Otto Manigk

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Otto Manigk (born February 9, 1902 in Breslau , † August 19, 1972 in Ückeritz ) was a German painter .

Life

Otto Manigk was the son of the legal scholar Alfred Manigk and his wife Elfriede, nee Seidelmann. He attended grammar school in Breslau from 1912 to 1921 and then trained as a carpenter in Königsberg. In 1923 he attended the arts and crafts school in Breslau. He first began to study interior design, but then switched to sculpture. At the arts and crafts school he met Herbert Wegehaupt , with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

In 1924 he went to the United State School Berlin-Charlottenburg . There he switched from Wilhelm Gerstel's sculpting class to Ferdinand Spiegel's painting and drawing class . In 1926 he made a trip to Italy, with a study visit to Ischia . The following year he graduated from the art school.

Since 1926 he attended Johannes Walter-Kurau's painting school in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1929 he went to Paris , where he studied at the Académie Ranson with Roger Bissière .

From 1930 he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. In Ückeritz on Usedom , which became his summer residence, he led summer painting courses with the former students of Walter-Kurau.

From 1941 he was no longer able to work as an artist because he was called up for military service and later imprisonment. In addition, his studio was destroyed during a bomb attack on Berlin and the entire work that had been created up to now was destroyed.

After his return from captivity, he settled in Ückeritz as a freelancer in 1947. The following year he was able to exhibit his works in the State Museum in Schwerin . In the 1950s he carried out several building-related commissioned works, such as murals and glass windows. Among other things, he was involved in the design of the cultural center in Murchin , the nursing home in Wolgast and the secondary schools in Penkun and Zinnowitz . In 1971 he became artistic director of the circle for artistic folk creation in Pasewalk .

After his death in 1972 he was buried in the Ückeritz cemetery. His son Oskar Manigk and his granddaughter Henriette Manigk are also painters.

literature

  • Manigk, Otto . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , pp. 275-276.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6252 f .

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personal data
SURNAME Manigk, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1972
Place of death Ückeritz