Heinz Rammelt
Heinz Rammelt (born January 29, 1912 in Leipzig , † June 24, 2004 in Dessau ) was an animal painter and draftsman .
Life
Heinz Rammelt was born as the son of the painter Käte Rammelt-Bürger (1877–1943) in Leipzig. In 1927 he began studying there at the technical school for flat and high pressure and from 1928 to 1933 at the art academies in Leipzig and Munich, where he became a master student of Walter Tiemann and Angelo Jank . Studying animal anatomy led to contacts with Heinrich Dathe and later collaboration with the Berlin zoo and the Leipzig zoo.
On the advice of Waldemar Bonsels , the first children's books Hannibal and Bambu were published by WestOst Verlag. During this time he illustrated a. a. for the Gutenberg Book Guild . From 1936 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin and in 1940 became the main draftsman in German drawing films. At Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH he designed the main characters for the only published drawing film Der arme Hansi . During this work he met his future friend Werner Klemke .
After the war, Heinz Rammelt initially worked as a freelance animal and landscape painter. From the late 1940s he worked as a press draftsman, caricaturist and illustrator for the press and publishers. He was a member of the comedians' cabaret under Willi Schaeffers .
Heinz Rammelt's animal drawings were initially less in demand in GDR art because they were viewed as irrelevant to the socialist structure. Nevertheless, the book he illustrated, Animals Have the Word by Karl Max Schneider , which developed into the reference work for animal drawings, is considered to be one of his great successes. Together with Meister Tusche he designed a program for children, which was also broadcast on GDR TV. Shagging made himself one of the first comic draftsman in the earned East German press. It was not for nothing that it was nicknamed "Walt Disney of the East".
His daughter Annekathrin Bürger , born in 1937, is a German actress. His son Olaf Rammelt, born in 1954, also became a painter, draftsman and graphic artist.
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Rammelt illustrated more than 60 books, over 70 slide children's films, numerous picture stories for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , the Wochenpost , Frösi , Atze , Bummi and others. His drawing estate is in the family's possession.
Web links
- Heinz Rammelt on DDR-Comics.de
- Children's books and illustrations in the comic museum Neubrandenburg
- Children's books by Heinz Rammelt today
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Olaf Rammelt ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rammelt, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2004 |
| Place of death | Dessau |