Georg Siebert (painter)

Georg Siebert (born May 13, 1896 in Dresden , † November 6, 1984 in Cologne ) was a German painter and representative of German realism and belonged to the circle of New Objectivity . Preferred subjects were landscapes, still lifes and portraits.

Life

After studying at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Dresden (1913-1916), the Dresden Art Academy with Richard Müller (1919-1921 and 1924-1926) and the Munich Art Academy with Ludwig von Herterich and Max Doerner (1921-1923), he received an honorary certificate from the Art Academy Dresden and a grant from the city of Dresden. He became a member of the German Association of Artists and the Dresden Secession in 1932 . In 1930 he was awarded the Ilgen Prize. Siebert was counted on the right wing of the New Objectivity. He went on trips abroad to Paris and the USA, where his works were shown in the exhibition of German art at Galerie Arnold . In 1926, Georg Siebert and Max Frey held a special exhibition at the Remmler Gallery in Leipzig . 14 works by Siebert were shown.

After the seizure of power , he became a professor at the Karlsruhe Art Academy from 1933 to 1942 . After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he painted the picture My comrades in Poland .

As a successful artist supported by the Nazi regime, Siebert was regularly represented at the National Socialist propaganda shows Great German Art Exhibition and in some cases with several works, for example 1937 with the picture SS man , 1938 with the work German settler family , 1939 with farmer's breakfast , 1940 Meine Comrades in Poland and riflemen in the east , as well as in 1941, 1942, 1943 and also in 1944, the last exhibition before the collapse, with the painting painter Professor Sauerstein . The paintings Farmer's Breakfast , My Comrades in Poland and Landesschützen in the East were bought by Adolf Hitler . The Reichsleiter of the NSDAP Robert Ley bought the painting Black Forest Landscape in 1940 .

He met his wife in Karlsruhe and moved there in 1961. In 1964 he moved to Cologne.

Today there are u. a. his portraits in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , the German Historical Museum in Berlin and in private collections.

In 2011, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Galerie Neue Meister presented the works Erdarbeiter (1931) and Lady Portrait with a Red Chain (1936) by Georg Siebert as part of the large-scale exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden . A 352-page catalog was published for the exhibition.

literature

• Georg Siebert . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 297-298 .
• Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 202, 378.
• Fritz Wilkendorf: A painter of the people: Georg Siebert . In: Der Fuehrer , dated January 12, 1936, also reprinted in the magazine Das Bild , March 1936, p. 92.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Siebert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Düsseldorf workshop talks of the NRW Artists 'Guild at the writers' table in the House of the German East (today the Gerhart-Hauptmann-House Foundation), July 27, 1979

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Corinna Halbrehder: The painting of the General German Art Exhibition of the GDR . P. Lang, 1995, p. 322.
2. ↑ Georg Siebert. Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden, accessed on July 4, 2013 .  
3. ↑ Carsten Probst: A cool look at the hard reality. Deutschlandfunk , October 1, 2011, accessed on July 4, 2013 .  
4. ^ Special exhibition by Prof. Max Frey. Special exhibition by Georg Siebert. In: Galerie Remmler (Hrsg.): Catalog of the Christmas exhibition . Remmler Gallery, Leipzig 1926.
5. ↑ Picture from: Berthold Hinz : The painting of German fascism: Art and counterrevolution . Book Guild Gutenberg, 1976 (first Hanser 1974), ill. 83 on p. 245
6. ↑ Internet site Central Institute for Art History Great German Art Exhibition 1937–1944
7. ↑ Portrait of a woman with a red chain (1936). (No longer available online.) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
8. ^ Earthworkers (1931). (No longer available online.) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, archived from the original on December 29, 2015 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
9. ↑ DHM object database. Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, accessed on July 4, 2013 .  
10. ^ Research project Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden, 2008 - 2011. (No longer available online.) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.