Egmont Schaefer

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Egmont Schaefer
in his exhibition at Galerie 100 in 1993

Egmont Schaefer (born May 7, 1908 in Niederschöneweide ; † January 11, 2004 in Berlin ) was a Berlin draftsman and painter . He was best known for his drawings from Berlin city and everyday life.

Life

Following school attendance and Abitur at the Humboldtschule, secondary school in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, Egmont Schaefer studied in 1927/28 in the graphics day class at the Berlin School of Applied Arts and Crafts and from 1928 to 1931 at the teaching establishment of the Berlin Arts and Crafts Museum with Emil Orlik . After unemployment and freelance work as a graphic designer , Schaefer was banned from working as a graphic designer by the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1938 because he was a "half-Jew" . He worked as an unskilled worker in a large Berlin offset printing company until 1944 and was conscripted in the Army Clothing Office until the end of the war.

After 1945 ES worked as a freelance painter and draftsman again, as he signed his drawings. In the post-war years, he created numerous drawings and illustrations for the Berlin newspaper Der Kurier . From 1965 to 1980 he was in charge of the Berlin gallery in the tower at Frankfurter Tor on behalf of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

From 1952 to 1959 and from 1966 to 1990 Egmont Schaefer was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . In 1993 he received an honorary scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs.

Like no other, Egmont Schaefer was able to capture and document city life in Berlin in drawings. Watercolors were mainly created in the years after the end of the war. Although Schaefer observed Berlin intensively as a pedestrian, his works mainly came from his artistic imagination.

His estate is looked after by the Berliner Kabinett eV association.

Works

  • 1926: Plänterwald, water promenade (pencil)
  • 1927: Spiritist session (pencil)
  • 1927: The Exact Aspect (Pen)
  • 1928: strollers (spring)
  • 1928: Two girls in a café (pencil)
  • 1950: City life (pen)
  • 1965: view from above (watercolor)
  • 1984: Fleeing Fish (Feder)
  • 1984: At the bar (spring)
  • 1989: previous century (spring)

Exhibitions

  • 1973: Institute for Building-Related Art Monbijou : Drawings Egmont Schaefer
  • 1977: Gallery in the Prater
  • 1978: Gallery in the tower, Frankfurter Tor
  • 1988: Galerie Mitte
  • 1991: Galerie Inselstraße 13: watercolors and drawings from 6 decades
  • 1996: Galerie Eva Poll: drawings and watercolors, 1926-1996
  • 1998: Gallery in the Prater: drawings and watercolors
  • 2002: Gallery in the Willy-Brandt-Haus I kept drawing. Watercolors and drawings from eight decades
  • 2003: Gallery in the tower
  • 2004: City History Museum Wismar Schabbelhaus and gallery of the Berlin graphic press
  • 2008: (on the 100th birthday) Berlin: Ratskeller Berlin-Lichtenberg , Galerie Parterre, Galerie der Moderne Berlin-Lichterfelde , Berlinische Galerie

literature

Egmont Schaefer Prize

Since 1998, the Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing has been awarded to illustrators by the Berliner Kabinett eV association every two years . Previous winners:

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personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Egmont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederschöneweide
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2004
Place of death Berlin