Lutz Dittberner

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Lutz Dittberner (born August 14, 1899 in Dortmund ; † January 22, 1981 there ) was a German painter .

life and work

Dittberner was born the son of an industrial worker at Phoenix AG . After finishing school, he took up a job in an industrial company, then at the age of 17 volunteered for the First World War .

Before the end of the war he returned to Dortmund with a nervous condition, initially found no work and, under pressure from his father, took up a job as a mine worker. In the 1920s he took correspondence courses at the painting and drawing school in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1927 a first exhibition followed in Dortmund-Hörde, in 1926 he gave up his position and devoted himself entirely to art. In 1932 he became chairman of the newly founded artist group Junge Front . At this point in time, he had already had his own exhibitions and trained on study trips abroad.

After the National Socialists came to power , he opposed the synchronization of the Junge Front and the renaming of the Hellweg group. However, his painting style was not open to attack, so that he had exhibitions in Dortmund in 1935 and in Hörde in 1943.

Shortly before the start of World War II , he was drafted again into the military. After a serious illness there he was transferred to Warsaw as a non-commissioned officer. There and in France he experienced the war as a "painting soldier". He returned unharmed from war and captivity . The events of the war made him an enemy of the war and motivated his later membership in the peace movement and the Humanist Union .

In 1950 he opened the "Tube" in his house, the first artists' pub in the area. In 1956 he was involved as a co-founder of the Dortmund Artists' Association (DKB), from which he left in 1958 due to fundamental professional differences of opinion.

From 1976 Lutz Dittberner lived in a nursing home in the Sölde district of Dortmund and died at the age of 81 in the Hörder Joseph Hospital.

Exhibitions

  • 1999 Lutz Dittberner, on the artist's hundredth birthday , Museum am Ostwall
  • 2010 Lutz Dittberner (1899-1981) - a painter from Dortmund . Augustinum, Dortmund

literature

  • Josef Reding: Dortmund in transition. Lutz Dittberner. Views of a Dortmund painter, Bautz, Herzberg, 1985, ISBN 3-88309-023-9
  • Ingo Bartsch: Lutz Dittberner, on the 100th birthday of the artist , Museum am Ostwall, 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Dittberner, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1981
Place of death Dortmund