Erich Buchholz
Erich Buchholz (born 31 January 1891 in Bydgoszcz, † 29 December 1972 in Berlin) was a German painter, architect and graphic designer.
Life
Erich Buchholz graduated from 1908 a teacher training in Bromberg, and was an elementary school teacher in Czarnikau from 1911 until his move to Berlin in 1915. One hour lessons with Lovis Corinth. In the same year was called up for military service in World War I took place. 1916 learned Buchholz director Karl Vogt know, for he in 1917 at Bamberg ETA Hoffmann Theatre worked as a dramaturge and stage designer.
It began in the first painting abstract works and the large oil painting Crucifixion was born. From 1920 appear in his work on constructivist tendencies: beech wood decorated in Dresden Albert Theater a stage with moving color patches for Julius Weismann's opera White Swan, which was performed in 1923 in a production by Karl Vogt. 1921, contacts were established with Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann and Richard Huelsenbeck. This gave rise to a connection to Suprematism.
His constructivist -designed in 1922, living and working space at the Berlin Herkulesufer 15 became the meeting place of Dadaist artists and progressive architects. Erich Buchholz studied at the Berlin Baugewerkschule in Kurfürstenstrasse, and he made at the Galerie van Diemen acquaintance with El Lissitzky.
After 1922 Erich Buchholz gave up painting and turned away from 1923, the architecture, commercial art and product design to. At the same time he also Dadaist influences on his work are. In a 1923 written, comprehensive ten pages of text under the title The great turning point Buchholz had described its opinions on Neo, Suprematism and to position their own work. The break even dated the author to the year 1919. 1925 took over beech wood under Karl Vogt, the workshop management at the Dramatic Theatre in Berlin.
1925 moved with his family to Buchholz Germendorf. Here the couple had bought an acre of land to own Bewirtschaft. Beginning in 1928, carried out on a portion of the property of the operation of a gravel pit.
After the seizure Erich Buchholz received in 1933 was banned from painting. He was suspended in time of National Socialism reprisals and was arrested several times. 1945 Buchholz could take the painting again and had a solo exhibition in 1947. In 1950 he returned to Berlin in 1951 and moved into a studio in Ludwigkirchstraße.
2012 took over a part of its legacy, the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt.
Family
1918 married Erich Buchholz and Lucia Kruger († 1948). She came from a wealthy merchant family and was drawn in 1917 from Bydgoszcz to Berlin. The couple had three children: Urs (* 1922 in Berlin, † 1942 in the Second World War), Eila (* 1924 in Berlin) and Mo ( * 1928 in Germendorf ).
Mo Wedd -Buchholz emigrated in 1974 to Australia. A part of his father's work is in its possession. Together with her sister Eila Schrader Buchholz father's work has been funded since 1972.
In his second marriage Erich Buchholz was married to the glass painter Helena Starck since 1960. The artist has designed stained glass windows for buildings in Berlin under the name Helena Starck -Buchholz, as well as for the restoration of the Town Hall Schmargendorf.
Exhibitions (selection)
Publications
- The idea is the mortal enemy of life. 1922: Erich Buchholz. Catalog German Society for Fine Arts, Berlin 1966.
- The red book. Berlin 1927
- The big turning point. Posted in 1923. Berlin without publishing and year ( 1953).
- The beech wood egg. Created 1920. Petersen Press, Flensburg- Mürwik 1963.
- Studies on the light cabinet. Berlin 1967
- In my case fails the official art history. Including Text disease averted. For the history of some terms. Typescript 150 copies. Edition Hoffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1969
- AKKA. Catalogue of the exhibition in the gallery Daedalus. Berlin 1971.