Konrad day

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Konrad Tag (born April 24, 1903 in Geischen , Guhrau district in Silesia , † April 21, 1954 in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz ) was a German glass engraver .

Life

After attending elementary school in Reisen ( Rydzyna in Polish ) ( Lissa district ), Konrad Tag completed an apprenticeship in glass engraving. From 1919 to 1923 he attended the department for glass finishing at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Breslau , where he received lessons in glass engraving and glass cutting from the subject teacher Edgar Benna (1899-1979), a master of the clerks' Josephinenhütte. He also completed a sculpture degree at the Wroclaw Art Academy . After completing his studies, he worked as an engraver at the Altheid company Kristallglas-Hüttenwerke Franz Wittwer , together with Rufin Klaus Koppel , an equally successful Benna student . From 1929 to 1932 he headed the glass processing technology department at the Kaiserswalde glassworks and then worked as a freelancer in Glatz . After the end of the Second World War , Konrad Tag was initially not deported and after 1945 worked for the Polish art college in Wroclaw. In 1950 he emigrated to the GDR , where he settled in Weißwasser. There he worked again as a glass engraver in the glass design workshop, but died four years later. In the glass museum Weißwasser and glass artworks by Konrad day been exhibited. Konrad Tag created the design for the stature of an apprentice glassblower, created in 1953, which today stands in front of the vocational school center in Weißwasser.

literature

  • Glatzer Heimatblätter , No. 18, 1932, p. 157
  • Day, Konrad . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 410 .
  • Dietmar Zoedler : Silesian glass - Silesian glasses . Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-87057-208-6 , pp. 194, 237, 240

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suzanna Wycisk-Müller: creativeness Silesia from A to Z . tape 2 . Engelsdorf Verlag Leipzig, 2016, p. 146/147 .
  2. ↑ See list of monuments in Weißwasser
personal data
SURNAME Day, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist and glass engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Geischen , Guhrau district
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1954
Place of death Weißwasser / Upper Lusatia