Kurt Lambert

Kurt "Claude" Lambert (born September 16, 1908 in Berlin ; † December 27, 1967 ) was a German painter .

life and work

After his sports teacher diploma in 1931, he studied painting at the Berlin Art Academy (today's Berlin University of the Arts ) from 1932 to 1938. He was awarded the Grand State Prize for Painting in 1939, although he quit the academy's studio in the winter semester 1938/39 and he had been forcibly de-registered. In 1943 he received the Villa Romana Prize for Florence.

After the war, which he spent as an officer in the Navy, mainly on the Baltic Sea and the English Channel, he lived in Eckernförde . In 1948 he began to spend the summers in Kampen on Sylt , and in winter he had lived in Hamburg since 1950 . The island had done it to him. Every day he wandered along the Wadden Sea with pens and a painting pad under his arm in search of beautiful motifs or trudged through the dunes. Often it was beach scenes at Groyne 16 , dune landscapes or boats in the mud flats that he sketched and later, in his 'Malklause' in the Ahrenshoop house in Kampen, translated into watercolors and oil paintings.

His pictures, often kept in pastel tones, sometimes show impressionistic features, but have remained stuck throughout his life with a very unique representationality, which increasingly renounced details. Strong, clear lines and a finely graduated color scheme characterize his works.

Kurt Lambert died in 1967.

Aftermath

As part of the Kampen Art Trail , the municipality of Kampen will honor the painter Kurt Lambert with a bronze stele.

literature

• Heike Thomsen: Kurt Lambert (1908-1967). An artist's life between Berlin, Sylt and Hamburg . In: Nordelbingen. Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 63 (1994), pp. 135–160 (= Master's thesis, University of Hamburg, 1993)