Otto Paetz
Otto Paetz (born January 22, 1914 in Reichenbach im Vogtland ; † February 12, 2006 in Zella-Mehlis ) was a German painter .
Life
Otto Paetz first learned the profession of decorative painter and attended the master school for handicrafts and applied arts in Weimar from 1935 to 1939. During the war years from 1941 to 1945 he studied at the Weimar Academy of Art with Walther Klemm . At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Paetz settled in Weimar , and later in Zella-Mehlis in southern Thuringia.
Paetz was a representative of the so-called “Weimar School of Painting” and can be classified as timeless realism. Like Otto Knöpfer , he became particularly well known for his black and white landscapes.
In 1971 Paetz was awarded the GDR Art Prize. For his artistic graphic series on LPG Merxleben, the first agricultural production cooperative in the GDR, he received the art prize of the FDGB trade union . In 1974 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. The city of Weimar honored Paetz in 2004 with the Weimar Prize for his life's work. In 2004 Otto Paetz became an honorary citizen of Reichenbach in Vogtland.
literature
- Rolf Luhn: "Otto Paetz. Thuringia - Country and People". Rhino Verlag 2004, ISBN 3932081749
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artists honored , In: Neue Zeit , May 11, 1971, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 28, 1974, p. 5
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Paetz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Paetz's website ( Memento from May 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography of Otto Paetz
- WEIMAR PRIZE 2004 - Laudation for Otto Paetz (pdf)
- Honorary Citizen Otto Paetz (pdf; 302 kB)
- Profile of Otto Paetz on www.reichenbach-vogtland.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paetz, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenbach in Vogtland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2006 |
| Place of death | Zella Mehlis |