Erhart Mitzlaff

Erhart Mitzlaff (born October 22, 1916 in Kiel ; † June 9, 1991 in Bremen ) was a German painter , graphic artist and architect.

biography

Mitzlaff spent his childhood and school days in Mannheim , where the family moved in 1918. After attending school he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart and from 1936 to 1941 at the University of Karlsruhe architecture with Otto Ernst Schweizer . From 1944 to 1950 he was employed as a salaried architect at Brown Boveri & Cie ( ABB ) in Mannheim under Karl Wilhelm Ochs at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring Salzgitter and at Schünemann Verlag in Bremen (reconstruction after the war).

From 1940 Erhart Mitzlaff turned to painting. In 1946 he moved to Fischerhude and in 1947 married Ruth Kalckbremner. Mitzlaff's main works were created after the Second World War .

Prices

• 1960 Art Prize of Böttcherstraße , Bremen

Church window

• 1956: Zionskirche Bremen-Neustadt
• 1958: Hastedt Church of the Resurrection in Bremen
• 1959: Heliand Church Dortmund
• 1962: St. Lukas Church Bremen- Grolland
• 1963: Mathäuskirche Bremen-Huchting
• 1967: St. Stephani Bremen-Mitte
• 1968: Martin Luther Church Hoya
• Chapel of the Hermannsburg Mission

Exhibitions

• 1947 Kunsthalle Mannheim together with Hans Meyboden
• 1948 Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen, together with Hans Meyboden
• 1948 Gallery Clasing, Münster (E)
• 1951 Kunsthalle Bremen (E)
• 1951 “Colored Graphics” (G) in 15 museums in the Federal Republic
• 1952 "Objectless Painting in Germany", Kunsthalle Mannheim
• 1953 Kunsthalle Bremen (E)
• 1953 Kunstverein Erlangen, "First German Black and White Exhibition" (G)
• 1953 Kunstverein Recklinghausen "West German Graphics" (G)
• 1954 Karlsruhe, "Christian Art Today" (G)
• 1954 Kunstverein Hannover (G)
• 1955 Kunsthalle Bremen (E)
• 1955 Kaiserslautern, "Deutsche Graphik der Gegenwart" (G)
• 1955 Kunstverein Frankfurt (G)
• 1955 Mannheim Art Association (E)
• 1957 Gallery Insel Marl (E)
• 1960 Kunstverein Mannheim (E)
• 1962 "Prize Winner of Böttcherstraße Today", Bremen (G)
• 1967 Vegesack Adult Education Center (E)
• 1968 Commerzbank Peine (E)
• 1969 Gallery 67, Münster (E)
• 1973 Kunsthalle Bremen, "The Pictures" (E)
• 1973 Mannheimer Vers. AG, "Panorama-Bilder von Mannheim" (E)
• 1977 Christ Church Community Center, Bad Homburg (E)
• 1983 Kunsthalle Bremen, "Die Holzschnitte" (E)
• 1983 Grosse Gallery, Frankfurt / Main (E)
• 1983 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1986 Hajo Antpöhler Gallery, Bremen (E)
• 1986 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1988 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1989 Fischerhuder Kunstkreis eV, Fischerhuder Galerie (E)
• 1990 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1991 Gallery No. 5, Friedrichstadt / Eider (E)
• 1992 Graphic offer Müller, gallery for contemporary art Großpösna / Leipzig (E)
• 1992 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1993 Art Center Röperhof, Gallery Association Hamburg eV (E)
• 1993 Fischerhuder Kunstkreis eV, "Portraits" (G)
• 1994 House 44, Cuxhaven, (E)
• 1994 Town Hall Verden (E)
• 1995 Gallery in the Steigenberger Hotel, Hamburg (E)
• 1995 Study Gallery Busse, Worpswede (E)
• 1996 Graphic offer Müller, gallery for contemporary art, Großpösna / Leipzig (E)
• 1998 Color and Sound Gallery, Bremen (E)
• 1998 Gallery in the Hinterstadt, Friedrichstadt / Eider (E)
• 1998 Overbeck Foundation, Bremen / Vegesack, (E)
• 2001 St. Sephani Church, Bremen (E)
• 2002 Overbeck Bremen Vegesack Foundation, (G)
• 2003 Art Association Fischerhude (G)
• 2003 Fischerhuder Gallery (G)
• 2004 Fischerhuder Kunstverein (G)
• 2004 Gallery in the Hinterstadt (G) Friedrichstadt (E)
• 2006 Art Association Fischerhude (E)
• 2010 Kreissparkasse Verden (G)
• 2011 Art Association Fischerhude (G)
• 2012 Kunsthaus Müller Wurzbach Thuringia (E)

E = solo exhibition. G = group exhibition

literature

• Kunsthalle Bremen : The City: Image, Shape, Vision , p.268, Bremen 1973.
• Jörn Norden: Catalog raisonné of prints . Friedrichstadt 2004, on CD-Rom, with images of the listed works and an introduction to the artist's life and work.
• Fischerhuder Kunstkreis: Günter Busch , Horst Keller, Jörn Norden: Erhart Mitzlaff, pictures from five decades; 1940 - 1988 , Fischerhude 1989.