Hans Grundig

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Hans Grundig. Photo by Hugo Erfurth (1946)
Portrait of Hans Grundig (1955), etching by Lea Grundig
Hans Grundig at the presentation of the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1958
Grave of Lea and Hans Grundig on the Dresden Heidefriedhof

Hans Grundig (born February 19, 1901 in Dresden ; † September 11, 1958 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Hans Grundig initially completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with his father . From 1915 to 1919 he studied in Dresden, from 1920 to 1921 at the local arts and crafts school under Max Frey . In 1922 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts , where he studied with Otto Gussmann and Otto Hettner until 1927 . His artistic works were strongly influenced by the work of Otto Dix . He was politically active and joined the KPD in 1926 . In 1928 he married the painter Lea Langer , with whom he was one of the founding members of the Dresden Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists in 1929 . His work changed from a new, objective young artist to a representative of an emphatically proletarian revolutionary art. In Moscow in 1932 he took part in the exhibition "Revolutionary Art in the Countries of Capitalism".

After the National Socialists came to power , Grundig was banned from working in 1934 . Despite the ban, he continued his artistic work. From 1934 to 1939 the drypoint etchings for the series Animals and People were created . Between 1935 and 1938 he created the triptych The Thousand Year Reich , now on view in the Albertinum in Dresden. His works made use of a realistic, expressive representation and had strong political references. Since Grundig's works were considered “ degenerate ” in the eyes of the brown rulers , various of his works were defamed in the Nazi propaganda exhibition “ Degenerate Art ” in July 1937 , and eight of his works were confiscated.

In 1940 Grundig was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Later he was assigned to a punitive battalion of the German Wehrmacht and thus took part in the Second World War. In 1944 he went over to the Red Army . He returned to Dresden in 1946 and became professor and rector of the Dresden University of Fine Arts. In 1948 he had to give up his functions again for health reasons. The autobiographical novel Between Carnival and Ash Wednesday was written in 1955 and 1956 . In the post-war period, Grundig was largely appropriated by the SED's cultural policy, which courted him as a "hero of the anti-fascist resistance". However, his works are among the essential works of realistic German art in the 20th century. Hans Grundig's grave is on the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

Awards

The 64th middle school in Dresden-Laubegast was named after him. From 1982 to 1989 the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR awarded the Hans Grundig Medal to well-known visual artists, cultural politicians and art scholars. The Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation awards the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize every two years.

literature

  • Hans Grundig . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 221-225 .
  • Anke Scharnhorst:  Hans Grundig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Hans Grundig: Between Carnival and Ash Wednesday: Memories of a Painter. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1986, DNB 860779890 (first edition: 1957, DNB 451701372 )
  • Lea Grundig : About Hans Grundig and the art of picture making. Volk und Wissen publishing house, Berlin 1978, DNB 790732408 .
  • Eckhart Gillen (Ed.): Pictures of Germany. Art from a divided country. Catalog for the exhibition of the 47th Berliner Festwochen in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, September 7, 1997 to January 11, 1998, DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4173-3 (catalog edition).
  • Gabriele Werner : Between Carnival and Ash Wednesday: Homage for Hans Grundig (1901–1958); for the exhibition from February 23 to April 16, 2001 in the Albertinum. In: Dresdener Kunstblätter, 45.2001, pp. 111–114, ISSN  0418-0615
  • Stephan Weber, Erhard Frommhold , Hans Grundig: Creating in secret. In: Phantasos III. Series of publications for art and philosophy of the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Edited by Rainer Beck and Constanze Peres. Verlag der Kunst Dresden (Philo Fine Arts), Amsterdam / Dresden 2001, ISBN 90-5705-164-8 .
  • Manfred Tschirner: Animals and people - beasts and monsters: Hans Grundig's etchings (1933–1938) as a studio exhibition in the Otto-Nagel-Haus . In: Bildende Kunst, 1983, pp. 560–561
  • Reinhild Tetzlaff: Hans Grundig exhibition in Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben (April 4 - May 23, 1985). In: Bildende Kunst, 1985, p. 284.

Web links

Commons : Hans Grundig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grundig, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 545 .
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Grundig, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1958
Place of death Dresden