Josef Goller

Josef Goller ( born January 25, 1868 in Dachau, † May 29 1947 in Obermenzing ) was a German glass painter and printmaker.

Life

Josef Goller visited after an apprenticeship as a glass painter at the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt evening classes at the School of Applied Arts in Munich. From 1887 to 1890 he was employed in a Kunstglaserei in Zittau. Then he took over the artistic directorship of the Institute for stained glass by Bruno Urban in Dresden (later Urban & Goller ). They realized the designs of famous artists, including the stained glass window in St. Michael's Church in Leipzig by Otto Ludwig and on behalf of a foundation of Anton re family a stained glass window in the church Trebsener city.

Goller was 1905 participants in the contest to sign draft Community Advertising by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell. Its design was recommended by the judges for the purchase of 200 marks. At the School of Applied Arts in Dresden, he headed from 1906 to 1928, from 1909 as a professor, the class for stained glass, where Otto Griebel and Oskar Fritz Beier were among his best-known pupils. Later he turned also strengthened the book art and poster design to. Here, among others belonged Kurt Fiedler to his pupils.

Goller was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and was one of the artists group Die Elbier at, for which he had created the landmark, a ship on the waves moving. Arno Drescher, later professor and director of the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Printing Arts Leipzig, was his son.

Work

Goller is an important representative of Art Nouveau. His areas of expertise included the painting of American opalescent glass. In Saxony, he created many stained glass for windows in town halls, schools, churches and stations, for example, the reception room of the Leipzig Central Station, and four windows for the registry office hall of the Nuremberg town hall.

In and around Dresden exist primarily works for churches, such as the garrison church of St. Martin, St. Mary's Church and the Lutheran Church Cotta Radebeul, as well as for the synagogue of Görlitz. From Goller also comes the window of the now ruined Imperial Palace, glass window with zodiac signs in school Loschwitz and the color redesign of the foyer of the Semper Opera House in 1912. Too, for the Dresden Zoo and the New Town Hall, he stated orders. The mosaic of Christ, Way, Truth and Life at the entrance of the Bischofswerdaer Christ Church created Goller 1907 together with Villeroy & Boch.

In Chemnitz, Black - Gold - Frames for the Council cellar, Bacchus paintings in the Ratsherrntrinkstube as well as works in middle school Chemnitz- Sigmar and the Church Chemnitz- Euba are obtained. Twelve historic images in the form of coat of arms with floral and culinary designs were used again in 2005 in the New Town Hall Chemnitz. In the library of the castle Waldenburg he designed the ceiling skylight. The murals and mosaics in the St. John's Church Crimmitschauer have not survived.

As a graphic lithography was his specialty. He maintained close relations with the book artists Peter Behrens and Johann Vincenz Cissarz. His caricature posters, which today are among other things in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, echoes the design of Edmund Edel. In his later years he was represented repeated with oil paintings on Dresden art exhibitions on Brühl 's Terrace.