Arno Platzbecker

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Arno Platzbecker (born October 20, 1894 in Lövenich , † January 14, 1956 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German painter.

Life

Arno Platzbecker was born in Lövenich in the Rhineland in 1894 as one of seven children of a carpenter family. After completing primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter and house painter at Mathias Zündorf in Erkelenz . In 1920 he began to study art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Study trips took him to France and Italy. He lived in Dillenburg with his first wife Johanna, née Rottländer , before they moved to Kassel in 1930 . When the city was bombed in 1943, Platzbecker lost all his belongings, including all of his artistic works. In 1948 the now widowed artist moved to Kaiserslautern, where he married his second wife Paula, née Lechner, in the same year. A year later he became a member of the Working Group Palatinate Artists (APK) . Platzbecker worked as a painter in his adopted home in West Palatinate until his death in 1956.

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Arno Platzbecker was mainly active as a portrait and landscape painter, but genre painting and still life were also part of his repertoire. Stylistically, he was close to Impressionism , which is particularly evident in his light-flooded, artistically composed landscapes. His still lifes also show interest in the expressionist language of forms. "Platzbecker left his impressionistic-cheerful style and worked with expressive expression and a high-contrast color palette when it came to religious topics such as the Way of the Cross for the Maria Schulz pilgrimage church."

Exhibitions

literature

  • Josef Kahlau: The painter Arno Platzbecker (1894-1956) from Lövenich . In: Local calendar of the Heinsberg district. Volume 6, 1978, p. 114
  • Dagmar Gilcher: A revival . In: The Rheinpfalz , your weekend. November 12, 2011
  • Arno Platzbecker on his 120th birthday . With texts by Sara Brück and Dagmar Gilcher, writings of the Theodor-Zink-Museum 28, published by the Department of Culture of the City of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sara Brück: Arno Platzbecker . In: Arno Platzbecker on his 120th birthday . With texts by Sara Brück and Dagmar Gilcher, writings of the Theodor-Zink-Museum 28, published by the Department of Culture of the City of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2014, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Platzbecker, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Lövenich
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1956
Place of death Kaiserslautern