Otto Gussmann
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{{short description|German painter}}
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Otto Friedrich Gussmann (22 May 1869, Wachbach, Main-Tauber-Kreis – 27 July 1926, Dresden) was a German decorative artist, designer, and art professor.
Biography
File:Otto Gussmann - Poster.jpg
His father was a pastor. After completing secondary school, he began an apprenticeship with a decorative painter in Stuttgart. He also took classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule (now the State Academy of Fine Arts). In 1892, he moved to the teaching institute at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Four years later, he began studying at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.{{cite web|title=Gußmann, Otto Friedrich|periodical=Deutsche Biographie|publisher=Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118915037.html#ndbcontent|url-status=|format=|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=Fritz Löffler|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}
After completing his studies, he established his reputation with paintings and decorations for the new Reichstag, designed by Paul Wallot. In 1897, Wallot invited him to Dresden to become a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts. The master school for decorative painting was opened under his direction in 1910. He would be named a Professor in 1915 and, four years later, he became Director of Studies; holding that position until his death.
File:Otto Gussmann - Dame mit Weißfuchskragen.jpg
Around 1900, he joined the {{ill|Verein bildender Künstler Dresden|de|lt=Association of Visual Artists}}; the progenitor of the Dresden Secession. He was married in 1904, to Gertrud Herzog (1877-1961), and they had three children. The following year, he joined a reform-oriented group known as {{ill|Die Zunft|de}} (The Guild). In 1906, he designed the posters for the {{ill|Dritte Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung|de|lt=Third German Arts and Crafts Exhibition}}, in which Die Zunft played a major role.
He was also a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund,[http://www.kuenstlerbund.de/deutsch/historie/deutscher-knstlerbund/mitglieder/index.html Ordentliche Mitglieder des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit der Gründung 1903 / Gussmann, Otto] as well as being a co-founder of the {{ill|Künstlervereinigung Dresden|de}} and Die Brücke, a group of Expressionist artists. He taught several of their members, including Max Pechstein and Otto Dix.
During his years as a teacher, he also provided decorative art for the Lukaskirche (1903), the Sächsisches Ständehaus (1907), the Church of Reconciliation (1909), and the {{ill|Neues Rathaus (Dresden)|de|lt=Neues Rathaus}} (1911), among others.
While preparing for an exhibition in 1926, he died of a heart attack. A street in the {{ill|Strehlen (Dresden)|de|lt=Strehlen}} district of Dresden has been named after him.
References
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Further reading
- Kurt Proksch: "Gussmann". Maler und Werk series, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1989 {{ISBN|978-3-364-00163-0}}
- Adolf Smitmans, Anne Peters (Eds.): Otto Gussmann: 1869–1926, {{ill|Galerie Albstadt|de|lt=Albstadt Art Museum}}, 1992, {{ISBN|978-3-923644-42-1}}
- Timo Niegsch (Ed.): Gussmann – Lange – Dix: Albstadts Dresdner Kunst, Albstadt Art Museum, 2006, {{ISBN|978-3-934439-23-8}}
External links
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- {{DNB-Portal|118915037}}
- [http://www.stadtwikidd.de/wiki/Otto_Gussmann Biography and references] @ the Stadtwiki Dresden
- Thomas Morgenroth, "Himmelfahrt im Jugendstil", In: Sächsische Zeitung, 2017, ([https://www.saechsische.de/himmelfahrt-im-jugendstil-3777514.html Online])
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Category:20th-century German designers