Kurt Sagittarius

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Kurt Schütze (born March 8, 1902 in Dresden , † April 17, 1971 there ) was a German painter .

Life

After breaking off his apprenticeship as a lithographer, Schütze studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . In 1920 he moved to the Academy of Arts in Dresden to deepen his training with the teachers Robert Sterl , Otto Gussmann and Ferdinand Dorsch . After completing his studies in 1923, he and his artist friends went on a hike to Italy completely penniless , which led them to Rome and Naples .

After that he worked as a freelancer in Dresden. In 1929 Kurt Schütze was a founding member of the Dresden branch of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists in Germany (ASSO). In 1933 he went on a study trip to the Netherlands . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and relocated with his unit to the Soviet Union . Some works have survived from this period, "Russian landscapes and portraits of Russian people, which he reproduced with sensitive, delicate dignity", "the opposite of the Eastern subhumans that the Nazi propaganda presented to the German people".

During the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945 , he lost a large part of his early and best work. After the end of the war and imprisonment, Schütze first worked as a freelance, but then expanded his activity to include wall painting. Later he worked as a restorer of secular and sacred painting in Dresden.

Kurt Schütze died in 1971. He found his final resting place in the Loschwitz cemetery .

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In addition to still life and landscape painting, Schütz's work is dominated by the artistic engagement with people. For him it was about “the recovery of an undestroyed humanistic image.” “In the 1920s he was one of those artists who developed a New Romanticism from the New Objectivity . (...) Otto Dix , the former Verist, was his in Dresden Friends and students preceded it as an artistic convert: above all Wilhelm Lachnit , Wilhelm Dodel , Hans Grundig , Pol Cassel and Kurt Schütze ”. After the war, Schütz's style of painting changed significantly; it became increasingly broader and more pastose , which was probably related to his mural work.

Exhibitions

  • 1969: Museum of the City of Greifswald "Association of Revolutionary Artists, Dresden Group"
  • 1981: Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden "Art on the move 1918–1933"
  • 1986: Galerie Piro, Frankfurt am Main "Kurt Schütze 1902–1971"
  • 2011/2012: Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden "New Objectivity in Dresden"
  • 2013: Gallery Schloss Fachsenfeld, Aalen "Dresden School, Josef Ilg Collection"

literature

  • Dieter Hoffmann: Dresden School, Josef Ilg Collection. Self-published, Aalen 2003.
  • Hannelore Gärtner: Kurt Schütze. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978.
  • Hans Grundig: Between Carnival and Ash Wednesday. Dietz, Berlin 1957.
  • Herbert Gute: About the work of the Dresden ASSO. In: Fine arts. Vol. 15, No. 10, 1967, ISSN  0006-2391 , pp. 513-516.
  • Karl Welcher: A portrait of a girl by Kurt Schütze. In: Scientific journal of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald. Social and Linguistic Series. Vol. 19, 1970, ISSN  0138-1016 , p. 37 f.
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: Art on the move Dresden 1918–1933. P. 321 f.
  • Kurt Sagittarius. In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden. Sandstein, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 296.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannelore Gärtner: Kurt Schütze , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978, p. 8.
  2. ^ Dieter Hoffmann: Dresden School, Josef Ilg Collection , self-published, 2003, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Gardener: Kurt Schütze , p. 5.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann: Dresdner Schule , p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Sagittarius, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 17th April 1971
Place of death Dresden