Georg Sluyterman from Langeweyde

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Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde (born April 13, 1903 in Essen , † January 5, 1978 in Bendestorf ) was a German graphic artist , painter and songwriter who was associated with National Socialism .

Live and act

Childhood and youth

Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde was born as the ninth son of the artillery officer and civil engineer Bernhard Sluyterman von Langeweyde from his third marriage in the Ruhr metropolis of Essen, which has just grown into a metropolis. His mother's family came from the old Elberfeld weaver family Noll, his father's family came from the Netherlands . His name is originally written as Sluyterman Van Langeweyde (he mostly abbreviates the particle "Van" translated to "von" with "v.").

After the early death of his father (1908) he spent his youth in a working-class district of Essen and began to draw at an early age, including monkeys and elephants after his first horse motifs, which earned him the nickname "elephant painter" among schoolmates and teachers. At the age of twelve he made his first paper cuttings. He worked with the Wandervogel and learned to play the guitar. He also worked for a miller in Pomerania and in an advertising studio for a while. In 1920 he came to the Essen School of Applied Arts - today's Folkwang University - where he took courses with Professor Wilhelm Poetter (graphics and decorative painting) and the etcher Hermann Kätelhön (wood cutting art). He completed his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Fritz Mackensen and Willy Spatz . He then settled in Düsseldorf as a graphic artist and married in 1926, but once again attended the master class of Professor Julius Paul Junghanns , with whom he wandered through the Rhenish landscape and studied.

time of the nationalsocialism

Sluyterman von Langeweyde joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1928 and also became a member of the SA . He designed posters , vignettes and caricatures . He drew the head of the "Neue Front" (NSDAP weekly newspaper for the Gau Düsseldorf ) and worked for it regularly. Characteristic are his woodcuts and linocuts , which depict the life of the Ruhr workers or the farmers in Lower Saxony and the landscapes of the Lüneburg Heath. In the style of the old masters , he presented work scenes and illustrated numerous literary materials. His goal was to always present the affirmative, the strong and the close to life, even in confrontation with death. He added proverbs and quotes from folk songs in his woodcuts.

The text German songs of freedom, love and death (1934) by the high-ranking NSDAP functionary from Essen and so-called "Drummers of the Ruhr Area", Rudolf Zilkens , he illustrated with thirteen, often clearly National Socialist, woodcuts and the title (swastika, SA columns, SA- Men, etc.). Zilkens said in the foreword:

“Dear Georg Sluyterman! I urge you as a friend and comrade to thank you for the German pictures that you gave to my songs on the way. I couldn't have found anyone who understood the spirit of "freedom, love and death" better than you, because you yourself so often sang old mercenary songs to me. "

In 1935 the Folkwang Museum in Essen bought several of his works from him. From 1935 he painted several woodcut cycles , including Des Deutschen Volkes Lied (1935), Es admon die Väter (1936), and Deutsches Lied (1938), which make him famous and often appear in the press, where for example Der Schulungsbrief and Young people are pictured. His attitude to art is manifested in the principle: "Genius is diligence."

He also painted some politically influenced pictures as well as a portrait of Adolf Hitler and contributed to the book series "Ewiges Deutschland". In addition, he realized several wall paintings for the homes of the Hitler Youth and the SA. In 1939 he was represented with a lithograph at the GDK. In 1940 he settled in Bendestorf near Hamburg, where the draftsman first became a painter and created large-format paintings. That year he was one of the three representative German graphic artists who represented contemporary German original graphics at the 22nd Venice Biennale . In 1941 he volunteered for military service on the Eastern Front . Sketches for images of war were made in winter regions. Towards the end of the war, many of his printing blocks burned as a result of bombing. He fell into British captivity and was interned for one year.

post war period

After the war he tried to continue his career. In order to secure his livelihood, he mainly made advertising signs. In 1946 he married for the second time. The “European Book Club” selected him as one of the five best German illustrators and used him to illustrate a bibliophile series.

He wrote poems, ballads as well as drinking, love and traveling songs in the style of Hermann Löns ' songs, which he accompanied on the guitar . In 1970 he published a record, the songs found their way into schools and were occasionally played on the radio.

In 1970 he received the Golden Ring of Honor from the right-wing extremist Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist and was appointed to the Academy for Education and Culture in Munich. In 1973 he was made an honorary citizen of his home town of Bendestorf.

On January 5th, 1978 he died in his house in Bendestorf ("Haus Malershöh") and was buried in the Heidefriedhof Bendestorf. The Harburg district awarded him his art prize posthumously. His wife Eva-Maria died shortly after him.

Fonts

  • The Stromerhannes. August-Bruns-Verlag, Faßberg 1971 (song book with drinking and vagabond songs as well as corresponding drawings)

literature

  • Albert Mankopf: Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde. A German draftsman, eraser and wood cutter. Küster, Essen 1937.
  • Wolf Sluyterman v. Langeweyde [brother]: Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde: Becoming, work and essence of a German artist . Self-published, Bendestorf, Harburg district, Malershöh 1978 ( thule-italia.com [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Zilkens: German songs of freedom, love and death. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1934. p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Sluyterman from Langeweyde, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1978
Place of death Bendestorf