Heinz Kiwitz
Heinz Kiwitz (* 4. September 1910 in Duisburg , † 1938 in Spain ) was a German woodcutter of Expressionism . He died in the Spanish Civil War .
Life
As the son of a book printer, Kiwitz received his graphic training at the Folkwang School in Essen from Professor Karl Rössing . In 1933 he was deported to the Börgermoor concentration camp by the National Socialists for “anti-fascist activity” and “socially critical work” . After his release in 1934, he destroyed a large part of his political work for fear of further repression and limited himself to illustrations on literary topics. Book covers for Faulkner editions were created in collaboration with the publisher Ernst Rowohlt . In 1935 he met Hans Fallada on the occasion of the illustrations for his book "Tales of the town clerk who flew into the country". They both work together in Carwitz for two weeks . Kiwitz was so impressed by the figure of Enak that he subsequently created another 50 woodcuts, which were published in 1936 under the title "Enaks Streich" with a foreword by Fallada.
In 1937, with the help of Rowohlt, he managed to escape to Copenhagen, later he went into exile in Paris. There he created works for the émigré press. On August 27, 1937, Kiwitz's rejection of a German artist to Hitler was published in a Paris daily newspaper. In 1938 he went to Spain and fought against the Franco regime with the International Brigade . He probably fell in the Battle of the Ebro .
Honors
A street in Duisburg has been named after him since 2005. The set designer, dramaturge, writer and painter Heinrich Goertz has set a monument to his friend Heinz Kiwitz in his autobiographical novel “Lachen und Heulen”.
Works
- Book cover on William Faulkner : Licht im August , Rowohlt Verlag Berlin, 1935
- Fairy tale of the town clerk who flew into the country by Hans Fallada with book cover and woodcuts by Heinz Kiwitz, Rowohlt Verlag Berlin, 1935
- Tale in woodcuts of Enak's stories with a foreword by Hans Fallada, Rowohlt Verlag Berlin, 1936
- Book cover for William Faulkner: Wendemarke , Rowohlt Verlag Berlin, 1936.
- Heinz Kiwitz - woodcuts, linocuts a. Sign. ; Kulturhaus d. City of Lüdenscheid, April 6 - April 29, 1983; Telgte town hall, July 3 - July 31, 1983, Lüdenscheid: Städt. Gallery 1983
- Fallada, Hans: fairy tales from the town clerk who flew into the country with Holzsch. by Heinz Kiwitz, Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verl. 1991, ISBN 3-7466-0071-5
- Fallada, Hans: Tales from the town clerk who flew into the country : with woodcuts from Enak's stories, [Neumünster]: Wachholtz 2006, ISBN 978-3-529-01714-8
literature
- Heinrich Goertz: Lachen und Heulen , Roman, List-Verlag 1982
- Paul Bender: Heinz Kiwitz - woodcuts (with a catalog raisonné of the woodcuts). Carl Lange, Duisburg 1963
- Gert G. Kramer: Young harvest. Exhibition of young visual artists. Düsseldorf 1947
- Krusch, Horst Günter: From Duisburg to Spain: Heinz Kiwitz - a young artist in the resistance , in: Antifa, ISSN 0863-2936 (2016), 4, p. 19
- Heinz Kiwitz: fought, expelled, lost ; [Exhibition "Heinz Kiwitz" in the Liebfrauenkirche Duisburg-Mitte, November 7th-December 5th, 2010], Duisburg: Liebfrauenkirche 2010
- Puhe, Ferdinand: Heinz Kiwitz - artist and idealist , in: Marginalien (2008), 192, pp. 30–41
- Kuhnke, Manfred: Heinz Kiwitz and the town clerk , in: Salatgarten, ISSN 1433-4917, Vol. 14 (2005), 2, pp. 43-44
- Heinz Kiwitz: prints; June 28 to August 9, 1992 , Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg, European Center for Modern Sculpture, Duisburg: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum 1992, ISBN 3-923576-99-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 60 years of the Duisburger Künstlerbund (PDF), accessed on June 6, 2015
- ^ Peter Walther: Hans Fallada. The biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03669-0 , pp. 263f.
- ↑ Laughing and Howling. Novel. List-Verlag 1982.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiwitz, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wood cutter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1938 |
| Place of death | Spain |