Otto Pech
Otto Pech (artist name Pix ) (born September 4, 1882 in Altenburg ; † August 3, 1950 ibid) was a German sculptor , graphic artist and illustrator .
Life
After leaving school, Pech worked as a writer and travel guide for the botanist Wilhelm Benecke . He later received a scholarship for admission to the Royal Munich School of Applied Arts , where he trained in drawing and sculpture from 1898 to 1903 . In 1903 he made a relief sculpture of Duke Ernst I of Saxony-Altenburg for his 50th anniversary in government. In the same year he took part in the competition for the Altenburger Skatbrunnen , from which he emerged as one of the three winners, and completed his training as a master student .
In the following years of apprenticeship and traveling he can be traced back to Lichte , Oeslau and Karlsruhe . In 1904 he married his wife from Altenburg. His two children Otto August and Eva were born in 1905 and 1909. After study trips from 1905 to 1906 he returned to Altenburg and worked in Otto Seyffart's arts and crafts metal workshops. In 1908 he started his own business as a sculptor and graphic artist.
He was a member of the Altenburger Kunstgewerbeverein and became a curator at the Lindenau Museum in 1909 . From 1913 he was also active as an artistic advisor at the Landestheater Altenburg . Together with the architect Alfred Hermann Wanckel, he worked as a sculptor on the Altenburg Bismarck Tower in 1914/15. From 1915 to 1918 he was called up for military service and was deployed in Russia , among other places . He is then on record in 1919 as the founder of the Altenburger Kunsthütte (A-Ku-Hü) . In 1920 he became a member of the Archimedes Masonic Lodge for the three drawing boards .
From 1919 until his death he worked for the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik and already in the first year designed his Germany-wide known animal card series Schwarzer Peter with 32 cards plus the Peter card (probably based on the number of playing cards on a Skat sheet), which is still produced today by the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik becomes.
From 1921 he designed various emergency money series for the city of Altenburg. This year he also created emergency money drafts for the city of Schmölln . Pech graphically designed the German Skat Congresses in Altenburg and contributed to the Skatheimat at Altenburg Castle (nucleus of the Skat Museum); he made Altenburg known as a skat town and was famous worldwide as a skat painter.
On the occasion of the 11th Skat Congress in Altenburg, the two-act play Skat , written by Otto Pech, was premiered in the Landestheater Altenburg :
“Anyone who was of the opinion that the title 'Skat' was only loosely related to the German national game was wrong, this game was all about the meaning of the game of Skat. But that was, even if very little stage-ready, at the same time quite funny and also not boringly forged in verse. The author, Otto Pech, whose graphic works (he designs the Altenburg playing cards) should probably not be unknown to any German, had the pretty, although not exactly new, idea of evaluating the many attractive possibilities of the game of Skat, and in a figurative sense to apply life. For us humans, too, it depends on what is 'in Skat', that is, whether our companies are crowned with luck or bad luck. "
In 1932 he created the new coat of arms for the city of Schönebeck (Elbe) . In 1935 he designed posters for the 750th anniversary of Altenburg (Barbarossafestspiele). Six years later, his wife, for whom he made the grave, died. With the illustrations for the Eier-Peter card game, one of his last works was created from 1948 onwards, but due to his death shortly thereafter, it was no longer printed. It was not until 2000 that the card game was printed posthumously in Altenburg. In addition to a permanent exhibition about his life and work in the home of skat in the Altenburg Castle , two special exhibitions in the Altenburg Castle and Playing Cards Museum honored Pech's life's work in 2010, 2011 and 2018 .
Work (selection)
- Snowy Owl (sculpture, Heubach Manufactory), 1904
- Draft facade for the branch of the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt in Schmölln (Mittelstrasse 14), 1911
- Card game German Reconstruction , 1919 (not printed)
- Black Peter card game , 1919
- Alter Fritz , 1920 (lithograph)
- Saxon mining skat card (around 1920)
- Bowling card game (around 1920)
- Advertising poster Altenburger playing cards (around 1920)
- Emergency money Altenburg Saxon prince robbery , 1921
- Emergency money Altenburg Altenburg farmers , 1921
- Notgeld (Skatgeld) Altenburg Altenburg buildings , 1921
- The first Walpurgis Night. (Illustration for the Goethe Ballad), 1924
- Play about the origin of the Skat game (performed in 1927 and 1929 on the occasion of the Skat congresses in Altenburg)
- Sports game of Skat on the occasion of the Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam , 1928
- Heinze, Cläre and Maler Pix Noten - picture book for our little ones. Learn to read music with ease. Altenburg, Spielkartenfabrik AG, 1929
- Viking ship, 1930 (lithograph)
- Traditional coat of arms for the Altenburg papermaking school, 1934
- Poster Barbarossa Games , 1935
- Draft Barbarossa sculpture in Altenburg, 1935
- Arthur Hauenstein; Otto Pech (Illustrator): Easter egg for our little ones , Richard Hauenstein Altenburg, 1946
- Eier-Peter card game, 1948
literature
- Renate Reinhold & Alexander Vogel: Otto Pech, Life and Work Altenburger-Traditions-Verlag, Altenburg 2014.
Web links
- Article in the Ostthüringer Zeitung with illustration of Pechs
- Article about bad luck on the website of the Leipziger Volkszeitung
- Article about the Barbarossa statue by Pech on the website of the Leipziger Volkszeitung
- Article about bad luck on www.viaregia.org
- Article about the Altenburger Kunsthütte with mention of Pech
- Images of the Altenburg emergency money from Pech
- Article about the exhibition opening about bad luck in February 2010 in the Altenburg Castle Museum
- Article on the special exhibition "Altenburger Kunsthütte" 2018 in the Castle and Playing Cards Museum Altenburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Van den Broecke: A curious play. In: Wiener Zeitung , July 3, 1927, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Bad luck on the website of the Altenburg Castle
- ^ Reference to the 2010 exhibition
- ↑ Reference to the cabinet exhibition 2011
- ^ Exhibition archive 2018 - Altenburg Castle. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
- ↑ Reference to www.mehlis.eu
- ↑ Joachim Emig: The Altenburger Prinzenraub 1455: Structures and mentalities of a late medieval conflict Sax, Markkleeberg 2008, p. 365.
- ↑ Reference to www.lot-tissimo.com
- ↑ Reference to the play
- ↑ Reference to geo.viaregia.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bad luck, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pix (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1950 |
| Place of death | Altenburg |