Erich Green

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Erich Adolf Grün (born December 20, 1915 in Pyschminskoje ; † August 30, 2009 in Hanover ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Grün was born in 1915 in an internment camp in Pyschminskoye, where his parents were deported from Saint Petersburg after the outbreak of World War I because their father was of German origin. His mother was Russian. He had three siblings. In 1917 the family managed to flee and in 1918 they moved to Berlin via Dorpat , where their parents separated. The mother returned to Saint Petersburg.

Grün stayed with his father in Berlin, where he began his first artistic training at the Reimann School with Moriz Melzer . However, after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he had to break off this after two semesters, since school and pupils were increasingly harassed by the SA because of the Jewish origin of the director Albert Reimann , and lessons were hardly possible. He trained with the police and the air force .

During the Second World War , Grün became a British prisoner of war as a paratrooper and spent the time until 1947 in a prisoner of war camp in Malta . There his artistic talent was quickly recognized, so that he received orders for portraits and wall paintings from the English . He used the money he earned to flee to Sicily in an inflatable dinghy . He returned to Germany by land across the Alps and found accommodation in Barsinghausen near Hanover.

From 1948 to 1951, Grün continued his artistic studies at the Werkkunstschule in Hanover with a focus on book graphics and painting under Erich Rhein , among others . From 1957 to 1981, Grün was an art teacher at the Bismarck School in Hanover and also had a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule from 1961 to 1971.

Grün was a guest of the Academy of Athens and the Summer Academy in Delphi as well as a member of the BBK Hanover and from 1991 a member of the Finnish Kalevala Society. He bequeathed his entire artistic estate to the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover .

Grün was married to Oda Keitel, daughter of Bodewin Keitel and niece Wilhelm Keitel , in his second marriage . His first wife (married in 1939) and three children were killed in an air raid on Cottbus in 1944 .

Honors

literature

  • Green, Erich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 323 .
  • Holger Grimm: Green, Erich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 357.
  • Green, Erich . In: Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists: Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Ed. 2, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11094-567-6 , p. 390.
  • Michael Stier (text), Hans-Martin Heinemann (red.): A life in color. On the 100th birthday of Erich Grün , brochure as “visual aid” for the exhibition in the Evangelical Lutheran Matthäus Church in Hanover List from September 29 to November 3, 2015, publisher: Erich Grün working group in the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association Hanover, Celle : Center for Work and Advice (ZAC), 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Grün - I paint my life Insights into a life's work , Erich Grün: Leben und Wirken , erich-gruen.de; accessed on May 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Martin Stier: On the opening of the exhibition Elias von Erich Grün , Hannover 2011.
  3. ↑ Erich Grün - Biographie , http://www.erich-gruen.de/biographie.php , accessed on September 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Klaus Kunze : 1947: The terminally ill general , accessed on September 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Erich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyschminskoye
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2009
Place of death Hanover