Albert Schaefer-Ast

Albert Schaefer-Ast (also Albert Schäfer-Ast ; born January 7, 1890 in Barmen , † September 15, 1951 in Weimar ) was a German draftsman and caricaturist.

Schaefer-Ast was born as the son of a Barmer senior teacher who taught at a girls' college. After an apprenticeship as a sculptor , he attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1906 to 1911 . After years of wandering in Germany and other European countries, Schaefer-Ast started working in 1913, interrupted by his participation in the First World War , in which he lost an eye due to a war injury, for various magazines, including Simplicissimus , Uhu and Der hehre Fridolin . For the latter he drew the Benjamin Pampe series . Since Schaefer-Ast's work was classified as degenerate by the National Socialists , he was banned from exhibiting and working and retired to the fishing village of Prerow on the Darß until the end of the World War . A plaque on the house he lived in at the time - located on Schäfer-Ast-Weg - reminds of him: the graphic artist Albert Schäfer-Ast * 7.1.1890 † 15.9.1951 ”worked. In 1945 he received a professorship at the State University for Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar , which he held until his death.

Schaefer-Ast illustrated quite a few books, including The Story of the Hat by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , The Little Gustav by Wolf Durian and The Dream Boat by Erich Knauf .

The poet and narrator Oda Schaefer was Schaefer-Ast's first wife. Steffie Schaefer was his second wife, with whom he temporarily emigrated to England together with her twelve year old daughter. Albert Schaefer-Ast died on September 15, 1951 and was buried in the honorary grave field of the historical cemetery in Weimar.

tomb

The part of the name "Ast" was created from the incorrectly read signature of the three letters "ASf" ( Albert Schaefer fecit ).

He is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

literature

• Schäfer-Ast, Albert. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 817

• Heinz Born (Ed.): Wuppertaler Biographien. 10th episode (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 19), Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1971.
• Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1983; P. 15 and a.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Schaefer-Ast in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on hebecker.com
• Fritz Eschen : Photos by Albert Schaefer-Ast and information , SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek . Retrieved August 23, 2020.