Werner Gilles

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

Contents

• Werner gilles kunst nomade aus mg
• Werner gilles traumender und sehender
• Major works
• Exhibitions
• References

Gilles was born in Rheydt/Rheinland (today Mönchengladbach) He found his artistic calling while at the academies of Kassel and Weimar, studying under Lyonel Feininger of the Bauhaus 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 artist from the 1930s, and he had to stop working until after the war. 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 Venice Biennale

1950 25th Venezia biennial

1955 documenta 1 in Kassel

1958 29th Venezia biennial

1959 documenta II in Kassel

1961 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

1962 31st Venezia biennial

1964 documenta III in Kassel

1964 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln

1973 Landesmuseum Bonn

1984 Städtisches Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr

2000 Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf

2001 Künstler der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf

2002 Galerie Koch, Hannover

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