Erich Dittmann

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Erich Dittmann (born May 21, 1916 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 20, 1999 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Life

Erich Dittmann was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1916. At the age of 18 he was drafted into military service and served as a medical soldier in Russia during World War II . He attended the arts and crafts school in Poznan and then studied at the Munich Art Academy with Constantin Gerhardinger and Franz Xaver Stahl and at the Art Academy with Harold Bengen and Wilhelm Tank in Berlin . In 1946 he moved to the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main for five semesters . In Frankfurt he made in the early 1950s as a painter and graphic artist independently .

Create

Dittmann became known as a portrait draftsman in the Rhein-Main edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), for which he portrayed people from Frankfurt contemporary history in more than 1200 drawings, the "Frankfurt faces", for over three decades. Dittmann made a name for himself as a court draftsman beyond the Frankfurt area . He drew the Auschwitz Trial from 1963–65 and from the 1970s worked as a court draftsman, mainly for the ZDF. The House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn has included around 600 court drawings from Dittmann on the most important court trials in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, including drawings on the RAF trials , espionage and corruption trials. Since federal German law does not allow filming and photography in court proceedings, the drawings are the only image documents of the proceedings.

In addition to his trial drawings, Dittmann also painted oil paintings and red chalk drawings and illustrated numerous books, including “ Grzimek's Animal Life ”.

literature

  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ed.): Frankfurter Faces One hundred and fifty portraits from over a thousand published portraits of Frankfurt citizens. With drawings by Erich Dittmann. Frankfurt am Main, 1981.
  • Erich Dittmann: Recorded with curious eyes . Memoirs I and II (each self-published)
  • Erich Dittmann: Down with the black paragraph stallions Beck Juristischer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3406485871 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dittmann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1999
Place of death Aschaffenburg