词条 | Will Grohmann |
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Life and workFrom 1908 to 1913 Grohmann studied oriental languages with special emphasis on Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Leipzig. Though he wrote his PhD thesis in Germanic literature, entitled Vers oder Prosa im hohen Drama des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (1914), and taught languages at school, where Erich Kästner was one of his pupils, he devoted his life to art research and publishing. He was interested in the painters of Die Brücke and supported the Bauhaus. After the First World War, he wrote many entries for the Thieme-Becker and articles for the periodical Der Cicerone. He also published books on his friend, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. He was also a friend of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Dix, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer.[2] From 1926 to 1933 Grohmann worked at the Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. In 1933 he was dismissed by the Nazis because he had an all too positive view of modern art. However, he continued publishing articles for newspapers under the pseudonym of Olaf Rydberg. During the Second World War he researched the safer fields of archaeology and the art of migratory people.[3] From 1945 to 1947 he was professor and rector at the Hochschule für Werkkunst, Leipzig. In 1947 he moved to West Berlin because of political differences, becoming professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin in 1948. Until his death, he continued championing abstract artists, including such post-war artists as Willi Baumeister, Rupprecht Geiger, Theodor Werner and Fritz Winter. Grohmann published over 500 essays on more than 150 artists, among them Edvard Munch, Ernst Barlach, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, and about 1,300 newspaper articles, not to mention his many catalogue forewords. In the 1950s and 60s, he was also one of the most influential German art critics to appear on radio and television.[4] Furthermore, he was engaged in curating important exhibitions and "played a significant role in drawing international attention to the avant-garde".[5] References1. ^Goethe Institut: "In the Network of Modernism": The Art Critic Will Grohmann 2. ^Lieber Freund, Künstler schreiben an Will Grohmann. Eine Sammlung von Briefen aus fünf Jahrzehnten, edited by Karl Gutbrod, Cologne: DuMont Dokumente, 1968. 3. ^Dictionary of Art Historians: Will Grohmann 4. ^Goethe Institut: "In the Network of Modernism": The Art Critic Will Grohmann 5. ^Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: In the Network of Modernism Select publications
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