Ernst Lewinger (graphic designer)

Ernst Albrecht Friedrich Lewinger (born March 12, 1931 in Dresden ; † December 11, 2015 there ) was a German graphic artist , painter and illustrator .

Life

Ernst Lewinger was born in Dresden in 1931 into an upper-class family that lost its prosperity during the global economic crisis . The grandfather Ernst Lewinger was the chief director at the Royal Saxon Court Theater until 1918 . Lewinger took private lessons from Edmund Kesting in 1947/1948 and from 1948 to 1951 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Josef Hegenbarth and Hans Theo Richter .

In the years 1951 to 1953 he switched to the Berlin-Charlottenburg University of the Arts on a currency scholarship , where he had important representatives of non-figurative post-war art as teachers with Alexander Camaro and Hans Uhlmann . After that he was a freelancer from 1953 to 1957 as a commercial artist working in Dresden. From 1957 to 1959 he worked as a drawing teacher and from 1960 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden . From 1965 he was again working as a freelancer. From 1972 to 1986 fourteen fiction books with his series of illustrations were published. Lewinger was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Ernst Lewinger died on December 11, 2015 at the age of 84 in Dresden.

Mihai Eminescu : Angel and Demon, Reclam Leipzig 1972
ETA Hoffmann : The golden pot, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1974
ETA Hoffmann: Nachtstücke, Deutsches Verlagsbuchhaus, Dresden
Theodor Fontane : Quitt, Verlag der Nation , Berlin 1975
Theodor Fontane: Cécile, Verlag der Nation, 1976
Hermann Hesse : Strange news from another planet, Tomorrow's publishing house, Berlin 1977
Kamil Bednář : Melody of the Green World, Der Morgen publisher, Berlin 1978
Jens Peter Jacobsen : Two Worlds, Reclam Leipzig 1979
Friedrich Huch : Dreams - New Dreams, Der Morgen publisher, Berlin 1983
Ferdinand von Saar : Ginevra and other stories, Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1985
Eduard Mörike : Mozart on the trip to Prague , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1986
Karel Hynek Mácha : May, Ed. Bubo, Dresden 2006

Lewinger, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 206 .
Ulla Heise: Lewinger, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 84, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023189-2 , p. 303.
Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 537 .
Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 .
Lothar Lang: From Hegenbarth to Altenbourg . Book illustration and artist book in the GDR. Verlag Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7762-1200-4 , p. 166 ff .
Sebastian Hennig (painter) : Ernst Lewinger - watercolors and pastels, in: Ostragehege (journal) , issue, 1/2011, Literary Arena eV, Dresden 2011 . ISSN 0947-1286 .
Sebastian Hennig (painter) : Stability and Beauty - Ernst Lewingers illustrations for Pietro Metastasio , in: marginalia, 214. Issue, 1/2014, Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2014 . ISSN 0025-2948 .
Sebastian Hennig (painter) : Ernst Lewinger - Floating in connectedness (1931-2015). Arnshaugk Verlag, Neustadt Orla od 2016 . ISBN 978-3-944064-61-1 . , 224 pp.

↑ Sebastian Hennig: Ernst Lewinger - In Affinity floating 1931-2015 . Arnshaugk, Neustadt an der Orla 2016, ISBN 978-3-944064-61-1 , p. 20 .
^ Ernst Lewinger: Obituary notice. In: sz-trauer.de. Sächsische Zeitung , December 15, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lewinger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden , Saxony , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 2015
Place of death	Dresden , Saxony , Germany