Josef Scheuplein

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Josef Scheuplein (born August 7, 1916 in Würzburg , † March 26, 1998 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and art teacher .

Self-portrait

Life

From 1931 to 1935 he trained as a graphic artist in the Hetz-Hainlein studio in Würzburg and helped to implement designs by the painter Carl Grossberg . He then studied at the Central Polytechnic Association with Heiner Dikreiter and Willi Greiner. In 1939 he was called up for military service. He came to the Rimini camp in 1945 as a prisoner of war , where he met the painter Karl Walther , who initially had a decisive influence on his style.

After returning to Würzburg, he became a freelance artist. In 1948 a cycle of 12 Würzburg views was created, the reproductions of which were published by an Aschaffenburg publishing house. In his workshop he created paintings and graphics, the landscapes , which mainly show the Rhön, Friesland, Norway, Spain as well as views from the surrounding area, but also portraits (cathedral builder Hans Skull , Lord Mayor Klaus Zeitler , self-portraits). He worked as an illustrator for the “Würzburger Katholische Sonntagsblatt” and for the daily newspaper “ Main-Post ”. His “ Dance of Death ”, a large-format, partly hand-colored woodcut series (specimens in the possession of the Martin von Wagner Museum of the University of Würzburg , the art collections of the diocese of Würzburg and the Protestant parish of Sommerhausen) , occupies a special position .

Scheuplein worked as a teacher at the technical college in Würzburg. Scheuplein was for many years the second chairman of the Association of Artists in Lower Franconia, later an honorary member, member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Lower Franconia and an honorary member of the Hetzfeld rafters' guild .

  • Self-Portrait (1966)

  • Dance of Death (no year)

  • Fjord landscape (1978)

  • Rhön

  • Navarrez (1975)

  • View of Würzburg (1960)

  • Snow landscape near Grünten

  • Vietnamese (1966)

  • Still life (1946)

literature

  • Josef Kern: Josef Scheuplein , Würzburg 1994
  • Bruno Rottenbach: The Flößerbuch , Würzburg 1990
  • Sandra Miara: Josef Scheuplein - Dance of Death , Master's thesis at the University of Würzburg, Würzburg 2009
personal data
SURNAME Scheuplein, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1998
Place of death Wurzburg