Horst Schlossar

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Kurt Horst Schlossar (1950)
Grave of Horst Schlossar in the Striesener Friedhof in Dresden.

Kurt Horst Schlossar ( Upper Sorbian : Horst Šlosar, born September 23, 1903 in Dresden ; † March 10, 1964 ibid) was a German painter .

Life

Schlossar initially received training as a miniature painter . Afterwards, like his father Gustav Šlosar (1875–1961), he worked as a porcelain painter. From 1927 he was u. a. with Otto Dix master student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , and developed into a painter of the new objectivity .

His studio and many of his works were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden . Later, his pictures often referred to everyday life in the Sorbian Lausitz . He was connected to the working group of Sorbian artists; therefore there are many pictures, drawings, etc. from this creative period in the holdings of the Sorbian Museum Bautzen. Most of his paintings are in private collections.

Schlossar died in Dresden in 1964, his grave is in the Striesen cemetery .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Group of workers , no year, 74 × 88 cm, on wood, Städtische Galerie Dresden , inventory number 47/27
  • Mountain range in the Dolomites , 1940, oil on canvas
  • My mother , 1945, 82.5 × 54.5 cm, oil on wood, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , inventory number 2833
  • Peasant delegation to the first socialist artist brigade , 1952/53, 85 × 110 cm, oil on canvas, illustration
  • Peasant delegation to the first socialist artist brigade , 800 × 300 cm, mural in Radibor Castle

literature

  • Jonathan Osmond: Horst Schlossar. Dix master student, Sorbian folk painter, socialist realist and NVA artist . In: Letopis . Journal for the Sorbian language, history and culture . No. 2. 2013, pp. 3–24.
  • Locksmith, Horst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 193 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art in the GDR. In: Bildatlas Art in the GDR . Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Locksmith, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šlosar, Horst (Upper Sorbian); Šlosar, Kurt Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1964
Place of death Dresden