Richard showerk

Richard Duschk (born May 29, 1884 in Neugarten , † May 16, 1959 in Besigheim ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Showerk was born as the son of Wenzel showerk and Marie showerk, b. Born miner. He spent his childhood and youth in Haida / Nový Bor , where he lived with a great uncle, attended secondary school and completed an apprenticeship as a glass painter . After his great-uncle's death, he moved to Berlin in 1900 to live with his mother. In 1907 he began studying at the Royal Academic College for the Fine Arts in Charlottenburg. He continued his studies in different classes with interruptions until 1914. In 1909 she married Ella Neumann and in 1910 her son Werther was born. His first marriage was divorced in 1921, and in the same year he married Olga Kullen - a trained teacher who worked as a journalist and later as a chronicler of the small town of Besigheim - whom he met in 1915 on a painting trip with Kallmorgen in Besigheim. In 1924 the daughter Susanne was born. The family lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

His teachers were professors Ernst Hancke (1834–1914), Maximilian Schäfer , Paul Prozess , Friedrich Kallmorgen . Duschk had a studio at the Academy of Arts . There he was a master student in the master class for landscape painting by Professor Ulrich Hübner in 1924 . In the same year showerk became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and remained so until his death. In the following years he was able to exhibit regularly at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. He also traveled and worked as a press illustrator. During the time of National Socialism he painted murals in barracks and exhibited the asphalt worker at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1939 . He was also a participant in the exhibition in 1940 and 1943.

In 1943 he was in Krakow with the Veit-shock prize for watercolor Cloth Hall in Krakow excellent.

After the apartment and studio in Berlin were destroyed in the bombing and most of his artistic work was lost, the family moved to Besigheim in 1943 to live with the mother-in-law vonuschek. In the post-war period, Duschk was an active member of the small town's cultural circle, which bought a number of his works.

The small town of Besigheim posthumously dedicated a street to showerk , Richard -uschek-Straße , located in the center of the town. In 2009, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, a memorial exhibition was organized from among the citizens in the Besigheim stone house , part of the Upper Castle. With 133 pictures and drawings, a comprehensive retrospective on the work of Duschk was offered.

Duschek belongs to the group become known painters who with their pictures the reputation of Besigheim in the period of the late 19th and early 20th century as a motif bidding Painters city have established.

Richard Duschk was buried in May 1959 in the old cemetery , since 1975 a public park on the southern edge of the medieval town of Besigheim.

literature

• General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples , KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1992ff., ISBN 3-598-22740-X , vol. 31, p. 246
• Richard Duschk: Painter - Draftsman - Illustrator; on the occasion of the retrospective on the 50th year of death of the artist in the Steinhaus Besigheim, July 11th - August 23rd 2009 , ed. from the city of Besigheim, 2009 ISBN 978-3-00-027727-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Duschk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Besigheim - Richard Duschk retrospective. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ DEK: HEIMATKUNDE - BESIGHEIM - Geschichtsverein Besigheim eV Accessed on November 3, 2019 (German).