Georg Albert Dorschfeldt

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Georg Albert Dorschfeldt (born November 3, 1889 in Stettin , † August 20, 1979 in Immenstadt ) was a German painter and university professor. After long study trips and stays abroad, Lovis Corinth's student lived mainly in Berlin and in the Allgäu . He was known for his lush flower paintings and portraits .

Life

Georg Albert Dorschfeldt was born on November 3rd, 1889 as the son of a sign painter and a mother from Stettin. After graduating from high school, he attended Lovis Corinth's painting school and studied painting and art history at the art academies in Berlin, Munich and the prestigious private Académie Julian in Paris.

During the First World War he continued his education with study trips to numerous countries around the world. The following stations should be mentioned here: the West Indian Islands and Jamaica, South America, Ceylon, the Indian Ocean (Calcutta), North Africa, Turkey, Greece and the Aegean Islands, Spain and France (Paris). After the war he settled in Berlin. In 1930 and 1931 he stayed in New York. In 1935 he received the title of professor and taught at the important and traditional arts and crafts school in Magdeburg .

After he had lost his wife towards the end of the war in Berlin and all his belongings in a bombing raid, he fled to the Allgäu, which he had already come to appreciate as a holiday destination in the 1930s. The American armed forces arrested Dorschfeldt, who appeared in uniform and allegedly with a secret military mission, and held him for 4 months in the prisons of Sonthofen and Garmisch .

Dorschfeldt came to Sonthofen in 1946 via Liebenstein and Nesselwang with his second wife, who came from the Allgäu, and earned his living by painting farmhouse furniture, among other things. For two years he also ran a café and bar, where he entertained the guests - mostly Americans - with his piano in the evenings.

Finally, thanks to his art contacts in Stuttgart and Munich, as well as previous clients in Berlin, he was able to return to painting intensively. He appeared regionally and locally with works of art on public buildings.

In 1970, the now 80-year-old traveled again to Berlin at the invitation of Thyssen, which had acquired pictures from him. His poor health was already bothering him. Dorschfeldt died 9 years later, painting until almost the last day, in the Immenstadt hospital.

Works

Dorschfeldt mainly painted flowers, including landscapes, portraits, southern scenes and nudes. Experts recognize the influence of his teacher Corinth in Dorschfeldt's opulent bouquets of flowers.

In 1935 Dorschfeldt received the order for four carpet designs for the “House of Aviators” (today the House of Representatives) in Berlin and frescoes in the Berlin market halls. In the 1930s his works were shown at exhibitions at the Berlin Academy, at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, and in Wiesbaden, Stockholm and Paris. From 1938 he belonged to the Pankow artist circle.

In 1943 in the Allgäu, his future home, he painted a series of oil paintings of "Mountain Regions with Shepherds and Farmers".

From the 1950s on, Dorschfeldt created portraits, flower still lifes, hunting scenes and landscapes in his Sonthofen studio on behalf of clients from Stuttgart, Munich and Berlin. He was also seen at exhibitions outside of the Allgäu.

In Sonthofen he designed a wall fresco consisting of 4 elements at the secondary school in 1960, a pair of children made of clay for the elementary school, in the Protestant church he worked as a restorer as in Furtwangen. In the Ifenhotel, a large mural in the dining room is reminiscent of Dorschfeldt.

The regionally significant art exhibition Die Große Südliche 2008 posthumously honored the great Sonthofen artist.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c see Vita Dorschfeldt at Kultur Südlicher Oberallgäu
  2. ↑ See short biography with Thaddäus Brauner.
  3. ↑ See entry in the artist directory Ebert.
  4. ↑ Due to copyright reasons, no painting can be shown directly. Therefore see the representations available under web links / image sources.
personal data
SURNAME Dorschfeldt, Georg Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1979
Place of death Immenstadt