Horus Engels

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Horus Engels , actually Richard Engels (born February 22, 1914 in London ; † October 24, 1991 ), was a German painter , sculptor and illustrator .

Life

Engels was born in London on February 22, 1914. He grew up in Berlin and later studied in Paris . Before the outbreak of the Second World War he worked as an assistant to the supervisory board at Siemens AG . In the course of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets around 1941 . After his release, he began his artistic activity in Wolfsburg in 1948 , and set up a studio in Neuhaus Castle near Wolfsburg. In Wolfsburg he also met his Dutch wife, with whom he raised two children.

Richard Engels got involved, as the choice of his stage name Horus (protector of the children) suggests, after the war in founding the first boy scout groups around Wolfsburg and, with the forest owls, also set up his own group of boys, which was particularly characterized by its closeness to nature and corresponding Tent camps and trips abroad. He was also a member of the spiritually influenced Subud organization (Susila - Budhi - Dharma). He was chairman of the International Subud Committee (ISC) from 1971 to 1975 and then chairman of the Subud International Cultural Association (SICA) from 1983 to 1989.

In 1954, Engels was involved in furnishing the St. Mary's Church in Fallersleben with a portrait of the Archangel Michael . In addition to other murals - including in 1958 he depicted the councilors and politicians of the city of Wolfsburg in a fresco-like, romantic caricature at a medieval banquet, which also shows a small self-portrait - Engels mainly illustrated fairy tales such as those of the Brothers Grimm . Engels had special contact with the English author JRR Tolkien . It so happened that he illustrated the first translation of The Little Hobbit in 1957. It was also he who initiated this translation by convincing the translator Walter Scherf of its necessity on a trip with young people. According to Scherf, Engels portrayed him as the magician Gandalf with bushy eyebrows.

Horus Engels died on October 24, 1991 and was buried in the Neuhaus cemetery.

Works (selection)

Former post office Wolfsburg 4 with a depiction of a stagecoach by Horus Engels
Blind fountain in Bonn
  • Sgraffito of the Archangel Michael on the west gable of St. Mary's Church in Fallersleben (1954). In 1987 the work was removed during a renovation.
  • Depiction of a stagecoach on the outer facade of the Wolfsburg 4 post office, which opened in 1956 in the Wolfsburg district of Wohltberg (Brandenburger Platz 22).
  • Illustration of the first translation of the novel The Little Hobbit (1957).
  • Caricature of the councilors and politicians of the city of Wolfsburg, in the council cellar of the Wolfsburg town hall (1958).
  • Artistic co-creation of the book Wolfsburg - our city , published by the city of Wolfsburg on the occasion of its 25th anniversary (1963).
  • Fairy tale cycle: ten pictures with motifs from different fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm (1965). Originally created for the Brothers Grimm School in the Teichbreite district of Wolfsburg , since 2012 in the Kreuzheide school center - now the Leonardo da Vinci Comprehensive School.
  • Picture series Wolfsburg history (s) not taken very seriously. in the book How Wolfsburg was by Fritz Heidrich, Elster-Verlag, Wolfsburg (around 1980).
  • Blind fountain in Bonn's Rheinaue (1983).

Trivia

Around 1949 Engels offered his services in an advertisement:

Horus, painter and caricaturist, member of the Association of Visual Artists Northwest Germany, paints and draws for you. Wolfsburg, Birkenweg 47, call 160.

literature

  • Cathérine Fischer: A touch of magic in the city. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition 28 November 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Atelier. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 29, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.viseo.de  
  2. ↑ Boy Scouts. Retrieved November 29, 2010 .
  3. ↑ The picture is in the Ratskeller of the town hall of Wolfsburg.
  4. ↑ In memory of Walter Scherf: A meeting in Munich. Retrieved November 29, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Hans Karweik: For students painted destroyed by students. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of November 19, 2013, p. 22
  6. ↑ Verkehrsverein Wolfsburg eV (ed.): The most beautiful hiking trails around Wolfsburg , undated (around 1949), p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Horus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engels, Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1991