Cay-Hugo von Brockdorff
Cay-Hugo Graf von Brockdorff (born February 9, 1915 in Schmargendorf ; † January 17, 1999 ; usually called Cay von Brockdorff or Cay Brockdorff ) was a German sculptor, art scholar and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Cay-Hugo Graf von Brockdorff was the son of the Berlin district judge Ludwig Graf von Brockdorff (1881–1938) and his second wife Erika, born. von Spalding (1892–1940). His grandfather was the captain Cay Lorenz Graf von Brockdorff .
Cay-Hugo Graf von Brockdorff studied at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art in Berlin-Charlottenburg with the sculptor Wilhelm Gerstel and then worked as a freelance artist. Through his studies, he had contact with the resistance group at the art college in Berlin-Charlottenburg, who were arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 as fighters in the group around Kurt Schumacher .
In 1937 he married Erika Schönfeldt , who was executed as a resistance fighter in 1943. Their daughter was named Saskia . Because of his involvement in the activities of the Red Orchestra , he was arrested on the Eastern Front in 1942, sentenced to four years in prison and then placed in a punitive battalion . Until November 1946 he was in Italy in English captivity.
After the end of the Second World War , he was from 1947 to 1949 advisor for fine arts and museums in the German administration for popular education. In 1948 he married the resistance fighter and writer Eva Lippold , b. Rutkowski (1909–1994), with whom he lived at Zossen . In 1950 he received his PhD phil.
In 1953 he became the first editor-in-chief of the GDR magazine Bildende Kunst , which was published by the State Commission for Art Affairs and the Association of German Artists . However, he resigned this office in 1954. He was followed from volume 3.1954 by Herbert Sandberg . From 1955 to 1956 Brockdorff was Deputy General Director of the State Art Collections in Dresden and then director of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin until his retirement . At the end of the 1950s he was expelled from the SED .
Fonts
- 1952: Soviet artist, creator for peace
- 1953: Soviet and pre-revolutionary Russian art
- 1954: German painting
- 1954: Finnish graphics
literature
- Greta Kuckhoff : From the Rosary to the Red Chapel. A life story. New life, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-268-72911-8 .
- Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0 .
- Alexander S. Blank , Julius Mader : Red band against Hitler. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1979.
- Heinz Höhne , Gilles Perrault : "ptx calls Moscow". The story of the Red Chapel. In: Der Spiegel. No. 23-30, 1968.
- Christine Fischer-Defoy : Art, Power, Politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-88520-271-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Cay-Hugo von Brockdorff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eckhart Gillen : Difficulty in searching for the truth . Berlin 2002, biography page 440 (PDF file; 2.80 MB)
- Interview with his daughter Saskia In: Eva Madelung : Heldenkinder, traitorkinder. P. 166ff
Individual evidence
- ^ Petra Weckel: Wilhelm Fraenger (1890-1964). A subversive cultural scientist between the systems. Review. Potsdam 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brockdorff, Cay-Hugo von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brockdorff, Cay-Hugo Graf von (full name); Brockdorff, Cay von; Brockdorff, Cay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, art scholar and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmargendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1999 |