Elmar Albrecht

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Georgenstraße 10, Munich: The old motifs and colors of the facade were included in the painting plans by Elmar Albrecht, 1976

Elmar Albrecht (born May 14, 1915 in Munich ; † November 3, 1997 ibid) was a German painter and set designer .

Life

After an internship at the Bavarian State Opera , Elmar Albrecht began studying at the Munich Academy for Applied Arts in Emil Preetorius's applied arts class for scenic and costume art . From 1938 to 1939 he was assistant to the head of equipment at the Bavarian State Opera. Afterwards he worked as the first set designer at the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg i. Br. , From 1948 as a freelance artist in Munich. After the end of the war and as a prisoner of war, he worked as a freelance artist and set designer in Munich from 1948.

Elmar Albrecht had three children: Arwed Albrecht (* 1940, † 2017); Angèle Albrecht (* 1942, † 2000) and Gabriele Holm-Petersen (* 1944).

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From the family tradition as a court gilder , Elmar Albrecht had skills that he used in the development of his picture panels made from the material of the gilding compound. The relief structures were optionally covered with gold or silver leaf and then alienated. The works since 1948 are primarily to be assigned to the "Informel" style, in whose way of thinking Elmar Albrecht was anchored.

Many of his subjects refer to the mythological world of antiquity. In many pictures there are quotes and allusions to forms of Egyptian or also Greek and Roman antiquity.

At the same time, Elmar Albrecht repeatedly worked as a freelance set designer for various productions. For example, he designed the sets and costumes for Heinrich von Kleist's “ Der zerbrochne Krug ”, and he designed the set for Carl Orff's Greek tragedy “Prometheus” in the Munich marionette theater. For the "Deutsche Theater München" he designed the set for Schiller's " Kabale und Liebe " (1962)

He specialized in the restoration of old paintings in theaters. For example, he restored the ceiling of the auditorium in the National Theater in Munich , the ceiling of the auditorium in the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz (1969), the “ Gartensaal ” and “ Yellow Foyer ” of the Munich Prince Regent Theater (1988) and the ceiling and draperies of the Koblenz City Theater . In 1987, he restored the balustrades and proscenium boxes at the Wilhelma-Theater Stuttgart, Germany's only theater in Pompeii style . He realized the reconstruction from found colored, albeit incomplete, draft drawings by Ludwig von Zanth as well as from comparisons with related image programs .

In 1986, in the reading room of the Maximilianeum in Munich , Albrecht and Klaus Staps reconstructed wall paintings that had been lost due to damage: the paintings of Wilhelm III. of Orange, Gustav I. Wasa of Sweden, Cardinal Richelieu and Duke Sully . Since the original frescoes were no longer available, they were replaced by new creations that fit into the style of the existing pictures.

Exhibitions

Elmar Albrecht's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.

  • 1961: Munich, Galerie Deutscher Bücherbund, April 20 to May 18, 1961
  • 1965: Antwerp, Kunstkamer
  • 1966: Ascona, Schindler Gallery
  • 1966: Brussels, Galerie le Zodiaque
  • 1967: Bern, Schindler Gallery
  • 1968: Marburg, Galerie Heide Elmar Albrecht - picture panels , December 14, 1968 to January 15, 1969
  • 1970: Brussels, German Library
  • 1970: Minden, Commerzbank gallery
  • 1972: Deurle, Musée de la fondation J. Dhondt-Dhaenens à Deurle, September 17 to October 15, 1972
  • 1972: Puurs, gallery of the Continental Foods works
  • 1973: Brussels, Cultureel Centrum van Brussels, January 5th - 21st 1973, présentation Geo SEMPELSS
  • 1973: Kuurne, Galerij Estetika, March 17 to April 1, 1973
  • 1995: Germering, town hall
  • 1995: Munich, Ostfoyer Prinzregententheater, retrospective March 10-24, 1995
  • 2006: Munich, gallery in the Augustinum Illusion. Decoration. Abstraction..

Honors

literature

  • Photo panels / Elmar Albrecht . Preface by Elmar Stolpe. Munich, Schottenheim & Giess, approx. 1992. DNB 1063754135
  • Hans Kiessling: painter of the Munich art scene 1955-1982. EOS Verlag, ISBN 3-88096-175-1 , pages 326 to 331

TV reports

  • Report on the redesign and restoration of the Maximilianeum, ARD, Bayerisches Fernsehen , Abendschau 1985
  • Dötsch, Regina: Abendschau-Journal: Theatermaler E. Albrecht , Bayerisches Fernsehen , September 6, 1988 (report on the 73rd birthday of Elmar Albrecht, in particular about the redesign of the garden hall and foyer in the Prinzregententheater Munich)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Ude in
    Wilhelma Theater, auditorium
    Wilhelma-Theater, ceiling in the auditorium

    Süddeutsche Zeitung , 6./7. November 1976

  2. ↑ Heiner Bontrup: Alchemist and magician in his element. In: Rheinische Post Moers , September 11, 1999.
  3. ↑ Elmar Albrecht - picture panels - production Schottenheim & Gieß, Munich, 1992, OCLC no .: 165488507
  4. ^ Maurus Pacher in tz , September 16, 1969
  5. ^ Seidel, Klaus Jürgen: The new Prinzregententheater. Festschrift for the reopening, Munich: Knürr 1988, DNB 958758638, page 257
  6. ↑ Hans Heid: Das Prinzregententheater - architectural monument maintenance and memory maintenance, page 62, 64
  7. ↑ Dankwart Guratzsch in Die Welt "Maybe I would have become a good forger", January 8, 1988, No. 6
  8. ^ Dankwart Guratzsch in Die Welt December 1, 1987
  9. ↑ Restoration and reconstruction of the 12 statues in the reading room of the Maximilianeum in 1986
  10. ^ Le Monde du Travail (Liège), October 20, 1966
  11. ↑ Berner Tagblatt , June 14, 1967
  12. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 2, 1995
  13. ↑ E. Albrecht exhibition, Augustinum Munich ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.mucportal.de
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 35, February 9, 1992, page 15
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1997
Place of death Munich