Emil Lohse

Grave slab in the Inner Plauen cemetery

Ernst Emil Lohse (born July 9, 1885 in Schmiedeberg ; † February 14, 1949 in Dresden ) was a German educator, art historian, folklorist, museum director, draftsman , painter and silhouette artist .

Life

Jägerhof Dresden

Emil Lohse, who comes from Schmiedeberg in the Eastern Ore Mountains , attended elementary schools in his birthplace and in Dresden . From 1900 to 1906 he successfully completed the royal teachers' seminar in the Saxon state capital . He then worked as an auxiliary teacher in Pillnitz and Schmiedeberg before he discovered his artistic streak and studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1911 to 1913 , where he graduated as a state-certified drawing teacher. As such, he initially worked in Bischofswerda , but was then drafted into the war as a soldier. During this time as a medic in a Landwehr regiment, the first silhouettes were made, which quickly spread among the soldiers and made him known. Nevertheless, he did not become a freelance artist, but continued to teach pupils as a teacher, initially again in Bischofswerda, but from 1922 at the secondary school in Oschatz .

In 1924 Emil Lohse moved to the Pedagogical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden, where he last worked as a lecturer. After the death of Oskar Seyffert , he became honorary director of the State Museum for Saxon Folk Art in the Jägerhof in Dresden. As such, he experienced the bombing of the city on February 13, 1945 and took an active part in the reconstruction. He remained the museum director until his death in 1949. His grave is in the Inner Plauen cemetery .

Numerous books are now provided with his illustrations.

literature

• W. Lachmann, K. Herschel: Ernst Emil Lohse † . In: Der Zoologischer Garten , 18/1951, H. 5/6, pp. 241–245.

Web links

• Brigitte Emmrich: Lohse, Ernst Emil . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For example, the series Pictures from the Sachsenlande .