Lothar Homeyer

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Lothar Homeyer ( July 15, 1883 - May 17, 1969 ) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

Homeyer worked with Heinrich Richter-Berlin and Otto Freundlich around 1907/1908 at the Lothar v. Kunowski studied in Berlin. He had been in contact with Herwarth Walden since 1906, and in 1911/1912 he also worked as an employee of the Berlin office of the torch . In the 1910s Homeyer made graphic contributions to the avant-garde literary magazines and collections Aktion , Die Schöne Rarität (by Adolf Harms), Der Einzige (1919) and Das Aktionbuch . In 1919 he was a founding member of the Novembergruppe artists' association .

Homeyers grave of honor at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

Even before the First World War, Homeyer belonged to the closest circle of friends of Salomo Friedlaender , whose literary publications included Rosa the beautiful policeman (1913) and Graue Magie. A Berlin key novel (1922) he contributed illustrations. After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he called himself Popovich to deceive the censorship. He went blind after the Second World War. Homeyer also illustrated Victor Hadwinger's novel The Tragic Ape Jogo Love and Wedding (1919). Homeyer is buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf . His grave was dedicated as an honor grave from 1995 to 2017 .

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  1. ↑ Otto Freundlich. Writings Cologne, DuMont, 1982.
  2. ↑ The Action, vol. 7, no. 33/34
  3. ↑ Ed. Franz Pfemfert. Berlin 1917
  4. ↑ The departure into the modern: Herwarth Walden and the European avant-garde , edited by Irene Chytraeus-Auerbach, Elke Uhl. 2013.
  5. ↑ Salomo Friedlaender : Letters from Exile: 1933-1946 . Edited by Hartmut Geerken , Mainzer series; Vol. 54 Mainz: v. Hase and Koehler, 1982 ISBN 3775810307 / 3-7758-1030-7.
  6. ↑ Published Berlin: Axel Juncker, 1919.
personal data
SURNAME Homeyer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1883
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1969