Franz Sikora (painter)

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Franz Sikora (* 1895 in Lipine , district of Beuthen ; † 1980 ) was a German draftsman, painter and graphic artist. Sikora enjoyed training as a draftsman, he learned painting by himself, he worked in Katowice and, after 1950, in Berlin. Sikora was a representative of the New Objectivity , worked mainly as a portraitist and landscape painter and was a member of the Silesian Artists 'Union and in 1928 co-founder of the Katowice artists' group.

Live and act

Franz Sikora was born in Lipine in Upper Silesia in 1895 as the son of a smelter and had nine siblings. He was a soldier in World War I and was seriously wounded. Then Sikora went on study trips to the Netherlands, Paris, Vienna and Krakow. After a stopover in Breslau, he moved to Katowice.

During his work in the Upper Silesian industrial area he painted a. a. Pals, directors, women and beggars. His works, around 300 oil paintings, watercolors, sketches and drawings that he had painted and collected in Katowice until 1945, were confiscated by the Polish state. Sikora came to Jena in early 1945 and moved on to Berlin in 1950. He probably created his last works in the 1950s.

Works (selection)

  • Nitrogen works Chorzow (watercolor)
  • The blind player
  • Madonna
  • Work and wealth
  • The helper
  • The Bible reader
  • Self-Portrait (Sitting at a Table)
  • Watermill Krzyzowa / Saybusch (1944)
  • Self-portrait (standing, pulling the inside pockets of his pants with his hands)
  • "Hinterhäuser in Berlin" (oil painting on canvas)
  • Miners (oil painting on canvas)
  • Land under the cross
  • Old village church in Schönberg (oil painting 1954)

Works by the artist are now represented in the collection of the Mitte Museum Berlin.

literature

  • "Franz Sikora - one of us" in Ostpreußische Nachrichten , November 1, 1952, Berlin
  • Aleksandra Krypczyk: “Con Amore. Portret twórczości Franza Sikory “in Kronika Katowic volume 10.2005
  • Sikora, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 280 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition of the Upper Silesian Artists Association . Upper Silesia in the picture, Gleiwitz 1935, issue 17
  2. ↑ In search of the origins: Alt-Schöneberg
personal data
SURNAME Sikora, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipine , district of Beuthen
DATE OF DEATH 1980