Harald Thiel

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Harald Thiel (born September 28, 1931 in Gebirgsneudorf , Czechoslovakia ; † November 4, 2002 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist . At first he worked in the style of socialist realism . In the 1970s, by dissolving his motifs in a multi-faceted manner, he turned to a more individual representational method of representation.

Life

During the Second World War, his parents moved with him from the Sudetenland to Dresden. There, at the age of 13, he was an eyewitness to the air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945, which also shaped his life and work. After 1945 he completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker. He did his army service from 1950 to 1953. During this time he met his future wife Laura-Lonny Queck. They both married in 1952. The marriage had three children.

In 1954 he began studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bergander and Erich Fraaß . In 1957 he traveled to Bulgaria to study. In 1959 he finished his studies with a diploma in painting and graphics.

Act

In 1960, Thiel signed a contract with the 7th Panzer Division of the NVA stationed in Dresden , in which the representation of the troops in the style of Socialist Realism was agreed. “The political officer of the division reported: 'Within the concluded contracts, the NVA appeared as a client for the first time. [...] The visual arts have thus been enriched by a new, decisive field of activity, the new socialist soldier theme. '”The monumental painting Fahneneid , oil on canvas, 165 × 320 cm, created in 1962 , is one of the early commissioned works for the NVA. There is the scene again in which the soldiers swear "[...] to serve the German Democratic Republic, my fatherland, loyally at all times and to protect them against the enemy on the orders of the workers 'and peasants' government [...]."

Thiel worked as a freelancer. In 1963 he became a member of the Dresden Association of Visual Artists . From 1963 to 1969 he was a master student with Rudolf Bergander. In 1964 he received the NVA art prize for participating in an exhibition in Berlin. In 1968 he was involved in the art portfolio "Soldiers" with the chalk drawing of the People's Army , which was published by the Political Headquarters of the National People's Army. From 1978 he was a technical college teacher at the Dresden University of Fine Arts specializing in stage design, animation, make-up and drawing in nature, and since 1986 he has been a technical college lecturer for the basic course in make-up artists.

As a freelance Dresden artist, he also carried out several commissioned works for the districts of Leipzig , Dresden , Karl-Marx-Stadt and the city of Dresden. In addition to painting and graphics, he worked with techniques of leaded glass and building art . Several of the commissioned works have been preserved and viewed in Dresden and in the vicinity of the object. In the Military Museum of the GDR , his work was a soldier with a helmet , 1964, grease pencil / chalk, 42 × 29 cm. Through the trust holdings of the Free German Trade Union Federation , two large-format pictures came into the possession of the art fund of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden : The Concert , 1967, oil on canvas, 100 × 115 cm, and Die Koppelung , 1976/77, oil on hard fiber, two-part, 140 , 5 × 212 cm, one of the few pictures in the GDR that dealt with space travel.

architectural art

received at the object

  • 1966 Kindergarten Dürerstraße Dresden: "German fairy tales"
  • 1974 Neuhirschstein Castle Children's Sanatorium: "Youth Sports / Seasons"
  • 1976 Hotel Bärenfels near Altenberg: "Erzgebirge Folklore"
  • 1977 Medical Center Dresden Böhnischplatz: "Stations of Life"
  • 1977 Retirement home in Seifersdorf: "Seasons-Age-Tree of Life"
  • 1978 Pharmacy Johannstadt Dresden: "Medicinal Plants"
  • 1980 Waldschänke Moritzburg Dresden complex: "Historical hunting motifs", "After the hunt"

stored

  • 1984 Dippoldiswalde district hospital complex consisting of mural, antique lead glazing, and suppraport

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Seemann, Leipzig, 1962, Vol. VI, p. 446.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Thiel - oath of the flag . In: Exhibition commission: Art, 1949–1990 . German Historical Museum
  2. ↑ Monika Flacke: Commissioned Art of the GDR, 1949–1990 , Klinkhardt & Biermann, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7814-0380-2 , p. 137
  3. ^ Manfred Görtemaker: Basic course in German military history: The time after 1945 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58100-3 , p. 141 (with illustration)
  4. ↑ License no. 5 (8 / 05-30)
  5. ↑ Military History, Volume 22 . German Institute for Military History, Deutscher Militärverlag , 1983, p. 510
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Gebirgsneudorf
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2002
Place of death Dresden