Heini Scheffler

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The Culitzsch church in Advent, with Olbernhauer riders and light bearers

Heini Scheffler (born May 16, 1925 in Niederhaßlau ) is a German graphic artist. He became known through numerous charcoal drawings of his West Saxon homeland and the weather frog Quakel , which Günter Würdemann drew for the first time and which he adopted as an idea for 37 years in the Free Press for 37 years .

Life

Scheffler completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer . After he was released from captivity, Scheffler worked as a freelance graphic designer in Zwickau . He was a member of the Association of German Visual Artists (VBKD). His weather frog Quakel , which appeared for the first time on September 1, 1952, had the gift of "making the readers of the Free Press smile" even in the worst weather. It is no coincidence that the name "father of the weather frog" comes from this.

Scheffler's drawings appeared not only in the Free Press, but also in the Sächsische Heimatblätter and in the Zwickauer Pulsschlag .

In his charcoal drawings and lithographically drawn cityscapes, he expressed the important aspects of his motifs that could not be emphasized with photography. In over 40 years of work for the Free Press, his pen or pen produced around 10,000 drawings.

In old age he donated some of his works to the Foundation for the Friends of the Musischer Schlossberg Planitz to support the renovation of the Planitz tea house.

In May 2012, the then 87-year-old Heini Scheffler celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary ( Iron Wedding ) with his wife Ruth .

Works

Heini Scheffler designed the motif of the Zwickau candle arch with cathedral, Gewandhaus and boat.

  • Günter Würdemann (Ed.): Our home . Sketch sheets from our "FP" draftsmen. Free Press, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1981.

literature

  • Friedemann Schuster: Heini Scheffler . A life with a pencil through the ages. concepcion Seidel, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86716-047-6 (Festschrift for the 80th birthday).

Web links

Commons : Heini Scheffler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal communication with Heini Scheffler, January 7, 2014
  2. ↑ Traces from the files on the painter Tatjana Lietz. Edmund Käbisch , accessed March 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Free Press through the ages. Free press, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Heini Scheffler A life with a pencil. concepcion Seidel, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The weatherman's father also documented a mine accident. Free press, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Classical and Rock as well as Scheffler drawings for the tea house. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  7. ^ Viola Martin: Valuable prizes to be won. Different Zwickau Schwibbogen motifs in stores. In: Free Press . November 24, 2014, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Viola Martin: After 35 years there is a new one. Different Zwickau Schwibbogen motifs in stores. In: Free Press . November 15, 2014, accessed March 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Heini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederhasslau