Paul Gosch

Life

Goesch spent his childhood in Schwerin and Berlin- Friedenau. From 1903 to 1910 he studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. During this time, 1908, he created the complete painting of a hall in Dresden Arbor Guest. In 1914, he put in Berlin from the 2nd state to Regierungsbaumeister ( Assessor in the public works department ).

Then Goesch was from 1915 to 1917 in the postal service in the West Prussian Culm active. He suffered a psychological crisis.

By 1920 Paul Goesch was a member of several avant-garde artists and groups participated in exhibitions with architectural designs and color drawings. So he joined in 1919 the " Workers' Art ", the " November Group " and Bruno Taut in 1920 launched artist community " Crystal Chain " on.

In the early 1920s Goesch retired to Göttingen, where his sister Lili, married speech Penning, lived, and his cousin as a psychiatrist and director of the provincial reformatory Göttingen (now Penitentiary Göttingen) worked. Goesch was a patient in the adjacent Provincial Hospital and nursing home. In 1935, he was transferred to the Institute of Teupitz in Brandenburg. On August 22, 1940 Goesch was murdered on the basis of the Nazi euthanasia laws in the Psychiatric Clinic Brandenburg.

Work

Paul Goesch left behind a complex artistic work of over 2000 works. For the most part it is colored gouaches, including architectural designs. The monumental format, with two Raumausmalungen (Dresden - Laubegast 1908; Berlin -Schöneberg 1920/1921, destroyed) and a mural (Göttingen, probably 1920) represented. From executed buildings Nothing is known; a conceptual contribution to other architects projects can not be excluded.

The rediscovery of the work is to thank in particular the research of the Cologne art historian Stefanie Poley. Work of Goesch are located in various museums, such as in Germany, for example, in the Academy of Arts and at Berlinischen gallery, but also outside Germany, especially here the Centre canadien d'architecture in Montréal, Canada.

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