Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Vordemberge - Gildewart ( born November 17 1899 in Osnabrück, † December 19, 1962 in Ulm ) was a German graphic artist, painter and sculptor. The artistic work of Vordemberge- Gildewart is characterized by diversity. He created not only paintings, but also reliefs, collages and photomontages. In addition, he worked as a typographer, theater and stage painter, furniture designer and interior designer. His estate, consisting of art works, written and photographic documents and the library of the artist is located since 1997 in the Museum Wiesbaden.

Life and work

His birth name Vordemberge he expanded to Vordemberge- Gildewart to stand out from his eponymous, two years older cousin Vordemberge. Gildewart was the name Osnabrück's old town alley where he grew up. Vordemberge - Gildewart began his career with a carpentry apprenticeship in woodworking Julius Sagittarius.

From 1919 he studied at the Technical University in Hannover architecture, sculpture and painting. In Hanover Vordemberge- Gildewart worked on the avant-garde magazine, " The Tempest " with.

In the years 1919-1922 Vordemberge- Gildewart began his artistic work with abstract reliefs and collages, and from 1923 with the painting. In Hanover it came to meet and exchange with the artists Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and Hans Arp. In 1924 founded Vordemberge- Gildewart together with Hans Nitzschke the artist group: "Group K ". Also in 1924, he met Theo van Doesburg in Hanover. This offered him membership in the group De Stijl, which he accepted.

In 1927 founded Vordemberge - Gildewart the " abstract Hanover », along with Kurt Schwitters, Hans Nitzschke, Buchheister and Rudolf Jahns. The " abstract hannover " were a local chapter of the International Association of Expressionists, Futurists, Cubists and Constructivists. 1932 Vordemberge- Gildewart became a member of the artist group Abstraction- Création. The artist group had been established by Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Auguste Herbin, Theo van Doesburg and Georges Vantongerloo in Paris.

In 1936 he moved to Berlin. His art was under the Nazi regime as "degenerate". He, therefore, decided to emigrate and went in 1937 only to Switzerland and then to Amsterdam into exile, where he recorded also in contact with Max Beckmann and other emigrants. Lived in Amsterdam and he worked until 1954. Until the outbreak of war in 1939 participated Vordemberge - Gildewart at several major international exhibitions in New York, Paris and London. In 1954, his appeal was made to the Ulm School of Design. Vordemberge - Gildewart worked there until his death on 19 December 1962 as head of the department for visual communication.

Vordemberge- Gildewart took part in documenta 1 (1955) and Documenta II ( 1959) in Kassel. He was buried in his home town of Osnabrück. They honored him with the award of the Justus Moser Medal.

Works in public collections

  • Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art
  • Basel: Kunsthalle
  • Basel: Kunstmuseum
  • Berlin: National Gallery SMPK
  • Bern Art Museum
  • Brunswick Municipal Museum
  • Bremen: Kunsthalle
  • Buffalo: Albright -Knox Art Gallery
  • The Hague: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  • Dusseldorf: Art Museum
  • Duisburg: Lehmbruck Museum
  • Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
  • Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum
  • Elveheim: Elveheim Museum
  • Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble
  • Hagen: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum
  • Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Hannover: Sprengel Museum
  • Jerusalem: Israel Museum
  • Kaiserslautern: Museum Palatinate Gallery Kaiserslautern
  • Cologne: Museum Ludwig
  • Krefeld: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
  • Locarno: Pinacoteca di Casa Rusca
  • Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Wilhelm -Hack- Museum
  • Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria
  • Munich: Bavarian State Painting Collections
  • Münster: Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
  • New York: Museum of Modern Art
  • New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Osnabrück: Museum of Cultural History
  • Paris: Centre national d' art et de culture Georges Pompidou
  • Phildadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum
  • Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
  • Sao Paulo Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidada de Sao Paulo
  • Stuttgart State Gallery
  • Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Ulm: Ulmer Museum
  • Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales
  • Wiesbaden Museum Wiesbaden estate of the artist
  • Würzburg: Museum in the cultural memory, Peter C. Ruppert Collection
  • Wuppertal: Von der Heydt - Museum
  • Zurich: Kunsthaus

Vordemberge- Gildewart Foundation

In compliance with the testamentary intent of the donor, Ilse Leda, wife of Vordemberge - Gildewart that in Rapperswil in the canton of St. Gallen awards ( Switzerland ) based foundation since 1983 prizes and grants for young artists. The scholarship is one of the most highly endowed awards for young art in Europe. Prize winners were previously under other Yves network Hammer, James Aldridge, Volker Lang and Ricarda Roggan. The jury meets once a year at a different location to inspect the work of artists of the region and one of them or select multiple award winners and fellows.

Discount in the Museum Wiesbaden

Thanks to the Vordemberge- Gildewart Foundation in Rapperswil is the estate of the artist since 1997 at the Museum Wiesbaden.

Vordemberge- Gildewart Initiative ( Osnabrück)

In 2005, Osnabrück citizens have joined together to Vordemberge- Gildewart initiative. In addition, the Mayor of the city of Osnabrück is the patron. Built since then is a network, and in conjunction - to initiate exhibitions, performances, lectures and projects - with the urban cultural and educational institutions, the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, the Community Foundation and national institutions and experts. From December 2012 until the end of 2013 a film program and various Vermittelungprogramm in Osnabrück is a VG- year carried out to mark the 50th anniversary of the death in December 2012. Exhibitions are offered. In addition, a film project of Osnabrück and with young people has come over Vordemberge life into being at the request of the initiative in cooperation with the city of Osnabrück.

Gallery Vordemberge- Gildewart (Osnabrück)

In the birthplace of Vordemberge - Gildewart in the Great Gildewart 27 in Osnabrück the gallery Vordemberge- Gildewart is (VG gallery) home. The VG initiative has made it his mission to raise the Osnabrück background of this internationally renowned artist more aware of the city and its visitors. This does not happen through the exhibition of the works themselves (which currently the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück hang ), rather than twice a year by presentation of work aspects, circumstances, witnesses and documents; in particular, but also by the presentation of personalities and artists, who feel the work and the afterlife of art Vordemberge Guild Warts committed. Have exhibited in the Vordemberge- Gildewart Gallery Dietrich Helms, Jürgen Paas, Norbert Thomas, Jo Niemeyer, Uli Pohl and many more.

Sources and Literature (selection)

  • Erlhoff, Michael / Helms, Dietrich: " typography can possibly be art: Vordemberge - Gildewart - typography and advertising design ", Wiesbaden 1990
  • Gomringer, Eugen (Hg): ". Vordemberge - Gildewart 10 reproductions ( serigrafiert ) to works from different periods of his work ", Stuttgart 1970
  • Gomringer Eugen include: " Vordemberge - Gildewart: 100th birthday," Ulm 1999
  • Helms, Dietrich: " Vordemberge- Gildewart - The Complete Works ", Munich 1990
  • Helms, Dietrich: " Vordemberge - Gildewart - Exchange of Letters ", Wiesbaden 1997
  • Helms, Dietrich: " Vordemberge - Gildewart: Utopia - The Amsterdam Years ", Wiesbaden 2004
  • Helms, Dietrich, among other things: " Vordemberge- Gildewart - Guest Books 1925-1962 ", Wiesbaden 2006
  • Jaehner, Inge / Kunert, Mechthild, among other things: " Vordemberge - Gildewart 100th birthday ", Osnabrück 1999
  • Jaffe, HLC ': " Vordemberge- Gildewart - Man and Work", Cologne 1971
  • Jaffe, H.L.C. / Weber, Gerhard: " Vordemberge- Gildewart - Remembered ", London 1974
  • Kunert Mechthild / Schulz, Heribert: "Hommage à Vordemberge- Gildewart ", Osnabrück 1999
  • Lohse, Richard Paul ( Hg): ". Vordemberge- Gildewart - A Picture Biography Documents - Photos - Drawings - Pictures", depths 1959
  • Rat Meyer, Volker / Helms, Dietrich, among other things: " Vordemberge - Gildewart: Architectural Design furniture architectural sculpture architecture. ", Wiesbaden 1993
  • Rat Meyer, Volker inter alia ': " Vordemberge - Gildewart: Retrospective ", Wiesbaden 1996
  • Shepherd, David Jost: " Vordemberge - Gildewart - Studies on a descriptive network analysis ", Frankfurt aM 1984
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