Eduard Alfred Lehmann-Wittenberg

Eduard Alfred Lehmann-Wittenberg (born April 16, 1889 in Wittenberg , † June 8, 1952 in Munich ) was a German painter.

Life

He was born as Eduard Alfred Lehmann. He grew up in Wittenberg and took a liking to painting as a young man. After studying at the Berlin Art Academy , he set up a studio in Bad Schmiedeberg before 1920 . Here as in the surrounding Düben Heath , Lehmann found the motifs for his work. His role model was the painter Emil Zschimmer, who used to live there, and as his successor he developed into a “heath painter”. In order to avoid confusion with artists of the same name, he added the name of his place of birth to his family name after his first successes.

In addition to works in oil , watercolor , graphics and drawings ( caricatures !), He also designed pure commercial graphics . This included business advertisements (advertising posters and, among other things, the logo of the Eisenmoorbad Bad Schmiedeberg), the emergency money of this city and z. B. Cover pages for the series Die Dübener Heide . Much of his work was used to illustrate these booklets as well as other regional publications. He also made book illustrations for his friend, the German-Danish writer P. Vilgardsen-Blume (pseudonym: Momos the Wanderer), for example for the children's book painter Knille cleans the fairy tale glasses .

Probably mainly for economic reasons, Lehmann bought a second studio in Munich in 1929, where he has since stayed temporarily and found new motifs for his work in the city and its surroundings. He especially devoted himself to the representation of alpine landscapes. From 1945 to the late 1940s, Lehmann generally lived in Bad Schmiedeberg, where he earned a living by painting portraits . Then he finally moved to Munich, where he died.

literature

• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Lehmann-Wittenberg, Eduard Alfred , in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide , AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 59.