Erich Ockert

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Erich Ockert (born September 3, 1889 in Dresden , † November 18, 1953 in Weixdorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Erich Ockert completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer from 1904 to 1908 . From 1908 to 1913 he worked as a lithographer in Hamburg , Zittau , Weimar and Milan . From 1913 to 1920 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Robert Sterl and Johannes Raphael Wehle (1848–1936) as well as with Richard Müller and Osmar Schindler . In 1914/15 Ockert studied in Robert Sterl's painting room and from 1915 to 1918 in Carl Bantzer's studio, interrupted in 1917 by one year of military service. Then he studied with Ludwig von Hofmann . Until his death he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Weixdorf near Dresden.

Erich Ockert was represented with 18 works at the Dresden Art Exhibition in 1925 as a member of the New Group in 1925 on Brühl's Terrace . The Dresden Art Cooperative and the Dresden Secession 1925/26 also took part in this exhibition . Erich Ockert was a founding member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 and is listed on the sketch of the founding event by Bernhard Kretzschmar .

The drawing and graphic work in the first years after graduation until 1922 was based on the works of the Nazarenes and the painting of the Old Masters . Like Otto Dix, Erich Ockert portrayed members of the family of the Dresden lawyer and patron Fritz Glaser . Around 1927, the influences of the New Objectivity became increasingly noticeable in Erich Ockert's work . B. in the portrait of his seven-year-old daughter Annelies, which was acquired in 1930 by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden .

Erich Ockert was involved in an artist group together with Hermann Lange and Ernst Berger in the Freital artist circle around Karl Hanusch . In 2000 the Erich-Ockert-Weg in Dresden was named after him.

literature

  • Erich Ockert . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 276-277 .
  • Ockert, Erich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 504 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft (Ed.): Art exhibition Dresden 1925. Brühlsche Terrasse . Dresden 1925 (exhibition catalog).
  2. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 560 .
  3. ^ Wolfgang Schumann : A new Saxon artist group . In: Westermannsmonthshefte . tape 138 , 1925, pp. 413-420 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ockert, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1953
Place of death Weixdorf