Ernst Vollbehr

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Ernst Vollbehr with NSDAP party badge (1941)
Vollbehr on the Black Sea (May 8, 1942)

Ernst Vollbehr (born March 25, 1876 in Kiel , † May 13, 1960 in Krumpendorf am Wörthersee ) was a German travel writer , painter and illustrator , who glorified war and National Socialism in his works .

Life

Ernst Vollbehr was a son of the Kiel merchant Emil Jakob Heinrich Vollbehr (1837–1913) and his wife Caroline Elisabeth, nee. Beckmann (1846-1927). The chemist and antiquarian Otto Vollbehr is one of his seven siblings . The art historian and Magdeburg museum director Theodor Volbehr was his cousin.

Vollbehr began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the Schwerin court theater in 1892 . From 1897 he studied art in Berlin, Dresden, Paris and Rome. Around 1900 he was artistically close to Art Nouveau . As a participant on expedition trips to Albania (1904) and to Brazil (1907) he discovered travel painting for himself. Between 1909 and 1914 he toured the four German-African colonies with artistic intentions.

During the First World War , Vollbehr worked as a war painter at the front. In addition to terrestrial and aerial panoramas of the battlefield, hundreds of paintings and drawings were created.

He became known through landscape and war paintings, with which he also took part in the Great German Art Exhibition . After 1933, Vollbehr painted pictures of the Nazi party rallies and the Olympic facilities in Berlin on behalf of the state . Fritz Todt commissioned numerous paintings from the construction of the Reichsautobahn . Vollbehr became one of the most popular artists in Germany. Adolf Hitler's respect for Vollbehr's work expresses himself u. a. in the purchase of his war paintings by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). His admission to the NSDAP, despite the ban on membership at the time, was personally approved by Hitler in July 1933.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Vollbehr's writings The Face of the Western Front (1932), The Streets of Adolf Hitler, built in 1933/34 (1935), Arbeitsschlacht. 5 years of painting trips on the construction sites of the "Streets of Adolf Hitler" (1939) and With the OT at the Westwall and advance (1941) put on the list of literature to be sorted out. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by Bunte Leuchtende Welt (1935).

In 1957, the Deutsches Museum für Länderkunde in Leipzig, headed by Edgar Lehmann, bought around 900, mostly landscape and ethnographic paintings by Vollbehr. Almost 400 of the works come from Vollbehr's travels through the German-African colonies, war images and propaganda commissioned works were not purchased.

Fonts (selection)

  • Through Cameroon with brush and palette. Leipzig 1912 ( archive.org ).
  • War picture diary of the painter Ernst Vollbehr. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1915 (war picture diary about the fighting on the Aisne).
  • Second war picture diary by the painter Ernst Vollbehr. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1917 (With the Crown Prince Army Group - The Fights for Verdun).
  • The streets of Adolf Hitler built in 1933/1934. Koehler and Amelang, Leipzig 1935 ( archive.org ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Vollbehr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konrad Schuberth: Ernst Vollbehr. Stranded in Marburg. In: Oberhessische Presse Marburg. May 18, 2010, p. 30.
  2. ^ Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Part 1, regesta. Volume 1. Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-49641-7 , p. 14.
  3. ↑ polunbi.de
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  6. ↑ polunbi.de
  7. ↑ Mario Beck: Purchased paintings disappeared in the regional geography depot . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . No. 142 , June 21, 2017, p. 18 .
personal data
SURNAME Vollbehr, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1960
Place of death Krumpendorf am Wörthersee