Erhard Theodor Astler

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Erhard Theodor Astler (born July 25, 1914 in Böhmisch-Leipa , † October 18, 1998 in Isny im Allgäu ) was a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

Life

Erhard Th. Astler from Leipa studied glass painting at the State Glass School in Haida (then Sudetenland ) and graphics with Heinrich Hönich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . After the first exhibitions, he was called up for military service in World War II and was seriously injured in a plane crash in 1942.

In 1943 he returned to Prague, where in 1944 he was a lecturer at the School of Applied Arts and, as a contract professor, head of the special school for applied painting. In 1947 he moved from the re-established Czechoslovak Republic to Kitzingen in Franconia , where he worked as a freelance artist and also gave courses at the adult education center in Würzburg . During this period he became a member of the Esslingen Artists' Guild . In 1950 he received a teaching position at the State Glass School (Erwin-Stein-Glasfachschule) in Hadamar . He had also received commissions in Central America (1974) and in the USA (1978). He lived in Limburg an der Lahn until 1980 . Then he moved to Isny ​​im Allgäu.

Works by him can be found in the National Gallery in Prague , in the collection of the Glasgow McLellan Galleries , in the Regensburg Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie and in the Hessian Ministry of Culture . Astler's works are still shown today in the form of commemorative exhibitions. A trilingual monograph and art portfolio by Astler has been published by Bensemann-Verlag.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

literature

  • Michael Heyder: Astler, Erhard Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 491.
  • Erhard Theodor Astler. In: Charlotte Fergg-Frowein (Hrsg.): Kürschners Graphiker-Handbuch . Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Illustrators, commercial artists, typographers. De Gruyter, Berlin 1959.
  • Astler, Erhard Th. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.

Web links

Individual evidence

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