August Endruschat

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August Endruschat

August Endruschat also Endruschat-Waldberg ; (* November 6, 1899 in Waldberg, Ragnit district , today a desert in Baltupenai , Lithuania ; † August 24, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German landscape , portrait and animal painter .

life and work

Gravestone of August Endruschat

August Endruschat was born the son of a farmer. At the beginning of the First World War he was deported to Russia by Russian troops , along with his older brother and later painter Johannes Endruschat (1898–1979) and his parents. In Alatyr (now the Republic of Chuvashia ) the brothers made contact with Russian icon painters who supported their artistic inclination.

In 1918 the family returned to Memelland, where the family farm was partially destroyed and had to be rebuilt. While the older brother Johannes took over the farm, August Endruschat went to Berlin and attended the arts and crafts school in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1929 to 1935 . Numerous oil studies were carried out on trips to Upper Silesia. In 1934 he married Anna Scharff.

After the end of the war and return from captivity, he lived temporarily in the Weser Uplands. In 1948 he moved to the Soviet-occupied Berlin-Johannisthal , where he worked as an art teacher. After political pressure, he moved with his family to the western part of the city in 1951 .

His study trips took him to East Prussia, Northern Germany and the Black Forest. His most popular motifs were realistic depictions of landscapes from all regions, with the forest areas and lakes in East Prussia, the Black Forest and Brandenburg particularly impressing him.

A retrospective of the artist showed the house of the East German homeland in 1972 in Berlin. He died on August 24, 1990 in Berlin-Lankwitz . His grave is in the Lankwitz municipal cemetery in Lichterfelde.

public perception

Exhibitions

Exhibitions took place in Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Bad Tölz and Grafenhausen / Black Forest. He also took part in an exhibition that dealt with industrial buildings in Berlin. B. Lichterfelde power plant.

  • 1972: Exhibition in the House of the East German Homeland
  • 1972: Exhibition in the Hilton Hotel with portrait painting
  • 1973: Exhibition in the house of the church in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1975: Exhibition on the occasion of the opening of the Black Forest Hall in Grafenhausen
  • 1976: Exhibition in the gallery in the foyer of the Deutschlandhaus
  • 1976: Exhibition (together with Ruth Rieger (* 1931), Jutta (Hildegard) Wolters (1921–1987) and Walter Bewersdorf (1903–1981)) in Glienicke Castle .
  • 1979: Exhibition in the small orangery, paintings from Danzig to Memel

calendar

For the year 2000, a reproduction of a painting by August Endruschat appeared in the Calendar Buntes Bild der Heimat - The Calendar "East Prussia and its Painters" .

Private collections

In May 1972, the former Federal Minister Johann Baptist Gradl , the then Mayor of Steglitz (1971–1984) Helmut Rothacker and the director of the BVG Schneider bought paintings by the artist for their collections.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Ostpreußenblatt , p. February 14, 1976 - Volume 7 - Page 9, (PDF) , accessed on May 13, 2014
  2. ^ Memelland local family register , accessed on May 14, 2014
  3. ↑ Weites Land am Strom - The painter August Endruschat from the Memel lowlands . In: The Ostpreußenblatt of May 6, 1972, p. 8
  4. ^ The Ostpreußenblatt March 17, 1973 / Volume 11 / Page 9 , accessed on May 17, 2014
  5. ↑ Works by August Endruschat-Waldberg in the Deutschlandhaus (February 14, 1976 - Volume 7 - Page 9) , accessed on May 16, 2014
  6. ^ Announcements of the Association for the History of Berlin. , accessed on May 13, 2014
  7. ↑ August Endruschat, page 108 , accessed on May 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ Calendar Buntes Bild der Heimat - The calendar "East Prussia and its painters" 2000. , accessed on May 17, 2014
  9. ↑ Weites Land am Strom - The painter August Endruschat from the Memel lowlands . In: The Ostpreußenblatt of May 6, 1972, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Endruschat, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Endruschat-Waldberg, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, portrait and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldberg, Ragnit district
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1990
Place of death Berlin