Kurt Teubner

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Kurt Teubner (born June 28, 1903 in Aue ; † January 11, 1990 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

He is the son of the woodcarver and honorary citizen of Aue, Emil Teubner . Kurt attended elementary school in his hometown and in 1917, like his brother Hans Teubner, went to the Royal Saxon Textile Drawing School in Schneeberg . After he had to leave this drawing school after two years for financial reasons, he continued his self- taught education . At the same time he worked as a glass painter in Chemnitz and Leipzig . Already at this time he was artistically active, so he designed a. a. Wallpaper or pattern of fabrics. In 1921 Kurt Teubner joined the KPD .

In 1925 he went to Düsseldorf as a commercial artist and cliché maker . In 1927 Teubner returned to Aue, where he worked as a graphic designer and advertising painter. In 1928 he married a Jewish woman, as a result of which he was defamed several times from 1933 onwards. The National Socialists counted his works as "degenerate art" . In 1942 the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts issued a ban on Teubner's painting.

After the Second World War he took an active part in the rebuilding of art in Aue, in particular he was involved in an exhibition Liberated Art . As early as October 1945, his works, together with the works of other artists such as Ernst Hecker, Hans Weiß, Otto Brandt and Paul Brandt, were shown with great success in the Logenhaus on the Bahnhofsbrücke. Since 1958 Teubner worked as a freelance painter.

Kurt Teubner received the certificate of honorary citizenship of the city of Aue for his entire work.

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Teubner's early work is expressionistic and in terms of subject matter and style is very close to the Dresden artist group Die Brücke , although there was never any direct contact with the group. In the time of National Socialism, due to the reprisals, landscapes of almost religious natural romanticism were created. In the 1970s and 1980s Teubner produced spectacular material pictures. His cellar still life on the IX. Art exhibition of the GDR for controversial discussions. His late and old works mainly contain collages and assemblages .

Works (selection)

  • Basement still life
  • An old apartment is vacated
  • The parlor around 1910
  • The rejected rejected
  • Ravages of time
  • The philistine
  • thunderstorm
  • House search 1933
  • Kitchen cabinet

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aue, Mosaic Stones of History , page 173; Ed. Stadtverwaltung Aue, printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Teubner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Aue
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1990
Place of death Aue