Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald

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Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald (born September 14, 1884 in Dresden , † March 27, 1972 in Krefeld ) was a German landscape painter and wood cutter .

Life

Erich Buchwald was the fifth child of the Dresden porcelain painter Gustav Meyer Buchwald. Together with his older brother Gustav , they were taught painting and drawing by Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli . From 1903 to 1912 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Richard Müller , Carl Bantzer and was a master student with Gotthardt Kuehl . The early death of his father and later his mother made him feel the lack of money and poverty . As a result, his health deteriorated, so that in 1904 Simonson-Castelli finally brought him to visit friends in Zinnwald in the Eastern Ore Mountains in a holiday home owned by the Munscheid family for a convalescent stay. Ms. Munscheid and her daughter Else cared for him with great sacrifice and got to know the beauty and tranquility of the landscape and the pure mountain air. Until 1919 he spent his time in Zinnwald or in Dresden-Loschwitz in the Villa Alpenrose of the Munscheids. It was through this affection for nature and the mountain region that he completed his name and from then on called himself Buchwald-Zinnwald. After a year of interruption, he continued his studies in 1905 and finished it in 1912 with the great gold medal, a special award from the academy.

independence

Laboriously, due to the First World War , tried to establish himself as a freelancer in Dresden. Again and again he was drawn to the Eastern Ore Mountains, where he painted and drew the area. His motifs were nature and the localities, Altenberg , Geising , Georgenfeld , Rehefeld and Zinnwald. In his oil paintings , copper etchings and colored woodcuts, he showed the mountain world of the Eastern Ore Mountains. On January 16, 1919, he married Marie Helene Pabst from Oberrochwitz and went on a honeymoon to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . There, too, a large number of pictures and woodcuts were created. In the years 1928 to 1930 the family traveled to Italy on their vacation and were mainly in Rome , Venice and Florence , they also went on vacation trips to Switzerland and visited St. Moritz , Wengen and Zermatt from 1932 to 1936 . In turn, new works of art were created with motifs from the areas.

After 1945

With the end of the Second World War , a troubled time began. He was driven from his house in Zinnwald and thus lost his domicile in the Eastern Ore Mountains. From then on he stayed in Dresden, where he lived in Dresden-Loschwitz , Karpatenstrasse 93, after his wedding . Initially, his son Gustav, born in 1922, was considered missing. He settled in the American occupation zone and lives in Krefeld-Bockum . In the post-war period it became a bit quiet around the artist. His health also deteriorated more and more. In addition, there was the loss of his wife in 1952. In 1953 he took part in the 3rd art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden's Albertinum (March to May) with the picture Dresden around 1900 . In the meantime he fell ill with cataracts , which hindered his artistic work very much. With great effort, his son was able to bring him to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968 in the form of a family reunification in Krefeld-Bockum. The GDR authorities wrongly labeled and treated the artist as a refugee from the republic . Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald died on March 27, 1972 in Krefeld-Bockum.

literature

  • Thieme, Hans; Elbhang-Kurier; Friebel advertising agency and publishing house (1999), 12, pp. 8-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition of the Dresden Artists' Association 1916.
  2. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
  3. ↑ Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald - life.
  4. ↑ Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald - life
  5. ^ Dresden-Rochwitz
  6. ↑ Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald - life
  7. ^ Address book of the city of Dresden from 1943/44. P. 92. Digitized
  8. ^ Dresden-Rochwitz
  9. ↑ Erich Buchwald-Zinnwald - life
personal data
SURNAME Buchwald-Zinnwald, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1972
Place of death Krefeld