Carlo Schellemann

Carlo Schellemann (born August 9, 1924 in Krumbach ; † April 22, 2010 in Eggenfelden ) was a German painter , graphic artist , set designer and draftsman .

Life

Schellemann was born in Krumbach as Karl Heinz Schellemann. He went to school in Krumbach and Augsburg. Since the age of 6 he had a disability on his right upper arm as a result of a poorly treated arm fracture. In 1940 he attended the art school in Augsburg , in 1942 the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Franz Klemmer (painting). Since 1948 he was a freelance painter and graphic artist. During the Second World War, he and his younger brother Walter Schellemann were housed in the Darmstadt house in Kleinwalsertal from mid-1944 .

In 1958 he was awarded the City of Augsburg's Art Prize. In 1958, Schellemann took part in the “Augsburg Working Group against Nuclear Armament”, whose chairman was Walter Oehmichen . He also designed sets for Oehmichens Augsburger Puppenkiste a . a. Strindbergs Traumspiel (1951) and The Little Prince (1951). In 1960 he formed the artist group Tendenz and founded the art-critical magazine tendenzen , which he also ran as editor-in-chief from 1972 to 1976. He was one of the initiators of the exhibition Artists against the Nuclear War , which was opened by Karl Saller on October 22, 1958 in the Reitersaal of the University Riding School in Munich and which in the following years traveled through around 40 German cities, among others. a. Stuttgart and Nuremberg, wandered. In 1964 he moved with his family to Munich, in 1977 to Eggenfelden , where he lived with his wife on a farm near Eggenfelden until his death. There Schellemann turned increasingly to landscape painting. Schellemann died in 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlo Schellemann in regiowiki
2. ^ Peacemaker Carlo Schellemann
3. ↑ Our time - death of Carlo Schellemann