Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein

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Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein , actually Fritz Helmut Schmidt , (born November 5, 1909 in Aue , † March 27, 1985 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He was a member of the artist group Das Ufer .

Life

Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein's grave in the Loschwitz cemetery

Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein was born in 1909 in Aue, Saxony, as the first son of the station master Friedrich Schmidt and Anna Schmidt (née Schnädelbach). In 1910 the Schmidt family moved to Neumark near Reichenbach in the Vogtland , the following year his brother Erich was born, who later became known as a painter and graphic artist under the name Hans-Erich Schmidt-Uphoff . From 1920 to 1922 the Schmidt family lived again in Aue, then until 1925 in Lauter and from 1925 in Zwickau , where Schmidt-Kirstein attended secondary school with his brother and graduated from high school in 1929 .

Schmidt-Kirstein traveled to the Baltic Sea for the first time in 1923 . The first trip to the Bavarian and Austrian Alps followed three years later . In Zwickau he was impressed by an exhibition organized by Hildebrand Gurlitt . a. with paintings by Max Pechstein and Pablo Picasso : “From then on, Picasso was one of my saints ... At that time I was a primary student at the secondary school. I had to become a painter! I painted competitively with my brother. Our first exhibition in 1927 at the Realgymnasium in Zwickau caused quite a stir. Everything was based on color and composition ... ”In 1928, she participated in a joint exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace .

From 1929 to 1933 Schmidt-Kirstein studied drawing with Fritz Beckert and art history with Robert Bruck at the Technische Hochschule Dresden . He also studied at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts with Ewald Max Karl Enderlein (1872–1958). During the holidays Schmidt-Kirstein worked as a decorative painter as a trainee at Thust und Fuchs in Zwickau. In 1930 he studied art history for two semesters at the University of Vienna under Josef Strzygowski . He went on a Danube trip to Siófok and Budapest .

Schmidt-Kirstein burned all of his early works during his student days. His brother Erich Schmidt-Uphoff wrote in a letter to Dieter Hoffmann : “My brother had bought an illustrated book about Picasso and was enthusiastic. With a feeling of inferiority towards Picasso, Helmut burned all of his early work ... Among them were many watercolors that would have withstood any comparison with later works. ”Schmidt-Kirstein commented on this in an interview with Hans-Joachim Müller :“ Work in the bridge -Elements were advised, he destroyed again ... If you want to be artistic, you have to be obsessed. And believe in yourself, set yourself apart from others, find yourself! ”.

In 1931 Schmidt-Kirstein met the artisan Annemarie Oeder, whom he married in 1937. In 1939 their son was born, the future writer George Tenner ( pseudonym ). Schmidt-Kirstein took on teaching assignments in Marienberg , Reitzenhain , Freiberg and Riesa in 1934 . In 1936 he received a teaching position in Bischofswerda . Together with Annemarie Oeder he worked in textile design. He settled in Bischofswerda in 1940 and was called up as a radio operator for military service in the Second World War . He was on numerous war fronts, u. a. in Stalingrad , Italy and southern France and was wounded three times.

In 1945 Schmidt-Kirstein returned from the war. In Bischofswerda he met Ursula Voss, the wife of the painter Kurt Voss . In 1946 the separation from Annemarie Oeder took place. Schmidt-Kirstein settled with Ursula Voss in Dresden as a freelance artist. He became a member of the Dresden artist group Der Ruf (1945–1948) and in 1951 a member of the artist group Das Ufer . In 1952 he married Ursula Voss. Three years later he moved to the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz . In 1957 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . After the death of his wife, Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein stopped his artistic work. He died on March 27, 1985 in Dresden. His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery at the side of his wife.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1928: Munich, Glaspalast
  • 1934: Dresden, Saxon Art Exhibition
  • 1937: Heidelberg, work and economy in art
  • 1945: Dresden, Liberated Art. 1st art exhibition, "The Call"
  • 1946: Freiberg, 1st exhibition of Erzgebirge artists in 1946 in Freiberg (Saxony) , June 23, 1946 - August 31, 1946, Freiberg City and Mining Museum
  • 1946: Dresden, General German Art Exhibition Dresden 1946 , August to October 1946, Stadthalle Nordplatz
  • 1946: Wurzen, Wurzen art exhibition 1946. Painting, graphics, sculpture by living artists in Saxony , November 17, 1946 - December 8, 1946, Wurzen town hall
  • 1947: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1947: Freiberg, 2nd exhibition of Erzgebirge artists 1947 , June 7, 1947 - August 1947, Freiberg City and Mining Museum
  • 1947: Gera, graphic. 25 years of the Dr. Heinrich Mock. The leaves of the graphic publishing house
  • 1947: Dresden, first exhibition of Dresden artists. Department II , October / November 1947, Clubhouse of the Kulturbund
  • 1948: Berlin, solo exhibition in the Anja Bremer gallery
  • 1948: Dresden, Dresden painter - foreign guests. “Der Ruf” , May / June 1948, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • 1948: Altenburg, Dresden artist , August 22, 1948 - October 3, 1948, Lindenau Museum Altenburg
  • 1948: Glauchau, 3rd special exhibition in 1948. Works of art for the Christmas table , November 27, 1948 - December 19, 1948, Glauchau City and Local History Museum
  • 1949: Dresden, 2nd German Art Exhibition Dresden 1949
  • 1949: Dresden, exhibition together with Karl Hofer in the art exhibition Kühl
  • 1950: Chemnitz, artists fight for peace , Schlossberg Museum
  • 1951: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1952: Halle / Saale, Henning Gallery
  • 1952: Chemnitz, Central Saxon Art Exhibition , Museum on Theaterplatz
  • 1954: Zwickau, artist from Zwickau. Exhibition on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Municipal Museum , April 25, 1954 - June 6, 1954, Zwickau Municipal Museum
  • 1956: Dresden, 750 years of Dresden , June to August 1956, Albertinum
  • 1956: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1956: Halle / Saale, Henning Gallery
  • 1956: Zwickau, Liebig art dealer
  • 1957: Dresden, Dresden district exhibition. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the October socialist revolution , November / December 1957, Albertinum
  • 1962: Mainz, Pachen Collection. German works of art from the 20th century , June 8, 1962 - July 1, 1962, Haus am Dom Mainz
  • 1966: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1969: Wiesbaden, Pachen Collection. German Art of the 20th Century , February 22, 1969 - April 20, 1969, Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden
  • 1969: Dresden, Graphics in the GDR , Dresden Kupferstichkabinett
  • 1975: Dresden, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1977: Dresden, glockenspiel pavilion of the Dresden Zwinger
  • 1978: Mainz, Pachen Collection , September 13, 1978 - October 15, 1978, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum Mainz
  • 1979: Dresden, offer exhibition to graphics, paintings, sculptures of the XX. Century , November 25, 1979 - December 30, 1979, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1979: Berlin, companion. Contemporaries. Fine arts from three decades , October 3, 1979 - December 31, 1979, Altes Museum
  • 1980: Dresden: Leonhardi Museum
  • 1981: Ravensburg, Döbele Gallery
  • 1981: Altenburg, Dresden graphics from the “bridge” to the present , January / February 1981, State Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
  • 1982: Rammenau, Baroque Rammenau Castle
  • 1983: Dresden, Galerie Nord
  • 1984: Dresden, “Das Ufer” , September 12, 1984 - October 14, 1984, Precious Hall of Dresden Castle
  • 1985: Dresden, graphics from Dresdner Werkstätten , May 4, 1985 - June 16, 1985, Galerie Rähnitzgasse 8, Dresden
  • 1989: Dresden, 65 years of art exhibition Kühl , June 18, 1989 - July 29, 1989, art exhibition Kühl
  • 1990: Berlin, The Art of the Early Years. 1945-1949. Painting and graphics , April 18, 1990 - May 20, 1990, Neue Berliner Galerie in the Altes Museum Berlin
  • 2013: Dresden, Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein. A modern Dresden classic , 10 July 2013 - 13 September 2013, Villa Eschebach

literature

  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions of the Soviet Zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Martin Papenbrock: “Degenerate Art”, art in exile, resistance art in West German exhibitions after 1945: a commented bibliography . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-09-X , p. 539 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061106.93 .
  • Schmidt-Kirstein, Helmut . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 200 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See marriage certificate in the special catalog of the estate of Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein , Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden , p. 13. The Kirstein suffix is explained by the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, Emilie Henriette Kirstein. See estate, p. 12.
  2. ^ A b c special catalog of the Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein estate , Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , accessed on March 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Kirstein, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Fritz Helmut (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Aue
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1985
Place of death Dresden