Paul Plontke

Paul Plontke (* 18th June 1884 in Breslau , † 29. March 1966 in Erlangen ), Silesian Madonna painter called, was a German graphic artist , church painter , painter , poster artist and art professor .

Life

After studying with Eduard Kaempffer in Breslau, from 1902 Plontke studied with Carl Bantzer , Hermann Prell and Willy Jaeckel, among others . After the death of the painter Paul Hoecker , the Hoecker house served as a studio for various painters, including Paul Plontke, from 1910.

On behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, he designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , etc. a. the series "Die Mäuschen" for the Stollwerck scrapbook no. 12 from 1911.

He visited Florence from 1911 in order to do his military service from 1914 to 1918 after his stay in Berlin in 1913. In the period 1915–1916 he was a graphic employee of the war newspaper of the IV Army, which was designed by F. Breest and Bernhard Breest , among others . As a teacher (professor) he was active since 1921 and later a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . A fateful blow was the death of his wife Anna, born in 1890, in 1930. Breuer, who was a still life painter in Berlin (six oil paintings of her are proven).

During the Nazi era , Plontke was a sought-after artist. In 1939 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich with the picture Silesian Peasant Girl. At the exhibition German Artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau and Vienna , part of a frieze entitled “German Harvest”, which was originally designed for a military school, was presented. The painting “The Family” was among the total of three pictures (therefore often incorrectly referred to as a triptych). In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important painters in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front . At the end of the Second World War, many of his works were destroyed in 1945. Due to his outstanding artistic position during the time of National Socialism, he hardly received any public contracts from the state after the war. However, his artistic talent was valued by both the Protestant and the Catholic Church, which is why he was still very busy. Living in Erlangen since 1945, he also died there in 1966.

Plontke received the Great State Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in 1914 , he was a member of the Association of Poster Friends Berlin.

In addition, Plontke was a member of the NSDAP .

student

from 1912 to 1924 (with the war interruption) Willy Schulz-Demmin was a student with him and Professor Arthur Kampf ,

From 1923 to 1925 Antonio Piedade da Cruz was a student and (from 1924) master class with him, Professor Arthur Kampf and Professor Ferdinand Spiegel

From 1923 Felix Nussbaum was a student and then a master class with Karl Hofer and him at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Art Academy,

From 1924 to 1933 Fritz Duda was a student and master class student with him and Carl Hofer at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Art.

1925 to 1929 Ilse Fischer

from 1938 Otto Knöpfer was a student with him at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin,

in 1939 was Paul Herrmann at him and Maximilian Klewer in training

Works (selection)

painting

Altarpiece in the former chapel in the Hedwigshöhe hospital in Berlin-Grünau

Altarpieces in the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Erlangen-Bruck

Altar painting in the parish church of St. Ludwig in Ansbach (1947/48)

Altar leaves “Christ as Salvator” and “St. Georg "and the Way of the Cross in the Chapel of the Rosary Queen in Kümmersreuth (1948)

Altar painting "Mary of Perpetual Help" in the Catholic branch church in Frankendorf (1948, draft in gouache on paper also available)

Way of the Cross in the Catholic branch church in Frankendorf (1955)

Altar sheet (1961) and numerous other paintings (1956–1963) in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Uetzing

Way of the Cross for the Church of St. Matthias in Cologne

Mosaics in the St. Clement Church Berlin

Mosaics in the parish church of St. Norbert in Berlin

Joseph Altar (1935) in the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in Berlin-Siemensstadt

Devotional , oil on cardboard

Village landscape , painting, oil

Florentine wagon , painting

Florentine Madonna , painting

Houses on Burgberg , painting (1960), oil on canvas

Little Madonna , painting, oil

Madonna in company , owned by the Schöneberg office

three watercolors with views of a street in Bruges and Mechelen, owned by the Schöneberg office

Girl in a red jacket , painting, oil

Fairground , owned by the Nationalgalerie Berlin

Way of the Cross (1930) in the Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Book decorations

Description du livre. Franz Schneider Verlag, ca.1930.

Posters

Fur dice war bond. Lithograph, created in 1917 in Berlin, Werkstatt W. Hagelberg AG , Berlin

literature

Plontke, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 158 .
Paul Plontke . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 601.

Web links

kirchenkoeln.de
grafschaft-glatz.de
War newspaper of the 4th Army (LLB Detmold)

Individual evidence

↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
^ Hans Schmidkunz: Mixed news - In the Berlin Academy of the Arts ... In: The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 17th year. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1921, p. 49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 460.
^ Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts (ed.): "... and the past always sits at the table" Documents on the history of the Academy of the Arts (West) 1945/1954 - 1993. [Academy of the Arts, three hundred years]. Selected and commented by Christine Fischer-Defoy. Henschel, Berlin 1997, p. 567, FN. 59.
↑ Christine Goetz , Constantin Beyer: The visible and the invisible - art and church in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89870-978-1 , pp. 126–129.
↑ Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: The visible and the invisible - art and church in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89870-978-1 , p. 124 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Plontke, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Silesian Madonna painter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist, church painter, painter, poster artist and art professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1966
Place of death	gain

[1] Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.

[2] Hans Schmidkunz: Mixed news - In the Berlin Academy of the Arts ... In: The Christian Art; Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history . 17th year. Society for Christian Art Kunstverlag, Munich 1921, p. 49 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[Klee460-3] A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 460.

[4] Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts (ed.): "... and the past always sits at the table" Documents on the history of the Academy of the Arts (West) 1945/1954 - 1993. [Academy of the Arts, three hundred years]. Selected and commented by Christine Fischer-Defoy. Henschel, Berlin 1997, p. 567, FN. 59.

[5] Christine Goetz , Constantin Beyer: The visible and the invisible - art and church in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89870-978-1 , pp. 126–129.

[6] Christine Goetz, Constantin Beyer: The visible and the invisible - art and church in the Archdiocese of Berlin. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89870-978-1 , p. 124 f.