Karl Christian Peters

Karl Christian Peters (born June 13, 1911 in Duisburg , † November 11, 1944 in the Scharfenwiese military hospital in Poland ) was a German painter , draftsman and illustrator from Windeck .

Life

Karl Christian Peters was the oldest of three siblings. After the father was killed in the First World War , the mother, Auguste Peters, née. Schneider, later known as a local poet in Windeck, with her children to Windeck - Schladern , their hometown. Karl Christian Peters attended elementary school here and, since 1925, the grammar school in Bergneustadt , which he graduated from high school in 1931 . He then studied at the Cologne factory schools and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with interruptions until 1939 , during which he worked as an illustrator for the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and its features section . The Rheinisches Museum, today the Cologne City Museum , gave him orders for drawings and pictures from the life of the people in the Rhineland. In the Siegburg area he executed frescoes in schools and public buildings .

Karl Christian Peters was drafted in the summer of 1940. He suffered his first wound while advancing on Daugavpils . In hospitals and convalescent companies he used his free time to work on many drawings and watercolors . When the eastern front drew nearer in autumn 1944 , he was reinstated and wounded so badly that he finally died of the consequences in November 1944.

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Some of his works, especially the frescoes , were lost in the chaos of the war and post-war. A large part of his drawings is archived in the Siegburg City Museum . Individual works are housed with friends and relatives, the considerable remainder was archived by his sister Dorothea Brökelschen-Peters and has been in the family since her death. Two drawings are exhibited in the "Haus des Gastes" in Windeck - Herchen .

Review (excerpt)

"... In the thirties this highly talented artist emerged as an illustrator for book and magazine publishers; at that time he also adorned a number of schools and public buildings in the Rhein-Sieg area with frescoes. The war left the traces of these activities and the memory of the artist erased. The Cologne City Museum, for which Karl C. Peters had carried out artistic commissions, still keeps a few sheets on the theme of the Rhenish Carnival in its archive. Ms. Dore Brökelschen-Peters in Schladern has her estate together with friends brother spotted and processed in November 1988, was a selection of drawings and watercolors in the foyer of. Kreishaus are shown in Siegburg, it was the first exhibition of works by Charles C. Peters at all ... "

“... Karl C. Peters represents what is (real), not what could be (unreal) and not what should be (ideological). At the time, that was remarkable for a young visual artist who was inspired by a strong desire for art. "

- Robert Seinsch, November 1988, (from the exhibition catalog for Karl Christian Peters - exhibition in the Kreishaus foyer in Siegburg in November 1988)

literature

• Bert Brune , Frieder Döring (Ed.): Cologne Bay - Nature and Unnature. A reader. Anthology with drawings by Karl Christian Peters, Wolkenstein-Verlag , Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-927861-08-1 .
• Robert Seinsch: Exhibition catalog Karl Christian Peters. Siegburg 1988.