Kurt Dornis
Kurt Dornis (born October 7, 1930 in Glogau / Silesia ) is a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman from the Leipzig School .
Life
Kurt Dornis has lived in Leipzig since he fled Silesia in 1944. From 1946 to 1949 he did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and then studied for three years, from 1949 to 1952, at the college for applied arts in Leipzig with Walter Münze. Since 1952 he has been working as a freelancer in Leipzig. In 1976 he made a study trip to what was then the Soviet Union.
Painting style
The very withdrawn Leipzig painter and draftsman Kurt Dornis has a drawing tradition that has its roots in different epochs. He is a "strict and matter-of-fact purist" with a "object-related, form-precise and sober style that applies the colors smoothly", in which he prefers to create "neo-Roman cityscapes". His main motifs are the bridges, side streets or old factory buildings in Leipzig.
Arnd Schultheiß (* 1930) and Günter Thiele (* 1930) as well as Baldwin Zettl (* 1943), who concentrate almost exclusively on drawing, are among Kurt Dornis' aesthetic colleagues with their linearity. There is also an intellectual kinship with the Berlin painter Karl Hofer (1878–1955) from the twenties. Further back in art history, there are touches on the lines in the drawings of the romantic Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810).
reception
“He is considered the city's topographer and chronicler. In his pictures you can feel the reluctance of the observer. "
Memberships
- 1952–1990 member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2009 Leipzig, Galerie Koenitz ("The hidden motif")
- 2010 Leipzig, City History Museum Leipzig in the studio gallery
Group exhibitions
- 2009: Art in Leipzig since 1949 , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
- 2008: Lindenau Museum Altenburg
- 1998: Width and diversity, the art of realistic awakening - selected works since 1945 , Staatliche Museen zu Schwerin
- 1997: Lust und Last - The Leipzig School , Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg and Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
- 1988: Venice Biennale
Works in museums
- Chemnitz: Chemnitz art collections
- Cottbus: Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
- Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (including melancholy, oil paintings, 1982)
- Gera, Art Collection Gera, Otto-Dix-Haus (On the Black Sea coast near Sozopol; pen drawing with Indian ink, 1979)
- Leipzig: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
- Leipzig: City History Museum Leipzig (including old fountain; mixed media, 1973)
- Leipzig: Art gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig
- Frankfurt (Oder): Museum of Young Art
- Altenburg (Thuringia): Lindenau Museum Altenburg (including a cityscape in the Soviet Union; watercolor and tempera, 1976)
- Schwerin: State Museum Schwerin
- Rostock: Rostock art gallery
Literature (selection)
- Dornis, Kurt. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 161.
- Lothar Lang : Painting and graphics in the GDR. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1983, pp. 64, 121-123, 130 and XXIII.
- Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen and Frank Zöllner : a matter of opinion. Leipzig painters and their city. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-95415-039-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Disturbing clarity - Leipzig exhibition shows “Artist trips in the GDR”. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . April 12, 2019, accessed August 15, 2020 .
- ^ Lothar Lang: Painting and Graphics in the GDR . 1st edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1993, DNB 840340435 , p. 122, 123 and 130 .
- ↑ Topographer and chronicler of the city: The Leipzig painter Günter Thiele turns 90 on Wednesday. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . August 11, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
- ^ Bildatlas DDR-Kunst
- ↑ Kurt Dornis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Retrieved on August 15, 2020 (member of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig eV).
- ↑ Old well. Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig , accessed on August 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dornis, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glogau |