Erich Venzmer

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Erich Venzmer (born July 22, 1893 in Rostock ; † May 13, 1975 in Mainz ) was a German landscape painter , teacher and art historian .

Life

The son of a customs officer received private painting lessons from Franz Bunke in Schwaan during his school days (1899–1911) at the Ludwigsluster Realgymnasium from 1908 on . On Bunke's advice, he did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Rostock from 1911 to 1914 in order to maintain the practical basis for later artistic activity. From 1914 to 1918 he worked as a medic in World War I , from 1919 to 1921 he studied on a scholarship of Boldt's Foundation for Mecklenburg artist at the School of Applied Arts Hamburg with Arthur Illies and Julius Wohlers . In 1921/22 he was at a further education school in Aschersleben and in 1922/23 he attended the vocational education institute in Berlin with the exam as a trade teacher. In 1923 Erich married Venzmer and moved to Schwerin. Between 1924 and 1945 he was a teacher at the Schwerin trade school, interrupted in 1939/40 by military service as a medic in the Schwerin reserve hospital.

In 1945, Venzmer was appointed senior councilor for fine arts and museums in the Mecklenburg state administration. He was the founder and head of the visual arts section in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany in Mecklenburg and in 1947 a member of the museum commission in Schwerin. From 1948 to 1958 he was director of the picture gallery of the State Museum Schwerin , from 1952 also its deputy director.

Only after his retirement was he able to devote himself to his own artistic activity again, followed by longer stays on Usedom and the Fischland . Erich Venzmer died of heart failure in Mainz in 1975 while visiting his son's family.

Works

As a painter

  • "Warnow Bridge in Schwaan" (1908/09); "Katen mit Windflüchter" (around 1919); "Spring" (1925); "Boddenlandschaft" (around 1926/27); "The Doctor" (1928); “Abendstimmung am Lankower See” (1928/29); "Winter Sun" (1930); “Fishing boats on the Saaler Bodden” (1936); “Wismar Bay with Poel Island” (around 1936); “Am Retgendorfer See” (around 1938); “Am Saaler Bodden” (around 1940); "Moonscape Rügen" (1949);
  • "Wiendorf bei Schwaan" (1921); “Wide Landscape” (around 1930); “Jewish Cemetery in Schwerin” (1943/44).

“In spite of all sensitivity, his quiet landscapes are free of trivialities or accessories and are reduced to the essence. Some delightful still lifes complement his work. While he remained loyal to watercolor well into old age, he turned away from panel painting around 1955 and turned to new techniques. The result is figural compositions made of driftwood or bizarre root structures, attractive mobiles, collages, including “eye pictures”. Numerous small-format, abstract colored compositions illustrate Venzmer's endless supply of creative picture ideas. "

- Lisa Juerss

As an art historian

  • “Mecklenburg and its fine arts” in: Fine arts (1949);
  • " Carl Malchin 1838-1923. A painter from home ”(1952);
  • “Kunstmaler Karl Hennemann ” in: Land und Menschen (1959);
  • “ Vera Kopetz . Paintings and Graphics ”(1961);
  • “Ahrenshoop” on the artist colony, with Hermann Glander and Gerhard Vetter (photos) (1963);
  • " Jean-Baptiste Oudry " (1967);
  • “Ahrenshoop and the Darß peninsula on the Baltic Sea” in: Gerhard Wietek (Ed.) German artist colonies and artist locations (1976);

Exhibitions

  • 1925 "Schwerin Art Association";
  • 1927 " Association of Rostock Artists ";
  • 1939 "Exhibition of contemporary painters" in the Mecklenburg State Museum in Schwerin;
  • 1963, 1973, 1983 and 1993 on the occasion of the special birthdays in the State Museum in Schwerin;
  • 1995 in the Ahrenshooper Kunstkaten ;

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Venzmer, Erich. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .
  2. ^ Lisa Jürß: Schwaan artists' colony. Gallery in the old watermill. Work catalog. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2002. ISBN 3-88132-295-7 . P. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Venzmer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, teacher and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1975
Place of death Mainz