Friedrich Einhoff

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Friedrich G. Einhoff (born July 11, 1901 in Baven ; † August 15, 1988 in Soltau ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Einhoff was born in Baven near Hermannsburg in the district of Celle as the son of a vice-principal and grew up in the Ruhr area . After graduating from high school, he did internships as a blacksmith and mine worker from 1920 . In 1922/23 he attended the arts and crafts school in Gelsenkirchen and worked as a set designer at the city theater. In 1923 he began studying for a vocational school teaching position in Berlin , which he completed in 1925 with the state examination. He was also active as a painter.

After completing his studies, Einhoff first taught at the school for graphics and design in Frankfurt am Main , then from 1927 to 1929 at the trade school in Rostock . In addition, he studied art history , pedagogy and psychology at the local university . Einhoff was a member of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft and soon celebrated first exhibition successes in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden . In 1928 he also took part in the group exhibition Art and Technology at the Folkwang Museum in Essen . In 1929 he temporarily returned to Frankfurt until he was drawn to the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts and Crafts in 1935 , where he accepted the position of director. In the 1930s he participated in exhibitions in Berlin , Magdeburg , Frankfurt and Dessau . From 1938 he developed a series of cityscapes, which he exhibited in the group exhibition The Magdeburg Cityscape in Six Centuries in 1959 .

Shortly before the end of the war , Einhoff was drafted. He was seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the British. In 1946 he was released and worked again as a painter and graphic artist in Soltau and Frohnhausen. From 1949 he taught at the state vocational school for disabled people in Bad Pyrmont , then from 1952 to 1963 in Soltau. In 1968 Einhoff's works were exhibited in Laon , Lüneburg , Berlin and Soltau. In 1962 the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg confiscated Einhoff's early work from 1922 to 1934, which was in a Magdeburg cellar with friends and was discovered after they fled to the West. Only after Einhoff's death and reunification were these works presented for the first time in an exhibition in Soltau in 1991.

Einhoff's works were posthumously shown in numerous other exhibitions a.o. in the 21st century. a. exhibited in Frankfurt , Gelsenkirchen , Oberhausen , Emden and Essen .

Awards and honors

In 1929 Einhoff was awarded the honorary prize on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Frankfurter Kunstverein . In 1940 he received the City of Magdeburg's Culture Prize . 1979 ( International Year of the Child , he won) 3rd prize of a total of 25,000 DM doped competition for visual artists Hamburg The child in our world of Werner Otto Foundation . In 1983 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. The city of Soltau made Einhoff an honorary citizen in 1988, there the street Friedrich-Einhoff-Ring is named after him.

Literature (selection)

  • Friedrich Einhoff . In: The child in our world - a competition of the Werner Otto Foundation for the visual artists of Hamburg. Werner Otto Foundation (Ed.), Hamburg 1979, pp. 11, 13, 24, 25
  • Friedrich Einhoff Pictures 1945 - 1980 , Preetz, 1981
  • Friedrich Einhoff 1901-1988: Pictures from the Magdeburg estate , Oltmanns, 1991, ISBN 978-3-932220-13-5
  • Painter - Muse - Industry, Friedrich G. Einhoff , Oltmanns, 2000, ISBN 3-932220-14-5
  • Lost and rediscovered: Friedrich G. Einhoff. Industrial landscapes 1920-1935 , Oltmanns, 2001, ISBN 978-3-932220-18-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Friedrich Einhoff in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Friedrich G. Einhoff , accessed on February 25, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Einhoff, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Einhoff, Friedrich G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Baven
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1988
Place of death Soltau