Otto Blanck

Otto Blanck (born March 4, 1912 in Rüstringen , now Wilhelmshaven , † May 12, 1982 in Oldenburg ) was a German painter .

Life

Otto Blanck's father, Wilhelm Blanck, was a ship's carpenter from Robe / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . He had come to Wilhelmshaven to work at the imperial shipyard .

Otto Blanck completed an apprenticeship as a painter from 1926 to 1930. From 1937 he worked as a theater painter at the Wilhelmshaven Theater. He went with Heinz Janszen and other painter friends on a journey through Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rügen and to Robe , where his father was born. From October 1937 he was an excavation draftsman at the state office for marshland research in Wilhelmshaven.

On June 10, 1940, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was stationed at the Oldenburg Kreyenbrück site . Until 1941 he received about 1 year of work leave from the Wehrmacht and again worked at the Wurten Research Center.

Later he was employed in the 6th Division in Russia. He painted murals on the Black Sea and in Russia. Shortly before the collapse of the 6th Division, he was flown to the hospital in Hamburg because of typhus / typhus. He spent Christmas 1942 on convalescent leave in Wilhelmshaven. At the beginning of 1943 he reached Tunisia via Italy by ship under Allied bombardment. In May 1943 he was taken prisoner by the French. Quickly discovered and promoted as an artist by the French, supplied with paints and paper, Otto Blanck was able to leave the camp and paint without being accompanied or guarded. Many of his works were given to French officers in return. In September 1947 he came to France from Tunisia. He worked for a plantation owner in Le Pouzin in the Ardèche .

In June 1948 he was released from French captivity and returned to Wilhelmshaven. He completed his visit to the master school in Oldenburg on December 23, 1952 with the master’s examination with distinction. Since 1955 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Oldenburg and participated in many exhibitions.

In 1974 Otto Blanck retired and handed the business over to his son Klaus. This was followed by trips with his wife to Tunisia (1977), Yugoslavia (1978), Mallorca (1979), Romania (1980), Bulgaria with a Black Sea cruise that also took him to Crimea (1981) and shortly before his death to Greece (Spring 1982).

Exhibitions

• December 1948: Christmas exhibition of Wilhelmshaven artists in the Kunsthalle, African and French watercolors (with Heinz Janszen, Pagels, H. Hertrampf).
• December 1953: Christmas exhibition of the free group, in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg, by the Oldenburger Kunstverein (with E. Brose, E. Ritter and others).
• December 1954: Christmas exhibition in the Oldenburg City Museum (with Emil Brose, Hein Bredendiek, Otto Nagel).
• March 1955: Oldenburg City Museum, pictures from the south, solo exhibition.
• October 1955: Exhibition of Oldenburg artists in the Goslar Museum (with Alfred Bruns, E. Brose, H. Bredendiek, H. Bikker-Riepe and others).
• December 1955: Christmas exhibition of the free group in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg (with E. Brose, H. Bredendiek, W. Tegethof and others).
• January 1956: bbk exhibition in the Staatstheater Oldenburg (with E. Brose, A. Bruns, H. Bicker-Riepe, H. Johannsen and others).
• May 1956: Jury-free exhibition of the bbk Nordwestdeutschland in Hanover.
• December 1956: Christmas exhibition of the free group in the Oldenburg City Museum.
• October 1957: Autumn exhibition 1957, bbk, Oldenburg Castle (with A. Bruns, Heinz Janszen, H. Hertrampf and others).
• May / June 1958: Art from Groningen-Art from Oldenburg, Oldenburg City Museum, Museum Groningen (with E. Brose, A. Bruns, V. Caspar-Schröder and others).
• December 1958: Winter exhibition of the free group in the bbk in the city museum (with E. Brose, Emma Ritter, Heinz Liers and others).
• December 1962: Christmas exhibition of the free group in the bbk in the old castle (with E. Brose (dec.), A. Bruns and others).
• May 1966: Exhibition of the free group; in the bbk in the Oldenburger Kunstverein (with A. Bruns, E. Ritter, Marga von Garrel and others).
• October 1968: Art in Haarenstraße, bbk (in 21 shop windows), (with M. von Garrel, H. Bredendiek, W. Tegethof, V. Caspar-Schröder, Heinz Liers and others).
• December 1969: Christmas exhibition of the free group; in the bbk in the Kleiner Augusteum (with Willy Hinck, W. Gerstenberger (dec.), E. von Glasow (dec.) and others).
• December 1971: bbk artist / exhibition in the Vareler Heimatmuseum (50th anniversary) (with V. Caspar-Schröder, H. Giebel, Thea Koch-Giebel and others).
• December 1972: bbk exhibition in the town hall tower in Nordenham, Kunstverein Nordenham (with W. Hinck, A. Bruns, M. Von Garrel and others).
• December 1973: Christmas exhibition of the free group of the bbk in the Oldenburger Kunstverein (with E. Brose, M. von Garrel and others).
• October 1975: 1st bbk exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (with H. Bredendiek, W. Tegethof, A. Bruns (deceased 1974) and others).
• December 1975: 30th anniversary of the bbk Oldenburg, exhibition in the Stadtmuseum (with R. Pfenning, W. Hinck, H. Bredendiek, G. Linke and others).
• June 1976: Exhibition of the group Oldenburg of the bbk in the town hall of Emden, (at the same time the Landesgruppe Ostfriesland exhibits in Oldenburg) (with K. Ceh, Jan Temme, KL Böke, S. Kunstreich, H. Pahling, B. Grotzeck and others).
• July 1976: Counter hall of the NWZ Oldenburg, solo exhibition.
• October 1976: Exhibition at the Lower Saxony State Representation in Bonn (with KL Böke, H. Bredendiek, M. Von Garrel, K. Zeh, S.Kunstreich and others).
• February 1977: Art in the shop window, Haarenstrasse, bbk (with W. Hink, K. Zeh, M. von Garrel, V. Caspar-Schröder, W. Tegethof and others).
• November 1977: Galerie Klostermühle, Hude (with W. Tegethof, W. Moll and others).
• August 1978: Art exhibition for the city festival near Hertie / Oldenburg, bbk (with K. Zeh, M. von Garrel, V. Caspar-Schröder and others).
• January 1979: Secession of the 1st Great Oldenburg Art Exhibition in the Oldenburg City Museum.
• August 1980: 2nd exhibition in the Oldenburger Künstlerhaus of the bbk (with H. Vogeler and Kurt Zeh).
• March 1982: Exhibition in the Schwedenspeicher in Stade, bbk.
• May 1982: Exhibition on the 35th anniversary of bbk-Oldenburg, posthumously (with H. Bredendiek, V. Caspar-Schröder, M. von Garrel, H. Hertrampf and others).
• June 1998: 6th art mile in Leer.
• April – May 2008: North German Landscapes, solo exhibition, Künstlerhaus Jan-Oeltjen, Jaderberg.
• June 2009: Otto Blanck, a Wilhelmshaven landscape painter and excavation draftsman, solo exhibition in the coastal museum in Wilhelmshaven.
• February 2012: Otto Blanck on the 100th birthday, exhibition in the Elisabeth-Anna-Palais Oldenburg.

literature

• Renate Schildmann (Ed.): Otto Blanck - North German Landscapes: (1912–1982). Künstlerhaus Jan Oeltjen, Jaderberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88761-109-5 .
• Jürgen Derschewsky (Ed.): Otto Blanck: A Wilhelmshaven landscape painter and excavation draftsman . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-2404-8 .
• Jürgen Derschewsky: Biographies of Oldenburg artists: 20 detailed résumés of painters from Oldenburg and the Oldenburger Land. Volume 1. Isensee, Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89995-718-1 .

Web links

• www.ottoblanck.de