Franz Eichhorst
Franz Eichhorst (born September 7, 1885 in Berlin , † April 30, 1948 in Innsbruck ) was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
Franz Eichhorst studied at the University of Fine Arts under the direction of Friedrich Kallmorgen . In 1909 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .
Eichhorst took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . In the early 1920s Eichhorst found a second home in Matrei in East Tyrol and set up a studio there, in which he worked during the summer months. Here in 1928 one of his most important and best-known paintings "Girl with a jug" was created.
During the National Socialist era , Eichhorst was mainly known for his images of war. From 1935 to 1938 he created a cycle of war pictures for the Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin. As early as 1933 he received the second prize (from the Association of Berlin Artists ), together with Raffael Schuster-Woldau from Munich, “for the painting of the large ballroom in Schöneberg Town Hall” . The winner was the German painter Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt (1868–1949).
On April 20, 1938, Adolf Hitler awarded him the title of professor. With a total of 56 of his pictures he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art ; War scenes from the Second World War predominated , especially from Poland and Russia. The pictures exhibited there included:
- 1940 Guns firing during the bombardment of Warsaw (watercolor)
- 1941 Transport of Polish prisoners (watercolor)
- 1942 Bolsheviks captured in Mogilev (watercolor and pastel)
- 1942 Soldiers rest by the fire, on the march to Stalingrad (oil on canvas), Medaria Local History Museum, Matrei in Osttirol
- 1943 memories of Stalingrad
At the exhibitions of German artists and the SS in 1944, he showed the painting “Reclining Gunner” in Breslau and “Im Splittergraben” in Salzburg .
literature
- Carsten Roth: Eichhorst, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 504.
- Eichhorst, Franz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 406-407 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eichhorst, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 21 .
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 131.
- ↑ Franz Eichhorst. In: The picture . Monthly magazine for German art, past and present. Year 1939, p. 241.
- ↑ Article: Competition for the Schöneberg Town Hall. In: Vossische Zeitung . No. 480, October 8, 1933.
- ↑ Listing by Ernst Klee: Kulturlexikon. P. 131.
- ↑ 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. 264–265 (with illustration) .
- ↑ Shown in Die Deutsche Wochenschau. No. 669.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichhorst, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, etcher and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1948 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |