Trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

Trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Glöckner abs­tracted natural motifs in neo-impressionist-inspired works with heavily stylized brushstrokes even before the First World War. In subsequent years and series of works, as evidenced by the selection of paintings from the Albertinum collection shown here, the artist reduced the observed subjects to circular forms, linear structures, among others. Glöckner depicted human-made objects such as signposts and chimneys in simplified and geometricized forms, capturing the essence of their construction. He also simplified representations of human faces, villages, and groups of houses, portraying them in abstracted, non-naturalistic colours. Glöckner dedicated him-self exclusively to pure abstraction for decades, sometimes broken up by painterly elements, other times by emphasizing graphic forms, however always in a measured and balanced manner.