Heinrich Dersch

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Heinrich Dersch (born December 28, 1889 in Mohnhausen near Haina Monastery , † July 8, 1967 in Ottersweier ) was a German expressionist painter and draftsman .

Education and life

Heinrich Dersch first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Kassel and from 1912 to 1914 at the Art Academy in Munich with Peter Halm . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War. In 1917 he studied painting at the Kassel Art Academy under Hans Olde , Carl Wünnenberg , Paul Baum and Carl Bantzer . Carl Bantzer introduced Dersch to the circle of artists at the Willingshausen painters' colony . From 1921 to 1941 Dersch settled in Kassel as a freelance painter. In 1923 he was one of the founding members of the painter group in 1923. In 1927 he was a founding member of the Kassel Secession around Arnold Bode . Until 1933, Dersch made several study trips to southern France , Paris , Munich , the Allgäu , Lake Constance and the southern Black Forest ( Todtmoos ). In 1933 he married Gerda Krieg, a woman from Tiegenhof. In 1934 he had contact with his former student colleague Werner Gilles who lived there on Ischia during a study visit lasting several months. Between 1934 and 1941 he spent the summer months in East and West Prussia , on the Curonian and Fresh Spit , in Danzig , Königsberg and Marienburg . In 1935 Dersch was appointed head of the regional office of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in Kassel. In 1941 he lost his apartment and studio in Kassel in a bomb attack. The bombed out moved to Riemannsfelde near Posen . Shortly afterwards, he settled in Tiegenhof near Gdansk in his wife's hometown . In 1945 he fled to Göppingen . Due to the war, he left all pictures and tools behind. Due to a lack of painting utensils, Dersch started drawing with colored pencils in the post-war period. From 1946 to 1956 he lived in Hessen again . From 1956 to 1958 he lived in Hofgeismar and from 1958 until his death in a lung sanatorium in Ottersweier.

Museum review

  • New gallery , Kassel
  • Löwenburg Museum, Kassel
  • Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz
  • BSGS Munich, Munich

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibition

  • 1927: 1 exhibition of the Kassel Secession, KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
  • 1928: 2nd and 3rd exhibition of the Kassel Secession, KasselerKunstVerein, Kassel
  • 1930: German Association of Artists, Essen
  • 1980: The Willingshausen artists' colony , Orangery , Kassel

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation number of the Munich Art Academy - accessed on February 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Dersch, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppies near Haina Monastery
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1967
Place of death Ottersweier