Christian Aigrinner

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Christian Aigrinner (born March 30, 1919 in Thyrnau OT Hörreuth ; † June 30, 1983 Deggendorf ) was a German painter , graphic artist and book illustrator .

Life and artistic work

Christian Aigrinner was a trained bricklayer and draftsman . In Passau he was trained by Margarete Schneider-Reichel and Hermann Mayrhofer . From 1941 he worked as a stage painter . After moving to the GDR in 1954 Aigrinner worked as a commercial artist , book illustrator active and 1957-1960 in construction. Influenced, among others, by the work of Alfred Kubin , Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, he worked mostly self-taught .

His life was a struggle for recognition of his art. Christian Aigrinner is difficult to classify artistically because of his versatility. He represented his individuality with all the strength of his personality. In 1982 Christian Aigrinner was recognized as an artist. It was included in the “General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present”.

Aigrinner experienced his most important creative phase in his late work, from 1955 to 1983, in the small town of Berga / Elster in Thuringia . Through his work at the Greizer paper museum Satiricum , he got to know Japanese paper , which he often used for his graphics. By using wax and textile paint, he designed numerous paper bats and watercolors on Japanese paper. Aigrinner designed numerous book covers for the Volk und Welt publishing house. In the last years of his life, the artist gradually went blind. In June 1983 Aigrinner died in Deggendorf, where he was staying for an exhibition of his graphics

Aigrinner exhibited his works in numerous places in the GDR, including a. in Dessau (1974), in Greiz (1974, 1981), in Karl-Marx-Stadt (1975) and Quedlinburg (1976).

The first retrospective after his death was shown in Greiz in 1994 in the Upper Castle . Regional exhibitions in Berga and Obergeißendorf followed in 2009 and 2014 .

Works (selection)

The blue mountain
Christian Aigrinner , 
Paper batik
26 × 31 cm
Bernburg Castle Museum

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

Numerous art collections have Aigrinner's graphics, batiks and drawings, etc. a. the Kupferstichsammlung (Berlin), the Angermuseum (Erfurt), the University of Applied Arts (Budapest), the Kupferstichsammlung (Dresden) or the Museum des Kunsthandwerkes (Leipzig). Some of his most famous works are:

  • Composition in Color (1962)
  • Golgotha (1964)
  • The Blue Mountain (1963)
  • The Queen's Mask (1978)
  • The houses, 36 sheets (1981)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Drawing as a reaction to illness and poverty: Works by Bergaer Aigrinner in Obergeißendorf. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Mehlis Auction House - Auctions. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Elfride Kiel: Church building today: Documentation. Discussion. Criticism . Schnell and Steiner, 1969, p. 325 .
  4. ↑ Greizer Heimatbote, 37/1991 page 234-239, editors: Landratsamt Greiz
  5. ↑ Aigrinner, Christian . In: General Artist Lexicon (online) . doi : 10.1515 / AKL_10020257 ( degruyter.com [accessed on 27 April 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Aigrinner, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Thyrnau OT Hörreuth
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1983
Place of death Deggendorf