Diet Plaetzer

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Diet Plaetzer , actually Dietrich Plaetzer (* 1892 in Elberfeld ; † 1958 there ), was a German figure, architecture and horse painter and sgraffito artist from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Sgraffito by Diet Plaetzer on Haus Im Springen 18 (north-west wall), Wuppertal ( Kothen residential area ), 2019

Plaetzer attended the Elberfeld School of Applied Arts and the art academies in Düsseldorf , Weimar and Leipzig and was a master student in South Tyrol with Albin Egger-Lienz . In the 1920s he returned to Elberfeld.

In 1925 he took over the chairmanship of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft (BKG) . As chairman in 1929, he succeeded in obliging the then founded city of Wuppertal to purchase works by local artists and thus to improve their economic situation. In 1933 Vollrath Hoeck (1890–1968) was his successor in the chairmanship of the BKG, which was initially brought into line and dissolved in 1934 under Werner Sehlbach (1889–1969). In 1936, Plaetzer created the war memorial for the Elberfeld main post office (mural " Shock Troop ").

As a participant in the Second World War, Plaetzer was taken prisoner by the Soviets . After the war he was again a member of the newly founded BKG and took part in their exhibitions. In the 1950s he also created sgraffiti for the residential buildings of today's non-profit housing association Wuppertal .

literature

  • Ludwig Lindner: Bergische artist profiles. Diet Plaetzer . In: Bergische Heimat , 2, 1928. Issue 1. P. 20 f.
  • Carl Robert Schmidt: Diet Plaetzer. A great Bergisch painter . In: Romerike Berge , 4, 1954. pp. 78–83.

Web links

Commons : Diet Plaetzer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft - a chronicle . In: Michael Alles et al., Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft e. V. (Ed.): 100 Years Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft e. V. 1905-2005 . Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-00-016342-5 , p. 69 ( PDF )
  3. ^ Carl Robert Schmidt: 50 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft . In: BKG catalog 1955 . P. 66 f.
  4. ↑ War memorial of the Elberfelder Hauptpost , website in the portal denkmal-wuppertal.de , accessed on February 20, 2020
  5. ↑ Wall motifs are eye-catchers in the cityscape , article from December 17, 2016 in the portal wz .de , accessed on February 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Plaetzer, Diet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plaetzer, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German figure, architecture and horse painter as well as sgraffito artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH 1958
Place of death Elberfeld