Gerhard Schiffel

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Gerhard Schiffel (born March 22, 1913 in Glashütte ; † August 12, 2002 in Heidenau ) was a German graphic artist , draftsman and painter .

Pavilion in Borthen Castle

Life

Gerhard Schiffel was born the son of a mechanic. After finishing school, he began an apprenticeship as a commercial artist at the Dresden company Eberhard-Walter Hahnemann in Parkstrasse 7 in 1928. At the same time, he attended painting courses. After successfully completing his apprenticeship in 1931, he began to work as a commercial artist at Fine Art AG in Dresden-Niedersedlitz . During this time he lived in Dresden with his friend Günter Schmitz on the corner of Kaulbach and Grunaer Strasse.

In 1938 he married and moved to his wife in Burgstädtel near Borthen in the southern heights of the Elbe Valley. He attended adult education courses and the graphic technical school in Dresden. During the Second World War he had to interrupt his studies and served as a soldier on the Eastern Front and later in France . In 1942 he was able to successfully complete a semester at the Dresden Art Academy with Rudolf Schramm-Zittau .

From 1946 he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in a pavilion in the Borthener Rittergut. There were picture cycles about Dresden and also about Borthen and the surrounding area. The motifs in numerous watercolors , paintings , drawings and collages include old farms, trees, the landscape around Borthen and its people. These works were published in art print portfolios , among other things .

A work contract from the Volkseigen Gut (VEG) fruit production Borthen in 1976 secured him and his family financially and materially. While his work was initially documentary with precisely captured motifs, the free style of watercolor painting followed. His works were drawings, watercolors and oil paintings. He was an artist of warm colors and wanted to show "the world full of wonders and wounds", as he himself wrote in 1991.

Painting with oil paint later gave way to watercolor painting. From 1978 to 1979 he gave lectures with the sculptor Wilhelm Landgraf in the Department of Fundamentals of Design at the TU Dresden . The art dealer and painter Gerhard Patzig and the graphic artist Günter Schmitz were his closest friends and admirers as well as critics. Gerhard Schiffel died on August 12, 2002 and was buried in Heidenau .

The Dippoldiswalde Tannery, City and District Museum owns several of his works. A connecting route to Kleinborthen was named in his honor: Gerhard-Schiffel-Weg.

Works (selection)

  • 1940: View of Dresden and Elbe, watercolor and opaque paints
  • 1944: View of Sorbigau, watercolor and opaque paints
  • 1945: Schloßstraße, Dresden, watercolor and opaque colors
  • 1947: Portrait of Elsa Fenske , in the Elsa Fenske home in Grillenburg and later at Gut Gamig .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013/2014: Gerhard Schiffel for his 100th birthday, painting and graphics. Museum Osterzgebirgsgalerie in Dippoldiswalde Castle
  • 2002: Cabinet exhibition Gerhard Schiffel and Günter Schmitz. Osterzgebirgsgalerie in Dippoldiswalde Castle.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
  2. ↑ Gert Claussnitzer: Orderly brush strokes - On the death of the Dresden painter Gerhard Schiffel. In: New Germany . August 29, 2002, accessed May 11, 2020.
  3. ^ A b Rikarda Groß: Two painter friends in the museum. Sächsische Zeitung of July 29, 2002, accessed on May 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ Gert Claussnitzer: Orderly brush strokes - On the death of the Dresden painter Gerhard Schiffel. In: New Germany. August 29, 2002, accessed May 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Gerhard Schiffel - Exhibitions in museums. In: Pure culture , accessed on May 11, 2020.
  6. ^ Rikarda Groß: The painter Gerhard Schiffel from Burgstädtel - special exhibition in the Museum Osterzgebirgsgalerie in Dippoldiswalde Castle. In: Dippoldiswalder Bote. May 17, 2013, p. 19. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Schiffel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Glassworks
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2002
Place of death Heidenau