Richard Blankenburg

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Richard Blankenburg (born January 18, 1891 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † July 5, 1955 in Rostock ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

After attending middle school, he learned the profession of porcelain painter and worked for several years in the Paetsch porcelain painting company in Frankfurt (Oder). From 1914 he took private lessons in life drawing in Berlin , then from 1915 he was a soldier in the First World War , and also painted during his military service. Blankenburg married in Rostock in 1915, settled here in 1920 and worked for the Reichsbahn because he couldn't find a job as a porcelain painter. In 1942 his apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack. Having become homeless, he and his family found shelter near Teterow . From this time he worked as a freelancer. Since the 1930s he was at art exhibitions in Rostock andSchwerin represented. Blankenburg tried all painting techniques. But his pencil and charcoal drawings, his pastel and tempera pictures remained just sketches, as did most of the watercolors. He created them while traveling, in order to later have a memory aid in his studio. Although his work was not one-sided, he was able to sell, especially his Rostock city views.

Works (selection)

"Petrikirche with Petritor"; "The New Market in Rostock"; "View of the Nikolaikirche"; "The old town of Rostock with east port" (1954); “Rostock, Lange Straße under construction” (1954); “Rostock, seen from Gehlsdorf”; Exhibitions: 1957 memorial exhibition in the Rostock Museum.

literature

  • Blankenburg, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 312 .
  • Blankenburg, Richard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 , p. 426.
  • Ingrid Ehlers, Ortwin Pelc , Karsten Schröder: Rostock - Pictures of a City: City Views from Five Centuries. Reich, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-86167-065-8 .
  • Frank Mohr, Gregor Stentzel: Rostock cityscapes: cityscapes and city maps from five centuries. Stadtdruckerei Weidner, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-00-016267-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Joachim Bernitt : Richard Blankenburg memorial exhibition from January 5 to February 13, 1957. Publications of the Museum of the City of Rostock, 1956, series 2; 3
  2. ↑ a b Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1048 .
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1955
Place of death Rostock