Horst Bachmann

Horst Bachmann (born June 1, 1927 in Bautzen , † January 12, 2007 in Rothenburg / Oberlausitz ) was a German painter , sculptor and draftsman .

life and work

Bachmann attended the business school in Bautzen until 1944. In the same year he was drafted to the Eastern Front, from where he returned in 1945 from a Soviet prisoner of war. After completing his apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he began working as a freelance painter and graphic artist in 1949. After a trial before the Soviet military tribunal, Bachmann was sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp, of which he spent two years, from 1953 to 1955, as a prisoner in a Soviet penal camp. He was released through a general amnesty for German prisoners.

From 1956 he lived in Rabitz am Steinbruch with his first wife Ruth, with whom he had two children, and from 1975 to 1977 in Nadelwitz near Bautzen with Katarina Robbe, whom he married in 1980. Two more children were born.

Since 1974 Bachmann was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Exhibitions

• 1965: Kraków and other Polish cities at the invitation of the Polish Artists Association
• 1975: Galerie Arkade, Berlin
• 1978: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
• 1987: Berlin Cathedral
• 1987: Kulturhaus Bischofswerda

Publications

• Kito Lorenc : Land consolidation. Poems. With 6 reproductions based on pictures by Horst Bachmann. Construction publishing house in Berlin and Weimar. 1973

literature

• Lothar Lang: Plea for Horst Bachmann, in Weltbühne, Berlin, issue 48/1973, p. 1532 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Bachmann in the catalog of the German National Library