Heinz Dubois

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Heinz Dubois (born August 6, 1914 in Schwirgsten , Darkehmen district , East Prussia ; † May 30, 1966 in Wismar ) was a German painter.

Life

Heinz Dubois was born in Schwirgsten in East Prussia in 1914, today's Schmatowka in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . After attending elementary school, he completed music training for tuba, violin and string bass from 1929 to 1932 at a town pipe in Insterburg . Until 1943 he worked as a freelance musician as well as in the military band of Königsberg (Pr.) .

In 1941 and 1942 he studied as a guest student at the Academy of Arts in Königsberg with Eduard Bischoff . From 1943 he was a soldier in World War II , initially as a musician and from 1944 in Italy as a front draftsman. After returning to Germany from American captivity in 1945, Dubois came to Schwerin and took up residence there. Already during this time a friendship arose with the Schwerin painter Carl Hinrichs and later with Erich Venzmer .

In 1946, Heinz Dubois was accepted as a candidate in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany ( artists , visual arts section), which later became the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). With a scholarship from the Cultural League he could until 1949 at the University in Greifswald study painting and wall painting. From 1949 he was confirmed as a lecturer for painting at the technical school for applied arts in Wismar , which he held until 1952. In 1951 he became a member of the VBK. With the approval of the State Commission for Art Affairs in Berlin, Dubois completed further training at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin as a master student of Max Lingner, parallel to his teaching activities from 1951 to 1953 . A study trip took him to Bulgaria in 1953.

After 1953 Dubois worked as a freelance painter in Schwerin. In 1961 he moved to Hoben, today a district of Wismar. His motifs were mainly landscapes , still lifes , genre pictures and portraits , but wall designs ( sgraffito ) and large-format scenes from agriculture and industry were also created. He found these motifs in the Schwerin area, on the Baltic Sea on the Fischland or in the Wismar Bay near his place of residence. For his work he used a wide variety of techniques such as oil , pastel , tempera , watercolor or mixed media . Many of these works were commissioned by companies and institutions for the design of buildings or ships from the Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar . As early as 1961, he had carried out various artistic activities for the shipyard through work and work agreements. Dubois was honored in 1957 with the Fritz Reuter Art Prize of the Schwerin District Council for his work “Land Reform” and in 1964 with the GDR Medal of Merit for “Harvest Helpers” . Heinz Dubois died in Wismar in 1966 at the age of 52.

Works (selection)

  • Approaching thunderstorm , 1947 (illustration)
  • Brickworks in Lankow , 1948
  • Reading boy , oil painting (exhibited at the 2nd German Art Exhibition in 1949)
  • Land reform , oil painting, 1957 (exhibited in 1958 at the VIII Art Exhibition of the GDR)
  • View of Schelfwerder Nursing Home , 1958
  • Former farm workers , 1958
  • Machine maintenance on the MTS , 1960
  • Harvest time , 1960
  • Harvest helper , 1960
  • MTS base , 1960
  • Flowers , 1960
  • Portrait of Ivan Franko , 1963
  • Portrait of Paul Strauss , 1965

Exhibitions

  • 1949, 1958, 1962, 1967: Participation in the German art exhibitions in Dresden
  • 1955, 1959: Annual exhibitions of the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1957: Heinz Dubois, Carl Hinrichs: Paintings, watercolors, drawings: State Museum Schwerin
  • 1962/63: Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund : Tom Beyer ( Stralsund ), Heinz Dubois (Wismar), Franz Höhne ( Barth ). Paintings, watercolors
  • 1964: Man and landscape - paintings and graphics by Heinz Dubois: Exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 50th birthday, Rostock Museum
  • 1975/76: Heinz Dubois - painting and graphics , State Museum Schwerin
  • 2014: In this country : Painting from the north of the GDR , on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Heinz Dubois, Schloss Güstrow
  • 2014: Art Museum Schwaan on the occasion of the 100th birthday

literature

  • Heinz Schönemann: Artists of the GDR introduce themselves: winners of history. Tribüne-Verlag, Berlin, 1969
  • Heinz Dubois . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 30, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22770-1 , pp. 54 f.
  • 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. 2278 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwirgsten, also Schwirgsden, 1938–1946 Königsgarten
  2. ↑ Image in the virtual state museum Mecklenburg, accessed on December 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b picture index of art & architecture
  4. ^ Heinz Dubois on his 100th birthday. Kunstmuseum Schwaan, February 6, 2014, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Rediscovered a great painter. Schweriner Volkszeitung , February 16, 2014, accessed on October 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwirgsten , Darkehmen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1966
Place of death Wismar