Kurt Bialostotzky

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Kurt Bialostotzky , called Bial (born August 19, 1896 Obornik , † December 28, 1985 in Detmold - Hiddesen ) was a Jewish painter who was persecuted by the Nazi regime.

life and work

Born in Posen as the son of the cantor Isaak Bialostotzky and his wife Charlotte, he moved to Berlin via Breslau, where he completed an apprenticeship as a pattern draftsman in the Salomon carpet factory in Berlin-Oberschöneweide and then painted with Hugo Händler , Emil Orlik and Markus Este studied. He was seriously wounded in the First World War. After the First World War he attended the Berlin School of Applied Arts and later had a studio on Potsdamer Platz. It was a colleague of Felix-Nussbaum's academy and was in contact with the Worpswede painter Heinrich Vogeler at the beginning of the 1930s, when he was still in Berlin.

The respected critic of the Voss'sche Zeitung Max Osborn wrote about him in 1937: "He is definitely a man of color, Bialostozky builds his pictures in broad, bright areas, sometimes you think you can feel a rejuvenated Liebermann spirit."

In 1921 he married Edith Arzt. The marriage had two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1936.

Bialostotzky was of Jewish descent, a staunch anti-fascist and a member of the communist party. In 1938 the escape to Czechoslovakia failed. He was imprisoned in Wunsiedel. In January 1939 he managed to emigrate to Bolivia via Paris, leaving behind more than 300 works. From 1939 to 1941 he lived in La Paz until he moved to Cochabamba in 1941 for health reasons.

As early as 1946 a magazine in Bolivia judged him: “He became the true artistic designer of his new Bolivian homeland. With all of his works, Bialostotsky placed himself in the forefront of painters in the country, a fact. of which the entire Jewish immigration of Bolivia can be proud! "

In 1964 Kurt Bialostotzky returned to Berlin. In 1968 he moved to Bad Salzuflen, which he had met during a cure.

In 1973 he moved from there to Detmold-Hiddesen, where he set up a small studio in the house at home . He mainly devoted himself to landscape painting.

After his death in 1985, his daughter Hilde Pearton donated more than 1,000 paintings to the Lippisches Landesmuseum, which presented an impressive exhibition under the title Exotic Farbelten from September 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014, in particular of his Bolivian works and thus to the 1984 exhibition in Lippe State Museum Detmold.

The vast majority of his works created in post-war Germany were created in Lippe between 1968 and 1985. He painted incessantly, mostly in the great outdoors.

Kurt Bial - as he mostly called himself because of his complicated name - said: “The Lippe landscape with its mountains is very appealing to me, and I try to give it warm colors. The warm tones of the southern and Central American landscape still have a strong effect on me. I find it hard to break away from them. I don't want it either, because they helped me through the most difficult time of my life and gave me the strength to live on as a person and continue to work as an artist. a. to South Africa, the Canary Islands and other places on the European continent are also expressively reflected in many paintings.

Many of his works are in the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Centrum Judaicum: - New Synagogue Foundation Berlin and many of them are privately owned.

Kurt Bialostotzky's grave in the Hiddeser Friedhof in Detmold. Honorary grave of the city of Detmold

In the Hiddes cemetery there is an honorary grave of the city of Detmold for Bialostozky.

Exhibitions

  • Berlin in the 30s - u. a. in his gallery on Potsdamer Platz
  • London Dec 1952 (Ben Uri Art Society)
  • La Paz, Bolivia 1939,1948,1953
  • Lemgo 1969 - Witch Mayor's House
  • Düsseldorf 1968
  • Detmold-Hiddesen 1982 House of the Guest
  • Detmold 1984 Lippisches Landesmuseum
  • Berlin 2003 Jewish Museum - Cabinet Exhibition
  • Lemgo March / April 2010 within Landscape is everything
  • Detmold 2013/14 Lippisches Landesmuseum Exotic Color Worlds

literature

  • Fritz Bartelt (ed.): Kurt Bialostotzky (Bial): painter and draftsman in Detmold. Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Detmold 1984.
  • Rolf-Erich Wandhoff (Ed.): Exhibition catalog Exotic Color Worlds of the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold 2013
  • Rolf-Erich Wandhoff: Article in the village chronicle Hiddesen from 2006, p. 79 ff. Searching for Jewish traces in Hiddesen - painter Kurt Bialostotzky (Bial) .
  • Lippe Magazin - 9th cent. No. 7 of October 2013, p. 6: Estate of the painter Kurt Bialostotzky in the Lippisches Landesmuseum Exotic Color Worlds .
  • Heimatland Lippe - August 2013 p. 206/207, Vera Scheef: Exotic Color Worlds
  • Monika Hegenberg in Heimatland Lippe 2010 Bolivian colors - artist biographies of the 19th and 20th centuries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miradas Alemanas - Exile. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Lippische Landes-Zeitung: Not known, but not forgotten either | Culture . In: Culture . ( lz.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  3. ^ "Aufbau" (German-language newspaper in Bolivia) No. 30-20 of July 26, 1946
  4. ↑ Half-timbered house and trees in autumn :: Lippisches Landesmuseum :: museum-digital: ostwestfalen-lippe. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Lippe-Aktuell issue no. 178 from May 25th, 2009: Commemoration of the painter Kurt Bialostotzky - honor plaque unveiled at the grave.
  6. ↑ Lippische Landeszeitung of July 27, 2004: Memorial of the painter honor grave for Kurt Bialostotzky
personal data
SURNAME Bialostotzky, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bial
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Obornik
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1985
Place of death Detmold-Hiddesen