Emil Scheibe

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Emil Scheibe (born October 23, 1914 in Munich ; † December 21, 2008 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist of existential realism .

Life

1935–1939 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Academy for Applied Arts , where he passed his exams as an art teacher. In 1940 he taught in Schweinfurt , from 1945 to 1948 he was a freelance painter in Heidelberg , where he developed his "Existential Realism" style. In 1946 he began painting religious motifs, especially ink and ink drawings. In 1949 he returned to Munich . From 1949 to 1951 he worked as an art teacher at the Dom-Gymnasium Freising . On September 16, 1954 he founded the group Munich Realists . In 1951 he married Elfriede Weitzel.

He had important exhibitions in the Catholic Academy in Munich and Trier (1974 and 1975), in the Martinskirche in Sindelfingen (1979), in the city library in Merzig (1980), in St. Egidien in Nuremberg (1981) and in the Marktkirche in Hanover (1987) and on his 90th birthday in 2004 in Munich.

Works

(Selection)

  • Hitler at the front (1943)
  • Christmas under the excavator (1954, oil, later lithograph )
  • The Homeless (1955, oil)
  • Great Crucifixion (1955/56, oil)
  • Christ in the Ruhr Area (1957, India ink drawing)
  • The stigmatization of St. Francis (1963, oil, earth)
  • Man after the nuclear disaster (1964)
  • Il dolce bambino (1967)
  • The Killer Baby (1973, from the Black Series , ink with gouache, colored pencil and opaque white, Kunstmuseum Albstadt)
  • The Scream (1974/75, India ink drawing)
  • Christ in the wires
  • The new Pentecost

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website with a picture of the painting

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Disk, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of existential realism
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2008
Place of death Munich