Heribert Losert

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Heribert J. Losert (born July 11, 1913 in Neunkirchen (Lower Austria) ; † April 11, 2002 in Wörth an der Donau ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Loserts family moved in 1923 to Opava to (Silesia). At the age of 15, Heribert Losert received her first drawing lessons from the painter Silberschütz. From 1929 to 1931 he studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna under Viktor Schufinsky . He continued his artistic training from 1931 to 1935 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Fahringer and Martin . Heribert Losert and Emmy Hörmandinger married in Ulm in 1938 . In 1939 the artist was called up for military service and worked as a war painter and draftsman on the fronts in France, Poland and Russia.

After being a prisoner of war, expulsion and flight, the settlement in Rosenheim followed in 1945 . Heribert Losert earned his living by freelance work for newspapers and magazines. After attending the seminar of the Free Waldorf Schools in Stuttgart (1952/1953), he moved to Munich in 1953 and held a teaching position as an art teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Munich- Schwabing until 1961 . In 1961 he was elected head of the visual arts department in the Esslingen artists' guild and founded the St. Johann summer academy near Regensburg. From 1961 Heribert Losert was again a freelance artist.

In 1965 he designed the series "Seeing and Making Visible - A Drawing Course with Rules of the Game" on Bavarian Radio (television study program), with repetitions on Hessian and Swiss television. At the end of the year, Heribert Losert started a three-month trip to North America. From 1965 to 1968 Heribert Losert was a lecturer in painting at the Free Art Study Center Ottersberg near Bremen. In 1971 he became a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft, the artist group of the Hans Thoma Society, the Association “Art et Lettres” in Juvisy and the “Seerose” in Munich. In 1973, Heribert Losert founded the Bayerwald Leisure Academy in Hofdorf and moved from Munich to Wörth. In 1974 Heribert Losert was elected First Chairman of the Esslingen Artists' Guild and in 1978 was appointed a member of the East German Cultural Council. From 1991 he continued the leisure academy as a summer academy in Windberg Monastery . Founding member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts. Heribert Losert died on April 11, 2002 in Wörth on the Danube .

Exhibitions

Prizes and awards

literature

  • Ludwig Klinger (arr.) The most beautiful sagas from West and East Prussia. With text drawings by Heribert Losert. Munich 1970, ISBN 3-7612-0011-0 .
  • Heribert Losert: Mirrors and Reflections. Munich 1972, ISBN 3-920119-08-8 .
  • Künstlergilde Esslingen (Ed.): I dive into your shadow. With drawings by Heinrich Klumbies and Heribert Losert. Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7689-0151-3 .
  • Bernhard Rupprecht: Heribert Losert - a work monograph . Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-87838-295-2 .
  • Heribert Losert: watercolors, crayons, drawings, mixed media and graphic prints. Esslingen 1988, ISBN 3-87838-295-2 .
  • Hans Werner Saß (Ed.): Heribert Losert. A modern painter. Artist talks. Munich 1994, ISBN 3-928167-01-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sudetendeutsche-heimatpflege.de: Reflections and Expulsion (accessed on April 21, 2015)
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Losert, Heribert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Losert, Heribert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2002
Place of death Wörth on the Danube