Heinrich Burkhardt (painter)

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Heinrich Burkhardt (born November 16, 1904 in Altenburg , † April 3, 1985 in East Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

From 1918 to 1922 he completed an apprenticeship in lithography and attended the drawing school of the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg. Between 1924 and 1931 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Otto Gussmann and Georg Lührig . During this time he made various trips; among others to Munich, Vienna and Amsterdam. Burkhardt was a member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . In 1937 his works were ostracized as degenerate . In 1945 all of his previous work was destroyed in the bombing raid on Dresden . From 1945 Heinrich Burkhardt lived again in Altenburg and became director of the drawing school of the Lindenau Museum. Burkhardt took 1946 a. a. with his oil painting "Burning City" at the General German Art Exhibition in Dresden.

In 1947 he was appointed professor, whereupon he moved to Berlin in 1950. In the years 1950–1968 Burkhardt was a teacher at the Technical School for Applied Arts in Berlin-Schöneweide, then at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weissensee . Portraits of simple people and landscapes are at the center of the painterly and graphic work. Watercolors mostly with a drawing frame made of reed pen. In 1957 and 1959 he went on study trips to Poland and Hungary, making suggestions for various lithographs . In 1961 he received a teaching position at the Institute for Art Education at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After 1968 Heinrich Burkhardt lived as a freelance painter in Berlin.

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum (including: Mühle; charcoal drawing, 1948)
  • Arnstadt, Schlossmuseum (including: autumn landscape; watercolor, 1954)
  • Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett (including: Elbe landscape, Saxon Switzerland; watercolor, 1932)

Burkhardt's works can also be found in the Angermuseum , Beeskow art archive , and in the Neues Museum Weimar .        

literature

  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 185, 365.
  • Ostracized - forgotten - rediscovered. Art of expressive representationalism from the Gerhard Schneider Collection ; (on the occasion of the exhibition Ostracized, Forgotten, Rediscovered. Art of Expressive Objectivity from the Gerhard Schneider Collection, Kunstverein Südsauerland Olpe); Rolf Jessewitsch, Gerhard Schneider (Ed.) Cologne: Wienand 1999. ISBN 3-87909-665-1 , p. 428

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Image index of art & architecture
  2. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
  3. ↑ Klassik Stiftung Weimar: Collections of the museums
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1985
Place of death East Berlin