Alexander Neroslov

Alexander Neroslow (born September 10, 1891 in Saint Petersburg , † January 4, 1971 in Leipzig ) was a German-Russian painter.

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Neroslow was born into a wealthy St. Petersburg family and had eight siblings. His father was a shipowner; his ships mainly transported wood on the Neva and Lake Ladoga. After the young Sascha graduated from high school in 1910 - probably the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum  - he began studying general education for a year. From October 1911 he became a student of architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . As a member of the “Friends of the New Russia” society, he met Hans Grundig , the Lithuanian-Jewish painter Lasar Segall from Vilnius, the composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff and Otto Dix in the musical and literary salon of Villa Schulhoff . He was also head of the Russian library in Dresden. With the outbreak of the First World War , Neroslow was interned in Meissen with Lasar Segall and the journalist Konstantin Fedin in autumn 1914 .

From 1916 he worked in a Berlin photo studio as an enlargement retoucher and became a working student in Arthur Lewin-Funcke's “study ateliers for painting and sculpture” . One teacher was Lovis Corinth . From 1918, Neroslow took his permanent residence in Dresden. In 1920 he married the also stateless language teacher Gertrud Meissner from Vienna . In 1920/21 he studied "Der Weg" at Edmund Kesting's art school in Dresden. Neroslow participates in art exhibitions, makes reproductions of old masters, watercolors landscapes and works on the restoration of ancestral galleries. In 1929 Neroslow was a founding member of the ASSO (Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists) in Dresden and held the position of district chairman. In 1930 the Dresden ASSO artists, organized by Josef Sandel , had an exhibition in Berlin near Wertheim. Alexander Neroslow also took part in the exhibition with his pictures. In the following years until 1933 he taught Russian at the Marxist Workers School . Between 1926 and 1933 the Dresden City Museum acquired several of his landscape watercolors.

Neroslow was involved in the resistance group "Karl Stein and Comrades" against National Socialism . He and his wife were arrested in Dresden in February 1941 and sentenced to life imprisonment by the People's Court in March 1942 . Three members of the group are sentenced to death, including the painter Fritz Schulze . The air raids on Dresden destroyed Neroslow's apartment on Güterbahnhofstrasse with his artistic work. Until the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Neroslov remained a political prisoner in Waldheim prison . In the Communist Party of Germany since 1945 , he worked as an interpreter and secretary in the municipal administration of Waldheim until 1946 . He was recognized as being persecuted by the Nazi regime . As a freelance painter, he began to present his landscape painting , still lifes and portraits in art exhibitions in 1946 . From 1946 he traveled regularly to the Baltic Sea, to Poel and Fischland-Darß-Zingst . In Waldheim he was one of the creators of a lively cultural life. In 1951 he moved to Leipzig in Liviastraße 1. Again he worked on the Leipzig district board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From 1952 to 1955 Neroslow took over a teaching post for portraiture at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig . He ended his employment relationship in the formalism dispute and went back to work as a freelancer. In 1953 he learned in Wieck a. Darß know the 22 years younger Valeska Lenz. In 1957 his wife Gertrud Neroslow died.

In the 1960s, the Georgi-Dimitroff-Museum in Leipzig bought some oil paintings (especially portraits) by Neroslow. The Historical Museum in Berlin also owns two paintings. The Museum Bautzen acquired a rare oil painting from 1930 as a donation in 1961. During his stay on the Darß, he created a large number of atmospheric watercolors of the landscape between the sea and the bay as well as portraits in oil of the people of Darß. Alexander Neroslow married Valeska Lenz from Wieck in 1967.

He died at the age of 80 and was buried in the Südfriedhof (Leipzig) next to his first wife.

Honors

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1967)

literature

• Arntraut Kalhorn: Alexander Neroslow. A painter in Germany in the 20th century. A biographical collage. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2013, ISBN 978-3-940207-92-0 .
• Arntraut Kalhorn (ed.): Alexander Neroslow, a Russian painter on the Darß. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0088-9 .
• Nerosloff, Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 470 .

Web links

• Literature about Alexander Neroslow in the state bibliography MV
• alexander-neroslow.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lewin-Funcke-Schule (kantstrasse.de)
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 29, 1967, p. 2