Ewald Blankenburg

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Ewald Blankenburg (born December 16, 1920 in Schönerlinde near Berlin; † May 8, 2000 in Bremerhaven ) was a painter and draftsman who worked in Magdeburg and Schönebeck (Elbe) from 1960 in Bremerhaven.

Life

Born the son of a potter, Ewald Blankenburg grew up with an aunt in Poland after the death of his father. He attended elementary school in Schönerlinde near Berlin until 1936 and then began training in painting. In the years 1938–1940, Ewald Blankenburg studied on a scholarship from the city of Berlin at the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts , including in the newly created stage design class. In 1940 he was called up for military service and at the end of the war fled across the Elbe into American captivity. In 1946 he settled as an artist in Schönebeck (Elbe) and initially worked as a stage painter and studio manager at the Magdeburg Theater . From 1947 Ewald Blankenburg worked as a freelance artist and in October 1948 founded a. a. with Günter Pilling and Walter Bischof the Magdeburg artist group dalbe , with whom he designed numerous exhibitions in the following years. 1949–1960 he taught as an art teacher at a Schönebeck high or middle school and also directed painting and drawing courses at the adult education center. At the same time he acted as a specialist advisor for art education in the Magdeburg district. Since 1952 he belonged to the Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the GDR .

style

In gouache, watercolor and oil, Blankenburg created “colorful landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes in an emphatically two-dimensional, constructive, e. Sometimes also in a post-expressionist way of looking at the picture ”(Saur). He subjected the motif found in nature to a strict composition in which he reproduced impressions in a simplified and orderly manner in clear color areas with almost straight lines. Due to his conception of art, he was often at the center of the formalism debate in Magdeburg (“insubstantial play of forms”), so that despite his professional commitment, his recognition as an artist remained unsatisfactory. Blankenburg therefore moved to Bremerhaven in 1960 and worked there again as an art teacher until 1980. He then lived in Mainz for a short time before returning to Bremerhaven in 1989.

estate

State Gallery Moritzburg (Halle)

literature

  • Hans Vollmer, General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century (6 vols.), Leipzig 1953–1962, p. 228
  • Saur general artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples, ed. by Günter Meißner, Munich 1992ff., p. 425f.
  • Elke Grapenthin, artists in and around Bremerhaven, 1827–1990, Bremerhaven 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography after Ewald Blankenburg in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
  2. ^ Ewald Blankenburg in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönerlinde
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2000
Place of death Bremerhaven