Heinrich Engel (painter)

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Heinrich Friedrich Engel (born March 18, 1900 in Rostock , † September 23, 1988 ibid) was a German landscape painter and draftsman, mainly Mecklenburg motifs and cityscapes .

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Heinrich Engel was born as the younger son of the master decorator Heinrich (Ludwig) Engel and his wife (Bertha Anna Maria) Emma, ​​b. Stender, born and baptized on May 2, 1900 in the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jacobi in his hometown. After attending secondary school in Rostock, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in his father's business from 1915 to 1918. He was still a soldier in World War I in 1918, when an injury led to hearing loss. From 1919 to 1920 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg and from 1920 to 1924 at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden , the last two years with Paul Rößler as a working student. In 1925 he passed the master craftsman's examination in the painting trade in Rostock and ran a painting business here until 1960.

He only came to painting in his free hours, mainly turning to still lifes and landscapes. Rostock cityscapes did not initially emerge because Engel saw that this field had already been captured in countless motifs by Richard Blankenburg , Thuro Balzer , Egon Tschirch and other painters. He was not a member of the Mecklenburg Artists 'Association or the Rostock Artists' Association . Heinrich Engel and his wife cultivated a closer friendship with the artist couple Hans Emil and Doris Oberländer . In the Second World War he was drafted again in 1939/1940. From 1942, Heinrich Engel, like many of his artist colleagues, recorded the destruction of his hometown in numerous drawings. He was a member of the visual arts section in the Kulturbund and later in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . His work included the restoration of old paintings as well as graphics and paintings on the Rostock Chronicle, pictures of the structure of Rostock, the industrial facilities, the shipyards and the port as well as landscape pictures and pieces of flowers. In 1978 he received the Art Prize of the Rostock District Council and in 1986 he was awarded the Hans Grundig Medal .

“His great manual dexterity, his thorough technical knowledge and his artistic empathy enabled and prompted him to analyze and reconstruct the painting methods of some old masters together with the art historian Prof. Max Lindh . These experiments, published in specialist books, inspired Heinrich Engel to create a number of flower portraits which, in the meticulous attention to detail and color nuance, are not inferior to famous Dutch flower pictures of the 17th century, but without also adopting their overloaded baroque style of composition. "

- August Burmeister

Exhibitions

  • 1954: Special exhibition together with the Ahrenshooper painter Arnold Klünder - Museum of the City of Rostock
  • 1956: Participation in the all-German exhibition "German Landscape" - State Gallery Moritzburg , Halle (Saale)
  • 1959: Participation in the exhibition "Ten Years of the GDR" - Museum for German History , Berlin
  • 1960: Heinrich Engel, painting, graphic. - Rostock City Museum
  • 1970: Heinrich Engel, Rostock: painting, graphics, ceramics. - Rostock Cultural History Museum
  • 1975: Heinrich Engel, paintings, drawings and watercolors, on his 75th birthday. - Rostock art gallery
  • 1983: Heinrich Engel, painting, graphic. - Galerie am Boulevard, Rostock
  • 1986: Heinrich Engel - Small Pictures. - Galerie am Boulevard, Rostock
  • 2000: Heinrich Engel (1900–1988). Graphics - painting - ceramics. - Rostock Cultural History Museum

literature

  • Ingrid Ehlers, Ortwin Pelc , Karsten Schröder: Rostock - Pictures of a City. City views from five centuries. Konrad-Reich-Verlag, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-86167-065-8 .
  • Frank Mohr, Gregor Stentzel: Rostock cityscapes: cityscapes and city maps from five centuries. Stadtdruckerei Weidner, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-00-016267-4 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2512-2513 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book Rostock (St. Jacobi), birth and baptism entry No. 428/1900.
  2. ^ A b c Johann Joachim Bernitt , Rostock Cultural History Museum (ed.): Heinrich Engel, Rostock: Painting, graphics, ceramics. Ostsee-Druck, Rostock 1970.
  3. ^ Museum of the City of Rostock (ed.): Heinrich Engel: Painting, graphics. Ostsee-Druck, Rostock 1960.
  4. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2512-2513 .
  5. ↑ Max Lindh: About the painting style of our masters . In: Scientific journal of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock. Social and Linguistic Series. tape 3 , no. 2 , 1953, ZDB -ID 200715-0 , p. 155-160 .
  6. ↑ August Burmeister: Painting chronicler of the homeland / Heinrich Engel 60 years old . In: Our Mecklenburg - Heimatblatt for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . No. 108 , April 5, 1960, ZDB -ID 155996-5 , p. 12 .
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Heinrich Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1988
Place of death Rostock