Bartold Asendorpf

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Self-Portrait (1945)

Bartold Asendorpf (born May 14, 1888 in Stettin ; † February 26, 1946 in Buchenwald ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Bartold Asendorpf was the son of the Szczecin wine and spirits wholesaler Friedrich Asendorpf (1843-1906) and his wife Mathilde Schmidt (1850-1910). He attended the Schiller Realgymnasium in Stettin from 1899 to 1905, did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and then attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . He opened his own studio in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and supported the Berlin Secession . In 1912 he married the craftsman Margarete Steinmetz (1885–1977). During the First World War , Asendorpf was used as a musketeer in Flanders and Poland. After being seriously wounded, he moved to Bad Berka . From 1919 to 1920 he attended the Kassel Art Academy , in 1924 he became a member of the Thuringian Group . He illustrated the volume of novels Dammbruch by Hans Friedrich Blunck and in 1931, together with Johannes Itten, took part in an exhibition of the new pomerania in Stettin. In the following years Asendorpf also created book illustrations, among others for Georg Hermann's Jettchen Gebert story as well as Goethe's Faust , Harzreise in winter and campaign in France . Through Heinrich Stegemann , he got in touch with the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg in 1939 . The Reichskulturkammer issued Asendorpf 1943 exhibition ban. In 1944, almost all of his early work was destroyed by an air raid on Szczecin. At the end of the Second World War , Asendorpf was drafted into the Volkssturm . In 1945 he was sent to the Soviet Buchenwald internment camp, where he perished.

A street in Bad Berka is named after Bartold Asendorpf today.

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SURNAME Asendorpf, Bartold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1946
Place of death Beech forest