Franz Gerwin

Franz Gerwin (born June 9, 1891 in Lünen , † March 28, 1960 in Bochum ) was a German painter . His work corresponded to the National Socialist idea of " German art ".

Live and act

Gerwin studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dortmund and the Kunstschule Berlin. From 1936 he headed the House of Art in Dortmund, which was renamed the House of Fine Arts in 1941 . His work mainly includes motifs from the world of technology and industry as well as fortifications, but also landscapes and peasant paintings. He created many pictures of his hometown Lünen and watercolors of landscapes and places beyond the Alps and Pyrenees. He exhibited between 1935 and 1944 in the annual Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in Dortmund and was also represented in the Great German Art Exhibition between 1937 and 1944 with 26 pictures. The works exhibited here included Reichswerke Hermann Göring (1940) and Destroyed Coking Plant near Dnepropetrovsk (1943). Over 30 of his works were on view at the Kunst und Technik exhibition in Dortmund in 1942. In 1938 Adolf Hitler bought Gerwin's Bild coking plant .

His hometown Lünen honored him in 1999 by naming a street in the city after him.

The Museum of the City Luenen showed between 7 April and 11 August 2013, some selected works Gerwins.

literature

Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes. Volume I: painter and graphic artist . Patrick Neuhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8 .
Information from the Museum of the City of Lünen, No. 21, Lünen 2000.

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrike Gärtner: Gerwin, Franz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 77-78 .
↑ Beate Rottgardt: The exhibition in the museum is dedicated to the painter Gerwin. In: Ruhr news. April 3, 2013, accessed April 5, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gerwin, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luenen
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 1960
Place of death	Bochum

[BBD-1] Ulrike Gärtner: Gerwin, Franz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 77-78 .

[Ruhrnachrichten-2] Beate Rottgardt: The exhibition in the museum is dedicated to the painter Gerwin. In: Ruhr news. April 3, 2013, accessed April 5, 2013 .