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Edgar Scheibe (born July 23, 1899 in Hanover ; † July 27, 1977 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist in the New Objectivity style . The lecturer , who has received several awards, has designed commercial graphics such as posters and packaging for numerous well-known companies.

Live and act

Born at the time of the German Empire , Edgar Scheibe completed his secondary school leaving certificate at Hanover's Realschule 1 before receiving a scholarship for the local arts and crafts school in the middle of the First World War . But in 1917 the youngster was drafted into the war as a soldier .

It was only at the beginning of the Weimar Republic that Edgar Scheibe was able to continue his art studies from 1919 to 1921, including under Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld .

After 1922, Scheibe worked as a graphic artist in various graphic companies and won several first prizes in competitions for the design of posters and packaging . The artist, who was in contact with colleagues like Ernst Thoms and Grethe Jürgens and was friends with Erich Wegner and his family, started his own business as a painter and graphic artist in 1927.

Also in 1927, Edgar Scheibe, who was a member of the Bund Deutscher Grafiker , first took part in the autumn exhibitions of the Kunstverein Hannover . In the years that followed, Scheibe mainly created numerous posters and illustrations for companies such as Geha-Werke and Günther Wagner - Pelikan Werke and for Continental Gummiwerke .

At the time of National Socialism and the year the Second World War began , Edgar Scheibe received an order from the city of Hanover to renovate the ceiling paintings in the Leineschloss .

Finally, Edgar Scheibe was drafted again as a soldier in 1941. Together with other prisoners of war of the Second World War , he was released from captivity by the Americans in 1945.

Back in Hanover, Scheibe tried to rebuild the federal Visual Artists , designed among other things, the appearance of the new press , the beginning of September 1945 at the request of Kurt Schumacher at the British military rulers as a successor to the Socialist newspaper People's Will first as Hannoversche Press was founded .

At the time of the economic miracle , Edgar Scheibe was a sworn expert for the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1952 to 1962 , and worked temporarily in parallel in the mid-1950s for the subject of "physical and psychological aspects of color and form" at the Hanover Advertising School . In his artistic work, Scheibe concentrated on the areas of watercolor painting and working with wax crayons .

In 1965, Scheibe began teaching artistic fonts at the Hanover Adult Education Center . In addition, he received orders from the then Stadtsparkasse Hannover and the Northwest Iron and Steel Employers' Liability Insurance Association .

Edgar Scheibe died in Hanover a few days after his 78th birthday.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1927: First participation in the autumn exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover
• 1999: Posthumously first solo exhibition at the Nikolaus Fischer gallery in Frankfurt am Main
• 2001–2002: Joint exhibition "The strongest expression of our days", new objectivity in Hanover in the Sprengel Museum Hanover

Awards and honors (selection)

• Edgar Scheibe received several first prizes for poster and packaging designs in the 1920s.
• Disk was honored with the award of the golden Hans Buchholz medal .
• Since 2003, Edgar-Scheibe-Straße in the Hanover district of List has honored the artist of the New Objectivity with its name.

literature

• Christian Fuhrmeister : Edgar Scheibe , in Christian Fuhrmeister (ed.): "The strongest expression of our days", new objectivity in Hanover , catalog for the exhibition from December 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2001, ISBN 3-487-11440-2 , pp. 253f .; contents
• Hugo Thielen : Scheibe, Edgar. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 311; online through google books
• Hugo Thielen: Scheibe, Edgar. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 538 f.

Web links

• Fred Bergmann: Early advertising / Something new in the West / Customer-catching de luxe: At the beginning of the 20th century, the tire manufacturer Conti afforded a particularly demanding in-house communication. For his company magazine " Echo Continental " he hired well-known artists and young talents - and Erich Maria Remarque as an advertising copywriter. In: Spiegel Online from September 4, 2009; on-line
• NN : The donation "New Objectivity Collection" from the Sparkasse Hannover on the sprengel-museum.de site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Hugo Thielen : Scheibe, Edgar. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 311
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hannoversche Presse. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 262
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hugo Thielen: Scheibe, Edgar. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 538 f.
5. ↑ Christian Fuhrmeister: Edgar Scheibe (see literature)
6. ↑ Christian Fuhrmeister : Edgar Scheibe in ders. (Ed.): "The strongest expression of our days." New Objectivity in Hanover , catalog for the exhibition from December 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2001, ISBN 978-3-487-11440-8 and ISBN 3-487-11440-2 , pp. 253f .; limited preview in Google Book search

Remarks

1. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, Fred Bergmann (see the section on web links ) does not refer to Scheibe as a freelance artist, but as part of the staff of the "Conti" such as "[...] Hermann Schütz, Erich A. Meyer (EAM), Paul Kaufmann (alias Caspary) [and] Willy Müller ”.