Axel Plath

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Axel James Roland Plath (born January 31, 1905 in Keinis , Dagö Island , Estonia , then Russia , † September 16, 1962 in Petershagen , Weser) was a Baltic German painter, graphic artist and art teacher.

Life

Axel Plath was the son of Pastor Paul Plath (1865-1935) and his wife Cäcilie, née Boustedt (1870-1929). He attended the cathedral school in Tallinn from 1918 to 1925 and then studied German, pedagogy, philosophy and art history at the University of Tartu from 1925 to 1929 , in 1930 he passed the state examination and in 1931 became Mag. Phil. He was a member of the Estonia . In addition, he completed an artistic education: from 1922 to 1924 he attended the art school of Anatoli Kaigorodow , 1925 the art school of M. Widmann in Munich and from 1926 to 1928 the art school Pallas in Tartu (painting with Ado Vabbe), where he also in May 1928 passed the drawing teacher exam. In 1923 he exhibited for the first time at the Estonian Art Exhibition in Tallinn, and in November 1924 he became a member of the artists' association "Eesti Kunstnikkude Liit".

After completing his military service, he worked as a drawing and German teacher at the German high school in Tallinn from June 1931, in 1931/32 also at the boys' commercial high school and from 1931 to 1935 at the Jakob Westholm high school in Tallinn. Since 1931 he also wrote art reviews for the Revalsche Zeitung . After the Baltic Germans were resettled from Estonia, he became a teacher at the secondary school in Gdansk in 1939 and then from 1940 to 1943 a teacher in Nackel / West Prussia . He did military service from 1943 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945. From 1945 to 1948 he worked as a painter in Elsfleth / Weser, since 1948 as a teacher for art education, gymnastics, German and religion (teacher) at the state advanced school in Petershagen near Minden.

Axel Plath painted landscapes, beach and city pictures, then increasingly religious motifs as well as portraits in oils, watercolors and drawings.

Paintings (selection)

Publications

  • Emil Musso: Väikese Viiu lugu . 3–8 aastastele lastele jutustanud E. Musso; A. Plath'i joonistused. 1923 (children's book illustrations).
  • Arthur Behrsing: Ri-ra-rin, we're going to Berlin! Reader for the 1st year of training in German (as a foreign language). Book decorations and illustrations by Axel Plath. Songi, Werro 1929.
  • The visual arts of the Estonians. In: Baltic Monthly Publication 1934, pp. 417-426.
  • Review by Niels von Holst: Baltenland. In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 3, 1938, pp. 445–445.
  • Trük, Nikolai . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 450-451 .

literature

  • Album Estonorum. Edited by the Philistine Union of Estonia. Tallinn 1939, no.1238.
  • Addendum to the album Estonorum from 1939. 1976.
  • Kuno Hagen: Lexicon of Baltic German visual artists. 20th century. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-8046-0101-4 , p. 104.
  • Maria Velte: Axel Plath. Painter and art teacher. In: Jahrbuch des Baltic Deutschtums 35, 1988, pp. 141–153.
  • R. Loodus: Plath, Axel. In: Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon. Tallinn 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME Plath, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plath, Axel James Roland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Keinis , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1962
Place of death Petershagen