Harald Pickert

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Harald Pickert (born January 29,  1901  in Leitmeritz ; † September 6, 1983 in Kufstein ) was an Austrian graphic artist .

life and work

Harald Pickert was born in 1901 as the son of the lawyer Karl Pickert and his wife Dolores, b. Blumentritt, born in Leitmeritz in Bohemia. In 1903 the family moved to Kufstein , where Karl Pickert opened a law firm.

Harald Pickert attended the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1920 to 1923 . In 1928 he moved back to Leitmeritz, where he took over the printing company and publishing house that his grandfather had acquired in 1873. In 1930/31 he studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

As the editor and publisher of numerous regional and national newspapers, he condemned the Nazi regime and its intention to wage war. On March 15, 1939, the German Wehrmacht occupied the " remaining Czech Republic ", and on October 31, Pickert's office was stormed by members of the SS and the Gestapo . Harald Pickert was imprisoned as a "political prisoner" first in Mauthausen concentration camp , then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp  and finally in Dachau concentration camp , where he survived until liberation by the US Army in 1945.

After the war, Harald Pickert worked as a graphic artist and painter in Kufstein and created etchings and copperplate engravings , especially miniatures and bookplates , but also landscapes in oil and watercolor . In 2015, his descendants found in his estate a folder titled Europe's plague bumps with drawings from the Dachau concentration camp, which Pickert had made on the back of letter paper, on pieces of cardboard or butter paper and which document the horror in the concentration camp. These drawings were made in 2018/19 as part of the exhibitions “Art 1938–1945” in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum and “Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism ”will be  presented to the public for the first time in the South Tyrolean Museum for Cultural and Regional History .

Exhibitions

Honors

  • 1980 Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Kufstein
  • 1981 professional title professor
  • 1993 Naming of the Prof.-Harald-Pickert-Weg in Kufstein

literature

  • Pickert, Harald . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 588 .
  • Christoph Bertsch (Ed.): Art in Tyrol, 20th century: significantly expanded and revised inventory catalog of the collection of the Institute for Art History at the University of Innsbruck including documentation of legacies and bequests in two volumes. Volume 2, Innsbruck 1997, pp. 528–529 ( urn: nbn: at: at-ubi: 2-7291 )

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ according to other information on June 24th
  2. ↑ according to other information (Bertsch 1997) in Mödling
  3. ^ Hubert Berger: From Leitmeritz to Tyrol. The history of the Pickert family - Part 1: From the monarchy to the corporate state. meinviertel.at of March 4, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Hubert Berger: From Leitmeritz to Tyrol. The story of the Pickert family - Part 2: From the connection to the concentration camp and the way to the 2nd republic. meinviertel.at of March 11, 2015
  5. ↑ 00004 Harald Pickert in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 1919–1931.
  6. ↑ 2018 annual program of the Tyrolean State Museums. Media information from the Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, November 16, 2017
  7. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol , Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 250-251 .
  8. ^ Hubert Berger: Kufstein artist documented the horror in the concentration camps. meinviertel.at of March 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Pickert, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitmeritz
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1983
Place of death Kufstein