Gerhard Stengel
Gerhard Stengel (born January 13, 1915 in Leipzig , † December 16, 2001 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He was a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .
Life
Gerhard Stengel was born on Brühl in Leipzig. After his school days he learned the craft of decorative painter from 1929 to 1933. Gerhard Stengel was imprisoned together with two of his brothers and his father in 1934 for anti-fascist activities. After the journeyman's examination, he completed the master craftsman school for painting at the technical college in Leipzig, which he graduated as a master in 1936. Reich labor service , military and military service interrupted his further artistic training. Due to an accident in 1940 Gerhard Stengel was given leave of absence to study as unfit for military service.
From 1940 to 1942 Stengel studied at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig in Arno Drescher's master class and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . He was a master student of Carl Fahringer and received lessons from Herbert Boeckl , who had a lasting influence on him. In 1944 Gerhard Stengel was awarded a scholarship from the City of Vienna. In 1948 he received the diploma for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and thus the formal completion of his studies.
Gerhard Stengel had been living in Leipzig again since 1946 and until 1952 taught as a specialist teacher for art education, art history and drawing at the Leibniz School's grammar school . There he founded a class with a musical profile.
In 1952, Stengel was appointed to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, for a year as an aspirant and later as a lecturer in drawing. With the establishment of workshops for wall painting, technology, design and color theory for painting, a new phase in Gerhard Stengel's teaching activities at the Dresden University of Fine Arts began in 1967. In 1969 he was appointed professor. In addition to numerous freelance activities as a painter and graphic artist, he held this position at the HfBK until his retirement in 1980.
Gerhard Stengel continued to work as a painter and graphic artist in Dresden until his death in 2001.
plant
In panel painting and in watercolors, Gerhard Stengel's main focus was on portraits and landscape painting , at the same time on domestic, exotic and urban landscapes. As a result of his numerous study trips, the sketch-like recording of direct impressions in pen, chalk and felt-tip pen drawings dominates. They are manifested in an extensive lithography work. His watercolors and lithographs in Dresden document the reconstruction of the city, which was destroyed in the Second World War, on distinctive buildings.
Sketches
“Inspired by the calligraphy of the Slevogt line , Gerhard Stengel finds his own signature. Great variability in expression in the leaves. Sketchbooks tell of the art of the moment, but also of an inner drive as a constant challenge alternating with moments of rest. In this respect, the sketchbooks have a special kind of autobiographical traits. By drawing, the artist clarifies the visual impression of an alien world, which he appropriates and probably also understands by looking at the drawing. This range is enormous. Descriptive line as in 1958 from the Siberia diaries is transformed into dynamically moving, interpretive lines with autonomy. "
Painting, watercolors
“When Gerhard Stengel came to Dresden after studying in Leipzig and Vienna, he was able, unaffected by the formalism discussion , to join the university tradition of expressive, realistic painting created by Gussmann and Feldbauer , Sterl and Kokoschka in the first decades. In addition to his initially restrained oil painting, he found in the medium of ancient watercolor painting a special means of expression that enriched Dresden painting, which enabled him to depict a haunting, enthusiastic and sensitive representation of nature as an expression of his reference to this world in portraits, in the landscape and in still life. "
Exhibitions
A selection of important solo exhibitions:
| year | place | date |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Municipal art collection, Museum Karl-Marx-Stadt | September 20th to October 26th |
| 1960 | Hygiene Museum, Dresden | February 16 to April 4 |
| State Lindenau Museum, Altenburg | March 27th to April 19th | |
| 1964 | Studio for graphics, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf | May 24th to July 5th |
| 1965 | Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections | July 23 to September 26 |
| State Museum Schwerin | June 7th to July 17th | |
| 1967 | Angermuseum Erfurt | July 23rd to August 20th |
| 1975 | Bab El Loutz Art Hall, Cairo, Egypt | March to? |
| 1980 | Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes Galerie José C. Orozo, Mexico City, Mexico | April 28th to May 30th |
| 1982 | Landhaus, Museum of the History of the City of Dresden | April 7th to June 10th |
| 1983 | Young Art Gallery, Frankfurt / Oder | April 21 to June 5 |
| 1985 | Gallery of the Dresden University of Fine Arts | May to June |
| 1989 | Weimar City Museum | March 12th to March 30th |
| Municipal Gallery Traun, Austria | September 6th to October 15th | |
| 1990 | Gallery of the City of Salzburg, Austria | October 12th to November 4th |
| 1997 | Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato, Mexico | March 20th to May 3rd |
| 1998 | BASF gallery, Schwarzheide | June 20th to August 6th |
| 2000 | Dresdner Bank Gallery, Dresden | October 18 to November 23 |
| 2005 | Gallery in the regional council Dresden | November 30th to January 9th |
| 2006 | Ahrenshoop beach hall | May 7th to July 9th |
Awards
- 1969 National Prize of the GDR for art and literature
- 1974 Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden
- 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
literature
- Wolfgang Winter: Watercolors by Gerhard Stengel. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1970, license no. 413-455 / A13 / 70
- Karl Brix: Gerhard Stengel. VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1975, license no. 460.350 / 25/75, LSV no. 8116
- Lexicon of Art , Volume IV: QS, 1st edition, p. 679. VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1977, license no. 460.350 / 16/77, LSV no. 8102
- Gert Claußnitzer: Travel Sketches / Gerhard Stengel. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1990, license no. 460, ISBN 3-363-00465-6
- Gerhard Stengel, Dresden - Ahrenshoop - Dresden , catalog for Gerhard Stengel's 90th birthday on exhibitions in the gallery of the regional council in Dresden and the beach hall Ostseebad Ahrenshoop with texts by Karin Weber (art historian, Dresden), Horst Zimmermann (director of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister a. D.) and Hans-Ulrich Lehmann (Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden). G. Stengel estate administration, 2005
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b from the catalog Gerhard Stengel, Dresden - Ahrenshoop - Dresden. Dresden 2005
- ^ Archive of the Gerhard Stengel estate administration
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stengel, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 2001 |
| Place of death | Dresden |