Manfred Kandt

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Manfred Kandt (born May 16, 1922 in Danzig ; † July 19, 1992 in Rostock ) was a German painter , sculptor and architect .

Life

Manfred Kandt did military service from 1940. He was discharged from the military in 1941 because of a serious wound. In 1941/42 he studied architecture and architectural painting with Fritz Pfuhle at the Technical University of Danzig . He then went to the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he studied painting with Fritz Burmann , Peter Fischer and Kurt Wehlte until 1945 .

In 1945 he went to Eisenach , where he initially worked as a freelancer. From 1945 to 1952 he was a master student with Max Kaus in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . From 1946 he taught painting and graphics at the Volkshochschule Eisenach. After getting to know Otto Manigk , he visited him in Ückeritz on Usedom , where he built a house in 1952 and 1953. In 1954 he married the painter Susanne Kandt-Horn and moved with her to Ückeritz. There they belonged to an artist group around Manigk, Herbert Wegehaupt and Otto Niemeyer-Holstein .

Since 1950 he was a member of the Rostock district board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). From 1968 he was a member of the central working group BDA / VBK for architecture and fine arts in the GDR.

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Metal jewelry on the Sonne House, Rostock

At the beginning of his artistic career, Manfred Kandt mainly dealt with illustrations, landscape painting and portraits. Later he mainly dealt with building-related art and specialized in murals. His abstract style was based, among other things, on Karl Hofer , to whose unofficial group of students he belonged. Between 1967 and 1973 he also dealt with steel sculpture .

His work includes:

  • Wall paintings in the Murchin District Culture House , 1952–1954
  • Mecklenburg landscape with inland fishermen and farm workers in the water cycle. Mural in the VEB Wasserwirtschaft Peene, Neubrandenburg, 1958
  • Berlin 1912 Mural in the Hotel Unter den Linden Berlin (1966–1967), since 2006 in the German Historical Museum
  • Metal jewelry on the gable of the Hotel Haus Sonne in Rostock (1967–1968), executed by Günther Laufer
  • The mural "The Baltic Sea - a Sea of ​​Peace" in the social building of the VEB Nachrichtenelektronik Greifswald disappeared after 1990 without a trace.
  • Mural in the entrance area of ​​the former hospital of the Deaconess Mother House in Eisenach

Book illustrations (selection)

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Gera, Art Collection Gera, Otto-Dix-Haus (including: Flute Player I; graphite drawing, 1947)

literature

  • Susanna Partsch: Kandt, Manfred In: General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  • Manfred Kandt. Painting, drawings, building-related art. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Rostock. Rostock 1982.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Kandt. In: Image index of art and architecture. Retrieved February 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Peter Michel: Arrival in Freedom. Essays against the loss of value over time , Berlin 2011, p. 180.
  3. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Susanne Kandt-Horn 100th birthday . In: Hallo Eisenach, September 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Kandt, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1992
Place of death Rostock