Erich Grandeit

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Erich Grandeit (born January 5, 1915 in Magdeburg ; † February 3, 2001 in Hamburg ) was a German painter , illustrator , graphic artist and set designer .

Life

Erich Grandeit was born to Arthur and Emma Grandeit. His father was an actor, his mother a prompter. In 1926 the family moved to Karlsruhe, where Grandeit began training as a set designer at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 1931 and at the same time studied under Karl Hubbuch at the Baden State Art School there . For political reasons (his mother was Jewish and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) Grandeit had to break off training and studies in 1933 and worked anonymously at the Hamburg Schiller Opera . In 1943 he served in the anti-aircraft gun of the Navy in Holland and France. After the war he worked as a painter, draftsman and printmaker until he met Helmuth Gmelin in 1952 , who hired him as a set designer for his theater in the room . In addition, Grandeit taught from 1953 to 1962 as a lecturer at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . From 1958 Grandeit also worked at other Hamburg theaters, such as the Kammerspiele , the Thalia Theater and the Junge Theater, which later became the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , where he worked with directors such as Karl Paryla , Richard Münch and Eberhard Möbius . Of the more than 360 stage sets that he designed in the course of his career, around 300 were created on the aforementioned Hamburg stages alone. Grandeit also received further orders u. a. from the Vienna Burgtheater or the grandstand in Berlin.

Erich Grandeit's last work in 1995 was the set for The Investigation by Peter Weiss at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater. He then devoted himself to painting until the end of his life, where he was assigned to Realism and New Objectivity . Since 1945 Grandeit had numerous exhibitions of his works at home and abroad, including his stage designs. After his death, the Hamburg gallery Rose showed pictures and drafts of his stage sets in a retrospective . His estate is administered by the Hamburg theater collection.

Awards

  • 1962: stage designer award of the artist club "Die Insel"
  • 1981: Ernst Deutsch Medal in gold
  • 2000: Biermann Ratjen Medal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography on the website of the University of Hamburg ( Memento from May 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 5, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d On the death of the set designer Erich Grandeit , Die Welt dated February 7, 2001 , accessed on September 5, 2015
  3. ↑ a b biography on the Grandeits website
  4. ↑ a b c d Marilen Andrist: we perform! Ernst Deutsch Theater , pp. 70/71, Verlag Dölling and Gallitz, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-935549-07-5
  5. ^ Community letter No. 50 of the Evangelical Lutheran. Blankenese parish, June to August 2008 , accessed on September 5, 2015
  6. ↑ a b c Short biography on the website of the Harmstorf Gallery in Hamburg ( memento from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 5, 2015
  7. ^ Dagmar Harms: The latest from the world of the stage , Hamburger Abendblatt from May 29, 1965 , accessed on September 5, 2015
  8. ↑ Chr. Otto Frenzel: Prize for a stage designer , Hamburger Abendblatt, May 25, 1962 , accessed on September 5, 2015
  9. ↑ Set designer Erich Grandeit honored , Hamburger Abendblatt from September 15, 1981 , accessed on September 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Grandeit, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2001
Place of death Hamburg , Germany