Erich Feyerabend

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Erich Feyerabend (born November 19, 1889 in Rees on the Lower Rhine; † October 18, 1945 in Bad Friedrichshall -Jagstfeld) was a German graphic artist , painter and draftsman .

Life

Erich Feyerabend grew up in Berlin and spent his youth there. He should complete a commercial apprenticeship. Erich Feyerabend succeeded in being accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts . There he studied a. a. with the landscape painter Prof. Kallmorgen .

During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the reserve and a war painter in France.

After completing his studies, he continued to live in Berlin as a freelance artist and graphic designer. During this creative period he made a. a. some woodcuts from fairy tales and legends that were used in book illustrations . His pictures have been shown at the major Berlin and Munich art exhibitions. He was active in the German Association of Artists .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists and the death of the Reich President Hindenburg , he was one of the signatories of the call by cultural workers for a "referendum" on the merger of the Reich President and Reich Chancellery in August 1934 . During the 1930s, Erich Feyerabend shifted his artistic activity more and more from painting to large-format woodcuts. He received orders from interested cities to make cityscapes . He reserved the right to keep the printing blocks owned by the Feyerabend family. Only in the case of the city of Berlin did he sell the printing block. This printing block then got lost during the war.

Erich Feyerabend was appointed "head of the woodcut class" at the Württ. Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart on November 25, 1938 and thus took over the teaching area of Gottfried Graf, who was pushed out of office by the Nazis as "degenerate" . From 1937 to 1944 he was represented in all major German art exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art . As Ernst Klee has shown, he was received in May 1943 by " Governor General " Hans Frank , known as the Polish butcher , in occupied Krakow.

Feyerabend spent most of the Second World War in Stuttgart . He was appointed full professor and at times also full-time director of the Stuttgart Academy, which was organizationally united with the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1941, after Fritz von Graevenitz had resigned his post as director at the beginning of the 1940s due to illness, to which he returned before the end of the war.

Erich Feyerabend, whose continued employment at a newly established Stuttgart Art Academy was rejected by the cultural authorities, died on October 18, 1945 of complications from pneumonia and was buried in Bad Wimpfen .

Works (selection)

Jewelry telegrams

  • From 1926 at the latest, a so-called jewelry telegram can be verified with the German Reich Telegraph. The four-sided sheet bears on the last page u. a. the reference to the Reichsdruckerei Berlin and the signature C187Lx1 (10.26) lower right.

Book illustrations

  • German legends . Modifications made by Max Hillgruber. Published by the Berlin Teachers' Association, Comenius Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • German taunts from old times . Published by the Berlin Teachers' Association, Comenius Verlag, Berlin 1925.
  • Dreizehnlinden . Friedrich Wilhelm Weber, Publishing House Peter Heine & Co, Warendorf i. W.

Cityscapes

  • Beeskow 65 × 21 cm
  • Berlin
  • Besigheim 64 × 20 cm
  • Bromberg 120 × 26 cm
  • Danzig 118 × 24 cm
  • Deventer 36 × 18 cm?
  • Emden 40 × 18 cm
  • Husum 51 × 16 cm
  • Kolberg 48 × 24 cm?
  • Krakow 217 × 35 cm
  • Liegnitz 85 × 22 cm
  • Lübeck 85 × 23 cm
  • Ulm 114 × 32 cm
  • Rees 65 × 20 cm
  • Rostock 65 × 21 cm
  • Scheer 80 × 21 cm
  • Schwäbisch Hall 87 × 23 cm
  • Soest 83 × 22 cm
  • Stralsund (1944) 83 × 21 cm
  • Stralsund (1945) 105 × 19 cm
  • Stuttgart 143 × 27 cm
  • Wimpfen 60 × 20 cm
  • Wismar 45 × 15 cm?
  • Wollin 50 × 17 cm?

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 151.
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts: Stuttgart - City of Germans Abroad . Stuttgart: G. Göltz [print], undated [1939], p. 41.
  3. ↑ cf. Meier zu Eisen, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Feyerabend, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rees
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1945
Place of death Bad Friedrichshall -Jagstfeld