Engelbert schooner

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0.50 DM - Block of the GDR Post 1955 on the 150th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death
Memorial plaque for Engelbert Schoner in Weimar, Cranachstrasse 29

Engelbert Schoner (born May 23, 1906 in Neuhaus am Rennweg , † June 5, 1977 in Weimar ) was an animal and plant painter. In addition, he was the designer of all postage stamps issued by the Oberpostdirektion Erfurt for Thuringia after the Second World War .

Life

From 1921 to 1923, Schoner attended the drawing and modeling school in Lichte-Wallendorf and, from 1928, the Weimar Academy of Art as a master student with Alexander Olbricht and later with Walther Klemm .

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, he won a design competition of the OPD Erfurt for the execution of the postage stamps issued for Thuringia from October 1, 1945. In addition to the first Thuringian postage stamps with the motifs "Tannen im Thüringer Wald", "Posthorn und Brief", "Friedrich von Schiller" and "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", the motifs of which were used again on two block editions in December 1945, Schoner also designed the block edition issued on March 27, 1946 for the reconstruction of the German National Theater in Weimar as well as the surcharge stamps for the reconstruction of destroyed bridges in Thuringia, also published in March 1946 as individual stamps and block edition. In addition, as a joint issue of the Deutsche Post in the Soviet zone in July 1949, a five-stamp set of stamps on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as the three-stamp GDR stamp set for the Nature Conservation Week 1957 were printed based on his designs.

In particular, Schoner was an animal and plant painter, who also illustrated books, including Gerhard Creutz's “Pocket Book of Local Songbirds” . He was also a professor at the art academy in Weimar and an honorary citizen of his hometown Neuhaus am Rennweg. He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1971 and the GDR National Prize in 1976.

In 2006 the Engelbert-Schoner-Weg in Weimar was named after him. Some of his works are exhibited in the Heimatmuseum in Neuhaus.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1947: Erfurt, 1st state exhibition of fine artists in Thuringia , Thuringia Hall
  • 1948: Weimar, creating artists. 1945–48 , castle, Weimar
  • 1949: Weimar, Thuringian Art in the Goethe Year 1949 , Schloßmuseum, Weimar
  • 1949: Dresden, 2nd German Art Exhibition Dresden 1949
  • 1953: Dresden, Third German Art Exhibition Dresden 1953 , Albertinum
  • 1954: Altenburg, art exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the State Lindenau Museum , State Lindenau Museum
  • 1961: Erfurt, painting, graphics, sculpture , Angermuseum
  • 1967: Weimar, Kunsthalle am Theaterplatz
  • 1967: Gotha, Friedenstein Castle
  • 1976: Weimar, Weimar Art Collections, Kunsthalle am Theaterplatz

literature

  • Wolfgang Maassen: artist designs of the post-war period (2) . In: Philately No. 336, June 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c estate Schoner, Engelbert (1906-1977) in the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden: Search. Retrieved February 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schooner, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal and plant painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus am Rennweg
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1977
Place of death Weimar