Franz Lenk

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Franz Lenk (born June 21, 1898 in Langenbernsdorf ; † September 13, 1968 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German artist and a representative of the New Objectivity .

Life

After an apprenticeship in decorative painting for six months and as a lithographer from 1912 to 1915, Franz Lenk began studying painting with Richard Müller and Ludwig von Hofmann at the Dresden Academy in 1916 . Lenk was then called up for military service in the First World War. After the war he continued his studies from 1922 with Richard Dreher , as a master student with Ferdinand Dorsch and Max Feldbauer . From 1924 to 1925 he studied with Robert Sterl . As early as 1922 he had his own studio in Dresden, which he relocated to Lausa in 1925 .

After moving to Berlin in 1926, Lenk co-founded the group “Die Sieben” in 1928 with Theo Champion , Adolf Dietrich , Hasso von Hugo, Alexander Kanoldt , Franz Radziwill and Georg Schrimpf . In 1929, Lenk was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists.

During the period of National Socialism took it in 1933 still at the controversial and by the Nazis temporarily closed exhibition 30 German artists in the gallery Ferdinand Möller part in Berlin. In 1933 his son, later the sculptor Thomas Lenk , was born. From 1933 to 1936, Franz Lenk was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . Also in 1933 he was appointed professor at the United State Schools in Berlin. In 1934, Lenk was one of the 37 signatories of the call for cultural workers to support the dictator Adolf Hitler .

In 1934, Lenk went on a study trip together with Otto Dix to Hegau. In the following year a double exhibition of Dix, ostracized by the National Socialists, followed in the Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin. In 1936, Lenk became a board member of the Berlin Secession and in 1937 a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In the following years he traveled to the Vogtland , to Thuringia , to the island of Amrun in Silesia as well as to Lake Constance and the Hegau to study .

Lenk stood up for persecuted colleagues, refused to participate in the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in 1937 and resigned his teaching post at the United State Schools in protest against the defamation of colleagues and the repressive “art policy” in the Third Reich . Lenk retired to Orlamünde in Thuringia in 1938 . In 1944 he moved to Wilhelmsdorf (Württemberg) , later he lived in Großheppach until he moved to Fellbach in 1948 . In 1950 he received a teaching position at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (United States). In 1959, Lenk settled in Schwäbisch Hall, where he became the city's cultural representative.

Franz Lenk was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Pictures and paintings

literature

  • Franz Lenk . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 264-266 .
  • Cornelia Nowak: Franz Lenk . In: Ernst Herrbach (Ed.): Der Erfurter Kunstverein: between avant-garde and adaptation; a documentation from 1886 to 1945 . Angermuseum, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-930013-14-2 , p. 120-121 .
  • Lenk, Franz . 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. 311 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Martin Papenbrock: “Degenerate Art”, art in exile, resistance art in West German exhibitions after 1945: a commented bibliography . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-09-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061106.93 .
  • New objectivity: Franz Lenk and the artists Dix, Kanoldt, Radziwill, Schrimpf . Graphisches Kabinett, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen 1990
  • Susanne Thesing: Franz Lenk . Bongers, Recklinghausen 1986.
  • Franz LenkFranz Lenk 1878-1968: retrospective and documentaries . With biography, document section, exhibition directory and directory of paintings, watercolors, gouaches and drawings from the estate, Galerie Von Abercron, Cologne 1976
  • Lenk, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 211 .
  • Franz Lenk: What I want . In: Art for everyone . 46th year, no. 12 , 1930, ISSN  2195-6820 , pp. 372–377 ( digitized version - contains numerous illustrations).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 328.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lenk, Franz ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 17, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Lenk, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenbernsdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1968
Place of death Schwäbisch Hall