Obituary for Krefeld artist
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Mourning for the painter Gollner
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He was the “Matisse von Fischeln” Eberhard Gollner died at the age of 91.
Photo: Dackweiler, Ulli (out)
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Krefeld His large-scale style was reminiscent of the painting of the French. This earned Eberhard Gollner the charming nickname “Matisse von Fischeln”. Gollner has now died shortly before his 92nd birthday.
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(ped) He had an eye for colors and a heart for the motifs of his homeland. That earned him the charming nickname “Matisse von Fischeln”. Eberhard Gollner died a few weeks before his 92nd birthday. Most recently, his cycle “Industrial Buildings” was shown as a birthday exhibition for his 90th birthday in the music school. A topic that occupied him all his life.
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Gollner was born in Chemnitz on February 12, 1929. Art took him to Krefeld. Because in Weimar he was not admitted to study as the son of an intellectual. He should go into uranium mining. Gollner moved to the west: his aunt Gretchen Krölls lived in Forstwald.
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When Gollner applied for a place at the Düsseldorf Art Academy after the Second World War, when he was drafted away from school, he made quite an impression on the sculptor Ewald Mataré. “Where is the boy from Forstwald?” He shouted – and Gollner was chosen from among 200 applicants. Later he was a master student of Professor Otto Pankok. His large-scale style has often been compared to Henri Matisse. The former museum director Paul Wember presented Gollner’s paintings several times in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum.
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And Gollner has always been committed to other artists: He was a co-founder of the Krefeld Artists’ Association (GKK). He also campaigned for frescoes by Georg Muche from a Krefeld company to find a new space in a lecture hall at the adult education center. Gollner also has a good name as an art historian. His publications on Georg Muche and Otto Pankok are standard works. But for a long time he put his own work in the second row. Gollner taught art at the Fichte-Gymnasium for more than 30 years.
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