Oskar Kreibich

Self-Portrait (1951)

Oskar Kreibich (born July 17, 1916 in Seifersdorf , Northern Bohemia , † February 20, 1984 in Backnang ) was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He also emerged as a writer relatively late.

Life

Oskar Kreibich attended the State Trade School for Mechanical Engineering in Reichenberg and the State Technical School for the Glass Industry in Haida . He began his artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , where he was one of Heinrich Hönich's students for five years . He then spent a year in master class with Hans Meid at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin. He worked at the Villa Massimo in Rome from 1941 to 1942 . He was a Villa Romana laureate in 1942 , but was unable to travel to Florence. After a few years as a teacher, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.

As a displaced person, Kreibich settled in Backnang in 1946. There he worked as a freelance artist. With strong ties to his homeland, he dedicated numerous graphics, paintings and sculptures to this city. He also portrayed Profiles der Zeit (1972) and Portraits from Our Time for the books . Here he did not impose any style on the different personalities, but was inspired by them for a wide variety of techniques. The most famous portraits include u. a. Ernst Jünger , Theodor Heuss , Hermann Hesse , Günter Grass , Max Brod and Max Born . Since the 1980s he also wrote short stories.

Awards

Georg Layer Prize , Prague 1936
Sudeten German Culture Prize , Vienna 1959
Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Berlin 1941
Villa Romana Prize , Florence (1942)
Adalbert Stifter Medal (1976)
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1979)
Appointment to the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , Munich 1979
Oskar-Kreibich-Weg in Backnang

plant

Memorial to the displaced

Sculptures exhibited in Backnang: Gerber symbol; Money organ; Fountain at the fruit market (donated by C. Kaess sen.); Memorial to the displaced

drawings: Chalk drawing Winter in Prague (1936), in the collection of the Dresden City Gallery

Fonts: Backnang - mostly cheerful , text with 70 drawings. Ms. Stroh Verlag, Backnang 1974.; Resurrection in Bohemian , stories with 25 drawings. Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980.; The original secret of Remus Koller , text with 9 illustrations. Ms. Stroh Verlag, 1981.; Write, painter - don't talk! Walter Rau Verlag, 1982.; Pentecost in Žibřidice . Netherlands-Verlag Helmut Michel, Backnang 1983.; Backnang - a winter fairy tale? . Ms. Stroh Verlag, 1983.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Kreibich - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Oskar Kreibich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Prize winners 1942: Oskar Kreibich (* 1916-1984), painter, Prague; Hubertus Nikolaus Lang, sculptor, Munich; Paul Egon Schiffers (* 1903-1987), sculptor, Frankfurt (The award winners Kreibich and Schiffers could not travel to Florence.) , On villaromana.org, accessed on May 21, 2017
^ Oskar Kreibich: Portraits from our time . Verlag F. Bruckmann KG , Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7654-2002-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kreibich, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seifersdorf , Northern Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	20th February 1984
Place of death	Backnang

[1] Prize winners 1942: Oskar Kreibich (* 1916-1984), painter, Prague; Hubertus Nikolaus Lang, sculptor, Munich; Paul Egon Schiffers (* 1903-1987), sculptor, Frankfurt (The award winners Kreibich and Schiffers could not travel to Florence.) , On villaromana.org, accessed on May 21, 2017

[2] Oskar Kreibich: Portraits from our time . Verlag F. Bruckmann KG , Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7654-2002-6 .