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Paul Ohnsorge (born October 26, 1915 in Sagan , Province of Silesia , † September 13, 1975 in Hambühren ) was a German artist.

Life

Paul Ohnsorge studied from 1934 to 1938 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Gerhard Ulrich and Ferdinand Spiegel . Before he was drafted into the war in Poland, Denmark and Norway, he undertook painting trips to the North Sea, Italy and France. During the Second World War he was able to use a studio of the Prussian Academy of the Arts on his home leave and took part in exhibitions. In 1943 he married Ruth Ohnsorge, whom he had met in his native Sagan. On May 8, 1945, he was captured by the Soviets in Czechoslovakia , from which he did not return to Berlin until May 1949.

In 1951 he founded the artist group Ring together with Hannah Höch , Peter Fischer and Karl Rössing .

In August 1955, Ohnsorge moved to Dernburgstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1961, Willy Brandt in the presence of Theodor Heuss at the opening of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition awarded him the “Great Prize of the Berlin Art Exhibition” for his complete works. In 1969 he retired from his offices at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. In 1968 he built himself a house in Hambühren near Celle , where he died in 1975 shortly before his 60th birthday.

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Paul Ohnsorge painted many harbor scenes, garden pictures, still lifes , landscapes and travel pictures in the style of French modernism. He used oil , watercolor and gouache as a means of expression .

Ohnsorge was also involved in the interior design of many Berlin churches, such as in Mater Dolorosa in Lankwitz , in Maria Frieden in Mariendorf , in Sankt Richard in Neukölln and in the Tempelhof village church . He also designed numerous church windows.

Many of his early works were lost during World War II because his parents were driven out of Silesia and because of the Allied bombings . Part of his estate fell victim to water damage.

Retrospectives

literature

  • Klaus Homann: The painter Paul Ohnsorge - life and work. With catalog raisonné. Albert-König-Museum, Unterlüß 2004, ISBN 3-927399-38-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ohnsorge, Paul (1915 Sagan - 1975 Celle). OT (in front of the circus tent) - 1961 , lot-tissimo, Hamburg, accessed on October 19, 2014.
  2. ^ Artist , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed on October 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ Church window in the right aisle , Mater Dolorosa Berlin-Lankwitz, accessed on October 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Unwanted, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagan , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1975
Place of death Hambühren