Paul Scheurich

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Poster for the silent film The Love of the Bajadere (1918)

Paul Scheurich (born October 24, 1883 in New York City , New York , † September 19, 1945 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German painter, graphic artist , commercial artist and small sculptor.

biography

From 1900 to 1902 Scheurich studied at the Berlin Art Academy . In 1907 he illustrated an anti-Semitic pamphlet about the “Judaization” of the Berlin theater world with just such caricatures, which appeared under the title Moses Theater in Berlin. Max Adolf Pfeiffer won him around 1912 for a collaboration at the Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst . Around 1913 he made sets for Max Reinhardt . From 1918 to 1936 an exclusive contract and a professorship at the Meißner Porzellanmanufaktur followed , for which he made figurative models in a rococo style.

In 1919 he published a drawing for the first time in Simplicissimus , for which he supplied over a hundred pictures between 1931 and 1938, mostly with scenes of glamorous couples and societies.

From 1929 banknotes were printed according to his designs on behalf of the Deutsche Reichsbank . He was also a valued artist in the Third Reich . In 1935 he created the stage curtain in the German Opera House in Berlin and the large tapestry in the building of the Reich Propaganda Ministry . In 1937 he took part in the World Exhibition in Paris . The mural designed by Scheurich with the portraits of numerous domestic and foreign artists in action as well as the conductor Paul Lincke for the "Café Wintergarten" was published in 1938 in the commemorative publication on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the former winter garden (vaudeville) stage in what was then Central Hotel at Berlin Friedrichstrasse station published in color print.

In 1939 he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Munich House of German Art with the sculpture shepherd and nymph . He also created the murals in the foyer of the Augsburg City Theater.

Paul Scheurich is considered to be one of the most important porcelain sculptors in the first half of the 20th century. He did not survive the post-war period in the Soviet occupation zone .

  • 10 RM, January 22, 1929

  • 20 RM, January 22, 1929

  • 50 RM, March 30, 1933

  • 100 RM, June 24, 1935

  • 1000 RM, February 22, 1936

Web links

Commons : Paul Scheurich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 521.
  2. ↑ 50 years of the winter garden. Festschrift November magazine 1938. Responsible for content and design: Erich Leif, Berlin. Publisher: Wintergarten GmbH. Printing: Märkische Druckanstalt W. Hentschel KG, Berlin: DNB 578385872

City archive Brandenburg an der Havel, death register

personal data
SURNAME Scheurich, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, commercial artist and small sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1945
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel