Kurt Claussen-Finks

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Kurt Claussen-Finks (born June 14, 1913 in Bremen ; † April 3, 1985 there ) was a German painter and commercial artist .

biography

Claußen-Finks was born in Bremen as the second son of the shipbuilding engineer Johann Friedrich Claußen-Finks and Franziska Helene, nee. Jost, born. From 1934 to 1938 he studied graphics and painting at the Nordic Art Academy for Painting in Bremen with study visits to Weimar, Munich and Freiburg. Then he began to work as a freelance artist, but had to interrupt this for military service. In 1945 he came to Belgrade as a prisoner of war , where he was introduced to sculpture by an artist who was also captured. From 1949 to 1985 Claußen-Finks worked as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist in Bremen with stays abroad in the Netherlands (1959), Norway (1975), France (1976), Scotland and England (1977), Greece (1978) and Italy (1979) ).

The artistic estate was handed over in 2006 by the artist's wife, Christa Claußen-Finks, to the German Sielhafenmuseum in Carolinensiel, which honored the artist and work in a comprehensive special exhibition that same year.

Works

The work includes landscapes, portraits and still lifes in many techniques such as oil paintings, gouaches , watercolors, pastels, drawings. His pictures essentially reflect the landscape between Bremen and the North Sea coast. A frequent motif are the fishing boats in sluice ports and sluices . As a graphic artist, he created illustrations for books, advertising, church leaves, calendars, memorial plaques and other image and text graphics, e.g. B. in commissioned work for shipyards and shipping companies. He was also involved in architectural designs with glass windows, mosaics, stucco and ironwork.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Kurt Claussen-Finks . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 19, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22759-0 , p. 460.
  • Catalog for the exhibition Kurt Claußen-Finks, Das maritime Werk, Manfred Sell (ed.) For the Zweckverband Deutsches Sielhafenmuseum, collaborators: Dieter Quiram, Katja Rettig, Neithardt Strasser; Writings of the German Sielhafenmuseum Volume 11, Carolinensiel, 2006, ISBN 3-938172-07-X

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overbeck Museum, exhibition "In the light of Northern Germany". Accessed May 1, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Claussen-Finks, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1985
Place of death Bremen