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Paul Goesch<br />
*1885–1940<br />
After studying painting and architecture, Goesch worked as a state architect in<br />
Berlin. In 1909, he moved to Dresden to live with his brother Heinrich.<br />
Together, they created an “aesthetic system with mathematical foundations”.<br />
Introduced by the Austrian psychiatrist Otto Groß, the brothers became excited<br />
by psychoanalysis.<br />
At this time, Paul Goesch created frescoes in the sports hall in Laubegast, near<br />
Dresden (destroyed).<br />
Motivated by anthroposophy, he worked on Rudolf Steiner’s wooden doubledoom,<br />
the first “Goetheanum”, in Dornach, Switzerland. In May of this year,<br />
Goesch converted to Catholicism, as a “protection against transgressions”.<br />
He became ill working as an architect in Kulm (West Prussia/Poland) and was<br />
hospitalized in Schwetz from 1917-1919.<br />
He stopped recognising people, sought to become king of France and could read<br />
other people’s thoughts. He went to live with his father in Berlin after his<br />
release.<br />
While there, Goesch participated in revolutionary projects as a member of the<br />
November Group (founded in 1918) and the Worker’s Council for Art (founded<br />
in 1919).<br />
Goesch became ill again in 1921 and was admitted to the Göttingen sanatorium.<br />
A brother-in-law took over his care in 1923, sparing him from incapacitation.<br />
Goesch was convinced that he was a descendant of the Hohenzollerns. He heard<br />
voices and carried on “distant conversations” with them. The object of his desire,<br />
however, remained Princess Victoria of Bentheim. All of his madonnas bore her<br />
features.<br />
In 1923, he released a series of biblical wood cuttings. He then created “half<br />
statues with scraps of food, which he stuck together using crumbs of tobacco and<br />
spit", built pyramids out of boxes and drew erotic "picture series".<br />
In 1931, the doctor certified his "outstanding memory for details, productive<br />
fantasies and original points of view".<br />
He was transferred to Teupitz, near Berlin, in 1934.<br />
Paul Goesch was murdered by the National Socialists on September 6, 1940 in<br />
the Brandenburg Zuchthaus.<br />
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