Franz Niebuhr

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Franz Niebuhr (born August 27, 1906 in Schwerin ; † May 17, 1982 ibid) was a German landscape painter .

Life

After returning to his hometown in 1941 after being injured in the war, Franz Niebuhr worked as a worker and then as a messenger for the city council of Schwerin. He began to paint as a self-taught and initially as a hobby, after his daily work. At first he created watercolors and drawings, under the guidance of the Schwerin painter Carl Hinrichs he developed into a painter of mostly small-format landscapes in oil and tempera. His preferred subjects were Schwerin city views and motifs from the Baltic coast near Wismar and the island of Poel . Niebuhr was represented with his works in 1962 and 1967 at the German art exhibitions in the Dresden Albertinum and had solo exhibitions in the State Museum in Schwerin . In 1971 he was awarded the prize for artistic folk creation, first class, by the Minister for Culture of the GDR, Klaus Gysi, as a “single artist in the visual arts ”. The Beeskow art archive preserves five of his works.

“The subject of his colorfully precious works are again and again the typical fishermen's and farmers' cottages in Mecklenburg, the atmospheric and colorful peculiarities of the north German village landscape, the sea and its coast. Niebuhr prefers broken tones on its palette. "

- New Germany

Works (selection)

  • 1962: Schwerin old town , Schwerin Leninplatz , winter in Mecklenburg and
  • 1967: Fishermen on the beach , on the beach in the art exhibitions in Dresden
  • 1976: Schlachtermarkt (1962), Burgstrasse (1964), weekly market in Schwerin (1965), passage to the cathedral courtyard (1969), street in Schwerin (1971), country road with willows (1972) in the State Museum Schwerin

Exhibitions

  • 1962: Fifth German Art Exhibition. Dresden, Albertinum and Johanneum
  • 1967: VI. German art exhibition Dresden 1967. Dresden, Albertinum
  • 1968: Franz Niebuhr. Painting. Schwerin, State Museum
  • 1976: Franz Niebuhr on his 70th birthday. Schwerin, State Museum

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7064 .
  • Landscape painter in a conscious tradition. In: New Germany . Volume 31, issue 193, August 14, 1976, p. 4.
  • Jochen Bernitt: A letter about Franz Niebuhr. In: Visual folk creation. Journal for circles and working groups of the fine and applied arts. Volume 14. No. 5, Leipzig 1969, ISSN  0520-1373 pp. 17-20.
  • Ingeborg Michailoff: Franz Niebuhr. Painting. October 11 - November 10, 1968. State Museum, Schwerin 1968.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards for artists and cultural workers. In: New Germany. Volume 26, Issue 153, June 5, 1971, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Landscape painter in a conscious tradition. In: New Germany. Volume 31, issue 193, August 14, 1976, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Niebuhr, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1982
Place of death Schwerin