Peter Kien

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Czech plaque to Peter Kien in his place of birth Varnsdorf

Franz Peter Kien or František Petr Kien (born January 1, 1919 in Varnsdorf , Czechoslovakia , † late 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German-speaking Czech-Jewish artist and poet.

Life

Kien, son of a textile manufacturer, attended the secondary school in Brno and became friends with Joseph Hahn . He began studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague. There he met Peter Weiss , who mentions him in his autobiographical stories Farewell to Parents (1961) and Vanishing Point (1962). Kien wrote poems, stories and scripts. He also made pencil drawings and created oil paintings on which he portrayed people. After the occupation of the Czech Republic by the Wehrmacht and the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Kien and the other Jewish fellow students of the academy were expelled from the academy on the orders of the Nazi occupiers. Weiss emigrated to Sweden, Hahn to England. Kien studied at a private graphic school and gave drawing lessons to Jewish children in the vineyard synagogue. There he met his wife Ilse Stránský, who was his model for his drawings.

From December 1941 to October 1944 he was a prisoner in the Theresienstadt ghetto . There he wrote the libretto for Viktor Ullmann's one-act opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis and was artistically active in many other ways. On October 16, 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz with his wife and parents . Kien died of an infection soon after arriving.

A long-lasting controversy over his estate broke out between the Theresienstadt Memorial and the bereaved.

literature

  • Margarethe Heukäufer: And there are so few people: the short life of the artist Peter Kien , Prague: Osvaldová, 2009, ISBN 978-80-87242-10-0
  • Jürgen Serke : Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , pp. 447-450

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Petr Kien at www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  2. ↑ František Petr Kien ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgv.cz
  3. ↑ Helga King: Palm Springs Art - PalmSprings.com
  4. ↑ Petr Kien: "I think, love and hate in colors, in forms!"  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Theresienstadt Memorial)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pamatnik-terezin.cz  
  5. ↑ Publications of the Collegium Carolinum, Volume 104: “Jews between Czechs and Germans” , pages 283/284
personal data
SURNAME Kien, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kien, Petr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Varnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH between October 16, 1944 and December 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp