Claus Müller-Schönefeld

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Claus Joachim Müller-Schönefeld (born May 19, 1910 in Charlottenburg ; † May 31, 1991 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor.

Life

The son of the Berlin painter Wilhelm Müller-Schönefeld began his professional life between 1928 and 1930 with an apprenticeship as a painter. This was followed by attending the Berlin School of Applied Arts until 1935 and then the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Art until 1939 with training as a painter and sculptor a. a. with Adolf Strübe . Müller-Schönefeld was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin. From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier in World War II and then in American captivity until September 1945.

Since Müller-Schönefeld's studio in Berlin had been destroyed in a bomb attack, he looked for a new place to work. He found this in Pruchten (near Barth ), where he worked as an art teacher from 1946. In the 1950s he also joined the Association of Visual Artists . On the advice of Ahrenshooper artist colleagues, he moved with his family to Althagen on the Fischland in 1958 , where he had bought a house.

In Althagen, which has belonged to the municipality of Ahrenshoop since 1950, he then worked as a freelance artist, where most of his work originated: still lifes, landscapes, portraits and sculptural works. Müller-Schönefeld maintained close contact with his colleagues such as Theodor Schultze-Jasmer , Georg Hülsse and Doris Oberländer . In 1991 Müller-Schönefeld died in Althagen.

Works (selection)

  • 1951: construction. (Oil) 60 × 70 cm
  • 1952: construction site. (Oil) 31 × 42 cm
  • 1952: farmer. (Charcoal) 49 × 32 cm
  • 1952: Fischer. (Charcoal) 49 × 32 cm
  • 1948: Winter clearing towards Barth. (Tempera)
  • 1950: Pruchten. (Watercolor)
  • 1955: At the Fischerplatz. (Watercolor)
  • 1955: Althagen cliff. (Tempera)
  • 1955: Renting pipes on Boddenwiesen. (Watercolor / charcoal / paper)

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 134.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6882 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. Members' personal files, p. 294 (PDF; 3.4 MB). (No longer available online.) Landesarchiv Berlin, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ Works by Claus Müller-Schönefeld. Deutsche-Digitale-Bibliothek, accessed on July 12, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Schönefeld, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Schönefeld, Claus Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1991
Place of death Ahrenshoop