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At the inauguration of the memorial stone, Susanne Klein presented "Die Föhre", one of her father's most famous pictures

Eitel Klein (born April 27, 1906 in Hörlbach near Ellingen ; † November 12, 1990 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Eitel Klein was born in 1906 as the son of the village school teacher in Hörlbach, a current part of the town of Ellingen ( Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district ). In 1922 the family moved to Nuremberg. From 1924, Eitel Klein studied ornament drawing and commercial graphics at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts . This was followed in 1929 by studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Caspar . After completing his studies, Klein worked freelance in Nuremberg and exhibited in the "Fränkische Galerie".

From 1937 onwards, Klein dealt with fresco painting and the subject of “art in architecture” - in the same year he was commissioned to decorate the town hall facade in Hersbruck with a fresco.

In 1940 Eitel was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1944, from which he was only released in 1950. After his return to Nuremberg he received many commissions on the subject of “ Art in Architecture ”.

In 1951 Klein became a member of the artists 'association “ Der Kreis ” in Nuremberg, and he built his own studio in the garden of his parents' house. Artistically, he turned to the color-intensive tempera picture and participated in exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich as well as in Nuremberg and Bayreuth .

In the final phase of his work, he bought his own printing press in 1974 and concentrated again on graphics and drawing . His presentations of the pictures and drawings took place in solo exhibitions in Nuremberg, Weißenburg , Marburg , Erlangen and Roth .

Memorial stone for Eitel Klein

Klein died in Nuremberg in 1990. On August 6, 2006, the Hörlbach homeland association had a memorial stone erected for Eitel Klein.

Exhibitions

  • 1992 - East Prussia Cultural Center in Ellingen
  • 2005 - St. Oswald Church in Hörlbach for the 750th anniversary of Hörlbach
  • 2006 - Kunstmuseum Erlangen (Loewenisches Palais): vainly small - seen again
  • 2007 - KREIS gallery at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg: Eitel Klein - studio and garden
  • 2008 - East Prussia Cultural Center: Eitel Klein - Pictures of the simple life in the country
  • 2017 - Kunstmuseum Hersbruck - Die Verschollenen - A documentation of the fresco on the Hersbruck town hall (1937–1945) and works from various collections (September 21 to December 17, 2017)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great rush for the "missing". (No longer available online.) Hersbruck Art Museum, archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on October 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstmuseum-hersbruck.de
personal data
SURNAME Small, vain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hörlbach near Ellingen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1990
Place of death Nuremberg