Herbert Bartholomew

Herbert Bartholomäus (born October 7, 1910 in Berlin ; † March 11, 1973 in Ludwigslust ) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Life

Bartholomäus grew up in the Harz Mountains, and from 1919 he attended a grammar school in Berlin-Tempelhof. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts from 1930 to 1935 and was a master class student at OHW Hadank . Further studies followed at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts with Ernst Böhm .

After the Second World War he came to Ludwigslust. Here he was from 1946 in the state management of the Kulturbund , from 1947 also its head in Ludwigslust. He was one of the initiators behind the establishment of the Mecklenburgisches Heimatverlag and the Petermänken-Verlag in Schwerin. The magazines Democratic Renewal and Today and Tomorrow were published under his name, and he was also a collaborator for the monthly Protestant magazine Faith and Conscience .

Herbert Bartholomäus became known through numerous book illustrations and cover designs for books for children and young people. He also published texts in the magazine “Land und Menschen”, which was published by the Kulturbund Ludwigslust between 1956 and 1961. He also created stage sets, theater posters and programs and designs for postage stamps in Mecklenburg, as well as watercolors and oil paintings from Fischland.

Works (selection)

Sculptures

• 1951 Memorial on the forecourt Am Bassin in Ludwigslust for 200 victims of the Wöbbelin concentration camp

Illustrations

• 1944 Bruno Herbert Jahn : The Little Pioneer Book. Keil Verlag, Berlin
• 1950 Heinrich Seidel : fairy tales. Petermänken Verlag, Schwerin
• 1950 Willi Bredel : The Vitality Brothers. Roman, Berlin, Gutenberg Book Guild
• 1953 fairy tales from Finland. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
• 1953 Paul Zech: The red knife. Encounters with animals and strange people. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt
• 1954 Gustav Schwab: The most beautiful sagas of classical antiquity. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
• 1556 Edith Klatt: Neitha. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
• 1960 Ulrich Komm: The forest ghost. An adventurous hunting tale. Petermänken Verlag, Schwerin
• 1960 Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg : The mayor's son. From Fritz Reuter's childhood. Petermänken Verlag, Schwerin
• 1961 Edmund Danner: The fir tree and its children. Fairy tales from Lithuania. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
• 1966 Edith Klatt: Bergit and Andaras. Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
• 1972 Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg: death ride, robber and carpenter. Stories from the forest. Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock

Own books

• 1955 The cheerful book. Jokes, humor, satire yesterday and today. Petermänken Verlag, Schwerin

Writings and drawings

• 1946 artists travel to Ahrenshoop. In: Democratic Renewal (word and picture)
• Picturesque Mecklenburg. Drawings on urban architecture (including Dömitz, Ludwigslust, Grabow, Neustadt-Glewe)
• Fischländer sketches.

literature

• Bartholomew, Herbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 274 .
• Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 . P. 27
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 551 f .
• Herbert Bartholomäus: Postage stamps for Mecklenburg . In: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED , Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): … The beginning of a new era. Memories of the beginnings of our cultural revolution 1945–1949 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1981, p. 84-92 .

Web links and sources

• Literature on Herbert Bartholomäus in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Herbert Bartholomäus in the state bibliography MV
• Short biography at www.kulturportal-mv.de accessed on October 30, 2010.
• Short biography at German Designers , accessed on August 17, 2016.