Heinz Battke

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Heinz Battke (born November 28, 1900 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

life and work

Battke's family came from East Prussia. His mother Ada Battke was a writer and journalist, his father Max Battke was a composer and educator. His brother Fritz, who was two years older, was killed in World War I in 1917 .

Battke attended the private art school " A. Propp " in Berlin from 1918 to 1921 . From 1922 to 1925 Battke was a student of Karl Hofer at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

From 1925 to 1932 he took part in the annual exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . Heinz Battke had his first solo exhibition in 1927 at the Neumann-Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin. At the end of the 1920s Battke undertook extensive study trips to France and Italy with longer periods of work in Paris (from 1927 to 1929) and from 1929 to 1930 in Florence .

Under the National Socialist regime in Germany, his position as head of a painting class at a Rhenish Academy was rejected, later he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Culture and ostracized as a " degenerate artist ". He was only allowed to volunteer at the Berlin Palace Museum until he moved to Florence in 1935. At the Second World War Battke took at times - partly because of its good knowledge of Italian - as an interpreter in Sicily in part.

After Battke exhibited in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1954, he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1956 , where he taught at the Städelschule . He became a member of the board of directors of the German Association of Artists .

Battke was also an expert on rings and ring collectors. His famous ”Ringsammlung Battke” was acquired by the Pforzheim jewelry museum. He presented these to a wider public in 1963 in the renowned Insel-Library under the title Rings from Four Millennia .

Battke's work includes numerous paintings and etchings influenced by Surrealism . Since 1950 he has only made drawings with pencil, which is considered to be his real strength. Heinz Battke was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in 1959 .

literature

  • Joachim Cüppers: Heinz Battke. Work catalog . Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-7762-0062-6
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Birgit Weyel: A Frankfurt Grand Seigneur - The draftsman and professor at the Städelschule Heinz Battke (1900–1966). In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th and 20th centuries. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-7829-0545-9
  • Battke, Heinz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 129 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Battke: Rings from four millennia . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1963 (Insel-Bücherei 780)
  2. ^ Sylvia-Monica Schmager: Jewelry Museum Pforzheim . Westermann, 1981, p. 80
  3. ^ Franz Roh: German painting from 1900 to today . Bruckmann, 1962, p. 94
personal data
SURNAME Battke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1966
Place of death Frankfurt am Main