Werner Scholz
Werner Scholz (born 23 October 1898, as Werner Ferdinand Ehrenfried Scholz in Berlin – 5 September 1982, Schwaz, Tyrol) was a German-Austrian painter. A representative of the second generation of German Expressionism. His pictures, painted with powerful gestures, show people in their existential loneliness and need.
Werner Scholz
- Born
- 1898 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1982 · Schwaz.
- Nationality
- Germany · Austria
- Occupation
- painter · graphic artist
- Movements
- Expressionism
- Languages
- German
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Werner Scholz, graphiste et peintre, naquit le 23 octobre 1898 et mourut le 5 septembre 1982 à Schwaz.
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Le lieu de naissance de Werner Scholz est enregistré comme Berlin (Berlin state) par la Getty Union List of Artist Names et comme Berlin par la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Le décès est enregistré par la Getty Union List of Artist Names et la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Selon la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, l'activité de Werner Scholz se rattache à Alpbach.
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Early life
Early life
After having been ostracized as a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis, he moved to the Tyrolean mountain village of Alpbach in 1939, where he lived until his death.
Werner Scholz, son of the architect Ehrenfried Scholz (a student of Walter Gropius) and the pianist Elisabeth, née Gollner, began studying painting at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1916. Scholz volunteered for military service in World War I. On his 19th birthday (23 October 1917) he was badly injured in Chemin des Dames in France, and subsequently lost his left forearm. In the years 1919–1920 he continued his studies in painting at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1920 Scholz left the art school and moved into a studio on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin.
Berlin
Berlin
In the 1920s and 1930s, Scholz used Expressionist stylistic devices to describe the hardship and misery of the petty bourgeoisie in post-war Berlin with a powerful gesture. Alongside George Grosz, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, Werner Scholz was a member of the second generation of German Expressionism. The oil paintings from 1919 to 1945 initially have a muted tonality, but are extremely expressive. Like Franz Frank, Albert Birkle and Otto Pankok, Werner Scholz is a representative of Expressive Realism, who doesn't embellish anything and, as in the 1933 oil painting "The Expelled", foresaw the ominous future. For Scholz, it was not just the construction of the picture that was important, but the expressiveness of the line and the expressiveness of the color. That is why meeting Emil Nolde, who bought a picture of him at an early age, was particularly important to him. The constructive energy with which the German successor generation of the "Fauves", Franz Marc, August Macke, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde, tamed the wild colors undoubtedly had an impact on Werner Scholz's generation. But Scholz goes like his contemporaries George Grosz and Otto Dixin its expressiveness far beyond the generation of its predecessors. Scholz's work gains its constructive power from the concentration on the relentlessness of a gesture in which human destiny is concentrated.
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- 1.Hans-Georg Gadamer: Werner Scholz, S. 17.
- 2.Hans-Georg Gadamer: Werner Scholz, S. 32.
- 3.1936 verbotene Bilder, Ausstellungskatalog zur 34. Jahresausstellung des DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (S. 9899: DKB-Mitgliederverzeichnis 1936)
- 4.Datenbank zum Beschlagnahmeinventar der Aktion "Entartete Kunst", Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst", FU Berlin
- 5.https://www.lostart.de/de/suche?term=Scholz%2C%20Werner&filter[type][0]=Objektdaten
- 6.Claudia Grasse: Werner Scholz, Werkkatalog zum 100. Geburtstag, S. 13.
- 7.Wolf-Dieter Dube, Herbert Pée, Katja Laske: Expressionisten – Sammlung Buchheim. Katalog zur Ausstellung in München 1985. Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing 1981, ISBN 3-7659-1002-3, Kat. 464 (mit ganzseitiger Farbabbildung).
- 8.Evelyn Weiss. Katalog der Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, die älteren Generationen bis 1915 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – mit Teilen der Sammlung Ludwig – und im Kunstgewerbemuseum. 1974.
- 9.Evelyn Weiss, Gerhard Kolberg (Bearb.). Museum Ludwig Köln. Gemälde, Skulpturen, Environments vom Expressionismus bis zur Gegenwart. Bestandskatalog. 1986. 3-7913-0790-8.
- 10.Bernard S. Myers. Die Malerei des Expressionismus – eine Generation im Aufbruch. 1959.
- 11.Gemälde. Von der „Brücke“ zum Informel. 1989. 3-923576-52-8.
- 12.Evelyn Weiss. Katalog der Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, die älteren Generationen bis 1915 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – mit Teilen der Sammlung Ludwig – und im Kunstgewerbemuseum. 1974.
- 13.Evelyn Weiss, Gerhard Kolberg (Bearb.). Museum Ludwig Köln. Gemälde, Skulpturen, Environments vom Expressionismus bis zur Gegenwart. Bestandskatalog. 1986. 3-7913-0790-8.
- 14.Evelyn Weiss. Katalog der Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, die älteren Generationen bis 1915 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – mit Teilen der Sammlung Ludwig – und im Kunstgewerbemuseum. 1974.
- 15.Bernard S. Myers. Die Malerei des Expressionismus – eine Generation im Aufbruch. 1959.
- 16.Die dreißiger Jahre – Schauplatz Deutschland. 1977.
- 17.Mythen der Diktaturen. Kunst in Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus – Miti delle dittature. Arte nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo. 2019. 978-88-95523-16-3.
- 18.Teufel (Gm2299). Objektkatalog Beta.
- 19.Ursula Peters. Bannung des Dämons. Das Gemälde „Teufel“ von Werner Scholz aus dem Jahr 1946.
- 20.Werner Scholz, Aphrodite (Taube), 1952. sammlung.pinakothek.de.
- 21.Museum Folkwang Essen. Gemälde – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. 1961.
- 22.Evelyn Weiss. Katalog der Gemälde des 20. Jahrhunderts, die älteren Generationen bis 1915 im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – mit Teilen der Sammlung Ludwig – und im Kunstgewerbemuseum. 1974.
- 23.Helga Hofmann, Janni Müller-Hauck (Bearb.). Katalog der Meister des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Hamburger Kunsthalle. 1969.
- 24.Gemälde. Von der „Brücke“ zum Informel. 1989. 3-923576-52-8.
- 25.Wolf-Dieter Dube, Herbert Pée, Katja Laske: Expressionisten – Sammlung Buchheim. Katalog zur Ausstellung in München 1985. Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing 1981, ISBN 3-7659-1002-3, Kat. 463 (mit ganzseitiger Farbabbildung).
- 26.Werner Scholz / Ernst Barlach Haus.
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