Horst Arloth

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Horst Arloth (born October 29, 1925 in Niedergrunstedt ; † April 20, 2018 in Weimar ) was a German printer and university professor.

life and work

After returning from war and imprisonment, Arloth completed an apprenticeship as a stone printer and worked in this profession at the Weimar printing company Reineck & Klein . In 1950 he became head of the lithographic workshop at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts Weimar . Here he printed together with Arno Fehringer u. a. the early lithographs by Gerhard Altenbourg . After the workshop was closed in 1952, he moved to the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art . There he built up a powerful lithography workshop , of which he was director from 1954 until his retirement in 1989. From 1977 to 1989 Arloth was also a lecturer in lithography at the university.

Arloth accompanied entire generations of art students with his specialist knowledge and skills. Even artists outside of school, u. a. Gerhard Altenbourg and Peter Sylvester made use of his professional competence. Arloth was one of the most important printers in the GDR. He took over the processing of the original stones and the printing of works by a large number of artists, including Gerhard Altenbourg, Bernhard Heisig (including 24 lithographs for Ludwig Renn Krieg and the cycle of lithographs for the Fascist Nightmare ), Günter Horlbeck (including processing the stones for the 15 lithographs for the Book by Johannes R. Becher Hymne to Beauty ), Rolf Kuhrt , Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt , Hans Mayer-Foreyt , HAP Grieshaber , Ulrich Hachulla , Harald Metzkes ( inter alia The Temptation of Saint Anthony , chalk lithograph, 1978), Rolf Münzner (et al. Atelier I , stencil lithograph , 1978), Wolfgang Peuker , Günter Richter , Arno Rink ( inter alia Temptation , lithograph, 1983) and Werner Tübke ( inter alia From the more beautiful death. Peasant war pictures , six chalk lithographs , 1981).

In 2016 Arloth moved with his wife Johanna (1927–2019), whom he married in 1947, to Weimar, where they spent their retirement years in the Marie Seebach Foundation's retirement home.

Arloth's grave is in the main cemetery in Weimar.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975 Leipzig, Galerie am Sachsenplatz ( lithograph, printed by Horst Arloth )
  • 2000 Weimar, City Library ( The lithographer Horst Arloth. A life for lithography. )

Representation of Arloth in artistic works

  • Bernhard Heisig: The printer Horst Arloth . Lithograph, 1980
  • Fritz Fröhlich : Horst Arloth . Lithograph, 1959/2002
  • Ernst August Zimmermann: Horst Arloth, on his 75th . Chalk lithograph, 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Brusberg (Ed.): Gerhard Altenbourg. Catalog of works 1947–1969 . Verlag der Galerie Brusberg, Hannover 1969, p. 34 .
  2. ↑ http://www.janetbrooksgerloff.de/gallery/Lithografien.pdf
  3. ↑ Petra Kießling: University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig [HGB] now 250 years young. In: Art and Technology. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rare marriage anniversary in Weimar . In: Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung, Erfurt, May 4, 2017
  5. ↑ https://trauer-in-thueringen.de/trauerbeispiel/horst-arloth
  6. ↑ Ernst August Zimmermann: Wanted & Found. Autographs in natural images . Ed .: State Capital Erfurt, City Administration - Cultural Directorate - Angermuseum. Erfurt 2014, p. 104 .
personal data
SURNAME Arloth, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedergrunstedt
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2018
Place of death Weimar