Emil Bert Hartwig

Emil Bert Hartwig (born July 20, 1907 in Marl -Sinsen, † February 7, 1996 in Freinsheim ) was a German painter .

Life

In 1921 Emil Bert Hartwig completed an architecture apprenticeship in Essen. From 1925 to 1926 Hartwig received training from Max Peiffer-Watenpuhl at the Folkwang School in Essen . Between 1927 and 1930 he studied at the Bauhaus Dessau, completed the preliminary course with Josef Albers , learned image weaving in the weaving workshop with Gunta Stölzl and painting with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee . Hartwig received a travel grant in 1931 and worked for a year in Paris and Normandy . In retrospect, he experienced this time as the freest of his life. From 1932 to 1934 Hartwig studied painting with Paul Klee at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . After Paul Klee was expelled from Düsseldorf by the National Socialists in 1933 , Emil Bert Hartwig also left the academy and from 1934 lived as a freelance artist in Münster-Hiltrup . In 1935 Hartwig became a member of the Free Artist Community Schanze in Münster , to which he belonged until his death. Between 1939 and 1945 he was a soldier , in 1945 he married Anna Eckervogt, and in 1949 he set up a studio in Hiltrup. In addition to commissioned work, he was now able to create freelance work, especially oil paintings. The first woodcut cycle was created in 1949 , which was followed by other cycles until the 1970s. From 1959 to 1976 Hartwig worked as a lecturer at the Münster University of Applied Sciences in the field of design for drawing and painting. In 1984 Hartwig moved to Freinsheim / Pfalz and worked there as a freelance painter until his death in 1996.

Life's work

The painter's life's work includes around 500 pictures, 250 watercolors and woodcuts as well as 100 graphics. Style formation in the Bauhaus can be seen in his works.

Characteristic of his work seemed to be “the unpretentious handling of the pictorial themes and the pictorial designs (...) Hartwig did not commit himself to one expression or style, but constantly and often at the same time, next to each other, almost geometrical constructions of strict design as well as painterly indulgent forms used in his pictures and arranged for composition ” (Arno Piechorowski, Aldus-Presse Reicheneck). He was artistically friends with the Free Artist Community Schanze in Münster , Westphalia , where he lived for about 50 years.

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, an exhibition of his works took place from June 21 to July 27, 2007 in the Glaskasten , Marl.

Catalog raisonné, representations

• EBHartwig, catalog raisonné of woodcuts, Harwalik publishing house, 1990, ISBN 3-921638-27-5
• Wolfgang Wangler, student of the Bauhaus and your painting today, Symbol, 1982, ISBN 3-9800350-1-8
• EBHartwig, Späte Blätter, Adolf Smitmans and Arno Piechorowski, Städtische Galerie Albstadt, 1996, ISBN 3-923644-70-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Emil Bert Hartwig in the catalog of the German National Library