Georg Andreas Bacon

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Georg Andreas Speck (left) with students in his studio, 1958
Georg Andreas Speck (right)

Georg Andreas Speck (born April 28, 1904 in Magdeburg , † 1978 ibid) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After attending school, Speck completed an apprenticeship as a craftsman from 1918 to 1922, then attended the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg until 1924 and then studied at the Academy for Book Industry and Graphics in Leipzig with Hans Soltmann and Paul Horst-Schultze, among others .

From 1927 he worked in agriculture and worked as an advertising artist from 1931 to 1932. As a member of the Kunstkammer Magdeburg he took part in the art exhibitions of the Gau Magdeburg in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Magdeburg from 1939 to 1942 (1942 as a member of the Wehrmacht) and exhibited watercolors , oil paintings and charcoal drawings . At least at the end of the 1930s he lived at Königstraße 17, today's Walter-Rathenau-Straße, in Magdeburg's Alte Neustadt district .

After the Second World War he was represented at all important art exhibitions of the Association of German Artists , Magdeburg region. At the IV. German Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1958 , he showed the oil painting “Shipyard in Marseille”. He lived in Magdeburg at Toepferspark 16 in the Stadtfeld Ost district .

After 1958 he lived in Berlin . After 1945, in addition to his freelance work, Speck also created building-related works, including a mural in Magdeburg's main train station .

literature

  • Bacon, Georg Andreas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 326 .
  • Siegward Hofmann: Speck, Georg Andreas Albert. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 692 (with picture, digitized version ).
  • Bacon, Georg-Andreas. Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 912.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magdeburg address book 1939 , Verlag August Scherl successor, part I, page 375
  2. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg 1950-51 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle (Saale), part I, page 580
personal data
SURNAME Bacon, Georg Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacon, Georg-Andreas; Speck, Georg Andreas Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Magdeburg