Kurt Preissler

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Kurt Preißler , also Preissler , (born January 15, 1893 in Sayda , † September 7, 1968 in Lichtenwalde (Niederwiesa) ) was a German painter, graphic artist and etcher. He preferred portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

Life

Kurt Preißler was born in Sayda in the Ore Mountains in 1893. In his youth he moved to Dresden with his family. His interest in art was aroused by his father, who worked as a decorative painter. After graduating from secondary school , he earned his own studies at the Dresden Art Academy. He drew catalogs for the Renner department store and worked as a draftsman for various architects in Dresden. From 1909 to 1914 Preißler studied at the Dresden Art Academy . He was able to learn the various techniques from Robert Sterl , Oskar Zwintscher , Otto Gussmann and Richard Müller . For humanistic reasons, he trained as a medical soldier during the First World War. In contrast to Otto Dix, he was not able to portray the disgusting and hideous things of the war. B. Hospitals in Belgian churches and wretched soldiers in their dugouts. After the war, Kurt Preißler finished his studies in Dresden as a master class student and moved into a studio with Hans Theo Richter . Since 1923 he exhibited regularly within the framework of the Saxon Art Association. During this time, his study trips took him to Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Poland and the Baltic Sea. Various auction houses still offer works from these trips. During the British and American air raids on Dresden on February 13, 1945, Kurt Preißler and his wife Gertrud were bombed out. Almost all of his previous work was lost. Like Johannes Beutner , Fritz Winkler a . a. to the so-called "lost generation". Then he looked for and found a new home in his birthplace Sayda . It was as if the artist was inwardly driven to catch up with what the war had destroyed. Encouraged by the then museum director of the Freiberg City and Mining Museum, Heino Maedebach, he exhibited his work together with other artists from the Ore Mountains as part of the exhibition of Erzgebirge artists in 1946 . In 1948 Preißler was a co-founder of the artist community Die Kaue in Freiberg. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a personal exhibition was organized in his honor in 1963 by the City and Mining Museum. Five years later he died in the Lichtenwalde pulmonary hospital (Niederwiesa) and was buried in his hometown of Sayda.

Gravestone Kurt Preißler.jpg

As an academic painter, Kurt Preißler left behind an extraordinarily extensive and diverse work. In the last phase of his life, he mainly created motifs from the Ore Mountains landscape, as well as images from the iron and steel industry, industrial plants and portraits.

Works (selection)

Kurt Preißler - personal items
  • 1965 - Volksfest im Park, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstfonds
  • 1944 - Labor maid Inge, honor the work, oil painting
  • 1920 - Denmark, Aarhus harbor, etching
  • unknown - Kurenkähne, painting
  • unknown - Hofkirche Dresden, chalk drawing
  • unknown - View of Dresden, watercolor
  • unknown - Straße auf dem Darß, woodcut

exhibition

  • Painting, graphic by Kurt Preißler, Dresden, art exhibition Kühl, exhibition from September 7th to October 4th 1986
  • Special exhibition on his 70th birthday, City and Mining Museum Freiberg / Sa., Museum for Art and Mining, 1963
  • Freiberg artists create for the new school in Halsbrücke: Hilde Böhme-Burkhardt, Herbert Humpisch, Werner Kuettner, Horst Morgenstern, Kurt Preissler, Helmut Rudolph, Maximilian R. Stark - sculptor Siegfried Schliebe - architect; Special exhibition from October 21st to November 25th 1956 City and Mining Museum Freiberg / Saxony. Museum of Art and Mining

Commemoration

The so-called Saydaer Malerweg was laid out in his honor . The initiative for this came from B. Findeisen and H. Wagner.

Saydaer Malerweg (March 2018)
Kurt Preißler - Saydaer Malerweg

literature

  • Preissler, Kurt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 624 .
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 765-767 .
  • New objectivity in Dresden . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 290 .
  • The painter of the Ore Mountains. Kurt Preißler co-founded the artist group "Die Kaue" in 1948 , in: Freie Presse 1998, No. 144, p. 12.
  • Peter Rochhaus : Preißler, Kurt . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 96, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023262-2 , p. 517.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Preißler in the GDR picture atlas
  2. ↑ Malerweg - Bergstadt Sayda (accessed on June 5, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Preissler, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preissler, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Sayda
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1968
Place of death Lichtenwalde (Niederwiesa)