Oskar Kehr-Steiner

Oskar Kehr-Steiner (born January 31, 1904 in Altona , † 1990 in Eutin ) was a German painter and graphic artist who mainly devoted himself to motifs from northern Germany .

Life

Oskar Kehr-Steiner studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts. In 1929 he co-founded the Association of Friends of Graphic Art in Blankenese with Klaus Wrage, Otto Thämer , Curt Singer and Hans Bunge-Ottensen. From 1937 to 1948 he worked for the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung in Hamburg.

After the Second World War he worked on the Curonian Spit for a long time . Then, from 1955, he worked in the orangery of the Eutin Castle , where he also lived. He was the founder of the castle art school, one of his students there was Paul Wunderlich . As a wood cutter, he mainly made motifs with the themes of small towns, villages, animals and boats, as well as lithographs . As a painter he created paintings of Hamburg and the surrounding area ( Finkenwerder , 1930), Sylt motifs ( fishing nets , 1955), still lifes and nudes ( bathers , 1938). Later he turned to abstract painting. Kehr-Steiner had exhibitions in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

Works in public collections

• Hamburg cultural authority
• State Museum for Art and Cultural History
• Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation
• Gottorf Castle

literature

• Catalog of the 3rd German Art Exhibition, Dresden 1953.
• Kehr-Steiner, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 32 .
• Maike Bruhns: Art in Crisis. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-933374-93-6 , Volume 1, pp. 44, 56 and 135.
• Volker Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg 1886–1974. 3 volumes, Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 .