Hanns Kralik

Hanns Kralik (born May 27, 1900 in Neufeld an der Leitha ; † May 9, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter , graphic artist and resistance fighter .

Life

Title page “ Die Moorsoldaten ” by Hanns Kralik, 1933

Kralik came from a family of miners and grew up in the Ruhr area. At the age of 14 he was already working underground in the mine. From 1920 he attended the arts and crafts school in Krefeld as a part-time job , in 1925 he began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he did alongside shift work until 1928. He developed a connection to the Young Rhineland early on . He became a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists , Asso, in Düsseldorf. In March 1933, Kralik was arrested as a member of the Communist Party of Germany . Kralik was interned in the Börgermoor concentration camp . There he made the drawing for the song Die Moorsoldatenon. With his wife Lya Kralik, he fled to Paris via Holland in December 1934 .

During the emigration , Kralik was active in the resistance against the fascist occupation of France. Among other things, he made anti-fascist posters, leaflets, scatter slips and identity papers for illegals. He later joined the Resistance , Sector Travail allemand (TA).

Back in Düsseldorf, he participated in the reconstruction from July 1945. He was an alderman of the KPD and head of cultural affairs in the Office for Cultural Affairs in Düsseldorf. In 1950, due to the Adenauer decree on so-called loyalty to the constitution, the head of culture, and for a time head of sports, Hanns Kralik was dismissed from his offices. The reason was membership in the KPD.

In the last 20 years of his life, Hanns Kralik devoted himself to artistic creation again.

literature

Hanns Kralik: Graphics. (on the occasion of the exhibition "Pictures from the Resistance". On the 100th birthday of Hanns Kralik, May 4 to 19, 2000 Bonn / Galerie Pentagramm, Kult 41)

Web links

Chased out by the Nazis, shot by Adenauer ...! VVN-BdA and Aktion Sühnezeichen show the Hanns Kralik exhibition in Paris. Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Association of Antifascists, Landesvereinigung NRW , 25 October 2010.

Literature by and about Hanns Kralik in the catalog of the German National Library

Hanns Kralik. In: Drafd-Wiki. 5th March 2017.

Concentration Camp Songs: The Soldiers of the Moor (Die Moorsoldaten). In: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website . Archived from the original on October 23, 2016 .; accessed on August 27, 2018
VVN-BdA Düsseldorf: Kralik exhibition in the Foyer le Pont, Paris. (PDF, 66 kB) In: Drafd-Wiki. November 15, 2010 .; accessed on August 27, 2018

Individual evidence

^ Frank Laubenburg: Rehabilitate Hanns Kralik and Klaus Maase. In: frank laubenburg blogs. September 27, 2010, archived from the original on April 22, 2013 ; accessed on August 27, 2018 (application “Die Linke” in the city council in Düsseldorf).

personal data
SURNAME	Kralik, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neufeld on the Leitha
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1971
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Frank Laubenburg: Rehabilitate Hanns Kralik and Klaus Maase. In: frank laubenburg blogs. September 27, 2010, archived from the original on April 22, 2013 ; accessed on August 27, 2018 (application “Die Linke” in the city council in Düsseldorf).