Horst Skodlerrak

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Horst Skodlerrak (born January 18, 1920 in Jugnaten , Heydekrug district in the East Prussian Memelland ; † October 13, 2001 in Lübeck ) was a German painter who lived mainly in Lübeck after the war .

Life

In Konigsberg Skodlerrak 1937 began studying art at the Art Academy in Königsberg in Alfred particles . During the war , he married his childhood friend Liselotte Quass in 1944. In 1945 he was briefly captured and interned in Darmstadt . In 1950 he spent several months in Berlin , where he the controversies surrounding objectivity and non-objectivity witnessed in painting. In 1957 he became a member of the Darmstadt Secession , of which he was a member until 1984. From 1964, Skodlerak worked as a lecturer at the later Muthesius Art College in Kiel .

In 1958 he received the Bremen Art Prize . The Villa Romana Prize enabled him and his family to stay longer in Tuscany in 1962/63 , where many pictures were taken. He repeatedly (?) Returned to Italy. In the early 1990s, Skodlerrak fell seriously ill and spent his last years in the Lübeck district of Travemünde , where he died in 2001. The city of Lübeck honored Horst Skodlerrak on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2010 with a comprehensive exhibition of his watercolors, paintings and graphics.

Appreciation

Horst Skodlerrak is considered an artist of the New Objectivity . He painted "representational, but not realistic". The following bon mot has been handed down: “What am I interested in Picasso in Paris ? I'm Skodlerrak in Brodten ”(the smallest district of Travemuende ).

Awards and exhibitions

(For a detailed list see web link)

  • 1948 Gallery of Youth, Hamburg
  • 1955 ars viva
  • 1958 Bremen Art Prize
  • 1962 Villa Romana Prize
  • 2010 Memorial exhibition in the Lübeck Kulturforum Burgkloster
  • 2019/2020 Big in small things - For painter Horst Skodlerrak on his 100th birthday , East Prussian State Museum Lüneburg

literature

  • Gustav Lindtke: Horst Skodlerak . In: Der Wagen , 1955, pp. 172–175.
  • Horst Skodlerrak . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 294 .
  • Abram B. Enns : sketchbooks by Horst Skodlerak . In: Der Wagen , 1959, pp. 135–139.
  • Wulf Schadendorf : Museum Behnhaus . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts . (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, pp. 111–113.
  • Helmut Schumacher: Skodlerak, Horst . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 12, pp. 382–388.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See weblink art market .
  2. ↑ Lübeck commemorates the painter Horst Skodlerrak , article by Claudia Ehrenstein, published on March 23, 2010 in Die Welt on the occasion of the Lübeck exhibition on the occasion of his 90th birthday, accessed on June 12, 2017
  3. ↑ See article Claudia Ehrenstein.
  4. ↑ Ars Viva
  5. ↑ Big in the small . To the painter Horst Skodlerrak on the 100th birthday. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (November 30, 2019 - March 1, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Skodlerrak, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jugnaten , East Prussian Memelland
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2001
Place of death Lübeck-Travemünde