Heinz Waterboer

Heinz Waterboer (born December 6, 1907 in Breckerfeld , † November 8, 1990 in Arnsberg ) was a German painter and writer.

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Waterboer trained as a painter. On a scholarship, he spent a year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and the Atelier du Midi in Arles . He later studied in Jena and at the State Art College in Weimar .

From 1933 Waterboer worked as a freelance artist. He exhibited his works in exhibitions in Jena, Weimar and Leipzig . In 1937 he was banned from painting by the National Socialist government. The magazine “Internationales Forum der Jugend. Journal for Young National Literature ”was banned. He then turned to writing.

During World War II he was used as an interpreter. Among other things, Waterboer was a war correspondent in Shanghai . He later worked for the Wehrmacht High Command .

After 1945 Waterboer lived with his wife in Arnsberg. There he also worked as an interpreter for the Belgian garrison stationed in Arnsberg for seventeen years. During this time he published numerous books for young people, most of which were set in distant countries.

Since the mid-1950s, Waterboer began to paint again. Among other things, he took part in exhibitions and trade fairs in Zurich , Basel , Paris , Nottingham , Monaco and Naples . He was a member of the International Academy of Art, Literature and Science in Rome . In addition to numerous other awards, Waterboer received the French National Prize and the Golden Centaur of the Accadèmia Italia.

In Arnsberg he worked for about ten years as a pedagogical employee at the adult education center and until he was 75 he was an art teacher at the Laurentianum grammar school . Waterboer was a co-founder of the German-Belgian Society.

Works

• The diary of Dr. Sarraut , Roman. Vier Falken Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1935

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Waterboer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Waterboer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors