Michael Disterheft
Michael Disterheft ( russ . Михаил Васильевич (Вильгельмович) Дистергефт, according to German Translation Mikhail Vasilyevich (Wilhelmowitsch) Disterheft * 26. April 1921 in Sawelowo , Tver province , Soviet Russia ; † 24. August 2005 in Oranienburg ) was a German-Russian painter and graphic artist.
Life
The Disterheft family originally immigrated from Germany. In 1937, in the course of the Stalinist cleansing, Michael's father Wilhelm, a factory worker, was forced to move and murdered. From 1939 to 1940, the son was still able to attend classes in the Leningrad House for art education for children, after which he was drafted into the Red Army a year later . There was initially an assignment in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod ), then to the Urals . As a result of the German-Soviet war , the Soviet citizens of German origin were increasingly targeted by the dictatorship, so that Disterheft was also deported to a forced labor camp , the so-called Bogoslow-Lag near Karpinsk .
From 1951 to 1953 he trained as an art teacher at the art-pedagogical department of the School of Applied Arts in Nizhny Tagil . In addition, Michael Disterheft taught from 1952 to 1962 in the same Russian city in the culture house of the mechanical engineering combine. Although branded as an enemy of the German people during the Stalin era , he was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War (2nd rank). From 1967 he was a member of the Soviet Artists Association (Russian Союз художников (СХ СССР)). From the 1980s onwards, Disterheft turned increasingly to the subject of the deportation of Germans from Russia . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the artist was included in the World Artist Lexicon (Germany) in 2000. He emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany four years later.
The works of Michael Disterheft are u. a. exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts of Nizhny Tagil as well as in the Sakharov Center .
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| SURNAME | Disterheft, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Disterheft, Michail Wassiljewitsch (Wilhelmowitsch); Дистергефт, Михаил Васильевич (Вильгельмович) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sawelowo , Tver Governorate , Soviet Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2005 |
| Place of death | Oranienburg |