Erich Demmin

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Erich Demmin (born October 1, 1911 in Ivenack , Mecklenburg ; † July 9, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter, graphic artist and restorer.

Life

Erich Demmin was born the son of a gardener in Ivenack, Mecklenburg. From 1931 to 1939 he studied at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Max Kutschmann , with the landscape painter Ludwig Bartning (1876-1956) and the church painter and restorer Paul Thol (1887-1956). Already during his student days he was busy with restoring churches under Paul Thol. Demmin was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin .

From 1949 to 1955, under Hinnerk Scheper, he was involved in the restoration of the Knobelsdorff wing at Charlottenburg Palace and the staircase at Klein-Glienicke Palace . At the end of the 1950s he turned more to freelance landscape and vedute painting, he was a member of the Havelländische painter colony. Long study trips took him to Italy, Spain, Portugal and Holland. The motifs of his works come from these trips, but also from his Mecklenburg homeland and the Baltic Sea. In 1965 he turned down an appointment as a lecturer at the master school for graphics and book trade in Berlin.

“The work is characterized by bright, lively compositions that convey great decorative charm, including bathing at the sea. From small-scale recording of details, later transition to large-scale painting style. Use of mild play of light and shadow, atmospheric moods. "

- AKL

Works (selection)

Construction-related work
photos
  • Dutch harbor with houses on the pier and sailing boat
  • Italian landscape
  • Mountain landscape
  • On the Havel
  • Bathing pleasure at the sea
  • Clouds on the Baltic Sea
  • Heiligendamm park

literature

  • Demmin, Erich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 26, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22766-3 , p. 81.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2027 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. Members' personal files, p. 385 (PDF; 3.4 MB). (No longer available online.) Landesarchiv Berlin, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Literature: AKL
  3. ↑ a b Literature: Grete Grewolls
personal data
SURNAME Demmin, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, graphic artist and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Ivenack , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1997
Place of death Berlin