Paul Martin Leonhardt

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Paul Martin Leonhardt (born November 16, 1883 in Buchholz ; † January 31, 1971 in Radebeul ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Coming from a humble background, Leonhardt did an apprenticeship as a lithographer . He then went on a hike to Dresden , where he took courses at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Art . A stay in Innsbruck followed , combined with a scholarship. He later worked as a draftsman for an art print shop in Berlin.

After 1918 Leonhardt moved to Rostock , where he worked as a freelancer and became a member of the Rostock Artists' Association . During the Second World War he lost most of his previous work in one of the bombing raids on Rostock in 1942. Leonhardt then stayed with relatives in Radebeul near Dresden. Later he always spent the summer months in Rostock. In the post-war period, his work consisted mainly of oil paintings, watercolors and charcoal drawings, mainly landscapes, ships, port and city views. The pictures showed motifs from the Baltic Sea coast and Rostock as well as from Dresden and the native Ore Mountains.

“[…] Although they were created in 1945, the feeling, the statement and the representation with deeply penetrating colored nuances are more arrested and modeled on the twenties and thirties. The small nature excerpts, captured in watercolor or charcoal, are among his best works. "

- Catalog text

The unmarried Leonhardt's death address was Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 8 , now a listed tenement at Radebeul Ost train station .

Works (selection)

  • Old village mill, watercolor (1933)
  • Mecklenburg village (1939)
  • Rostock in winter, oil / canvas. (1941)
  • Rostocker Holzhafen, oil / canvas. (1942)
  • Boat yard in winter, oil / plywood (1945)
  • The Elbe near Gohlis (Dresden), watercolor (1951)

Exhibitions

  • 1939 Exhibition of contemporary Mecklenburg painters in the Museum am Alten Garten (Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum) in Schwerin
  • 1972 Rostock Cultural History Museum: Memorial exhibition in the Rostock shipbuilding museum on the traditional Frieden ship

literature

  • Paul Martin Leonhardt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 213 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Leonhardt, Paul Martin. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania : the personal dictionary. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial exhibition in the shipbuilding museum Rostock 1972 (see exhibitions)
  2. ↑ Radebeul death register No. 78/1971, according to information from the Radebeul City Archives .
personal data
SURNAME Leonhardt, Paul Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchholz (Annaberg-Buchholz)
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1971
Place of death Radebeul