Lothar Zitzmann

Grave of Lothar Zitzmann in the north cemetery in Jena

Lothar Zitzmann (born February 14, 1924 in Kahla , † January 19, 1977 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German painter and professor.

Life

Zitzmann graduated from high school in Jena in 1944 and studied from 1944 to 1945 with Walther Klemm at the Art College in Weimar, and from 1948 to 1951 psychology , philosophy and art education at the University of Jena .

Until 1949 he worked as a freelance painter, and he also headed a circle at VEB Carl Zeiss Jena . From 1953 he was a lecturer for wall painting at the institute for artistic work design of the art college Halle (today: Burg Giebichenstein art college Halle ), where he became professor in 1965.

Along with Karl-Erich Müller and Willi Sitte, he was one of the “older protagonists of Halle's artistic creation ” and distinguished himself through his “ didactic and profound art”.

While his still lifes still used elements of the Cubist formal language in the 1950s , images such as the “card players” suggest Fernand Léger as a model. Paintings such as the “Lunch Break” or the “Portrait of a Gardener” from 1956 are seen as concessions to the officially required “realism” . In the 1960s he turned to Latin American art for years and showed influences of Mexican realism and muralism in his works . In the 1970s he artistically dealt with the 1973 coup in Chile .

From 1970 to 1977 he was director of the section “Artistic and Scientific Basics of Design” at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein . In 1976 he helped design the large foyer of the Palace of the Republic .

Zitzmannstraße in Jena was named after Lothar Zitzmann in 1991.

Painting "World Youth Song" in the Palace of the Republic

plant

• 1950–1952 mural in the German Administration Academy Forst-Zinna (influence of muralism ; state commission to collaborate)
• 1974 "Before Dawn - Chile", "Poem in Colors of Chile"
• 1975 “World Youth Song”, painting

literature

• Marcus Kenzler: The view into the other world. Influences of Latin America on the visual arts of the GDR (= theory of contemporary art. Vol. 18). Part 1 and 2. LIT Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11025-1 , [Part 1:] pp. 87, 324 f .; [Part 2:] pp. 565, 629, 780, 802, 811, 845 (Zugl .: Hildesheim, Univ., Diss., 2010; search in the book for "Lothar Zitzmann" in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Lothar Zitzmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lothar Zitzmann (1924–1977), educator and painter. In: ahnenreihe-zitzmann.de
• Lothar Zitzmann (1924–1977): World Youth Song, 1975. Oil on hardboard, 280 × 552 cm. In: German Historical Museum (DHM) (illustration)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Marcus Kenzler: The view into the other world. Influences of Latin America on the visual arts of the GDR (= theory of contemporary art. Vol. 18). Part 1 and 2. LIT Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11025-1 (Zugl .: Hildesheim, Univ., Diss., 2010; scan in the Google book search).
2. ↑ Marcus Kenzler: The view into the other world. Influences of Latin America on the visual arts of the GDR (= theory of contemporary art. Vol. 18). Part 2. LIT Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11025-1 , p. 629 (Zugl .: Hildesheim, Univ., Diss., 2010; scan in the Google book search).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Lothar Zitzmann (1924–1977), educator and painter. In: ahnenreihe-zitzmann.de, accessed on January 9, 2018 (biography).