Jürgen Schwendy

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Jürgen Schwendy (born May 15, 1911 in Berlin ; died August 4, 1981 in Munich ) was a German doctor and silhouette artist .

Life

Schwendy grew up in Munich ( Schwabing , Freimann ) and Dachau . He graduated from high school in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . From 1931 to 1935 he studied medicine at the University of Berlin and in 1935 he submitted his dissertation “On Haemophilia ” in Heidelberg .

From 1947 he lived in Dresden. He worked at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt City Hospital , in the 1950s as senior physician at the 2nd Medical and Polyclinic, and from 1956 as chief physician. In 1959, the congress volume of the German Society for Internal Medicine listed him as "unknown moved".

From 1960 to 1980 he ran an internal medicine practice in Munich, which was taken over by his son and has been run by his granddaughter since 2013.

Silhouette

Schwendy began cutting paper at the age of 12. His teachers included the graphic artist René Binder, the sculptor Magdalene Kreßner , Bernhard Kretzschmar and Fritz Koch-Gotha . Schwendy cut his little works of art with propped elbows sitting in the armchair, freehand and exclusively with scissors, he only drew edge lines and straight lines. Almost all of his illustrations have a framework in which the plot develops, carried by moving figures without internal cuts. "His cutting technique creates a graphically varied network of lines, gives people a characterful, idiosyncratic shape, which makes the illustrations not only beautiful, but also lively."

From 1947 to 1981 Schwendy published eight books, five of which were provided with original screen prints, and a series of postcards. His first books dealt with the animal world, designed for children between 6 and 10 years, inspired by visiting the zoo together with his children. Important topics are traveling and abroad. For the story of the old fat Chinese Wang, who is looking for a bride, Walter Krumbach wrote the verses according to Schwendy's instructions. The postcard series “Healthy and happy, do it the same” for the Hygiene Museum in Dresden around 1950 combined work and silhouette.

Exhibitions

  • 1959: Paper cutting exhibition at Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1980: Exhibition of the original “Die Odyssey” scissors in the Residenzbücherstube, Munich, on the occasion of the book publication by Langen Müller
  • 1983 "Light and Shadow", Munich City Museum

Publications

  • About hemophilia. Med. Diss. Heidelberg 1935. Gütersloh 1936
  • The great journey: in pictures and verse. People and Book, Leipzig 1948
  • This is how we live in Africa. Text and silhouettes, Hartmann, Dresden 1949 (new edition: self-published, Munich [1975])
  • Liver and biliary tract diseases. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1957
  • With Walter Krumbach (text): The old Wang; A picture book based on original paper cutouts. Altberliner Verlag L. Groszer, Berlin 1957 (new edition: Roter Druckstock, Frankfurt / Main 1972)
  • The Death of the Juggler: Fairy Tales from India. cut with scissors and told by Jürgen Schwendy, Residenz-Bücherstube, Munich 1972
  • The lust for freedom in Africa: paper cutting fairy tales. Residenzbücherstube, Munich 1976
  • Paper cuttings from the life of Francis of Assisi. Residenzbücherstube, Munich 1977
  • The Odyssey in paper cutouts. Accompanying text: Fragments from Homer's "Odyssey" in the translation by Johann Heinrich Voss . Langen-Müller, Munich, Vienna 1980, ISBN 978-3-7844-1811-7
  • The deeds of Heracles. Self-published, Munich 1981

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e Claudia Gross-Roath: Jürgen Schwendy , German Scherenschnittverein , association magazine "Black on White" 23
  2. ^ Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer : Handbook on Children's and Youth Literature: SBZ / GDR: From 1945 to 1990. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 , p. 647
  3. ^ Negotiations of the German Society for Internal Medicine. 61st Congress, Wiesbaden 18. – 21. April 1955, pp. LXVIII; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Negotiations of the German Society for Internal Medicine. 62nd Congress, Wiesbaden 9th – 12th April 1955, S. LXXII; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Negotiations of the German Society for Internal Medicine. 65th Congress, Wiesbaden 6. – 9. April 1959, S. LXXIX; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Practice Dr. med. Susanne Schwendy 2013 - Today , dr-schwendy.de . accessed on August 15, 2019
  7. ^ Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer : Handbook on Children's and Young People's Literature: SBZ / GDR: From 1945 to 1990. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02177-9 , p. 837
personal data
SURNAME Schwendy, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and silhouette artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1981
Place of death Munich