Otto Birg
Otto Birg (born June 19, 1926 in Đurđevac , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † May 23, 2015 ) was a German painter , draftsman and sculptor .
Life
Otto Birg came from a wealthy middle-class family. At the age of 14 (in 1940) he took drawing lessons from the Russian painter Hradsenkov. After attending grammar school in Werschetz (1944), he began studying drawing in Vienna , but had to interrupt it due to the war situation. After the war he resumed his artistic studies in 1947 at the after Ellingen outsourced Art Academy Nuremberg again. From 1948 to 1954 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Karl Hubbuch and Erich Heckel . The teachers made it possible for him to have his first exhibition in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 1952 . After graduating in 1955, he received a grant to study for three months in Paris. Since then, numerous solo exhibitions have followed at home and abroad.
He was one of the first winners of the “Friends of Art” art award in Munich.
Quote: "It is my wish to consolidate the term 'form', to enrich it with color and thus to deepen the emotional content of art."
Birg lived in Gernsbach .
Solo exhibitions
- 1952: First exhibition in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden together with Otto Dix, among others .
- 1957: Folk Museum Koprivnica / former Yugoslavia / Croatia
- 1962: Galerie Deutscher Bücherbund, Karlsruhe
- 1962: Galerie Salzhaus, Offenburg
- 1963: Gallery Technical University, Karlsruhe
- 1969: Rastatt Pagodenburg
- 1971: Small Art Cabinet, Bernhausen
- 1972: State Gallery of Timişoara / Romania
- 1972: Volksmuseum Werschetz / former Yugoslavia / Serbia
- 1972: Alter Amtshof, Gernsbach
- 1973: House of German Homeland Foundation, Berlin
- 1974: Siemens, Erlangen
- 1977: Coburg Art Association
- 1979: Deutschlandhaus Berlin
- 1980: Gaggenau Town Hall
- 1981: Gernsbach town hall
- 1982: Brenners Parkhotel , Baden-Baden
- 1983: House of the Danube Swabians, Sindelfingen
- 1983: Brenners Parkhotel, Baden-Baden
- 1985: Landratsamt Rastatt
- 1986: Vantaa, Finland
- 1987: Landeskreditbank Karlsruhe
- 1988: Volksbank Rastatt
- 1989: Alpirsbacher Galerie, Alpirsbach
- 1990: Zurich
- 1992: Freiburg
- 1992: Gernsbach town hall
- 1996: Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
- 1996: Gernsbach town hall
- 1998: Landratsamt Rastatt
- 1998: Dengel art department store, Baden-Baden
- 2004: Gernsbach town hall
- 2006: Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe (80th birthday)
- 2007: Croatian Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in Stuttgart
- 2008: Exhibition on AI in Ulm
- 2011: 200th anniversary exhibition in Gernsbach town hall
Abroad: Alexandria, Aleppo, Santiago de Chile, Baghdad, Amman, Cairo, Dubrovnik, Osijek, etc. a.
Works
(no claim to completeness)
- In previous Bonner ministries in the regional councils Freiburg and Karlsruhe were hanging and hanging 40 oil paintings by Otto Birg.
- Gernsbach : Concrete stele in the courtyard of the secondary school, sgraffito "Tree of Life" at the Von-Drais-Straße secondary school, fountain at the Ebersteinhalle in the Obertsrot district, several coats of arms on the outside of the Gernsbach town hall. Aluminum children's gate at the Augusta Sybilla School in Rastatt
literature
- Johann Adam Stupp: My roots are in the Balkans: the painter, draftsman and graphic artist Otto Birg 70 years old , in: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, Munich, Jg. 45, 1996, no. 4, pp. 302–304.
- Painter and graphic artist Otto Birg , in: Landkreis Rastatt (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Landkreis Rastatt , Rastatt: Landkreis Rastatt, 1983
- Otto Birg in art catalog, Otto Birg, Magstadt, 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in: Badisches Tagblatt , Der Murgtäler No. 121 of May 29, 2015.
- ^ Otto Birg - painting BBK Karlsruhe in the art portal Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ Südkurier No. 71, May 6, 1952
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birg, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Georgshausen , Banat (today in Vojvodina, Serbia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 2015 |