Kurt Steinbach (painter)

Kurt Steinbach (* 1895 ; † 1969 ) was a German medic and painter .

Life

Steinbach studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , although he would have preferred to become a painter. Since 1924 he was married to Margarete Steinbach (1897–1994), who later became a medical adviser, who was considered the oldest practicing homeopath in the world and who had practiced for almost 70 years.

In 1924 both finished their medical studies with the state examination and settled in Chemnitz . Kurt Steinbach became a trainee doctor in the Chemnitz City Mental Asylum and his wife opened her own practice in their shared apartment in 1925.

Kurt Steinbach later started his own business as a neurologist. His practice was in Heimgarten 92 in Chemnitz. After his death, his wife continued to practice there, and she was very well received from home and abroad.

Kurt Steinbach devoted a lot of free time to his hobby, painting. Together with his wife, who was an enthusiastic mountaineer, he went on numerous excursions, which he used to paint, among other things. This is how oil paintings, watercolors and pastels were created from the Prussian province of Saxony , the Free State of Saxony and the Bohemian Ore Mountains .

literature

24 of his works were published as black and white picture prints in the anthology Sächsische Landschaft 1937 by DION-Verlag Berlin-Steglitz . The medical historian Alexander Mette (1897–1985) wrote the epilogue. It says that Kurt Steinbach tries to visualize the most essential aspect of the landscape with his pictures: the forlornness of the individual in the vastness of a never-ending horizon, which can give the nearer a broad tone of the eerie .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Schneck: Mette, Alexander. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 983.
2. ↑ Kurt Steinbach: Saxon Landscape, Berlin-Steglitz, 1937, o. P.