Dietz Edzard

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Dietz (Dietrich Hermann) Edzard (born March 30, 1893 in Bremen ; † January 8, 1963 in Paris ) was a German painter and the brother of the sculptor Kurt (Conrad Karl) Edzard (1890–1972) and the world record pilot Cornelius (Henri) Edzard (1898-1952).

biography

Dietz Edzard was the son of the Bremen lawyer Conrad Edzard (* 1858; † 1930). From 1911 he studied with Max Beckmann in Berlin and then worked in the Netherlands. In 1927 he went to France in Provence . In 1929 his works were exhibited in the Jeu de Paume , a collection of Impressionist art in Paris. In 1930 he returned to Berlin, but later went to Paris , where he settled and lived and exhibited until the end of his life (Galerie Durand-Ruel). During the Second World War he was interned in the internment and deportation camp Les Milles in the south of France . His work can be found in museums in Grenoble , Bremen, Hamburg and Wuppertal as well as in many American and Canadian private collections, where he sold most of his works. His themes: theater, circus, women and children, dancers, Venetian still lifes, flowers. During research, the historian Birgi Neumann-Dietzsch found out that five of the painter's paintings were assessed as degenerate by the Nazis and destroyed.

Artistically, Edzard's work was based on Expressionism at a young age and later - because it was easier to sell - on French Impressionism.

Edzard's first marriage (1921) was with Emmy Clara Wilhelmine von Baum, geb. Bayer married. Their daughter Rena Edzard was born on November 22, 1922 and died in 1948.

His second marriage was in 1936 with the painter Suzanne Eisendieck (1906–1998). Their daughter, who later became a film director and costume designer Christine Edzard, was born in Paris in 1945, and in 1947 their daughter Angélica Károlyi, director of the cultural programs of the Joseph Károlyi Foundation, Hungary.

Edzard was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

literature

  • Gerd Muehsam : Dietz Edzard. , New York: Bittner 1948
  • Max Gauthier: Dietz Edzard. Paris: Les Gemeaux 1952
  • Claude Roger-Marx: Dietz Edzard. Tableaux de 1917–1963. Paris: Quatre Chemins 1971
  • Wolfgang Maier-Preusker : Dietz Edzard. In: Books and portfolios with graphics of German Expressionism, exhibition catalog Wismar 2006.
  • "degenerate" - confiscated Bremen artists under National Socialism - Städtische Galerie Bremen 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 402
  2. ↑ “General Artist Lexicon”, by KG Saur Munich Leipzig 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Edzard, Dietz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edzard, Dietrich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1963
Place of death Paris