Kurt Robbel

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Kurt Robbel (born May 20, 1909 in Berlin ; † July 11, 1986 in Mahlow ) was a German painter and professor at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee .

Life

Robbel's father was a decorative painter and restorer. As a toddler, Robbel lived with his parents in Russia from 1910 to 1912, where his father worked as a restorer near Petersburg. From 1915 to 1925 he attended school in Berlin and learned the Russian language. In the period from 1925 to 1929 he completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor with Emil Graf in Rixdorf and took evening classes at the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught building sculpture by Felix Kupsch . Robbel was unemployed for a long time and kept afloat doing odd jobs and as a translator. During this time he began to teach himself about painting. From 1930 to 1933 Robbel was a member and librarian in the association "Friends of the SSSR"

In view of the Reichstag fire process, he and his friend Fritz Wirgien produced anti-fascist leaflets in 1933. In 1935 he made a trip to the Soviet Union.

In 1936 Robbel married and moved to Mahlow . From 1940 to 1942 he worked as a letter writer and technical draftsman in the armaments company C. Lorenz, Berlin-Tempelhof.

In 1941/42 he sat in with Otto Hitzberger and Wilhelm Tank at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Fine Arts. From 1942 to 1945 he was in military service with a news unit, from which he deserted in 1945. In 1945 he worked as an interpreter in the Soviet headquarters. He was Mayor of Mahlow from June to December . From 1945 to 1951 Robbel worked as a freelance painter. In 1946 he joined the SED. In 1951 he was appointed by Mart Stam as a lecturer at the Berlin University of Fine and Applied Arts . A friendship developed with Horst Strempel , who stimulated his sense of image structure and tectonics in wall painting, and with Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer . In 1952/53 Robbel was a lecturer in a painting class and a panel painting class. Since 1957 he made trips to Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Iceland and Yugoslavia. From 1958 he had a professorship for painting. In 1963 he became head of the painting technique department at the university. His students included u. a. Rolf Schubert , Hans Ticha and Hans Vent . In 1968/69 Robbel had to take a break due to illness. He then headed the restoration department from 1969 until his retirement in 1974 .

reception

Robbel was one of the most influential Berlin teachers.

A constitutive image structure is characteristic of his works. Among other things, his significance is that “he repeatedly used his elegant, deliberate style of painting to serve political tasks”.

Works (selection)

Building related art

Works in museums and public collections

  • Berlin, Nationalgalerie (including: Red Guards 1917; oil and egg tempera, 1967)
  • Gera, Art Collection Gera, Otto-Dix-Haus (Two people waiting; graphite; watercolor, 1949)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 Wünsdorf, Museum des Teltow

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Kurt Robbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ private-kuenstlernachlaesse-brandenburg.de/person/10
  2. ^ Lothar Lang: Painting and Graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1983; Pp. 169, 170
  3. ↑ exhibition on the work Kurt Robbels. In: Märkische Allgemeine . May 27, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Robbel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1986
Place of death Mahlow