Heinz Lohmar

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Heinz Lohmar (born July 21, 1900 in Troisdorf , † September 14, 1976 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Grave of Heinz Lohmar in the Heidefriedhof in Dresden

Heinz Lohmar was born the son of a building contractor. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, he began studying at the Cologne factory school with Robert Seuffert . From 1930 he worked in the Red Aid of Germany and was arrested in 1933 for illegal political work. After his release from prison, he emigrated and initially went to Switzerland, but the authorities there expelled him to Italy. But he could not stay there either, because his membership in the KPD and in the "Red Aid" was known to the Italian authorities. So he came to Paris at the end of 1933 and joined Max Ernst's circle of artists . In 1937 he was a co-founder of the anti-fascist artists' association "L'union des artistes libres". In 1939 he was interned and in 1940 after the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht, he fled with his family to the unoccupied part of southern France, where he worked in the Resistance . After the liberation of France, he went to Toulouse to work in the Comité "Allemagne libre" pour l'Ouest (CALPO).

On January 8, 1946, he returned to Germany and from then on worked as a freelance artist in Ludwigshafen. In October 1949 he was appointed to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with a teaching position for painting, where he was appointed professor in 1951. His best-known student from his time in Dresden is the painter Gerhard Richter .

In 1965 Lohmar received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1970 in silver. He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR

Until his death, Heinz Lohmar lived on the Weißer Hirsch in Dresden and was buried in the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

plant

  • 1936 The over-animal, oil
  • 1937 uprising of the Catalan farmers, gouache
  • 1946 Farewell to Paris, oil
  • 1946 Woman waiting, oil
  • 1958 We don't leave our flag, oil
  • 1965 gas on Vietnam, oil

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1962, 1970 and 1974 Dresden
  • also Rostock, Bautzen, Görlitz, Frankfurt / Oder and Karl-Marx-Stadt

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1949, 1962, 1967, 1972 and 1977 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1972 and 1974 District Art Exhibition Dresden, ibid
  • 1951 Artists create for peace, Berlin
  • 1959 Connected to our new life. Ten years of fine arts in the GDR, German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1974 drawing in the GDR, Dresden
  • 1979 Youth in Art, Berlin
  • 1985 artist in the alliance, Erfurt
  • 1979 companions - contemporaries

literature

  • Lohmar, Heinz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 254 .
  • Lohmar, Heinz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 225 .
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 555 .
  • Manfred Altner: Painter and work: Heinz Lohmar , VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1981, DNB 810786001
  • Helga Fuhrmann: Heinz Lohmar. Albertinum, September - December 1970 . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden 1970, DNB 740711725
  • Short biography for:  Lohmar, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Helmut Kronthaler: Lohmar, Heinz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 85, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023190-8 , p. 184.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neues Deutschland July 7, 1965, p. 2; New Germany July 31, 1970, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Lohmar, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Troisdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1976
Place of death Dresden