Ewald Robbert
Ewald Robbert (born November 1, 1912 in Kaunas , † April 19, 2000 in Neuwied ) was a German painter and art teacher.
Life
After attending elementary school and the German grammar school in Kaunas , Lithuania , he first attended a private academy for painting in Kaunas and in 1937 passed the state examination as a painter and art teacher at the Kaunas School of Art. He then worked there as a high school teacher for four years. After taking part in World War II as a soldier and returning to the German-Soviet front after being seriously injured in the war, he was then deployed on the Western Front. He then came into French captivity. Even as a prisoner of war he received many commissions as a painter in the landscape painting genre. He lived in Rodenbach (Neuwied) from 1948 to 1951 . From 1951 to 1976 he worked as a high school teacher in Schwerte and Hamm , returned to Rodenbach (Neuwied) after his retirement and from then on worked as a freelance artist.
Several times he took part in the International Summer Academy in Salzburg. There he had lessons, e.g. B. with Oskar Kokoschka , whom he called his teacher with his "School of Seeing", and also Emilio Vedova and Günther Schneider-Simpson. Vedova wanted to bring him to Venice. Schneider-Simpson offered him a job as a set designer at the Vienna State Opera. He did not accept either offer or the option of an appointment at the Werkkunstschule in Dortmund. In 1967 Ewald Robbert was awarded the Salzburg City Prize and in 1988 the Neuwied City Culture Prize. He participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Indonesia. 1954–1974 he also designed sets for the "Theater der Jugend" in Bergkamen and Hamm.
The diversity of his techniques and styles as well as the media that he used is specific to his work. For example, he worked in oil, watercolor, batik, clay and as a set designer.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ewald Robbert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Ewald Robbert in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robbert, Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaunas , Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 2000 |
| Place of death | Neuwied |