Claus Stolley

Claus Stolley (born September 6, 1898 in Fockbek , † June 16, 1965 in Rendsburg ) was a German painter.

While his siblings stayed in the local agriculture (Hohner Str. 14), Stolley began a teacher training in Rendsburg and Husum and later at the arts and crafts school in Kiel . When the twenty-year-old had a talent for drawing and painting, he was given regular artistic training at the art academies in Berlin and Cologne through public and private support .

From 1925 he worked in Kiel as a teacher and art educator and lived near the shipyard in Kiel-Ellerbek. He began with earlier portraits and drawings of plants and flowers. As a teacher he had great charisma but felt around 1930 that his future lay in the artistic field. The painter Ernst Barlach recognized his talent as early as 1929. He often painted the young Carsten Petersen, the neighbor Claas and the old neighbor Suhr. He also found strong expression as a flower painter.

In 1965 he fell ill on a study trip to Copenhagen, died a few days later in the hospital in Rendsburg and was buried in the cemetery in Fockbek. There is a path named after him between Mirower Ring and Im Sande. As was already determined in 1956, the Lindenbrunn Circle of Friends took on his artistic work in order to fulfill his last wish. That is why his pictures have not been available on the art market since his death.

literature

• Schleswig-Holstein ; Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund, 1995; Pp. 190-194