Walter Maier-Kößler

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Walter Maier-Kößler, 1984

Walter Maier-Kößler (born July 6, 1914 in Kornwestheim , † July 14, 1994 in Baden-Baden ) was a German visual artist and graphic artist.

Life

After graduating from high school and working in industry for two years, Walter Maier-Kößler first completed a degree in education in Esslingen, which was followed by studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1937 to 1945 , interrupted by labor, military service, military service and imprisonment. From 1946 to 1949 he continued his studies in Stuttgart with Professors Fritz von Graevenitz , Hermann Sohn , Ulfert Janssen , Hermann Mayrhofer and Erich Feyerabend ; He also studied art history , history , geography and geology at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

From 1949 to 1971 Maier-Kößler was an art teacher at various grammar schools in Baden-Württemberg, then until 1994 as a freelance artist in Baden-Baden. Walter Maier-Kößler was a member of the Association of Visual Artists in Baden-Württemberg, the Heilbronn Artists' Association, the Heilbronn Art Association and the Württemberg Art Association .

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Maier-Kößler's work includes oil paintings , watercolors , pastels , drawings , lithographs and various experimental prints . His paintings deal with impressions of the landscape, groups of figures and abstract compositions. His oil paintings, watercolors and pastels are influenced by impressionism , post-impressionism and cubism . His late graphic work deals with existential themes, in particular the threat to the individual in the anonymity of modern society and impermanence.

Many of his works were purchased by the city of Heilbronn and the district of Heilbronn. A selection of his pictures are in the possession of the Städtische Museen Heilbronn (nine oil paintings, five pastels, twenty graphics), numerous others are privately owned. A mural (composition of figures, construction relief in concrete, approx. 2 × 3 m) adorns a facade of the Johann Sebastian Bach Gymnasium in Mannheim, another (composition of figures, made of metal, approx. 1.5 × 3 m) the Manfred- Kyber elementary school in Löwenstein, which also has a gallery with graphics by Maier-Kößler on Manfred Kyber's work .

  • Ships, 1968, oil on canvas

  • Petreakte, 1974, pen

  • Aphrodite, 1976, collage / frottage

  • Landscape of ruins, 1978, pen

  • Gustav Kittler, 1979, pen / pastel

All of the graphics shown here are in the collection of the Heilbronn Municipal Museums. The oil painting is privately owned.

Publications (selection)
  • German poems, collected and illustrated. Meyer, Baden-Baden 1985.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1964: Heilbronn City Library
  • 1968: Heilbronn City Library
  • 1970: Heilbronn, harmony
  • 1970: Heilbronn City Library
  • 1971: Heilbronn City Library
  • 1974: Heilbronn City Library and Heilbronn Historical Museum
  • 1979: Heilbronn City Library

Group exhibitions

  • 1969: Künstlerbund Heilbronn, Beziers
  • 1970: Künstlerbund Heilbronn, Gallery Schloss Waldenburg
  • 1971: Large art exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg, Stuttgart, Killesberg
  • 1971: Heilbronner Kunstverein and Heilbronner Künstlerbund, Kursaal Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
  • 1976: Künstlergilde Ulm and Museumgesellschaft Ulm, exhibition with graphics by Walter Maier and Knut Michaelis
  • 1984: Künstlerbund Heilbronn, Kreissparkasse Heilbronn.
Numerous other solo and group exhibitions in private galleries in Heilbronn, at Lichtenberg Castle (Ludwigsburg district), in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Überlingen, Aalen, Kornwestheim, Karlsruhe, Obernai, Colmar and Strasbourg.

literature

  • Andreas Pfeiffer (Hrsg.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s the art scene of the 50s in Heilbronn. Situations from everyday life, traffic and architecture in Heilbronn in the 50s; Städtische Museen Heilbronn, April 2 - June 6, 1993 (=  Municipal Museums ; Heilbronn Museum Catalog ) Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1993, ISBN 3-921-63843-7 , p. 161.
  • Gerhard Binder: 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association. Summer exhibition 1979. Künstlerbund; Creativ-Team Friedel and Bertsch, Heilbronn 1979, OCLC 264182278 , p. 112f.
  • Künstlerbund Heilbronn. 1984, p. 42.
  • Maier, Walter. in: Contemporary History Collection ZS 12121. Heilbronn City Archives.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon from the baroque to the present. Art & Antiques, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921-81136-8 , p. 80.
  2. ↑ La revue modern des arts et de la vie. Paris, April 1969, ISSN  0242-3510 , p. 23.
  3. ↑ Axel-Alexander Ziese: General lexicon of artists in the visual and creative arts of the late XX. Century. Volume 3, arte-factum-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Nuremberg 1992/93, ISBN 3-923-32682-3 , p. 256.
personal data
SURNAME Maier-Kößler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Kornwestheim
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1994
Place of death Baden-Baden