Josef Schröder-Schoenenberg

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Group tour in Waldkirch town hall: readiness to fight for plaice and family (r.), Die neue Zeit (l.)

Josef Schröder-Schoenenberg (born July 12, 1896 in Cologne , † July 12, 1948 in Waldkirch ) was a German visual artist. When Heinrich Josef Friedrich Schröder was baptized, he later added the nickname Schoenenberg as an artist and thus adopted his mother's maiden name. After an apprenticeship as a painter and graphic artist, Schröder-Schoenenberg studied at the academies of fine arts in Munich and Karlsruhe . He lived in Celle , Hanover , Gutach im Kinzigtal , Freiburg and Elzach (1927/39) before he settled in Waldkirch. He worked mainly as an etcher and watercolorist, but also created paintings and sculptures. He was best known as an animal painter, but he also made portraits and landscapes. His works were shown at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1938 , and his paintings hung in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

In 1937 Schröder-Schonenberg became a member of the NSDAP, and in 1938 he was involved in the anti-Jewish riots in Elzach. In 1939 he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Hitler for the council chamber in Waldkirch town hall . This was followed by orders to put up programmatic wall paintings in the stairwell of the town hall, first readiness to fight for plaice and family (1941/42), then Die neue Zeit (1942/43). After the surrender in 1945, the two large-format pictures were initially whitewashed on the orders of the French occupying forces. As early as 1956, by a resolution of the local council, one of them was exposed again, and twenty years later the second too, which has led to ongoing controversy. In September 2014, the two listed pictures were partially removed, treated for restoration and professionally documented during a renovation project.

literature

  • Nazi propaganda in Waldkirch . Working Group Resistance and Workers' History Waldkirch, Waldkirch 1989
  • Eva-Maria Berg and Alois Berg. "The Nazi propaganda pictures by the painter Schroeder-Schönenberg in the Waldkirch town hall." In: “There was nothing here!” Waldkirch under National Socialism . Edited by Wolfram bet. Bremen 2020. pp. 416–428.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Heiko Haumann, Die Judenaktion 1938 in Elzach. Upstadt-Weiher 2015.
  2. ↑ Blood and soil pictures , accessed on September 11, 2013
  3. ^ Nazi art survives in the town hall ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Nazi murals , accessed on September 11, 2013
  5. ↑ stay Nazi images , accessed on September 11, 2013
  6. ↑ Listed pictures have to give way to the town hall renovation , accessed on September 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schröder-Schoenenberg, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1948
Place of death Waldkirch