Ernst von Dombrowski (Artist)

Ernst von Dombrowski (born September 12, 1896 in Emmersdorf an der Donau , Austria-Hungary , † July 14, 1985 in Siegsdorf , Bavaria) was an Austrian author , xylograph and illustrator .

Life

Ernst von Dombrowski studied at the Landeskunstschule Graz with Alfred von Schrötter . Nevertheless, he was self-taught throughout his life without any academic training. In the 1920s he worked for various clients, created sacred painting work and, early in 1932, joined the National Socialist movement in Styria.

In 1934/35 he was Gau propaganda leader, head of the illegal National Socialist Gau culture office during the "fighting time" and, after the "seizure of power", provisional director of the Chamber for Fine Arts in the Reich Chamber of Culture in Graz. According to personal information, he took part in the 1934 National Socialist putsch in Schladming . Dombrowski was the most influential National Socialist artist in Styria until 1940. In 1938, at the height of his political career, he pleaded for a fundamental restructuring of the fine arts in the German Reich and the creation of National Socialist rural communities for artistic education.

Although he was not one of the closest applicants, he was appointed to a professorship at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich. He held this position from 1938 to 1945. Despite several years of combat action on the Eastern Front, he managed to produce numerous chauvinistic and war propagandistic works - some of them on anti-Semitic texts. He exhibited in all major German art exhibitions. For the Reichsführer SS , Heinrich Himmler , he made an engraving with his own signature. In the war propagandistic novel "Landser, Tod und Teufel", dedicated to the High Command of the Army, he had himself incorporated as a literary figure, First Lieutenant Prof. Dombrowski .

After two years of internment by the Americans and a problem-free denazification in Traunstein as a follower, he decided on a community in Bavaria as his second home, quickly found an audience again and achieved higher editions. In the last period of his life he also appeared as an author. In 1933 he illustrated Ginzky 's Hatschi Bratschi's Luftballon , and in the 1950s he began to write out his own children's stories.

He was the source of ideas and an active contributor to the publication "Herzhafter Hauskalender" by the Foundation for Social Peace Work, which looked after, cared for and defended those affected by the Nazi regime and their families. In addition, Dombrowski worked as a speaker for the right-wing extremist Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist and collaborated artistically with numerous Nazi-polluted colleagues such as Heinrich Zillich , Erna Blaas , Karl Springenschmid , Natalie Beer and Gerhard Schumann . In 1976 he accepted the "Dichterstein-Schild" award from the right-wing extremist organization Dichterstein Offenhausen in Offenhausen (Austria), which was banned in 1999 after many years of protests because of Nazi re-engagement.

Despite his entanglement with National Socialism and his right-wing extremist connections in the post-war period, he received several awards, including a. with the Golden Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria.

Works

Wood engraving cycles

• The peasant war . 1935 12 sheets as portfolio / cycle (sales catalog Franz Leuwer, art dealer, Bremen, propaganda art booklet).
• Significant men in history initially 12 graphics with sayings from Prince Eugen about Adolf Hitler to Immanuel Kant and Heinrich Himmler - initially individual sale with reference to the creation of a portfolio with 20 portraits (sales catalog Franz Leuwer Kunsthandlung, Bremen, Propaganda art booklet).
• Slogans for the German home 23 slogans unframed and framed (sales catalog Franz Leuwer, Kunsthandlung, Bremen, propaganda art booklet).
• Troubadour stories . 1940.
• And it came to pass . 1953.

Books and magazines

• Gerhard Ramlow (illustrations): Northmen in the new country. A viking trip to America . Rudolf Schneider Verlag, Reichenau 1936, OCLC 721112880 .
• Rudolf Ramlow (illustrations): The legions are coming , story. Rudolf Schneider Verlag, Reichenau 1936, OCLC 254640853 .
• Paul Alverdes and Karl Benno von Mechow, (article): Das Innere Reich , Verlag Albert Langen, Munich August 1937, pp. 570-578.
• The contemporary font. (Illustrations): Booklet 47, Verlag für Schriftkunde, Heintze & Blanckertz, 1938.
• " JUGEND " magazine (illustrations): Munich, City of German Art , No. 1, pp. 3–4, 1939.
• From the Saar to the Moselle. March and battle of an infantry division in the west , (illustrations) Zentralverlag of the NSDAP, Franz Eher successor, Munich.
• Hans Wiedmann (illustration): Landser, Tod und Teufel, the German boy from the High Command of the Army , R. Piper & Co Verlag, Munich 1943.
• Hearty soldiers' calendar (illustrations) - Society of Bibliophiles Weimar, Hauserpresse printing, Hans Schäfer Frankfurt am Main, 1944.
• Ernst von Dombrowski (illustration): King Heinrich I, series Heads of great Germans, for Reichsführer SS Himmler , Neue Galerie Graz Universalmuseum Joanneum, 1940.
• The boyhood. Sheets for home evening design in the German Young Folk. Issue A, March 22, 1939, printed by Wilhelm Limpert , Berlin: Cover Andreas Hofer fights for his homeland (1938).
• Friedrich Zöpfl (illustrations): The Reich as fate and deed , Herder und Co GmbH publishing house, 1937.
• Sales catalog Franz Leuwer, Kunsthandlung Bremen (illustrations): 18 graphics, 1939–1942.
• Ernst von Dombrowski (poster) Lamprechtshausener Weihespiel , Styrian State Archives, 1938.
• Ernst von Dombrowski (illustrations), "Peasant War" series , Neue Galerie Graz-Universalmuseum Joanneum, 1935.
• Christmas (illustrations), Christmas gift for the SS family, publisher: der Reichsführer SS, SS-Hauptamt, 1942.
• The secret house (illustrations), Hans Baumann, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf. , Munich, 1940.
• The gray booklets of the Army Busch (illustrations): Booklet 25, Stähle und Friedel, (around 1942).
• House book of the German youth , Young Generations Verlag Berlin (illustrations), dedicated to the youth leader of the German Empire Baldur von Schirach , 1940.
• Hermann Löns , A soldier's legacy (illustrations), Ahnenerbe Stiftungs-Verlag, Berlin-Dahlem, 1939.
• Soldier and statesman (illustrations), the rise of the empire Heinrich I, Nibelungen Verlag Berlin-Leipzig, 1940.
• Franz Karl Ginzkey (illustrations): Hatschi Bratschi's balloon . A seal for children by Franz Karl Ginzkey. With many pictures by Ernst Dombrowski . Anton Pustet, Salzburg 1933, OBV .
• Eva Schäfer-Luther (Ill.): Who wants to be among the soldiers. Text by Eva Schäfer-Luther. Pictures by Ernst v. Dombrowski. Font by Thea Röttger. Rudolf Schneider, Reichenau (1935), DNB .
• Eternal Germany . A German house book . Published by the Winter Relief Organization of the German People . Part 3 (1941) and Part 4 (1942). Westermann, Braunschweig (among others), OBV .
• from 1953 illustrations in: Eckartbote der Österreichischen Landsmannschaft , OBV , or Eckartbote deutscher Kultur- und Schutzarbeit , OBV .
• Dream world. 40 selected woodcuts . Engelhornverlag A. Spemann, Leinfelden near Stuttgart 1953, Permalink DNB .
• The Roserl. A story with 109 woodcuts by the author . 3. Edition. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1959, OBV .
• Johann Peter Hebel, the miner of Falun . Wood engravings by Ernst von Dombrowski. This issue was published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the “Leoben Working Group”. Leoben green booklets, volume 42, Montan-Verlag, Vienna 1960, OBV .
• Victoria and other short stories. With woodcuts by the author . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz / Stuttgart 1960, OBV .
• The Micherl. A story with 58 drawings by the author . Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 1963, OBV .
• The wood cutter Dombrowski - life and work . Verlag Styria, Graz 1964, OBV .
• Beloved wooden head. A book for everyone who loves children . R. Schneider, Munich 1965, OBV .
• Gabriel, not an archangel, a drawn narrative . R. Schneider, Munich 1966, OBV .
• Just a dog. A human story with 23 wood engravings . R. Schneider, Munich 1966, OBV .
• The lamb in the lost heap. Sketches and memories from two great wars . R. Schneider, Munich 1966, OBV .
• Dangerous journey. Two stories with 27 woodcuts by the author . R. Schneider, Munich 1967, OBV .
• God's is the silence, the devil is the noise. Thoughtful stories and pictures . R. Schneider, Munich 1967.
• Adalbert Stifter (Ill.): The holy evening. Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Stifter's death on January 28, 1863. Original woodcuts: Ernst von Dombrowski . Neugebauer Preß, Bad Goisern 1967, DNB .
• Hutzel and Wutzel . R. Schneider, Munich 1967.
• Predator legends. Two stories. With 22 woodcuts by the author R. Schneider, Munich 1967.
• See, a child is born to us. A Christmas story . (With sixteen woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1967.
• Happiness. Two stories: Happiness, The Ross Apple . (With 28 drawings by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1968, OBV .
• Johann and Johanna. A story with 29 drawings by the author . R. Schneider, Munich 1968.
• From our lady. Twelve legends . (With 40 woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1968.
• Clemens Brentano (Ill.): Story of the good Kasper and the beautiful Annerl . R. Schneider, Munich 1969.
• Carl Julius Haidvogel (Ill.): Bomm. Cheerful verses for big kids . Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1969, OBV .
• Peter Rosegger , (Ill.): Dasein is delicious, sayings . R. Schneider, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7955-0024-9 .
• The marble picture. A story . (With 31 drawings by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1969, OBV .
• Eva-Maria's diary. Of animals and flowers and people who have the best of both. Formed into pictures with words and described with wood engravings . R. Schneider, Munich 1969.
• Karl Heinrich Waggerl (Ill.): "And it came to pass ..." Internal stories about the child of Bethlehem . 33rd edition. O. Müller, Salzburg 1969, OBV .
• The wedding dress. A story . (With 24 woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1970, OBV .
• Karl Heinrich Waggerl (Ill.): The creation and other legends. With many woodcuts by Ernst von Dombrowski . R. Schneider, Munich 1970, Permalink DNB .
• Dear little horse. A song of praise for the Icelanders . (With 98 drawings by the author and an afterword by Norgard Pirker). R. Schneider, Munich 1970, OBV .
• Mirabell. The secret of the Engelstiege in Salzburg. Four stories . (With 22 woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1970, OBV .
• Uschi and the revenge on Camarillis. A story . (With 21 woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1970.
• The engagement ring. Two stories . (With 18 woodcuts by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1970, OBV .
• Manfred Jasser (Ill.): The stupidity and the luck. Eighteen excursions into human nature . R. Schneider, Munich 1971, OBV .
• (Ill.), Hans Lehnacker: The draftsman Dombrowski. A selection of his favorite drawings combined with some thoughts on the art of Ernst von Dombrowski dedicated to his friends on the occasion of his 75th birthday . R. Schneider, Munich 1971, OBV .
• Karl Springenschmid (Ill.): Love doesn't count the days. Hearty stories throughout the year . R. Schneider, Munich 1971, OBV .
• Karl Heinrich Waggerl (Ill.): From my home. Narratives . Pinguin Verlag (ao), Innsbruck (ao) 1972, OBV .
• Children. Drawings, stories and thoughts . R. Schneider, Munich 1972, OBV .
• Dancers. Drawings and thoughts . R. Schneider, Munich 1972, OBV .
• From wonderful life. Four stories . (With 14 drawings by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1972, OBV .
• The blind girl. The story of a love . (With 10 drawings by the author). R. Schneider, Munich 1972, OBV .
• (Ill.), Hans Lehnacker: Life and work of a wood cutter . R. Schneider, Munich 1973, OBV .
• The Golden age. From the just state of the wooden heads. Narrated and engraved in wood . R. Schneider, Munich 1974, OBV .
• From my thistle time. Figures from classic comedies and dramas . R. Schneider, Munich 1975, OBV .
• Jeremias Gotthelf, Franz Oswald (Ed.) (Ill.): Love is more than sun. Consolation and memo booklet for every day of the year . R. Schneider, Munich 1975, OBV .
• Adalbert Stifter. 68 drawings for the poet's work . R. Schneider, Munich 1976, OBV .
• The good Lord speaks to the children, the animals and the flowers and to the old people. Narrated and drawn by Ernst von Dombrowski . R. Schneider, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7955-0085-0 .
• The thistle peterl . R. Schneider, Munich 1977, OBV .
• Paula Grogger (Ill.): The heavenly birthday. A Christmas fairy tale . Styria, Graz 1977, ISBN 3-222-11036-0 .
• Hutzlwutzl and the castle ghost . R. Schneider, Munich 1977, OBV .
• Hutzlwutzl and the robbers . R. Schneider, Munich 1977, OBV .
• Manfred Jasser (Ill.): Children make music . R. Schneider, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7955-0099-0 .
• Jan Twardowski (Ill.): Happy on the way to God. Stories, not just for children. Illustrated by Ernst von Dombrowski. Translated from the Polish by Theo Mechtenberg . Styria, Graz 1980, ISBN 3-222-11251-7 .
• My first love A story from my boyhood . R. Schneider, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7955-0135-0 .
• The lost prince . Styria publishing house, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1980, OBV .
• The Roserl and the Micherl. New deeds and adventures, written down and recorded by the writer . Stocker, Graz (et al.) 1983, OBV .
• Manfred Jasser (Ill.): About the men - their strengths, their weaknesses and other things. And their animal relatives . Saupe & Co., Munich 1983, OBV .
• Erna Blaas (Ill.): The Mirabell Garden . Self-published, Salzburg 1987, OBV .
• Helmut Zöpfl (Ill.): It happened at night. The great alpine reading book for the Christmas party . Ludwig, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7787-3435-0 .
• Heinrich Zillich (Ill.): German Christmas in East and West . Eckartschriften, Volume 139. Österreichische Landsmannschaft, Vienna 1996, OBV .
• Consolation through the strength of your soul. Wood cutter, draftsman, painter, poet. Images and thoughts . Schneider, Giesen / Hasede 1999, ISBN 3-79550254-3 .
• Jean-Dominique Fabre (Ill.): Christian motherhood . Rex-Regum-Verlag, Jaidhof 2003, ISBN 3-901851-28-3 .
• Jean-Dominique Fabre (Ill.): Christian fatherhood . Rex-Regum-Verlag, Jaidhof 2003, ISBN 3-901851-29-1 .
• Woodcuts. Gift of friend includes personal collection of woodcuts . Five volumes. Own reproduction, Giesen / Hasede near Hildesheim 2003, OBV .

Prizes, awards

• Private Rosegger Prize (1971)

Foundation, endowment

In 1981, Dombrowski and his wife Rosa set up the Ernst-und-Rosa-von-Dombrowski-Stiftung in their inheritance contract, which came into effect when his wife died in 1986. The Ernst-und-Rosa-von-Dombrowski Foundation Prize has been awarded to visual artists, writers and composers from Styria since 1988.

literature

• Ernst and Rosa von Dombrowski Foundation (ed.): Ernst von Dombrowski. Work and effect. 1896-1996 . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7020-0771-7 .
• Kern, Elfriede: The graphic oeuvre of Ernst von Dombrowski. The wood cutter . Thesis. University of Graz, Graz 2002, OBV .
• Culture Department of the City of Graz (Ed.). Dombrowski. Exhibition in the Graz City Museum . Sn, Graz 1978, OBV .
• Art hostel. Freundeskreis Ernst von Dombrowski (Ed.): Ernst von Dombrowski . Kunstherberge, Giesen 1989, OBV .
• Riehl, Hans (Ed.): Ernst Dombrowski. Woodcuts . 1st edition. Verlag Moser, Graz 1949, OBV .
• Steiermärkische Sparkasse (Ed.): In memory of the exhibition "Ernst Dombrowski" on World Savings Day 1986 . Sn, Graz 1986, OBV .
• Thiemann, Rainer: Dombrowski: An explanation of the myths of National Socialism that are still in effect today . Waging am See: Liliom, 2015 OBV .
• Vancsa, Kurt: "The work of the word is a calling and showing". Ernst v. Dombrowski on his 70th birthday . From: Our home , Volume 37.1966, No. 10/12. Sn, St. Pölten 1966, OBV .
• Westecker, Wilhelm (ed.): Light and shadow. 4 German wood cutters, Ernst Dombrowski, Wilhelm Geissler, Hans Pape, Anny Schröder . Scheuvens publishing house, Wuppertal 1950, DNB .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.dombrowski-stiftung.at/index.php?id=25
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Ernst von Dombrowski, "Thoughts about my life", Rudolf Schneider Verlag 1986. ( autobiographical treatise; mention of dropping out in Graz and Vienna ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Stadtmuseum Graz / Neue Galerie Graz: "The Art of Adaptation" (exhibition catalog), ISBN 978-3-900764-31-9 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Herbert Lipsky: Art of a Dark Time. The fine arts in Styria at the time of National Socialism. Graz 2010, p. 175 ff.
6. ↑ Uwe Baur and Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria , Vol. 1, Vienna, Cologne a. Weimar 2008, p. 277 ff.
7. ↑ Personal file Academy for Fine Arts Munich, Ernst von Dombrowski, personal information in the personal sheet.
8. ↑ Paul Alverdes (Ed.): The Inner Empire. Journal for Poetry, Art and German Life, half-yearly volume April – September 1938, pp. 154–159.
9. ^ Personal file of the Academy for Fine Arts, Munich, Ernst von Dombrowski, statements by members of the teaching staff at the time.
10. ^ Egid Gehring: From the Saar to the Moselle. March, fight and victory of an infantry division in the west. A memory book , Munich 1942, p. 117.
11. ^ Ernst von Dombrowski: "King Heinrich the I", woodcut around 1940, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum.
12. ↑ Austria Forum | https://austria-forum.org : Dombrowski, Ernst von. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 
13. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance: Association Dichterstein Offenhausen ; accessed on January 16, 2014 (see legal opinion there).
14. ↑ German Monthly Issues , November 1983, p. 41; Das Deutsche Kulturwerk , No. 1/1976, p. 35.
15. ↑ Baur, Uwe & Gradwohl-Schlacher, Karin (2008). Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 1: Styria . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. P. 146.
16. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 154–155 (with ill.) .
17. ↑ Eckartbote . In: Literature archive of the Austrian National Library .
18. ↑ The down-to-earth . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung , February 10, 1971, p. 10, center right.
19. ↑ Ernst and Rosa von Dombrowski Foundation , accessed on July 8, 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst von Dombrowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography (PDF; 29 kB)