Oleg Zinger

Oleg Alexandrovich Zinger ( Russian Олег Александрович Зингер (Цингер) * February 23 ^{. Jul} / 8. March  1909 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 9. January 1997 in Nîmes ) was a Russian-German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Zinger came from a family of scholars. His father, Alexander, was a physicist and son of the German-Russian mathematician Vasily J. Zinger , the mother of actress at the Stanislavsky - Art Theater .

In 1922, after the Bolsheviks came to power and the Russian civil war , they came to Germany with the first wave of emigration. In 1926/27 he became a student of Wilhelm Müller-Schönfeld in Berlin , and from 1927 he learned at the local branch of the State Museum of Applied Arts under Oskar Werner Hermann Hadank . He experienced the conquest of Berlin by the Soviet troops and did not go to France until 1948. Pictures from the children's book "Dear Micha" testify to his first impressions of Paris.

He held his first exhibition in 1946 in Wolff's library in Berlin-Friedenau (Kaiserallee 133). In 1956 it was followed by an important art exhibition in Wolf's library. Zinger's tempera painting “Berliner Tiergarten” hangs in the Prague Museum of Modern Art. His work includes a large number of vignettes, illustrations, animal drawings and posters. There are also still lifes and portraits.

In addition to his artistic work, Zinger also excelled with an autobiography which, as a source for Russian emigration in the 20th century in Germany and France, covers the period of five decades (1932–1975) and is unprecedented in this.

He was buried in Saint Siffret near Uzès in the Arrondissement of Nîmes.

Works

• Oleg Zinger: commercial graphics. November 1929, July 1930; May 1934; June 1937, March 1940.
• Oleg Zinger: Berlin Air Line. January 25, 1946.
• Fritz Mierau, Siedlinde Mierau (ed.): Oleg Zinger: Moscow - Berlin - Paris. The life of a painter (= Reclam Library Volume 1544). Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-379-01544-X (autobiography).

Book illustrations (selection)

• Georg Richter: The animals that need rest. Wolfgang Weber Verlag, Überlingen 1948.
• Is that a lion? The children's book publisher, Berlin 1950.
• His name is Jacob. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1951.
• Dear Micha. Thirteen letters from Paris with pictures by Oleg Zinger. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1951.
• Bruno Horst Bull : the riddle king. 222 puzzles in 99 stories. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1972.
• Michael J. Lermontow : The demon. An oriental poem. Feuervogel-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1992.

literature

• Zinger, Oleg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 521 .
• Zinger, Oleg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 557 .
• Kurt Flemig : Caricaturist Lexicon. KG Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-598-10932-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oleg Zinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• For the Tallinn Slavist, Irina Belobrowzewa, Zinger's autobiography has one of the longest recording periods (from 1932 to 1975) among the Russians who became active as a writer in the emiragtion (Russian)
• Oleg A. Zinger (1909–1997) (French)
• Christian Berthon dedicated to the "involuntary" choice French Oleg Zinger first Internet-portrait of life, work and private pictures of the painter from his autobiography (French)
• The "Bund der Lebaer eV", an "association of people who were born and resident in the former East Pomeranian Baltic Sea resort of Leba and its immediate surroundings, with their spouses and their descendants" names Oleg Zinger as one of the painters who have long-term ties to the famous Baltic Sea resort. ( Memento from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )