Hellmuth Muntschick

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The church in Jonsdorf with works by Hellmuth Muntschick inserted in the gallery

Hellmuth Muntschick (born November 11, 1910 in Radeburg , † November 2, 1943 fallen in the Soviet Union ) was a German woodcut artist and painter. In his expressionist work he brings his evangelical faith together with ideas of mysticism .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1930, Muntschick began studying at the art academies in Dresden , Vienna and Leipzig , which he completed with the state examination for higher education. He was a substitute teacher at various trade schools and was not given a permanent job because of his distant attitude towards National Socialism . In 1938 he married, in 1940 he was called up for military service and served on the fronts in France and Russia .

Muntschick is known for several woodcut cycles on the Passion of Jesus Christ , which he made during the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier , partly in an armored train , under great external pressure and - as an opponent of National Socialism and Christian pacifist - in emotional distress.

After his death, his work was summarized, documented and published by Gerhart Kegel. Most of the work is now, after a donation from the West Lusatian town of Bischofswerda , which until then had administered the estate, in the Kamenz town archive , where Muntschick lived until he was drafted into the military. Some pictures from this archive are exhibited in the Kamenz town hall . In the Protestant church in Jonsdorf , the gallery fields are provided with woodcuts by Muntschick (“Jonsdorfer Passion”) .

Hellmuth-Muntschick-Straße in Bischofswerda is named after the artist.

Works

  • Passion . 19 graphics. Bläschke Verlag, St. Michael, 1980
  • Lusatian Christmas story . Woodcuts, Graphikum Dr. Mock, Bovenden, 1983, ISBN 3-88996000-6
  • Visions of light. Christmas 1942–43 . Woodcuts and drawings. Graphic Dr. Mock, Bovenden, ISBN 3-88996-002-2
  • Passion II . 16 woodcuts. Graphic Dr. Mock, Göttingen, 1991
  • Landscape . 20 graphics. Graphic Dr. Mock, Göttingen, 1991
  • Christ . 20 graphics. Graphic Dr. Mock, Göttingen, 1991
  • Christmas . 16 woodcuts. Graphic Dr. Mock, Göttingen, ISBN 3-88996-000-6
  • In the hail of stones of our time. Letters from a painter 1940–43 . Graphic Dr. Mock, Göttingen, 1992

literature

  • Gerhart Kegel: Hellmuth Muntschick. Art as necessity. Life and work of the wood cutter and painter Hellmuth Muntschick (1910–43) , Schöne Aussicht 14, Nieste, 1998, ISBN 3-00-003634-2

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personal data
SURNAME Muntschick, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German woodcut artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Radeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1943
Place of death Soviet Union