Klaus Niethardt

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Klaus Niethardt (right) at the art exhibition of the 2nd FDGB Workers Festival, 1960

Klaus Niethardt (* 1928 in Friedrichroda ; † December 2005 ) was a German draftsman and painter .

Life

Klaus Niethardt, who comes from Friedrichroda in Thuringia , has lived in the trade fair city of Leipzig since 1952 , where he initially worked as an unskilled worker in the Kirow works . As a member of the Kirow-Werke drawing circle, he received numerous suggestions for his artistic work as a painter in his spare time. So he developed into a decorative painter.

Klaus Niethardt is best known nationwide for his paintings on the Berlin Wall: with the work of art Justitia in the East Side Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain from 1998. Some of his motifs were also sold on postcards.

literature

  • Niethardt, Klaus . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 305 .
  • Edith Rothe , Hildegard Heilemann : The art. Bibliography on the history of the visual arts, music, literature and theater , H. Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1964, p. 33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This year of death is written on his artwork Justitia at the East Sida Gallery in Berlin.
  2. ↑ Berlin Wall Art
  3. ↑ Meter by meter - the complete East Side Gallery
  4. ↑ Postcard Schiller, Goethe, Einstein on the Berlin Wall
personal data
SURNAME Niethardt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichroda
DATE OF DEATH December 2005