August Blunck

Johann Friedrich August Blunck (born April 24, 1858 in Altona ; died 1946 in Berlin ) was a German architect and painter .

Life

Blunck first learned the carpenter's trade and then studied painting and architecture first in Hamburg and Vienna and then as a student of Anton von Werner in Berlin. After completing his training, he returned to Berlin, where he became a teacher at the municipal arts and crafts school and head of the branch in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In addition to his teaching activity, Blunck produced works as a painter, draftsman and architect.

For the Samariterkirche in Berlin , which was built from 1892 to 1894 , Blunck designed the glass paintings for the choir windows, which were then made from his cardboard by the Royal Institute for Glass Painting in Berlin-Charlottenburg and destroyed in the Second World War. Artistically, Blunck was productive well into old age. In 1936, for example, he painted a monumental painting of a National Socialist march in the pleasure garden . Impressionist paintings by him were last exhibited in Berlin in 2009.

In the mountains

literature

• Berlin Art: Works by guests of the Association of Berlin Artists and collections of the members: August Blunck, Gustav Adolf Engelhardt, Arthur Funcke, Hans Herrmann , [catalog for an exhibition from] March 3 to 27, 1938 in the Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 1938
• MH: Blunck, August . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 648.

Web links

• Illustration of a signature from Blunck
• Brief curriculum vitae with a picture of a painting by Blunck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angela Beeskow: The equipment in the churches of the Berliner Kirchenbauverein (1890-1904) , 2005, p. 241 ff.
2. ↑ Illustration of the painting
3. ^ Exhibition report in the Berliner Zeitung