Edgar Blum

Edgar Blum (born August 10, 1928 in Pirmasens ; † January 22, 2019 ) was a Palatinate painter , graphic artist , illustrator , author and filmmaker.

Life

As a youth he was in World War II for military service confiscated. The war and the imprisonment he spent from 1944 to 1946 shaped his youth. After returning to the heavily destroyed Pirmasens, he realized his lifelong dream there. From 1949 to 1951, Blum studied graphic design and then worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. From 1954 to 1979 he was a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Pirmasens and for many years seminar leader for teachers in the field of fine arts.

The artist also taught at the EWH Landau from the 1960s and held various positions in committees in the city of Pirmasens, including as a member of the city council. In 1988 he gave up his teaching position and also resigned from his honorary posts.

Blum has been a board member of the Palatinate Artists Working Group since 1970 and has also been a member of the Palatinate Secession for many years .

Blum worked in Pirmasens as a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, author and filmmaker and as such has repeatedly had solo and group exhibitions, for example in Karlsruhe , Mainz , Speyer , Saarbrücken , Mainau Castle on Lake Constance , Erfurt , Koblenz , Zwickau and many more Cities in Rhineland-Palatinate as well as France and Italy .

Awards

• 1977 Sponsorship award for the Palatinate Prize of the Association of Palatinate Friends of Art
• 1980 Art Prize of the Pfalzwerke
• 1988 city honor plaque of the city of Pirmasens
• 1992 Art Prize and Picasso Medal of the VPK
• 1995 Rhineland-Palatinate TV Prize from the State Office of Private Broadcasters
• 2001 Medal of Honor from the Palatinate Artists Working Group

Works (excerpt)

Press publications, catalogs, editions of portfolios such as:

• Seasons
• Meridian region
• Wasgau
• The student of experience
• Southern Wine Route, face of a landscape
• Illustrations for Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil
• Palatinate miniatures (with texts by Wolfgang Diehl)
• Images against the war
• Painting cycle of 60 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses

Movies

• Pirmasens - evolution to zero hour
• Pirmasens in the hail of bombs in 1944/45
• The Steppenwolf and Hugo Ball;
• Heinrich Bürkel - A famous Pirmasens personality

literature

• Peter Schindler: Edgar Blum from Pirmasens. His life, his war, his art . Self-published [1] , 2008, ISBN 978-3000241963