Leo Tilgner

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Leo Tilgner (born September 4, 1892 in Gelsenkirchen-Schalke , † March 17, 1971 in Wetter ) was a German painter and graphic artist of Expressionism .

Live and act

Tilgner attended grammar school in Dortmund until 1910, which was followed by a two-year internship at the Union steelworks in Dortmund. Until 1914 he attended the higher mechanical engineering school in Dortmund and then became a war volunteer in a technical company (1914-1918); Beginning of his artistic activity. In the Dortmund steelworks he was employed as a machine engineer until 1921; that year he moved to Wetter an der Ruhr , where he worked at the Schöntaler steel and iron works Peter Harkort & Sohn . Here he was fired in 1931 because of rationalization measures; after that he worked as a freelance artist, especially in the production of bookplates - stamps .

At times he also earned his living as a teacher of mathematics. As an artist, he mainly created woodcuts and linocuts. He was friends with Otto Dix , Ernst Barlach , Käthe Kollwitz , Georg Kolbe and Emil Nolde . The city of Wetter named a street after him, the "Leo-Tilgner-Weg". In 1992, on his 100th birthday, the city dedicated an exhibition with a catalog of the same name to him under the title “The Critical Early Work”. The same exhibition also went to Gelsenkirchen, his hometown. The catalog contains a sketch of Tilgner's life by Dietrich Thier.

Leo Tilgner died on March 17, 1971 of complications from a stroke.

Exhibitions and publications

Compilation in Gelsenkirchen stories

  • 1920: Exhibition in the Upper Silesian industrial city of Gliwice
  • 1921: Exhibition with Waldemar Blank and Franz Bronstert in the Catholic school Wetter; the exhibition was given the title “Art of Young Germany”.
  • 1922: Participation in the exhibition for the youth hostel day in Wetter; Tigner's work was hailed as testimony and confession of the 'new art' and his work was assigned to the Expressionists.
  • 1930: Tilgner organized an exhibition from his own collection of graphics in the girls' school in Wetter. “The Tilgner collection shown on Sunday was of interest in more than one respect. The fact that well-known names such as Michel Fingesten , Geißler, Wildermann, Sepp Frank , Käthe Kollwitz and others were represented among its 180 sheets might encourage the instructor to pay a visit to the exhibition - because it is not easy as a Wetterscher stake citizen to get original works by such people effortlessly and free of charge to see. "( Wettersche Zeitung )
  • 1932: Tilgner's book Jans, roehr es was published by Peter Heine Verlag in Warendorf .
  • 1934: Tilgner became a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts .

That step followed

  • "Exhibitions in the Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, in the Folkwang Museum Essen, in the museums in Hagen , Hamm , Recklinghausen , Schwelm and Witten ."
  • In 1937 his book The Curious Quarters of Michael Schnüffelke was published , in which he relates experiences from the First World War .
  • From January 1, 1939 until the start of the war, he was exhibition manager for the German Labor Front in the Gau Westfalen-Süd for art exhibitions in factories; from August 1940 leader of a technical company; from 1944 part-time teacher at the Oberschule in Wetter for drawing and mathematics. 1947–1955 Tilgner headed the Wetter Adult Education Center.
  • 2005: Exhibition in Wetter Frauen in the work of Leo Tilgner , as well as paperback on the same topic.

Web links

literature

  • Dietrich Thier: Leo Tilgner's life sketch in the exhibition catalog Das Kritische Frühwerk 1992, on his 100th birthday.
  • Walter Methler (Ed.): Exhibition catalog "Women in the work of Leo Tilgner" . Exhibition in the Henriette Davidis Museum 2005. HDM-Verlag, Wetter / Ruhr 2005 (50 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Leo Tilgner (1892-1971). In: Forum Gelsenkirchen Stories . February 14, 2009, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Read this in the sales comments for some of his works.
  3. ^ Exhibition The Critical Early Work in Wetter / Ruhr September 1992, in the catalog of the same name there is his life sketch by Dietrich Thier
personal data
SURNAME Tilgner, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist of Expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen-Schalke
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 1971
Place of death Weather