Heiner Dikreiter

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Heinrich "Heiner" Carl Dikreiter (born May 28, 1893 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † May 13, 1966 in Würzburg ) was a German landscape and portrait painter as well as a graphic artist , art educator and gallery director.

Life

Dikreiter was the oldest child of the journalist and editor Heinrich Georg Dikreiter (1865–1947) and a mother “from the old Palatinate family”. His sister Grete was born in 1895, and brother Otto Dikreiter in 1899 . After his parents had moved with him to Altenburg in Thuringia , he began a commercial apprenticeship there in 1908. He acquired his drawing training largely self- taught. In 1910 he was studying in Berlin . In 1913 the family moved on to Würzburg.

Dikreiter was seriously wounded and unfit for service in Flanders in December 1914 while serving at the front during World War I. After a year and a half hospital stay , he received a small pension. From October 25, 1916 to 1918, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Peter von Halm and worked as an editor of the weekly magazine Die Frankenwarte . In 1919 he became a founding member of the Association of Lower Franconian Artists and Craftsmen (VuKuK) in Würzburg, of which he was also chairman from 1928 to 1932. In 1921 he stayed again to study in Berlin.

In the same year 1921 he became a teacher for freehand drawing in the "freehand, head and nude drawing class " at the Würzburger Polytechnisches Zentralverein ( art and craft school in Würzburg ), which he remained until 1957. In 1941 he was appointed to the establishment of the Städtische Galerie Würzburg (in Hofstraße, from 2002 in the museum in the Kulturspeicher Kulturspeicher) for the collection of Würzburg and Main Franconian art from the 19th and 20th centuries, the director of which he had already given up before his denazification It was made January 1946 and then - officially confirmed - in 1952 and remained until his death (1966). He was appointed professor.

From 1910 to 1933 Dikreiter was a member of the SPD , on May 1, 1933 (backdated from July 1934) he joined the NSDAP . He was also a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . He made the illustrations for the sheet Our Field Post , which was published by the information service of the city of Würzburg for the staff deployed on the front from November .

Dikreiter not only adapted himself to a large extent to the Nazi ideology during the Nazi era , but also long after the war valued precisely those artists who had been highly valued by the Nazis , while he rejected abstraction and any contemporary modernism faced. Until his death, as director of the Städtische Galerie, he still bought art from the Nazi era - works by 30 to 40 artists, around 100 paintings, 2000 graphics and 60 to 70 sculptures.

He was a member and advisory board member of the Mainfränkischer Kunstverein from 1841. Dikreiter kept a large part of the estate of the violinist and lawyer Jules Siber , with whom he had kept in contact throughout his life. His obituary for Siber appeared in the Mainfränkische Zeitung on June 4, 1943 .

Dikreiter was married to Fridl Landgraf since 1927.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Art and artists in Mainfranken ; a contribution to Mainfrankischen art in the 19th and 20th centuries, in: Mainfränkische Hefte , Volume 18, Friends of Mainfrankischer Kunst und Geschichte (Ed.), Würzburg 1954, page 211
  • Freiherr von Gleichen-Rußwurm , catalog of the memorial exhibition, Würzburg 1957

literature

  • Dikreiter, Heiner . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 565-566 .
  • Bettina Keß, Beate Reese: Tradition and awakening. Würzburg and the art of the 1920s. 2003, p. 15 f. and 144 ( digitized version )
  • Otto Hannig: Heiner Dikreiter 1893-1966. In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch. Volume 18, 1966, pages X-XVI
  • Hans Schneider: Heiner Dikreiter, landscapes and people. In: Artists and artisans from Mainfranken. Volume 1, City of Würzburg (Ed.), Würzburg 1963
  • Heiner Dikreiter 1893–1966. In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Volume 18, Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History (ed.), 1966 (obituary)
  • Marlene Lauter: In the center, images of people. From the graphic collection of Heiner Dikreiter (1893–1966). Mainfränkische Hefte, Volume 90, Städtische Galerie (Ed.), Würzburg 1993
  • Heiner Dikreiter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 386.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 641/1893
  2. ↑ Death register StA Würzburg, No. 1046/1966
  3. ↑ Heiner Dikreiter †. In: Würzburg. Magazine for culture and economy. Issues 1-6, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 1966, page 66 (obituary).
  4. ^ Heinz Otremba: 15 Centuries of Würzburg. A city and its history. Verlag Echter, 1979, ISBN 3-429-00641-4 .
  5. ↑ Marlene Lauter: In the center, images of people from the graphic collection of Heiner Dikreiter (1893-1966). Würzburg 1993, page 67 ( excerpt ).
  6. ↑ Matriculation number 5545 in the register book 1884-1920; here the denomination is given as “free religious”.
  7. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 258–260 and p. 1285, notes 340 and 342.
  8. ↑ Art from the National Socialist era in the holdings of the Municipal Collection ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturspeicher.de
  9. ↑ Peter Weidisch (2007), p. 258 f. and p. 1285
  10. ↑ Peter Weidisch (2007), p. 229.
  11. ↑ Art from the National Socialist era in the holdings of the Municipal Collection ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturspeicher.de
  12. ↑ Ilse Konell: Jules Siber, Paganini's return. A life for art. Orphil Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-934472-04-4
  13. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 16, 1970
personal data
SURNAME Dikreiter, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dikreiter, Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1966
Place of death Wurzburg