Georg Lebrecht

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Georg Lebrecht

Georg Lebrecht (born March 7, 1875 in Schweidnitz , Silesia, † 1945 in Berlin , suicide when the Red Army marched in ) was a painter and illustrator in the first half of the 20th century who was best known for his horse pictures.

Life

The son of a freight forwarder attended grammar school in Schweidnitz until he was 15 and initially completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Verlag L. Heege and an apprenticeship as an artist at the Kgl. Art school in Stuttgart (with Ludwig von Herterich and Robert Haug ). After living in southern Germany and Berlin for a while, he became known as a book illustrator. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier at the front in World War I and, as a member of a volunteer corps, was involved in the suppression of the left-wing extremist uprisings in 1919. In addition to his early membership in the NSDAP , he later headed the painting, graphics and sculpture department at the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1945 he and his wife took their own lives.

He became known through landscape, hunting, nature and later also war paintings . Study trips abroad took him to the Puszta and Dalmatia .

During the time of National Socialism there was a total of eight major German art exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art - from 1937 to 1944 . Lebrecht was represented there with a total of 21 paintings, for example in 1937 with a picture comrades that showed a wounded soldier on horseback and in 1938 with Ums Morgenrot with mounted soldiers. At the anniversary exhibition of the association in 1941 (" Great German Art Exhibition 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich") he was represented with three works.

On January 30, 1938, he was appointed professor by Adolf Hitler .

Lebrecht also took on various cultural-political functions, including in the Association of Berlin Artists . He was a member of the German Association of Artists .

painting

  • Märkische Heide (1922)
  • Hochalm in the snow
  • From the Black Forest to the Vosges (1939/40)
  • Comrades
  • Melting snow
  • Bombs on Engeland
  • Crossing over the Upper Rhine
  • Horse drinks in the Pussta

Illustrations

Book cover Karl May: The blue-red Methuselah
  • Old Ludwigsburg. A cityscape by Otto Linck with fifty drawings by Georg Lebrecht. Alexander Fischer Verlag, Tübingen, 1920.
  • with Paul Oskar Höcker : The son of the soldier king. Berlin Ullstein 1912.
  • Hans Caspar von Zobeltitz : The Quadriga in World Wars. Stuttgart, Friedrich Andreas Berthes, 1927.
  • Langensalza 1866 and the end of the Kingdom of Hanover. With illustrations by Georg Lebrecht. Stuttgart, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1906.
  • Karl May : The blue-red Methuselah
  • Karl May: The legacy of the Inca.
  • with Günther Vogler : The uniforms and badges of the SA, SS and the Stahlhelm, Ehrhardt Brigade, Hitler Youth, officials, MPs, NSBO ​​and NSKK. Traditions-Verlag, Berlin, 1934. This work was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Lebrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 357.
  2. ^ Great German Art Exhibition in 1941 in the House of German Art in Munich. Digital library of the network headquarters of the GBV, Figure 60:52.
  3. ↑ "... received the title of professor from Adolf Hitler on 1/30/38." In: Horst Adler: Schweidnitz in the years 1934 - 1939 Materials for a city history (PDF; 387 kB), p. 28, accessed on February 28, 2013.
  4. ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lebrecht, Georg. ( kuenstlerbund.de ).
  5. ↑ polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Lebrecht, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz (Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Berlin