Kurt W. Streubel

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Kurt Joseph Maria Waldfried Streubel (born May 14, 1921 in Starkstadt , Czechoslovakia ; † December 8, 2002 in Weimar ) was a German modern painter and graphic artist.

Life

Streubel grew up as the son of German parents in Starkstadt. The father Joseph was the owner of a photo studio, the mother Maria worked as a master tailor. Streubel attended elementary school and the collegiate high school at the Benedictine monastery in Braunau . In 1940 he graduated as a designer for print design and coloring . As a soldier in the German Wehrmacht , he was sentenced to one year imprisonment in Cherbourg in 1944 for disciplinary offenses . After the liberation by Allied troops, he was taken prisoner by the British and taught there in the painting and drawing circle. From 1946 to 1948 he studied painting at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar under Hoffmann-Lederer and Schäfer-Ast . With the artists Karl Meusel, Otto Kayser and Harry Schmidt-Schaller he was involved in the founding of the first supra-regional artist organization Thuringia in the SBZ in 1945 . In 1946 this was replaced by the "Protection Association of Visual Artists" and led as a division in the "Union 17 for Art and Literature". Work and study stays with Georg Muche in Krefeld and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy followed .

Then Streubel settled as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Gotha / Thuringia. His surreal and constructivist works did not correspond to the expectations of socialist realism . His works were discredited as bourgeois decadent and fell victim to the formalism debate . When the VBKD was reorganized in 1952 under the leadership of the Kulturbund der DDR , numerous formalists were disposed of by streamlining the membership. This also affected Streubel, so that he was finally decoupled from the socialist art business.

After retreating into inner emigration , he worked as a trade fair decorator and textile designer, drafting texts and scenarios for an “anti-opera” with the composer and friend Siegfried Geißler . In 1965 he received his first orders to produce commercial graphics for the State Symphony Orchestra Suhl. His artistic work took place outside the public eye, received little participation in exhibitions and little attention to his surreal- Dadaist poems and texts. In 1976, in connection with the expatriation of Wolf Biermann , the MfS focused on it , and an operational identity check (OPK) was initiated on suspicion of underground activity. From 1979 he was gradually rehabilitated as an artist and recognized as a member of the VBK.

Work (selection)

1948: “Reflection” brush and ink, black; 41 × 32 cm; Geißler Collection
1949: “Cosmic Composition” (sign on the back) watercolor; 37 × 33 cm
1952: “Muses of Peace” gouache on canvas; 26 × 39 cm; Graphic collections Weimar
1953: “Cycle constructive” 5 works, oil, gouache on canvas 39 × 26 cm
1967: “strangent” Black-colored printing blocks on brown-primed fibreboard; 64.5 × 47 cm
1969: “Vorfeld I” oil on fiberboard; 46 × 66 cm
1969: “Opus M” oil on cardboard; 47 × 63 cm; Geißler Collection
1971: “Viereckweiß” oil on cardboard; 47 × 67 cm
1975: "Landscape - esoteric" oil / gouache on cardboard; 48.5 x 65 cm; Mühlhausen Museums
1978: “Movement of Light” oil / gouache on canvas; 46.5 × 66 cm
1979: "Portrait of Information" Multi-colored stencil printing ; 42.4 x 30.1 cm; Geissler collection

Exhibitions

1946: Joint exhibition of works in the Gotha Castle Museum with Karl Meusel, Siegfried Brückner, Otto Kayser, Harry Schmidt-Schaller
1947: 1st state exhibition of visual artists in Thuringia, organized by the union 17
1948: "Young painters seek new paths" in Eisenach
1950: 1st state exhibition of fine artists in Thuringia . Jury-free art exhibition of the union 17 in Gotha
1976: Private exhibition in Siegfried Geißler's apartment
1980: "Colored graphics of the GDR (II)" Staatliche Museen Schwerin
1980: Exhibition "Thuringia 79 - Statements on a landscape" in the Gotha Castle Museum
1981: Work presentation 1946– 1981 on the occasion of his 60th birthday in the Gotha Castle Museum
1981: Exhibition "Aspects - Art between 1945 and 1960, Thuringian painters and graphic artists" Erfurt
1982: Exhibition "100 selected graphics 1982", in Dresden, Berlin, Cottbus, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Rostock, Suhl and Erfurt
1982–1983: IX. Art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden
1984: Exhibition "Die Stadt" of the Erfurt Art Cabinet in the Kulturbund der DDR
1984: 10th district exhibition of the Erfurt district; Exhibition "Colored Graphics of the GDR (III)", Staatliche Museen Schwerin
1989: Exhibition " Prints from Thuringia - A selection" Museum Schloss Burgk / Neue Galerie
1989: Participation in the "11. Art Exhibition District Erfurt ”
1990: Exhibition by Gothaer Versicherung, publication of a graphic portfolio 10 reproductions from the years 1946–1952
1998:“ Insights - Art from the GDR ”Exhibition by the European Culture and Information Center in Thuringia
1999:“ Inner Views - Art in Thuringia 1945 to today ”in Gera
1999:“ Cross Section - Art Space Thuringia. Aspects of Painting and Graphics in the 20th Century "in Mühlhausen
2002: Exhibition" Art Space Thuringia - Aspects of Painting and Graphics 1945 to 1990 "in Mühlhausen
2002:" Kurt-W.-Streubel-Retrospectives "City Gallery Sonneberg and Lindenau Museum Altenburg

Honors

  • 2012: Memorial plaque on Kurt W. Streubel's home and work place in Gotha

literature

  • Kurt W. Streubel: [on the occasion of the Kurt W. Streubel retrospectives in the Comptoir art magazine, Städtische Galerie Sonneberg, and in the Lindenau Museum Altenburg 2002] / Lindenau Museum Altenburg; Comptoir art magazine, Städtische Galerie Sonneberg. [Authors of the texts: Reinhild Schneider ...] ISBN 3-00-010182-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa from biography from "Kurt-W.-Streubel-Retrospectives in the Comptoir-Art Magazine", ISBN 3-00 -010182-9 , pp. 143-156.
  2. ^ "Bildatlas: Art in the GDR". a joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
  3. ^ Gerd Dietrich : Cultural History of the GDR: Tradition and Transformation 1948-1953 . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-30192-0 , pp. 366 ( google.de ).
  4. ^ Union of Art. Federal Archives of the FRG, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Bernd Herold: "Kurt-W.-Streubel - a German and European modern artist" . 2002, ISBN 3-00-010182-9 , pp. 27-29 .
  6. ^ Gerd Dietrich: Cultural history of the GDR . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-30192-0 , pp. 367 ( google.de ).
  7. ^ A b c d Siegfried Geissler: Kurt W. Streubel - attempt at a description . 2002, ISBN 3-00-010182-9 , pp. 35-42 .
  8. ^ State Symphony Orchestra Suhl. Thuringian State Archives Meiningen, holdings number 4-82-6511, from 1952–1997, accessed on December 28, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Thoughts and Color, book manuscript with text and image montages from 1949 - 1960. Kurt W. Streubel, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Insight into the Stasi files of the artist Kurt W. Streubel. Thüringische Landeszeitung, March 28, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Dürerbett-Schlothauer BW: What does the Great Indigo eat ? 2002, ISBN 3-00-010182-9 , pp. 52-53 .
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k part of the picture . In: Kurt-W.-Streubel-Restrospektiven in the Comptoir-Kunstmagazin . ISBN 3-00-010182-9 , pp. 60-141 .
  13. ↑ a b Kurt W. Streubel, extract from the Siegfried Geißler collection. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  14. ^ Mühlhausen museums. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Peter Wurschi: Rennsteig Beat: youth subcultures in the Thuringia area from 1952 to 1989 . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-20014-5 , pp. 166 ( google.de ).
  16. ↑ Gotha commemorates Kurt W. Streubel. Press release of the Gotha City Administration, May 11, 2012, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Streubel, Kurt W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streubel, Kurt Joseph Maria Waldfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist of the modern age
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Stárkov , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2002
Place of death Weimar