractly: He mainly deals with current issues of our time, his motifs come almost without exception from modern natural sciences, with physical and biological elements in particular playing a dominant role in the artist's ideas [...]. "
“With Junge, too, the world is in a melting process, matter disintegrates, the elements separate, the original state looks out of the thing he is looking at. He says himself that the microscope, his favorite instrument, inspired a large part of his pictures. "
"Walter Junge is able to unconsciously bridge the deep gap between the banal department store genre and non-representational painting for the sake of effect, this broad spectrum in which 90 percent of all art lovers find" their "direction."
"What distinguishes Junge's monotypes is that they open up access to contemporary art to a somewhat understanding observer."
"Another echo of the natural-looking thoughts from German Romanticism seems to continue to echo in the pictures by Walter Junge (Salzgitter) and to continue efforts that also played an important role for Franz Marc and Paul Klee."
“What you see are structures that are formally moving and extremely cultivated in color. Compositions which, upon closer study, prove to be inspired by the reality of our civilized age. "
“They are all abstract pictures, but of such painterly and intellectual quality that even the most fanatical opponent would have to capitulate to them. And - which is rare with so many painters today - the titles of the pictures lead the viewer to the experience that stimulated the creative process. They raised the big, recurring theme of the young: to shape the secret forces that move the world, in the state of their creation. To use a parable: Junge does not paint the crystals, but the crystallization, the birth of the crystal. "
“It simmers, chases and hisses volcanically over the background of the picture. Walter Young's world is a section, a look into the microscope. "
"Here was an event, here it is done, namely the meaning and justification of abstract painting, to shape the shapeless, not to show the objects, but the idea."
Solo exhibitions
- 1930 Galerie Maria Kunde
- 1930 Schwerin Castle Gallery
- 1931 Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
- 1932 Hamburg-Blankenese
- 1933 Schleswig
- 1948 America House Darmstadt
- 1949 Schwetzingen Castle
- 1951 America House in Marburg
- 1951 America House in Kassel
- 1953 America House in Marburg
- 1953 Municipal Museum , Giessen
- 1959 University Museum Marburg
- 1962 Kunstkabinett am Steintor, Hanover
- 1962 Mohnen Gallery, Mannheim
- 1963 Gallery on Bohlweg, Braunschweig
- 1963 City Museum, Siegen
- 1963 Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
- 1963 Wolfenbüttel
- 1964 Odermark Gallery, Goslar
- 1964 Internationales Haus Sonnenberg , Sankt Andreasberg
- 1965 Kunstkabinett am Steintor, Hanover
- 1965 Atelier Christa Moering , Wiesbaden
- 1965 New exhibition hall, Bad Oeynhausen
- 1965 Clasing Gallery, Münster
- 1966 Salzgitter Town Hall
- 1966 Rothenburg ob der Tauber town hall
- 1966 Deutsches Theater, Göttingen
- 1966 Bad Oeynhausen
- 1966 Winfried Gurlitt Gallery , Mainz
- 1967 Auto Union branch in Frankfurt am Main
- 1970 Salzgitter Town Hall
- 1970 Goslar Museum
- 1972 Artists House Jerusalem
- 1973 Vallombreuse Gallery, Biarritz
- 1975 Salzgitter
- 1985 Museum Schloss Salder , Salzgitter
- 1995 Salzgitter
Publicly owned work
- Lower Saxony State Museum
- Museum August Kestner
- Kunsthalle Kiel
- Kunsthalle Mannheim
- University Museum Marburg
- Georg-August-University Goettingen
Awards and honors
- Prize for painting at the major art exhibition in Hamburg-Altona, 1929
- City Medal of the City of Salzgitter for Cultural Merit, 1985
literature
- Klaus Berner (Ed.): Walter Junge on his 90th birthday . Kunstverein Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1995 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, April 30 to May 14, 1995).
Web links
- Artists' Association Salzgitter Group
- Explanations from Junge on the design of a school wall
- Artists House Jerusalem
- Gallery Commeter, Hamburg
- Clasing Gallery, Münster
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g exhibition brochure Galerie am Bohlweg, Braunschweig, February / March 1963
- ^ Announcement of the exhibition at the Kunstkabinett am Steintor, Hanover, January / February 1965
- ^ Exhibition announcement Atelier Christa Moering, Wiesbaden, June 1965
- ^ Exhibition announcement Rathaus Salzgitter, April 1966
- ^ Exhibition announcement Galerie Winfried Gurlitt, Mainz, October 1966
- ↑ Exhibition announcement Auto Union branch Frankfurt am Main, May 1967
- ^ Announcement of the Salzgitter Town Hall exhibition, March 1970
- ^ Exhibition announcement Museum Goslar, May 1970
- ^ Exhibition brochure Artists House Jerusalem, January / February 1972
- ^ Exhibition announcement Galerie Vallombreuse, Biarritz, September 1973
- ^ A b c Walter Junge on the occasion of his 90th birthday , exhibition catalog Kunstverein Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boy, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blast |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1990 |
| Place of death | Salzgitter |