Ewald Schönberg

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Painting "Red Horse", 1932 by Ewald Schönberg, Freital Municipal Collections
Painting "Zeitungsunge", 1930 by Ewald Schönberg, Freital Municipal Collections
Painting “Early Spring in the Zinnwald”, 1945 by Ewald Schönberg

Ewald Schönberg (born August 7, 1882 in Geising , † January 22, 1949 in Dresden ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity .

Life

Ewald Schönberg was born in Geising in the Eastern Ore Mountains in 1882 as the son of a worker. He was an orphan at an early age and grew up with his grandparents. From 1897 onwards, Schönberg completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter with the construction and furniture maker Karl Walther in Geising. In 1900 Schönberg first went to Dippoldiswalde as a carpenter , then to Hainsberg and in the same year to Dresden. In Dresden Schoenberg began self-taught to paint. From 1905 he worked in various drawing offices and also attended evening courses at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . He trained as a furniture draftsman and interior designer. In 1910 Ewald married Schönberg.

In 1920 Schönberg became a lecturer at the Dresden Adult Education Center . From 1925 he worked as a freelance artist and founded a painting school for lay people with the “Malgruppe Schönberg”. From 1927 to 1933 Schönberg worked as an art teacher at the adult education center. The National Socialists initially tried to capture him, but later turned away from him.

Schönberg resigned from the Dresden artists 'association in March 1930 and took part in the artists' group Aktion . He also participated for a short time in the Dresden Secession in 1932 . In 1947 he was a founding member of the artist group Das Ufer .

Ewald Schönberg died in Dresden in 1949. The Ewald-Schönberg-Strasse in Dresden was named after him.

Artistic creation

The work of Ewald Schönberg can be assigned to the New Objectivity with elements of Magical Realism and Naive Painting , shaped by motifs from his homeland in the Eastern Ore Mountains and the people who work there. He was also interested in local artists such as Ferdinand Hodler , Albin Egger-Lienz , Eugène Laermanns , Jean-François Millet and Henri Rousseau . For a long time, the GDR showed no interest in the New Objectivity, so that the work of Ewald Schönberg has only recently been rediscovered from a new objective perspective.

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum (worker woman; pencil drawing)
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (worker mother with killed son; oil painting, 1930)
  • Freital, City Collections Freital Castle Burgk (among others: factory workers; oil painting; 1934)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1930: Berlin, “Young Dresden Art”, Galerie Wertheim, February / March, organized by Josef Sandel
  • 1932: Dresden, Dresden Secession, 1st exhibition (text by Ewald Schönberg in the exhibition catalog)
  • 1934: Dresden, "Saxon Watercolor Exhibition Dresden 1934", July - September, Brühl Terrace
  • 1934: Dresden, "Saxon Art Exhibition Dresden 1934"
  • 1935: Dresden, "Dresden Art Exhibition 1935"
  • 1936: Dresden, "Art Exhibition Dresden 1936"
  • 1937: Chemnitz, “Art Exhibition. Special exhibition “Erzgebirge Landscape”, May 29 - June 20, 1937, König Albert Museum
  • 1937: Leipzig, art exhibition, June 26th - July 17th, 1937, Grassi Museum
  • 1938: Dresden, "Spring Exhibition", April 3 - April 30, 1938
  • 1940: Dresden, "Dresdner Künstlerbund. First exhibition, the year of war 1940 ”, June 9th - September 1st, 1940
  • 1941: Dresden, "Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1941", July 5 - October 5, 1941
  • 1943: Dresden, "Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943", October 16 - December 31, 1943
  • 1947: Freiberg, “2. Exhibition of Erzgebirge Artists 1947 ”, June 7th - August 1947
  • 1948: Berlin, special exhibition, Unter den Linden 26, Berlin Office for Fine Arts
  • 1948: Meißen, “Das Ufer - Gruppe 1947 Dresdner Künstler im FDGB ”, February 1948, City Museum Meißen
  • 1964: Berlin, “Indictment and Appeal. German art between the wars. Painting, Graphics, Sculpture ”, June - August 1964, National Gallery
  • 1966: Potsdam, “Departure and Victory. The German working class in the representation of the fine arts 1890/1965. Painting, graphics, plastic ”, June 3 - July 10, 1966, Marstall Potsdam
  • 1966: Freital, "New Acquisitions of the Freital Municipal Art Collection", July 31 - September 11, 1966
  • 1972: Schwerin, “Dresden Painting and Graphics 1918–1933 from the“ House of Home Ownership, Freital ”, July 7 - September 10, 1972, State Museum Schwerin
  • 1974: Berlin, “Realism and Objectivity. Aspects of German art. 1919–1933 ”, National Gallery
  • 1978: Berlin, “Revolution and Realism. Revolutionary Art in Germany 1917 to 1933 ”, November 8, 1978 - February 25, 1979, Nationalgalerie
  • 1980: Dresden, “Art on the move. Dresden 1918–1933 ”, September 30, 1980 - February 25, 1981, Albertinum
  • 1984: Dresden, "Das Ufer", September 12th - October 14th 1984, precious hall of Dresden Castle
  • 1985: Dresden, "Painting from Dresden 1945–1985", April 12 - May 18, 1985
  • 1990: Berlin, “The Art of the Early Years. 1945-1949. Painting and Graphics ”, April 18 - May 20, 1990, gallery in the Altes Museum
  • 2011/12: Dresden, “New Objectivity in Dresden. Painting of the Twenties from Dix ​​to Querner ”, October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau
  • 2014: Dresden, special exhibition “From anemone to zinnia - the language of flowers. Dresden Painting of the 20th Century ”, May 1 - November 2, 2014, Pillnitz Castle Museum .
  • 2019: Freital, special exhibition at Burgk Castle : Ewald Schönberg - A Painter of New Objectivity

literature

  • City Collections Freital (Ed.): Ewald Schönberg. A painter of the New Objectivity . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3-95498-496-1 .
  • Ewald Schönberg . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 294-295 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: Ewald Schönberg (1882–1949) . In: The Dresden Secession 1932 . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 377 .
  • Schoenberg, Ewald . In: Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , p. 371 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Ulrich Duttke: The restoration of the picture “Worker mother with dead son” by Ewald Schönberg . In: Dresdener Kunstblätter . Sandstein Verlag, 1985, ISSN  0418-0615 , p. 37-44 .
  • Hellmuth Heinz : Ewald Schönberg . Verlag der Kunst, VEB, Dresden 1977.
  • Schoenberg, Ewald . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 211 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antje Heinze: Ewald Schönberg . In: Special exhibition 2014 in the Pillnitz Castle Museum. “From anemone to zinnia - the language of flowers. Dresden painting of the 20th century ” . Media information, Dresden 2014, p. 23 ( digitized version ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed on March 25, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Schönberg, Ewald . In: Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , p. 371 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  3. ↑ Precision in a vacuum. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 24, 2011, accessed on March 25, 2015
  4. ^ Searching for traces in Freital , episode 3 from the film series "The New Objectivity in Dresden" for the exhibition of the same name from 2011/12, accessed on March 25, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c Image index of art & architecture

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personal data
SURNAME Schoenberg, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Geising
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1949
Place of death Dresden