Harry flower

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Harry Blume (born February 15, 1924 in Leipzig ; † March 17, 1992 ibid) was a German painter , graphic artist and university lecturer .

Life

After an apprenticeship as typesetter from 1938 to 1941 and attending the evening course of Alois Kolb at the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig and subsequent military service and Soviet imprisonment (1942–1945), Harry Blume was one of the first students at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art from 1947 . He studied painting with Ernst Hassebrauk , typography with Oskar Zech and sculpture with Walter Arnold . In 1951 Harry Blume was delegated to the Repin Institute in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) for postgraduate studies . In 1956 he broke off his studies and returned to Leipzig. From 1958, Harry Blume taught here as a lecturer at the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig , became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and taught from 1961 to 1989 as a lecturer and then until 1992 as a lecturer at the Academy of Graphics and Book Art. In close cooperation with Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Bernhard Heisig , he developed a subject-related basic teaching for the study of painting. His group portrait of Leipzig artists from 1961, depicting Heisig, Werner Tübke , Mayer-Foreyt, Heinrich Witz and Blume, became best known . In addition to commissioned works, he continuously created his colorful watercolors with landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes.

Harry Blume was married to the Leipzig painter and graphic artist Christel Blume-Benzler.

Blum's grave is located in the Leipzig-Connewitz cemetery.

Exhibitions

  • 4th-11th Art exhibition of the GDR Dresden, 1958–1988
  • 1966, 1971 Art of the Time Leipzig
  • 1985 Small Gallery South Leipzig, Agra-Park exhibition hall, Markkleeberg (with catalog)

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum ( forest interior; watercolor, 1975)
  • Gera, Art Collection Gera, Otto-Dix-Haus (including portrait study of Professor Hans Mayer-Foreyt ; drawing with ballpoint pen, 1978)
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts (including group portraits of Leipzig artists ; panel, oil, 1961)

literature

  • General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Vol. 11, Saur, Munich, Leipzig, 1995, p. 636
  • Painting of the GDR. Catalog of the Gemäldegalerie, volume 5. Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, 1977.
  • Hans Werner Schmidt, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (Ed.): 60 40 20. Leipzig Art since 1949: Art in Leipzig since 1949. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig, 2009, pp. 80, 84, 136, 146, 147, 342
  • University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig 1945–1989. Catalog. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1989, pp. 73, 230, 232

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Image index of art & architecture
  2. ^ Lothar Lang: Painting and Graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1983; P. 113
personal data
SURNAME Flower, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1992
Place of death Leipzig