Felix Skoda

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Richard Heinrich Felix Skoda (born June 8, 1894 in Leipzig ; † April 28, 1969 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was the father of the architect Rudolf Skoda .

Life

Skoda first learned to be a draftsman. He later studied at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts . From 1914 to 1918 he did his military service with the Uhlans . As a good rider, he was allowed to ride in Remonten in Romania . During the Second World War he served from 1943 as a radio operator in a naval artillery unit near Brest in France. A large number of works without military reference were created in both countries.

In addition to selling paintings, he earned his living as an illustrator, especially for fashion magazines, at Verlag Otto Beyer and Rekord-Verlag Krömer & Co., Leipzig. He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . The painters Rudolf Lipus and Fritz Kempe were among his circle of friends .

Felix Skoda died at the age of 74; he was buried in the East Cemetery in Leipzig .

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • Great Leipzig art exhibition in 1942 in the Museum of Fine Arts
  • Art exhibition Gau Sachsen in Dresden 1943
  • Great German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich 1943 exhibited in room 28: Winter in the forest , drawing
  • Great Leipzig art exhibition in 1943 in the Museum of Fine Arts
  • Wurzen art exhibition 1946
  • Art exhibition for our working people, exhibition in the Volkshaus Riesa 1947
  • Contemporary painting, exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1947
  • Leipzig Art Exhibition 1948, Museum of Fine Arts
  • Art exhibition Leipzig 1953, in the Grassimuseum
  • The impressions he made during the American prisoner-of-war in Cherbourg , France, were vividly processed in pictures that the artists' cooperative showed in Leipzig in 1956. "You are the diary of a man who preserves what he experienced not in words but in pictures, and who also wanted to convey a little variety to his comrades and his talent" (Die Union).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig.
  2. ↑ Cover picture of the magazine Regina - Das galante Magazin , No. 33 as an example
  3. ↑ Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon: Artists in the GDR . 1st edition. New Life, 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 .
  4. ↑ Great Leipzig Art Exhibition 1942, November 1, 1942 to January 3, 1943, catalog with illus.
  5. ^ Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden: Art exhibition Gau Sachsen Brühlsche Terrasse June 13 to August 22, 1943, catalog
  6. ^ Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944. Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Neuhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8
  7. ^ Great Leipzig Art Exhibition 1943, October 24, 1943 to January 2, 1944, catalog
  8. ^ Wurzen Art Exhibition 1946, November 17 to December 8, 1946 in the Wurzen town hall, catalog with illus.
  9. ^ Art exhibition Riesa, Volkshaus, June 15 to 29, 1947, catalog
  10. ↑ Contemporary Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, August 31 to October 12, 1947, catalog with illus.
  11. ^ Leipzig Art Exhibition 1948, Museum of Fine Arts, August 29 to October 3, 1948, catalog
  12. ^ Art exhibition Leipzig 1953, Grassimuseum, August 30 to September 30, 1953, catalog
  13. ^ Die Union , Leipzig district, October 17, 1956
personal data
SURNAME Skoda, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skoda, Richard Heinrich Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1969
Place of death Leipzig