Heinrich Königsdorf
Heinrich Königsdorf (born July 27, 1877 in Braunschweig ; † July 13, 1950 there ) was a German painter and lawyer .
Life
Heinrich Königsdorf was born in Braunschweig in 1877 as the son of a civil engineer. During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Cimbria Munich fraternity . After studying law , the doctorate to Dr. jur. He then began training as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1903 at the age of 25 . The painter Wilhelm Leibl became his artistic role model. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War and after the end of the war he returned to Braunschweig, where he worked as a teacher and freelance artist. He created landscapes, mostly watercolors, still lifes and portraits. His portraits of Braunschweig personalities, including that of the mayor Hugo Retemeyer (1923), the pianist Ernst Schacht (1925) and the mathematician Richard Dedekind (1927), are in the possession of the City Museum and the Technical University of Braunschweig . At the time of National Socialism , Königsdorf created a life-size painting of Adolf Hitler for the assembly room of the city council in Braunschweig's town hall , commissioned by the Lord Mayor in 1935 . In 1942 he portrayed the Brunswick Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges in SS uniform. The painting is considered lost. Königsdorf was a member of the NSDAP from 1932 to 1945 . He was a member of the Braunschweig Art Association of Ten.
Königsdorf lived in Braunschweig at Humboldtstrasse 10. He died on July 13, 1950 at the age of 72 in Braunschweig.
Publications
- About the creation of foundations according to the German Civil Code. Dissertation University of Leipzig 1900.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 410-411.
- Peter Lufft : Königsdorf, Heinrich, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 335-336 .
- Peter Lufft: Königsdorf, Heinrich . In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 131 .
- Braunschweig Municipal Museum and University of Fine Arts (ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. Catalog of the exhibition from April 16, 2000 to July 2, 2000, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X , pp. 259–260, 280.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Networked memory
- ↑ Tobias Ronge: The image of the ruler in painting and graphics of National Socialism , Berlin, 2010, p. 206
- ↑ Städtisches Museum (Braunschweig) | Städtisches Museum Braunschweig and Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. Catalog of the exhibition from April 16, 2000 to July 2, 2000, Hildesheim 2000, p. 280.
- ^ Brunswick address book 1950 : Entry Königsdorf, Heinrich, Dr. jur., painter, Humboldtstr. 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Königsdorf, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1950 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |