Paul Sinkwitz

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Paul Sinkwitz (born March 29, 1899 in Ebersbach , Saxony , † July 15, 1981 in Bad Tölz ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

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The son of an Ebersbach textile merchant learned early about the hard life of weavers in Upper Lusatia . This is also where the deep piety is rooted, which was later reflected in many of his works. Sinkwitz received his first training as a draftsman and lithographer at the graphic arts institute in his hometown . He was wounded in the First World War .

Sinkwitz was a member of the Wandervogel and the Finkensteiner Bund . From 1920 he studied at the State Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig with Franz Hein , Alois Kolb and Hans Alexander Müller and at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts with Arno Drescher and Georg Erler . In 1922 he accepted an invitation from Karl Schmidt to the garden city of Hellerau , where he lived for more than three decades. In Dresden , Sinkwitz was a member of the local group of the Association of German Commercial Graphics under the direction of Bruno Gimpel . From 1924 to 1929 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Ferdinand Dorsch (1875–1938) and Max Feldbauer . As a master student of Robert Sterl , he turned increasingly to painting . In 1930 he was awarded the Dresden City Art Prize.

In 1931 Sinkwitz received a teaching position at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden . From 1937 to 1945 he was head of the graphic technology department . In 1940 he was appointed to the Dresden State Art Academy as a lecturer in font design . At the time of National Socialism, he was considered "politically inaudible" because he stood up for those who were racially and politically persecuted and in 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. After the Second World War he worked as a freelancer and in 1947 became a member of the artist group Das Ufer . In 1955 he moved to Stuttgart , where he worked as a teacher at the technical and master school. He spent his twilight years in Arzbach near Bad Tölz .

Paul Sinkwitz is considered one of the most versatile artists of his time and an outstanding representative of the art of work . He created numerous woodcuts on the customs and legends of Upper Lusatia, book illustrations , cycles on biblical material, the apse image of the deaconess house church in Dresden as well as well-known posters . He was appointed professor retrospectively from 1942 on account of discrimination under National Socialism . In 1980 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his life's work .

literature

  • Peter Sinkwitz: Werkkunst im XX. Century - Paul Sinkwitz, type artist, painter and graphic artist , Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2002
  • Paul Sinkwitz, pictures, drawings, prints; for his 80th birthday , Verlag Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, exhibition catalog May 23 to July 1, 1979

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Ed.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions. Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , p. 380 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .

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SURNAME Sinkwitz, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebersbach , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1981
Place of death Bad Tölz