Joachim Dammer

Joachim Otto Oskar Dammer (born January 14, 1914 in Berlin ; † February 23, 1986 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Joachim Dammer was born on January 14, 1914 in Berlin as the son of the administrative secretary Ulrich Dammer (1867–1949) and his second wife Margarethe born. Born Guardian (1882–1938); his paternal grandfather was the writer and chemist Otto Dammer . He initially intended to become an architect and was apprenticed to Erich Mendelssohn from 1929 to 1931 . But then he turned to painting and studied (with Ferdinand Spiegel ) at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art in Berlin.

His training and his artistic work were initially interrupted by the two-year military service (1935–1937, served mainly in Züllichau and Hamburg ). Soon after completing his studies (1938) he was drafted into the military; as a member of the Infantry Division 208 (last rank: lieutenant) he was deployed in the war against France , but mainly on the Eastern Front. Meanwhile, his studio at Lützowplatz 23 fell victim to a bombardment (late 1943).

From 1945 to 1986 he lived as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Berlin-Westend. In addition to portraits and still lifes, landscape painting (often with motifs from Berlin and its surroundings) was a focus of his work. He also created u. a. Supraports , colored windows and frescoes in the St. Bernhard churches (Berlin-Tegel), in the Franz Xaver chapel in Berlin-Mitte and in the Marienkapelle Heilig Geist in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

With his wife Maria geb. Joachim Dammer had three children in Waschkau.

literature

• Scheper, H./Wirth, I .: The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Volume 2, part 2. Berlin 1961 (below).