Joseph Andreas Pausewang

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Joseph Andreas Pausewang (born November 17, 1908 in Bobischau , Habelschwerdt district , Province of Silesia , † January 1, 1955 in Lohne ) was a German painter.

biography

Pausewang was on 17 November 1908 as the son of a teacher in Bobischau in southern since 1763 to Silesia belonging Glatz , near the border with Bohemia and from 1918 to Czechoslovakia born. After his father was transferred in 1910, he grew up in Mittelwalde . In 1923 he began a commercial apprenticeship. In 1924 the painter and pastor Artur Heinke from Ebersdorf advised him to train in painting, whereupon he broke off his apprenticeship in 1925 to begin studying art in the same year. He was trained by Artur Wasner, Walter Hartmann and Max Friese . He initially worked in the studios in the Hoecker House in Oberlangenau and in the Antonienheim in Bad Langenau . In 1928 he exhibited his works for the first time in a solo exhibition in Habelschwerdt .

From 1929 he went on a two-year artist tour, during which he visited Paul Plontke in Berlin and Leo Samberger in Munich, among others . He was also able to work at Samberger for a while.

From 1931 Pausewang lived in Mittelwalde and Dresden . He was active in various publishing houses and newspapers and also worked as a cartoonist , including for the Dresdner Anzeiger . In 1933 Pausewang married Charlotte Dobberentz, who gave birth to three children. From 1943 Pausewang did his military service in southern France and Italy, where he was captured by the British. When he was released in 1947, he was allowed to take with him 300 sketches made during his imprisonment.

After almost all of Silesia fell to Poland in 1945 as a result of the Second World War, Pausewang's family had to leave Bobischau and found acceptance in Lohne. Pausewang went there after being released from captivity. He then worked in the studio of a local painter. Most of the pictures he painted until 1943 (approx. 1500) are considered lost, as the family was only allowed to take hand luggage with them when they were expelled from Silesia.

It was difficult to regain a foothold as a painter of Silesian landscapes. During this time he wrote: “I paint pictures of my homeland, which are unfortunately not for sale today. I often have to wipe my eyes when 'mer die Träppl eewer de Wanga kaula!' ”Over time, Pausewang was able to re-establish his painting and in 1949 the city of Vechta held a solo exhibition.

JA Pausewang worked in Lohne in 1948/49 as chairman of the Federation of Expellees ; from 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the city council. In his capacity as a councilor he gave a. the impetus for the sponsorship of the city of Lohne for the expellees from Mittelwalde. Until his death, Pausewang stood up for the preservation of the Grafschafter dialect "as the characteristic of the Grafschafter people".

On January 1, 1955, Joseph Andreas Pausewang died of heart failure.

plant

Pausewang's work includes landscapes, portraits and religious images. His landscapes are strongly influenced by German Romanticism . Cubist painters exerted a great influence on his paintings with religious motifs. Wilhelm Busch's influence on Pausewang is obvious in his caricatures.

Pausewang's work was highlighted in 2007 by the “Friends of Luzie Uptmoor ” in collaboration with the Industrie Museum Lohne under the title “Only when you're abroad: Joseph Andreas Pausewang (1908–1955). A Lower Silesian Painter in the Oldenburger Münsterland ”.

literature

  • Nina Hötzel-Strauch: Life and work of the painter Joseph Andreas Pausewang. Grofschoaftersch Häämtebärnla 2008. Central Office Grafschaft Glatz eV, Lüdenscheid.
  • Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus: ... but the memory remains. Joseph Andreas Pausewang (1908-1955). A Lower Silesian painter in Lohne. Industrie Museum, Lohne 2007, ISBN 3-9809372-8-3 .
  • Nina Hötzel-Strauch: Joseph Andreas Pausewang, painter from Mittelwalde Grafschaft Glatz. A cross-section through his artistic work. Leimen-Heidelberg 1959.
  • Georg Hartmann : Derhäme. Cheerful poems in Glatzer dialect. Publishing house for local literature, Leimen and Heidelberg 1955.
  • Guda Obend . Verlag A. Walzels, Mittelwalde 1911–1942.
  • Heimatverein Lohne: Joseph Andreas Pausewang. 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nina Hötzel-Strauch: Life and work of the painter Joseph Andreas Pausewang. In: Mittelwalde and the upper county , ed. Marx Verlag, Leimen / Heidelberg, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Pausewang, Joseph Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobischau , District of Habelschwerdt , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1955
Place of death Rewards