Horst Naumann (graphic designer)

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Horst Naumann (born October 12, 1908 in Riesa ; † February 20, 1990 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

"Red wood ant" postage stamp, 1959, GDR, designed by Horst Naumann
The graphic designer of the logo for the pioneers' meeting was created by Horst Naumann

From 1923 to 1925 Horst Naumann trained with the painter Johannes Uhlig in Dresden. He then studied until 1927 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Professors Richard Müller , Hermann Dittrich and Otto Dix . At the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden, specializing in decorative painting, he was a master student of Professor Paul Rößler from 1927 to 1930. In 1934 his only son was born.

In 1927 Horst Naumann joined the KPD. When the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists was founded in the Dresden area in 1929 , he became a member of this artist movement alongside artists such as Herbert Gute , Otto Griebel , Hans and Lea Grundig , Wilhelm Lachnit , Curt Querner and was responsible for the student newspaper “stoß from the left". During this time his oil painting “Weimar Carnival” was created. Today it can be seen in the New Masters Gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections . He was also an employee of the Association of Victims of Labor and War, where he worked for the “Rentenquetsche”. He also worked as a press illustrator for the “ Rote Fahne ”, the “Arbeiterstimme” and the “Volksstimme”. With his event poster “Revolution rally” created in 1931, a series of politically oriented posters began.

In 1930/1931 he worked at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, from 1931 to 1937 as a commercial artist for the AG für Künstl [Niedersedlitz]. In 1934 Horst Naumann was arrested by the National Socialists and served a six-month prison term as a political prisoner in the "Mathilde" in Dresden. From 1939 to 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was assigned to the 999 penalty battalion . From 1943 to 1945 Horst Naumann was drafted as a standard draftsman for the Phenomen-Werke Gustav Hiller AG Zittau and the Ernemann-Werke in Dresden. After 1945 he worked as a freelance poster and advertising designer in Dresden. Since 1952 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) in Dresden.

One of his first post-war posters, "Das Neue Dresden 1946", was created for an exhibition of plans for the reconstruction and rebuilding of Dresden. His advertising media for zoological gardens, consumption and the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden are particularly remembered . He achieved a high level of awareness through his numerous stamp series, which have been awarded the "Golden Postage Stamp" several times. In addition, he also made designs for illuminated advertisements or wall paintings for guest rooms, e.g. B. the Ratskeller Dresden (1964–1966) or the night dance bar Gondel in the Dresden secondary school (1968). He also designed postcards, stationery and much more.

Awards

  • 1964: "Golden Postage Stamp" for the "Protected Animals" stamp series (1963),
  • 1969: "Golden stamp" for the stamp series "Niederwild" (1968),
  • 1970: Medal "Fight together - win together" from the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR ,
  • 1974: "Golden postage stamp" for the "Old Masters" stamp series (1973),
  • 1978: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in bronze,
  • 1978: "Golden stamp" for the stamp series "Peter Paul Rubens" (1977),
  • 1979: Medal "30 years of philately in the Kulturbund of the GDR - 10 years of philatelic association",
  • 1979: Medal for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the GDR,
  • 1980: "Golden Postage Stamp",
  • 1989: Hans Grundig Medal from the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

He won a number of prizes in various poster competitions, received numerous other awards, such as the silver pin of the National Front , certificates of honor in recognition of his many years of party work or his many years of service and outstanding services in the Association of Visual Artists . Among other things, he was allowed to call himself a member of a “ collective of socialist work ” dispatcher - Edelstahlwerk Freital , thanks to his - now unfortunately lost - oil painting “Stahlveredler” in 1972 .

Exhibitions

  • 1978: "Horst Naumann exhibition painting - graphics - commercial graphics", Glockenspielpavillon - Zwinger - Dresden, 23 July - 27 August 1978
  • 1983: "Painting - Poster - Graphic Exhibition Horst Naumann", gallery of the company school "A. Hecktheuer "Riesa, March 28th - April 25th 1983," Small Gallery "in the Hans-Grundig-Klub Riesa /" Gallery 30th Anniversary of the GDR "/ Karl-Marx-Oberschule Riesa, April 28th - May 26th 1983, 2nd and 3rd exhibition by the Kulturbund der DDR
  • 1988: Special exhibition "Horst Naumann - Painting and Graphics", Museum for the History of the City of Dresden in the Landhaus , October 12 - November 20, 1988

Works by Horst Naumann were represented at the following other exhibitions:

  • 1933: Exhibition on the occasion of the poster competition “Dresden Jubilee Summer 1933”, atrium of the New Dresden City Hall , January 14-20, 1933; Winner of the poster competition in the context of the exhibition "Dresden Jubilee Summer 1933": 3rd prize (together with 4 other competitors)
  • 1935: Dresden Art Exhibition 1935
  • 1947: Exhibition “The Poster”, House of the Permanent Model Show, Halle, September 3, 1947 - end of 1947; Prize winners of the poster competition in the context of the exhibition "The Poster": 1st prize
  • 1954: Exhibition "Commercial Graphics", Museum am Theaterplatz , Karl-Marx-Stadt, Association of German Visual Artists, Karl-Marx-Stadt district, 1954
  • 1979: "National Postage Stamp Exhibition ", exhibition center on Fučíkplatz in Dresden, 10-19 August 1979
  • 1980: Exhibition “Art on the move. Dresden 1918–1933 “, Albertinum / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , September 30, 1980 - February 25, 1981
  • 1988: Special exhibition “Artists in the Class Struggle”, Museum of German History, April - June 1988
  • 1992: Exhibition “Art! Commerce! Visions! - German posters 1888–1933 ”, German Historical Museum, 1992
  • 1994: Special exhibition "Diary of the Street - Posters on Dresden Advertising Pillars 1949 - 1989", City Museum Dresden, February 4 - May 29, 1994
  • 2001: Special exhibition "Inspiration Moritzburg - Art in the 20th Century", Käthe Kollwitz Memorial Foundation, Moritzburg, May 15 - August 5, 2001
  • 2007: Exhibition “Covered over - posters from the GDR”, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , Schwerin, August 24 - October 21, 2007
  • 2011: Special exhibition “Dresden striking! - Art, Commerce and Propaganda in Dresden Poster (1865–1990) ”, Dresden City Museum, July 2 - October 3, 2011
  • 2011: Exhibition “New Objectivity in Dresden. Painting of the Twenties from Dix ​​to Querner ”, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Galerie Neue Meister, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse, October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012
  • 2015: Exhibition “Attacks from 'Over there'. GDR posters 1949 - 1990 ”, Museum Folkwang, February 6 - April 19, 2015
  • 2017: Exhibition "Glamor and misery in the Weimar Repubilk", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 27, 2017 - February 25, 2018

Horst Naumann was constantly looking for contact with the working population. For example, he had friendship agreements with the dispatcher brigade of the Freital high-grade steel plant and the Dresden plant of the VEB Lightweight Construction Combine. He accompanied the workers on gallery and exhibition visits as a knowledgeable guide. He created for the partner companies u. a. Certificates, posters or paintings. But he also received members of the VEB Mühlenbau Dresden brigade in his studio, reported on his career and presented some of his works.

Some of his works can be found in the following institutions:

literature

  • Grundmann: Our poster competition. In: Glückauf, 50th year, Nov. 1930.
  • Industriegewerkschaft Grafisches Gewerbe (FDGB) (Hrsg.): Trade journal for the entire graphic trade and its supply industries, the book trade. Issue 8, year 1948. Publisher: News Office of the City of Leipzig, Department of Graphic Arts, 1948
  • Industriegewerkschaft Druck und Papier in the FDGB (Hrsg.): Trade journal for the entire graphic trade and its supply industries Das Buchgewerbe. Issue 1, born in 1952. Publisher: Tribüne Verlag and printers of the FDGB GmbH Berlin, 1952
  • Museum der Stadt Greifswald (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition ASSO Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists - Dresden Group. Exhibition in the Museum of the City of Greifswald September - November 1969. Typesetting and printing: Ostsee-Druck Rostock, Greifswald branch, 1969
  • Anita Bach / Hans-Joachim Driefer / Peter Groß: Restaurants in historical buildings. vb VEB Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin, 1972
  • Waltraud Volk: Historic streets and squares today - Dresden. Building Academy of the GDR, Institute for Urban Development and Architecture (Ed.). vb VEB Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin, 1974
  • Association of visual artists of the GDR, section commercial graphics (Hrsg.): Commercial graphics in the GDR. VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1975
  • Mikhail Petrowitsch Sokolow (USSR) / Peter Fischer (DDR) (ed.): DDR - USSR in the mirror of philately. transpress VEB Publishing House for Transport, Berlin, 1979
  • Verlag für Agitations- und Anschaumittel Berlin (ed.): Political posters - a selection 1888 - 1978. Typesetting and printing: Offizin Andersen Nexö, Grafischer Großbetrieb, Leipzig, 1979
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Art on the move - Dresden 1918 to 1933. Exhibition in the Albertinum from September 30, 1980 to February 25, 1981. Large graphic company Völkerfreundschaft Dresden, 1980
  • Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig (ed.): Stoß von left - organ of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists Dresden - No. 1 (February 1931) - No. 9 (November / December 1932). Nationales Druckhaus, operated by VOB National, 1055 Berlin, 1982
  • Society for German-Soviet Friendship, City Council Dresden (Hrsg.): House of German-Soviet Friendship Dresden. Typesetting and printing: VOB Gutenbergdruck Großenhain, 1982
  • Ilse-Maria Dorfstecher / Peter Seifert / Joachim Sommermeier (eds.): May posters 1890 - 1983. Publishing house for agitation and visualization means Berlin, 1983
  • Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin (publishing and editing): Art in Dresden. In: Fine Arts, issue 2, year 1985
  • Matthias Griebel / Hans-Peter Lühr (Eds.): Otto Griebel. I was a man of the street. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle - Leipzig, 1986
  • Museum for German History Berlin (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition Artists in the Class Struggle. - Special exhibition of the Museum of German History, April - June 1988. Typesetting and printing: Ostsee-Druck Rostock, Putbus division, 1988
  • Karin Gapinski: Red October. Posters and graphics. A selection 1924 - 1987. Verlag für Agitations- und Anschaumittel Berlin, 1988
  • University of Fine Arts Dresden (Ed.): Dresden. From the Royal Art Academy to the College of Fine Arts [1764 - 1989]. VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1990
  • Association of graphic designers of the GDR, Berlin (ed.): Catalog for the exhibition P 40 - Posters from the GDR. 1990
  • German Historical Museum (ed.): Art! Commerce! Visions! - German posters 1888-1933. Exhibition from May 16 - August 18, 1992 in the Zeughaus unter den Linden Berlin, printed by Braus-Druck GmbH, 1992
  • Käthe Kollwitz Memorial Foundation (ed.): Inspiration Moritzburg. Catalog for the special exhibition "Inspiration Moritzburg - Art in the 20th Century" from May 12 to August 5, 2001 in Moritzburg. Printing: Thieme printing company, Meißen, 2001
  • Hans Ziehm / Dr. Hanno Ziehm / Dr. Gerhard Kallweit: Festschrift Gebr. Crüwell 1705 - 2005, 300 years - The tobacco house in Bielefeld. Print: Druckhaus Pinkvoss, 2005
  • Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR (Ed.): KONSUM. Consumer cooperatives in the GDR. Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Wien, print: Westermann Druck, Zwickau, 2006
  • Dr. Sylke Wunderlich: pasted over - posters from the GDR. Exhibition of the state capital Schwerin in the Schleswig-Holstein-Haus from August 24 to October 21, 2007, publisher: State capital Schwerin, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, printing: cw Obotritdruck GmbH, Schwerin, 2007
  • Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Hrsg.): Plastic and Elastic - neon advertising in the GDR. 2010
  • Erika Eschebach and Holger Starke (eds.): Dresden striking! - Art, commerce and propaganda in the Dresden poster (1865–1990). Special exhibition of the Dresden City Museum July 2 - October 3, 2011. Print: Stoba-Druck, Lampertswalde, 2011
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister / Birgit Dalbajewa (Ed.): Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner. Exhibition of the Dresden State Art Collections / Galerie Neue Meister, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse from October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2011
  • David Heather: DDR Posters - East German Propaganda Art. Ed .: Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2014
  • Museum Folkwang (Ed.): Attacks from "Drüben" - GDR posters 1949 - 1990. Exhibition by the German Poster Museum in cooperation with the Poster East Foundation, Berlin from February 6 to April 19, 2015. Print: VG-Bild, 2015
  • Anita Kühnel (Hrsg.) For the art library - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: writing image characters. Advertising graphics in Germany 1945 -------------- 2015 . Printing: Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, 2016
  • Ingrid Pfeiffer (Ed.): Splendor and misery in the Weimar Republic. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition “Glamor and Misery in the Weimar Republic”. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 27, 2017 - February 25, 2018. Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich, 2017

Web links

Commons : Horst Naumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Fine Arts Dresden (ed.): Dresden. From the Royal Art Academy to the College of Fine Arts [1764 - 1989]. VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1990
  2. ^ Museum der Stadt Greifswald (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition ASSO Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists - Dresden Group. Exhibition in the Museum of the City of Greifswald September - November 1969. Typesetting and printing: Ostsee-Druck Rostock, Greifswald branch, 1969
  3. ^ Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig (ed.): Stoß von left - organ of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists Dresden - No. 1 (February 1931) - No. 9 (November / December 1932). Nationales Druckhaus, operated by VOB National, 1055 Berlin, 1982
  4. ↑ Weimar Carnival ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / skd-online-collection.skd.museum
  5. ^ Poster "Revolution rally" in the Europeana
  6. ↑ Erika Eschebach, Holger Starke (Ed.): Dresden plakativ! Art, commerce and propaganda in the Dresden poster (1865–1990). Catalog for the exhibition in the Dresden City Museum. Museums of the City of Dresden, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-941843-09-7 .
  7. ↑ "The New Dresden 1946"
  8. ↑ Michail Petrowitsch Sokolow (USSR) / Peter Fischer (DDR) (eds.): DDR - USSR in the mirror of philately. transpress VEB Publishing House for Transport, Berlin, 1979
  9. ↑ Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (ed.): Plaste and Elaste - neon advertising in the GDR. 2010
  10. ^ Ratskeller Dresden
  11. ↑ Anita Bach / Hans-Joachim Driefer / Peter Groß: Restaurants in historical buildings. vb VEB Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin, 1972
  12. ↑ Website for the exhibition “Art! Commerce! Visionen! ”, German Historical Museum ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dhm.de
  13. ↑ Pasted over posters from the GDR , press release from the city of Schwerin
  14. ↑ Erika Eschebach, Holger Starke (Ed.): Dresden plakativ! Art, commerce and propaganda in the Dresden poster (1865–1990). Catalog for the exhibition in the Dresden City Museum. Museums of the City of Dresden, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-941843-09-7 .
  15. ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister / Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner. Exhibition of the Dresden State Art Collections / Galerie Neue Meister, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau Dresden, Brühlsche Terrasse from October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2011
  16. ↑ Naumann's posters in the europeana.eu database
  17. ^ Foundation Poster OST
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesa
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1990
Place of death Dresden