Adolf Bock
Adolf Bock (born August 5, 1890 in Berlin , † January 13, 1968 in Helsingborg , Sweden ) was a German marine painter .
Life
Adolf Bock was like other well-known German marine painters, e.g. B. Hans Bohrdt , Willy Stöwer or Robert Schmidt-Hamburg , an autodidact .
His grandfather was a landscape painter , his father by profession a farmer and a hobby painter . Supported by his father, he made drawings at an early age. He quickly broke off three training courses as a painter. In 1910 he volunteered for four years in the Imperial Navy. In 1912 he accompanied Kaiser Wilhelm II as a sailor on a Mediterranean voyage and was discovered and promoted by him.
He lived and painted in Germany , Finland and Sweden . In 1919 he moved to Finland in order to better study and paint the still numerous windjammers here . Between the two world wars he often worked for shipping companies, publishers and magazines. He worked for a total of 17 years as a painter, illustrator and copywriter for the Danish-Swedish weekly magazine Familie Journal , for which he even traveled around the world .
On January 30, 1944, Adolf Hitler awarded him the title of professor, the only appointment ever made during the entire Second World War . In addition, he is mentioned and praised by name by Adolf Hitler in the table discussions. On January 30, 1945 he survived the sinking of the passenger steamer Wilhelm Gustloff as a passenger . His rescue is reported in detail in the book The sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff . At the beginning of May 1945, Adolf Bock lived on a ship at the Mürwik Naval School in the Mürwik special area . After he could no longer live there, he moved into a room in Haus Waldruh in Bockholm that same month . On May 25, 1945 he apparently took up his painting activity in Bockholm. His first work there is likely to be the sketch of his new house there from that day. The house served as his main residence until 1950. He then continued to use it as a holiday home until the end of the 1950s. Incidentally, in 1950 Adolf Bock made three pen and ink drawings on the Wilhelm Gustloff ship disaster, but later did not deal with this subject.
Works (selection)
- Warsaw, Paris, London: A picture folder from the deployment of our Air Force Berlin in 1940.
- Fight under the war flag: A picture portfolio of the deployment of our Kriegsmarine Berlin in 1943.
- Berömda segelfartyg = Famous Sailing Ships Malmö 1964.
literature
- Adolf Bock . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 39.
- Adolf Bock . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 317 .
- Ludwig Tavernier: Adolf Bock . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 156 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Horst Ludwig: Blume-Siebert, Ludwig . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 105
- Hans-Walter Hansen: marine painter Adolf Bock. Life and work . Koehler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-7822-0812-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Bock in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle Bockholm, Drei, Holnis, Kobbellück, Schausende . Written by a team of authors led by Telsche Henningsen, Husum 2019, p. 42
- ↑ Chronicle Bockholm, Drei, Holnis, Kobbellück, Schausende . Written by a team of authors led by Telsche Henningsen, Husum 2019, p. 43
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1968 |
| Place of death | Helsingborg |