Herbert Ebersbach

Herbert Ebersbach (born November 9, 1902 in Wildenfels , † August 28, 1984 in Bielefeld ) was a German painter and representative of Expressionism .

Life

Ebersbach studied in the 1920s at the Dresden Art Academy with Otto Gußmann and Oskar Kokoschka and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Heinrich Nauen and Heinrich Campendonk . Ebersbach was a member of the ASSO and the Dresden Artists' Association , in 1932 he joined the Dresden Secession in 1932 . His partner was the art dealer Hede Schönert until 1933 .

In 1933, Ebersbach's works were classified as " degenerate " by the National Socialists . As an opponent of National Socialism, after a search of his studio, he was taken to the Hohnstein concentration camp , where he was imprisoned for around 14 months before friends could obtain his release. During this time his family had burned around 70 (according to other sources 100 or 150) of his oil paintings, which he considered treason and after his release in 1934 led to a break with the family. Ebersbach, now virtually destitute and homeless, moved from Dresden to friends in Bielefeld with six rescued oil paintings in his luggage . During the Second World War he was conscripted. After 1945, Ebersbach accepted orders for murals to earn a living and worked as an art teacher.

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Ebersbach's complete oeuvre comprises around 400 paintings, prints and drawings, six of which were created before 1933. The figurative motifs are all dominated by still lifes of flowers, landscapes and portraits. Especially the paintings from his creative period in the 1960s and 1970s are characterized by intense colors and expressiveness.

Many of his works were created in the Wistinghauser Schlucht am Tönsberg near Oerlinghausen , where the Haniel entrepreneurial family had provided him with a studio house for life on their estate. Contacts with the family were established around 1954.

Exhibitions

• German art , Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, 1928
• Dresden Secession 1932, 1st exhibition , in the Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden September 1 - October 15, 1932
• Joint exhibition 3 groups of artists. Artists 'Association, German Artists' Association, Dresden Secession , Dresden August 17 - October 15, 1933
• Saxon Art Exhibition Dresden 1934 , Dresden, June 16 - August 19, 1934
• Herford Art Association, 1986
• Herbert Ebersbach: Approved. Ostracized. Rediscovered. A second generation expressionist , Kunstmuseum Ahlen , 2014

literature

• Christiane Reipschläger, Burkhard Leismann (eds.): Herbert Ebersbach. Transformation of color. Directory of Paintings, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86206-349-9
• Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 196-197, 367.