Martin Sternagel

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Figure from fresco at the Kreissparkasse in Bad Charlottenbrunn (Photo: 1958)
Figure from fresco at the Kreissparkasse in Bad Charlottenbrunn (Photo: 1958)

Martin Sternagel (* 1893 in Langwaltersdorf near Friedland , Lower Silesia ; † 1943 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Sternagel, who lived in Waldenburg (Lower Silesia), worked mainly as a watercolorist , but also designed bookplates . He studied at the State Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Wroclaw , then at the Munich Art Academy . He was a member of the " Waldenburg Artists Guild ".

In Bad Charlottenbrunn in the Waldenburger Bergland he painted the fresco on the front of the then Kreissparkassen branch. Today this building is used as a pharmacy, where the five figures are still faintly recognizable.

literature

  • Ernst Schenke: The Silesian year. Poems in Silesian dialect with the texts of his famous six cantatas from the 1930s and the original drawings by Martin Sternagel , Schlesierverlag L. Heege, Reutlingen 1983
personal data
SURNAME Sternagel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Langwaltersdorf near Friedland , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1943