Karl-Heinz Benndorf
Karl-Heinz Benndorf (born July 16, 1919 in Weißenfels , † March 28, 1995 in Usingen ) was a German watercolorist and sculptor .
Live and act
From 1933 to 1937, after completing an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor, he worked for a year at the Naumburg cathedral building. From 1937 to 1939, Benndorf studied at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1939 and 1945 he did military service. From 1947 to 1952 he studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle in Halle an der Saale and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , as a student of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Charles Crodel and Waldemar Post . From 1953 to 1958 he did research in the fields of panoramic optics and color psychology. Benndorf worked as a freelancer from 1958 to 1961, among other things as a set designer for the German television network . From 1961 he worked as a freelance architect, consultant and designer of cultural, social and medical facilities, in addition to which he continued to do research. From 1977 he was banned from working and exhibiting because his first daughter had fled from the GDR. In 1986 he left the GDR. Works by Karl-Heinz Benndorf can be found in the Morgan Museum in New York and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
He participated in exhibitions of watercolors, graphics, sculptures, architecture, and children's book illustrations. Study visits took place in France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Tunisia, Norway, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Benndorf in the picture atlas Art in the GDR
- ↑ Entry in worldcat.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benndorf, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German watercolorist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1995 |
| Place of death | Usingen |