Reinhold Weber (painter)

Reinhold Weber (born August 30, 1920 in Stuttgart ; † May 15, 2012 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

Reinhold Weber completed his first training in drawing and painting from 1935 to 1942 with the sculptor B. von Sanden and the Stuttgart painter Alfred Lehmann. Reinhold Weber did military service from 1939 to 1942 and was captured by the Americans in Africa.

He spent the years 1942 to 1946 in prisoner-of-war camps in Tunisia and the USA . He also drew and painted in the prison camp, as evidenced by sketchbooks from 1942 to 1944. The partially colored sketches show the everyday life of prisoners and soldiers, impressions of the cities of Tunis and Bizerte (Tunisia) as well as from the Tonkawa prison camp , USA. During this time Reinhold Weber painted portraits of family members of the American officers.

After the war Reinhold Weber studied composition, color theory and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1946 to 1949 . There he learned from one of the most important German artists of the post-war period, Willi Baumeister .

After graduating, Reinhold Weber worked as a type and exhibition graphic designer and freelance painter. From 1960 to 1977 he worked as a freelance entrepreneur in font and trade fair graphics. In 1978 he began teaching at the VHS Esslingen and Ostfildern .

Since 1982 he lived with his wife in Hayingen on the Swabian Alb . He welcomed art and nature lovers to the exhibition of his works in his small alb gallery studio .

style

Reinhold Weber's oil paintings and watercolors mainly show landscapes from the Swabian Alb and the Mediterranean region. His pictures are impressionistic , but there are also numerous abstract works, including cubism .

Exhibitions

For many years Reinhold Weber exhibited his works of art in the mainly Swabian region. Including in Münsingen, Riedlingen, Esslingen, Nellingen, Weilimdorf, Zwiefalten, Ochsenhausen, Stuttgart-Sillenbuch but also POW Camp Newport News (USA). The permanent exhibition was in his studio, kleine alb-Galerie in Hayingen.

literature

• Thomas Leon Heck, Joachim Liebchen: Reutlinger Künstler-Lexikon: Visual artists with reference to the city and district of Reutlingen from the Middle Ages to the present. Nous-Verlag, Reutlingen 1999, ISBN 3-924249-26-1 , p. 271.