Leo Leonhard

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Leo Leonhard (born May 12, 1939 in Leipzig ; † July 8, 2011 in Bensheim ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Leonhard grew up in East Germany until his escape in 1952. After attending school in West Berlin and Dortmund , he first studied German at the University of Marburg . From 1961 to 1964 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy with a focus on graphics with Otto Coester . After his state examination in 1964 and initially as a freelance graphic designer, he became a grammar school teacher and finally, as director of studies, an instructor for art educators at the Darmstadt study seminar. From 1987 to 2004 he held a professorship for drawing at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences . Leonhard also worked as a painter and graphic artist and wrote children's books until 1987. His most successful book was Rüssel im Komikland , which was published in 1972 by Melzer Verlag (licensed edition of Büchergilde Gutenberg ) and a paperback edition was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 1977. After his retirement he devoted himself more to oil painting.

Leonhard has been a member of the New Darmstadt Secession , the international woodcutter association XYLON and the Association for Original Etching in Munich since 1969 . The Büchnerhaus in Goddelau owns nine large-format chalk drawings by Leonhard that deal with Büchner's drama Woyzeck .

Leonhard lived and worked in Bickenbach on Bergstrasse .

Fonts

  • Rüssel im Komikland , with a text by Otto Jägersberg , Melzer Verlag, Darmstadt, 1972
  • Bärlamm's Metamorphosis - A Quite Impossible True Event , Bertelsmann Munich, 1976 ISBN 3-570076490 (new edition 1989)
  • Life and Dream with Bellfoot. Flabby Jacks fantastische Abenteuer , published by Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main, 1977 ISBN 3-436-02410-4
  • Catalog raisonné of the etchings 1982–1995 and the woodcuts 1962–1995 . With contributions by Dorit Marhenke and H.-J. Imiela. Darmstadt Art Association, 1995
  • Hessian contributions to German literature: artist's diary on Danton's death, drawings - etchings - diary . Society of Hessian Literature Friends , 1995 ISBN 3-7929-0221-4

Awards

  • Prize winner at the "International Graphic Biennale" in Cracow (1970, 1972)
  • Winner of "The 50 Most Beautiful Books" (1977)
  • 1st prize at the "International Graphic Biennale" Miami (1982)
  • Winner of the "Georg Christof Lichtenberg Prize" of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district (1982)
  • Winner of the "Wayne sessions Memorial Award for Excellence" at the 6th "International Graphic Biennale" Miami (1984)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3rd International of Drawing , 1970, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, catalog book, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Leonhard, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonhardt, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2011
Place of death Bensheim