Theo Glinz

Theo Glinz ( born September 6, 1890 in Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau, † 10 May 1962 Horn TG in Canton Thurgau ) was an artist, primarily a painter, draftsman, and printmaker in Switzerland.

Career

Theo Glinz grew up in Lenzburg, where his father taught as an art teacher at the school district. Since 1915 he lived in eastern Switzerland, from 1927 in Horn TG. There, the artists lived in the entrance floor of the castle and painted the greenhouse that was built in the years 2000/ 01 and his murals. In St. Gallen, he moved into the art scene in the legendary, aborted hotel ship.

The talented artist illustrated the books The children from No 67 known children's book author Lisa Tetzner, as is the two-volume edition The black brothers 1940/41, by Lisa Tetzner / Kurt Held from the publisher Sauerland. Glinz created in 1937 the imposing mural Odysseus and Nausicaa in front of the staff room in the St. Gallen cantonal school at the moat. The picture in 1991 covered in renovation work, but with easy-to -removing color. Fifteen other works of the artist are in the possession of the canton of St. Gallen. Pictures of Theo Glinz can be seen in the museum's art collection granary in Rorschach.

Some works

  • Southern Landscape, oil painting
  • The Church of Carona, oil on wood
  • Large garden landscape, oil on plywood
  • Forest clearing, pen and pencil on paper
  • Altenrhein, oil on plywood
  • Bad Horn, oil on canvas, 1933.
  • Landscape at the Grunau, horn, pen and ink drawing on paper, 1941.
  • He speaks to his people, oil on plywood, 1942.
  • Farm Workers at rest, oil on wood, 1947.

Meetings

He speaks to his people

1942, oil on plywood, format 54 x 65 cm, private collection

The oil painting " He speaks to his people " is an artistic interpretation of Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator 1940 filmed satire of the outlawed "leader" of German National Socialism, which was shown in a ridiculous way. The painted by Theo Glinz image and his chosen items are profound as symbolic in two ways. On a fair speaks of a covered stage from a clown to the crowded visitors. To the left of the clown, the red-haired Eva, at his feet, inferior, the high- sighted people to him, in the background which is still rotating carousel. The people amazed with wide eyes and open mouths. Only just three visitors will probably see else, they have a (red, green and blue ) glasses. "And he said to his people ," the Urbibel, 2nd Moses ( Exodus ) is 1.9 borrowed.

Odysseus and Nausicaa

1937 mural art collection of the Canton of St. Gallen, Inv. No 1184

The scene in which the princess Nausicaa, the shipwrecked Odysseus opposes bold, while hide their maids timidly, was painted in the thirties by the painter, draftsman and printmaker Theo Glinz. She decorated in the district school at the moat, the wall in front of the staff room, along with the presentation of the homecoming of the hero. The two scenes were shot as part of an artistic redesign of the district school, in which the artists Chr A. Egli, Josef penitents, August Wanner and Peter rock came into play. The paintings were covered during the renovation in 1991, however, so they are not "lost" with an easily removable color. In the possession of the canton are 15 works by artist.

May 10 Horn, Switzerland Graphic designer Rorschach, Switzerland Integrated Authority File
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