Alfred Zacharias

Alfred Zacharias (born March 25, 1901 in Regensburg ; † November 3, 1998 in Gauting ) was a German educator , graphic artist and writer .

Life

Alfred Zacharias was the son of court photographer Rudolf Zacharias. He was born at 23 Oberen Bachgasse. His grandfather was the decorative painter Otto Zacharias sen. (1846–1930), his uncle the painter Otto Zacharias jun. (1876–1952), who headed the decorative painting workshop from 1919 in the fourth generation.

During his visit to the secondary school , Alfred Zacharias was strongly influenced by his art teacher , the painter and graphic artist Oskar Birckenbach . Alfred Zacharias studied at the Technical University in Munich and the local arts and crafts school . In 1930 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. From 1932 to 1966 he worked as a high school teacher for art education and as head of a study seminar in Munich. In 1938, Zacharias was awarded 2nd place in the Hans Schemm competition of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB) for the children's book “Der Bauernzorn” . Zacharias had lived in Gauting with his family since 1934 . The community awarded him the Günther-Klinge-Kulturpreis in 1992 .

Alfred Zacharias worked alongside his teaching activities as a graphic designer ; he was particularly active in the field of woodcut and illustrated numerous books. He also wrote his own literary works.

His marriage to the Düsseldorf-based art teacher and watercolorist Irmgard Zacharias resulted in three children: the artist and university professor Thomas , the art and culture teacher Wolfgang and the painter Veronika Zacharias.

Works

Seven woodcuts , Regensburg 1922
Death and the Devil , Regensburg 1922
Be good, you German brothers , Stuttgart 1936
The anger of the peasants , Dresden 1937
Cornet in Transylvania , Berlin 1938
Wanderhans , Dresden 1938
Robinson , Berlin 1939
The German woodcut , Salzburg 1942
Stone in the Wall , Berlin 1943
Columbus discovers America , Munich 1948
Stern and Engel , Düsseldorf 1948
Magician , Munich 1948
Guckguck - Dada , Munich 1949
Till Eulenspiegel tells his life , Munich 1950
Balaam's donkey , Düsseldorf 1952
Heiligenbuch , Düsseldorf 1956
Small art history of occidental styles , Munich [u. a.] 1957
My art book , Munich [u. a.] 1965
Diary of Venus , Munich 1969
Magician Zamboni conjures up , Recklinghausen 1969
The giant ice , Ravensburg 1973
Zwick, the dwarf , Ravensburg 1973

Illustrated works

Paul Alverdes : German Book of Anecdotes , Munich 1936
Shaken out of the sleeve , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1967
Kay Borowsky : Goethe loved jumping rope , Tübingen 1989
Carlo Collodi : Purzel's Adventure , Munich 1949
Lydia L. Dewiel : The small book of antiques for collectors with pleasure in silence , Munich 1966
Ludwig Dinklage : Mysterious Ships , Reutlingen 1942
Ludwig Dinklage: We are mine sailors , Reutlingen 1942
Gerhart Drabsch : The Castle , Berlin 1943
Gerhart Drabsch: The Indian history , Berlin 1938
Peter Eckart : For German East Africa , Reutlingen 1942
English folk songs , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1951
French folk songs , Düsseldorf 1952
Rudolf Freytag : The Regensburger Kasperl , Regensburg 1948
Rumber Godden : The story of Holly and Ivy , Munich 1974
Jacob Grimm : The Mountain Spirit , Munich 1972
Jacob Grimm: Children's and Household Tales , Berlin 1939
Hanns Jobst : Antinous , Dessau 1925
Bai Gai Kiahon : The Boy and the Lion , Munich 1962
Ernst Klippel : With Arab Beduins , Reutlingen 1942
Herbert Kranz : The son of Achill in Warsaw , Berlin 1941
Meta Trinchen Krüger : The fight for the Nanga Parbat , Reutlingen 1942
Franz Möckl : Franconian song book , Regensburg 1961
Rudolf Rangnow : In the jungle paradise of the Amazon , Reutlingen 1942
Karl Friedrich Reger : Brief German language teaching , Munich 1950
Adolf Reichwein : Adventure with Man and Animal , Munich 1949
Gerd Riege : The hunt for bobble beard , Stuttgart 1954
Jürgen Riel : The captive rider , Potsdam 1933
Jürgen Riel: The great ride of Artemis , Potsdam 1935
Peter Rosegger : Waldheimat , Bamberg 1954
Eugen Roth : From person to person , Düsseldorf 1960
Mimi Sonntag : Legends of the knightly saints , Berlin 1923
Mimi Sonntag: The knights from the round table , Berlin 1923
Otto von Taube : The end of the Königsmarcks , Merseburg 1937
Hans-Günther Wolf : Race victory in Mexico , Reutlingen 1953
Gottfried Wolters : In the middle of the night , Wolfenbüttel 1957
Gottfried Wolters: We want to sing about guys , Wolfenbüttel 1959

Exhibition catalogs

Alfred Zacharias , Munich 1981
Alfred Zacharias , Munich 1991

Individual evidence

↑ Katharina Kellner: Striped by the glamor of the avant-garde , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , February 5, 2010.

^ Art and trade association Regensburg (ed.): The painter family Zacharias . Regensburg 1987. See also: Estate of the Zacharias family ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Regensburg State Library .

↑ Petra Josting: Children's and youth literature: a field of action for literary policy measures in the Nazi state In: Ursula Härtl (Ed.): Here, here is Germany ...: from national cultural concepts to national socialist cultural policy . Göttingen, 1997, p. 159

^ Christine Cless-Wesle: Kunstsinn in the second generation , merkur-online.de, October 1, 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME	Zacharias, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator, graphic artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	regensburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1998
Place of death	Gauting

[1] Katharina Kellner: Striped by the glamor of the avant-garde , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , February 5, 2010.