Gerhard Sperling (painter)

Gerhard Sperling (born July 21, 1908 in Dresden , † December 24, 1975 in Bramsche ) was a German painter.

Gerhard Sperling was born on July 21, 1908 in Dresden. Here he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1925 at the age of 17 and attended it until 1932. There he studied with Otto Dix , Max Feldbauer , Ferdinand Dorsch and Richard Müller, among others .

In 1940 he was drafted as a soldier and was initially captured by the Americans in 1945, but was one of the prisoners of war who were extradited to the Soviet Union . The air raids on Dresden in February 1945 destroyed his Dresden studio and killed his wife from Bramsche. After his release from captivity, he settled in Bramsche and started working again as an artist. His new studio was in Osnabrück from 1950 to 1970 . In 1953 he married Charlotte Bornemann from Bramsche. In 1968 he received the Stüve Gold Medal from the city of Osnabrück. In 1970 he moved his studio to Bramsche. He died on December 24, 1975 in Bramsche, where he was also buried.

Works

With over 5,000 works created, Gerhard Sperling is considered a very productive painter. He mainly created landscape and flower portraits. But many of the portraits he created are also known.

In the period after the Second World War he created many works with motifs from Osnabrück and the Osnabrück region , including portraits of seven honorary citizens of the city of Osnabrück.

literature

• Gerhard Sperling . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 329 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Gerd Rabe: Gerhard Sperling (= Heimatbund Osnabrücker Land eV [Hrsg.]: Heimatbuch Osnabrücker Land . Volume 1977 ). Pfotenhauer printing works, Ankum 1976, p. 192-193 .
2. ^ Gerhard Sperling (1908–1975). Retrieved March 19, 2020 . 
3. ^ Gerhard Sperling's artistic résumé. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, June 25, 2006, accessed on March 19, 2020 .