Siegfried Burmeister

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Siegfried Burmeister (born April 7, 1906 in Anklam ; † July 11, 1998 in Ilmenau ) was a German painter , musician and writer of the New Modern Age.

Life

Childhood and youth

Siegfried Burmeister was born on April 7, 1906 in Anklam. His father was a violinist, his mother a pianist. In 1907 the family moved to Weimar after the father's engagement at the Weimar Court Theater . Siegfried Burmeister attended the community school there , then completed an apprenticeship in violin making, studied music and took piano lessons with Bruno Hinze-Reinhold at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar . Burmeister later sang with the chamber musician Stratmann. From 1928 Burmeister went on concert tours in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and Luxembourg. Recordings followed. In 1937 Burmeister suffered a loss of the singing voice. He then worked as a silver fox farmer in the Allgäu from 1938 .

National Socialism

The Gestapo arrested Burmeister in 1944 for his anti-war involvement ( degradation of military strength ), and he was sentenced to death. This sentence was changed to a transfer to a punitive battalion for dishonorable soldiers directly on the Soviet front.

post war period

From 1945 to 1948 Burmeister was in Soviet captivity, after which he opened a silver fox farm near Buchfart / Weimar in 1949 , which existed until 1956.

From 1956 Burmeister worked as a painter in Weimar . Since then, annual studio exhibitions have taken place in his first studio "Ackerwand" in Weimar and later in the second studio "Belvedereallee 13". In 1960 he traveled to the Crimea , Yalta , Sochi and the Caucasus . In 1964, Burmeister was expelled from Weimar to Ilmenau by the SED regime of the GDR , where he began building his studio, the Kunsthalle Ilmenau at Schortestrasse 50, in 1965 . In the years 1976 to 1977 he devoted himself to painting as well as dealing with the word, creating poems and stage works. From 1978 Burmeister turned back to music, piano improvisations were performed. Burmeister died on July 11, 1998 in Ilmenau.

The artistic work

Siegfried Burmeister's artistic oeuvre comprises around 450 paintings, around 40 drawings, as well as stage works, plays, poems, musical improvisations and designs for woven carpets. Since 1956 there have been regular annual exhibitions in his own studio as well as in Gotha , Halle and Berlin . Burmeister participated several times in the exhibitions of the Evangelical Academies in Wittenberg , Munich and Hamburg . In 1992, a broadcast on the Bavarian Radio was dedicated to the artist's work, and five years later, the short film "Straße unfinished Being" was made in collaboration with the artist. The majority of the paintings are in private ownership, individual works are owned by the church, and two larger collections are owned by European nobility.

Meaning and content of creation

The painterly beginnings were the preoccupation with spectral colors and experimenting with painterly means of expression. With this, after the Second World War, Burmeister embarked on a path of the New Modernism, free from adjustment in the security of one's own path. The paintings include abstract compositions, self-portraits, landscapes, religious subjects, still lifes. They are characterized by a vital use of color and painting technique, which led to "intoxicating" image results, to a "triumph of color".

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personal data
SURNAME Burmeister, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, musician and writer of the New Modern Age
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1998
Place of death Ilmenau