Karl Schricker
Karl Schricker (born December 4, 1912 in Förstenreuth , † September 22, 2006 in Bayreuth ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
life and work
During his primary school days, his father sent him in his free time to apprentice the painter Max Schaffner in Münchberg . This was followed by a visit to the secondary school in Bayreuth and the upper secondary school in Hof . In order to be accepted into the art school, Schricker had to prove that he had learned a practical profession. “So I became a model volunteer in the porcelain factory Hertel, Jakob & Co., GmbH, Rehau / Bavaria , from 1930 to 1932,” he describes in his résumé.
In 1932 he entered the State School for Applied Arts (later the Academy of Fine Arts) in Nuremberg . The director of the academy recognized Karl Schricker's abilities and placed him in the free graphics and painting class - Schricker himself “[wanted] to attend the sculptor class, ignoring his main talent”. His work was rated as the best in the entrance exams, so that he was able to skip the - actually mandatory - introductory class. His teachers were professors Karl Dotzler (1874–1956) and Friedrich Heubner (1868–1974).
In the early 1930s, Karl Schricker received a school assignment for a study trip to the North Sea to depict the development of the sailing ship in a series of drawings . Shortly thereafter he was financed a trip to artistically characterize monumental sites of German work with motifs in Berlin , Kiel , Lübeck , Rostock and Stettin . In 1937 he was appointed master class student . In 1939 Schricker received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg .
As with many other artists, the war marked a turning point for Karl Schricker. However, his conscription for military service in 1940 could not curb his creative urge. As a reporter to the infantry, he was used in Russia . During this time he drew and sketched his impressions and his experiences on blocks and paper. He experienced the end of the Second World War in Berlin . From there he made his way to Glietz on the eastern bank of the Elbe , where he stayed with a farmer for several weeks. When a hand injury was treated as an in-patient, there was a risk of being taken prisoner by the Soviets. To avoid this, a nurse brought him across the Elbe at night and in fog . "Later he sneaked in stockings between the Russian posts at Falkenstein's across the Bavarian border." and so got to his parents in Upper Franconia .
In 1947 he received orders for the design of churches and inns as well as for book illustrations ( The Good Earth , The Cursed and The Schimmelreiter ). From 1948 Karl Schricker worked as an industrial graphic designer in the Rosenthal porcelain factory .
In 1951 he married Thea Schricker, b. Pülz (died 1996). From that time on he lived in Redwitz (until 1997) . In 1975 he left Rosenthal and from then on worked as a freelance artist . In 1997 he moved to Bayreuth , where he died in September 2006.
Karl Schricker exhibited regionally and nationally. Schricker varied in the choice of painting technique. In addition to mixed media and ink drawings , there are also watercolors and oil paintings . He often used large formats for his work. Especially in works that depict his war experience, “his Franco-Japanese precision of the line [praised]”, as it is called in the Kulturwarte (1970: 85) for Schricker's work Ababled (mixed media, 100 × 82 cm). Schricker also occasionally creates sculptures.
The depicted motif often revolves around the animal, "because since my earliest youth I have been devotedly interested in observing animals, both domesticated and especially those of the wild, and of course still applies today." With profound thoughts he tried to portray both his love for animals and his fears for the creature in a painterly way.
"His art is dedicated to the living, the still-living" ".
Exhibitions
Karl Schricker's works have been shown in both solo and group exhibitions.
Examples include the places Bamberg , Bayreuth , Berlin , Bischofsgrün , Bonn , Coburg , Erlangen , Graz , Hof (Saale) , Kulmbach , Marktredwitz , Munich , Passau , Selb and Würzburg .
Memberships
- In 1964 Schricker was a founding member of the artist group " Gruppe Nordfranken ".
- In 1967 he was accepted into the Association of Franconian Artists and subsequently participated in numerous exhibitions.
- In 1969 Schricker was accepted into the professional association of visual artists .
Purchases
Works by Karl Schricker are owned by, among others:
- District of Upper Franconia
- City of Bamberg
- City of Bayreuth
- City of Kulmbach
- Bavarian State Painting Collection / State Collection of Graphics ( Munich )
- Landbauamt Nürnberg
- Bamberg State Library
- Ministry of Agriculture Bonn
literature
- Max Escher : Karl Schricker - a Franconian painter and winner of the Dürer Prize . In Kulturwarte . Monthly magazine for art and culture (XIX. Vol. / No. 12), 1973, pp. 236–241
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Escher, p. 236
- ↑ Escher, p. 236
- ↑ Escher, p. 237
- ↑ Escher, p. 238
- ^ Karl Schricker: My concern, in: Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Oberfranken eV (Ed.): Karl Schricker, 1992, p. 3
- ^ A. Kück: Karl Schricker; in: Catalog for the exhibition by Karl Schricker / Heinrich Schreiber in "Die Kleine Galerie". Bamberg, 1977, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schricker, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Förstenreuth , Münchberg district |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 2006 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |