Werner Gilles (29 August 1894 – 23 June 1961) was a German artist. Gilles was born in Rheydt/

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(today

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) He found his artistic calling while at the academies of

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and

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, studying under

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germa ...

of the

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school. He later moved after 1921 to Ischia, Italy. He moved to Düsseldorf in 1923, but between 1925 and 1930 he also worked in Berlin and Paris and lived in both during the period. The Nazi regime named him as a

degenerate art Degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, ...

ist from the 1930s, and he had to stop working until after the

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. From 1951 he moved to München in the winter, and Ischia in the summer. He died in Essen in 1961.

Major works

* 1933 to 1935 ''Arthur Rimbaud gewidmet'' * 1947 to 1949 ''Orpheus'', Akvarellsyklus * 1950 Akvareller til Tibetanischen Totenbuch (the Tibetan book of death)

Exhibitions

* 1948 24th

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* 1950 25th Venezia biennial * 1955

documenta 1 The first Documenta took place between 15 July and 18 September 1955 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Arnold Bode.Ausstellungskatalog, documenta, kunst des XX. jahrhunderts, München 1955, auch als Nachdruck bei Prestel, Münch ...

* 1958 29th Venezia biennial * 1959 documenta II in

* 1961 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,

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* 1962 31st Venezia biennial * 1964 documenta III in

* 1964 Kölnischer Kunstverein,

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* 1973 Landesmuseum

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* 1984 Städtisches Museum,

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* 2000 Galerie Vömel,

* 2001 Künstler der Galerie Vömel,

* 2002 Galerie Koch,

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* 2005/2006 Ein Arkadien der Moderne: Villa Romana Neues Museum

External links

Works by Werner Gilles
@ ArtNet. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilles, Werner 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters Bauhaus alumni People from Mönchengladbach 1894 births 1961 deaths

Major works

Exhibitions

See also

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