Heinrich Dersch
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
- 1943: Art Gallery Stumpf & Sohn, Danzig
- 1947: Roppel art dealer, Marburg
- 1991: Museum der Schwalm : Memorial exhibition, Schwalmstadt -Ziegenhain
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
- Dersch, Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Matriculation number of the Munich Art Academy - accessed on February 5, 2018
personal data | |
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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 |