Discover sculptor, photographer, graphic artist Werner Graeff

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: Gräff, Werner

Qualifications: sculptor, photographer, graphic artist, designer, painter, author, academy lecturer, publisher
auteur van ondermeer filmscripts

Nationality/school: German

Born: Wuppertal-Sonnborn 1901-08-24

Deceased: Blacksburg (Virginia) 1978-08-29

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1 hit in RKDimages as artist
8 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

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Biographical information

Education: Bauhaus Schule (Weimar)

1921-1922
Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (Berlijn)

Active in

Weimar (Thüringen) 1921 - 1924
Graeff wordt in 1921 student aan het Bauhaus, volgt hier de cursus "De Stijl" van Theo van Doesburg (1922) en wordt het jongste lid van De Stijl; in 1922 wordt hij actief medewerker van het gelijknamige tijdschrift.
Berlijn 1924 - 1936
onder andere studie aan de Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (1924-1925); later docent fotografie aan de Reimann-Schule (1931-1932) en sticht daarna zijn eigen Berliner Fotoschule
Stuttgart 1926
door zijn vriend Mies van der Rohe benoemd tot pers- en propagandachef van het Weißenhofsiedlungproject
Barcelona (stad) 1934 - 1936
emigratie vanwege machtsovername van Hitler
Zwitserland 1936 - 1950
verhuizing naar Zwitserland vanwege Spaanse Burgeroorlog
Parijs 1950
Duitsland 1951
terugkeer naar het vaderland
Essen (Noord-Rijnland-Westfalen) 1951 - 1970
als docent werkzaam
Mülheim an der Ruhr 1970 - 1978
vanaf 1970
Blacksburg (Virginia) 1978
Graeff sterft hier op 29 augustus 1978

Teacher at academy/university: Folkwang Hochschule Essen-Werden (Essen)
1951-1959

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Doesburg, Theo van
Itten, Johannes
Richter, Hans
Schlemmer, Oskar

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), abstraction

Medium/technique: wood

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: De Stijl
vanaf 1921 (jongste) lid

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 8 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 119
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 4, p. 312

H.L. Jaffé, De Stijl 1917-1931 - the Dutch contribution to modern art, dissertatie, Amsterdam 1956, p. 34
Falzone 1994 (zie RKDlibrary), p. 67
Herzogenrath, W.: Bauhausfotografie (tent.cat. Stuttgart, 1983) (NFM)
Steinorth, K.: Photographen der 20er Jahre (1987) (NFM)
Contemporary Photographers (2nd ed. 1988) (NFM)
Fiedler, J. (ed.): Photography at the Bauhaus (1990) (NFM)
Auer, M.: Index (1992) (NFM)
Dictionnaire de la Photo (Larousse, 1996) (NFM)
Both, Petra / Trost, Stefan (eds.): Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen (tent.cat. Bonn, 1997) (NFM)
Deutsche Fotografie. Macht eines Mediums 1870-1970 (tent.cat. 1997) (NFM)
Misselbeck, R. (Hrsg.): Prestel-Lexikon der Fotografen (2002) (NFM)

http://www.bernd-eichhorn.de/wernergraeff (november 2007)

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Comment: In 1923 richt Graeff samen met Hans Richter (1888-1976) het 'Zeitschrift für Elementare Gestaltung ("G")' op, in de redactie waarvan onder andere ook zijn persoonlijke vriend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe en El Lissitzky plaatsnemen.

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2021-04-20

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