Richard Klein (artist)
Richard Klein (born January 7, 1890 in Munich , † July 31, 1967 in Weßling near Munich) was a German painter , sculptor , graphic artist and medalist . From 1935 he was director of the State School for Applied Arts in Munich. As an important artist for the National Socialist regime , he was on the so-called God-gifted list .
Career
After attending a college for sculpture and plastering , Klein worked as a plasterer . From 1908 he studied with Angelo Jank and Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, he designed patriotic medals. From 1917, Klein worked in his own studio in Munich. During the First World War he made patriotic postcards. Since 1919 he was a member of the Munich Secession .
In 1935 he was appointed director of the State School for Applied Arts in Munich, and after the state school was elevated to a university as an Academy for Applied Arts by the National Socialist rulers, he was also appointed professor . From 1937 he was on the artistic advisory board of the journal Die Kunst im Third Reich with Albert Speer , Fritz Todt and Leonhard Gall .
Klein was the Reich Senator for Culture and from 1936 Presidential Councilor of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts .
Works and exhibitions
Klein created sculptures in bronze and terracotta, paintings preferably in oil and etchings, with which he participated in exhibitions at the Munich Secession from 1915. In the 1930s and 1940s that showed the understanding of art of National Socialism undertook Great German Art Exhibition in Munich's Haus der Deutschen Kunst Richard Klein's works.
The subject of Klein's medals was initially politicians and artists of his time. From 1933 he designed mainly National Socialist emblems, medals and trophies, including the sash for the winner of the brown ribbon , the identification symbol of the "Great German Art Exhibition" and the National Socialist version of the Munich city arms .
Richard Klein designed some of the postage stamps that appeared in National Socialist Germany, including the special stamps issued annually for the race for the brown ribbon and the definitive stamps with the portrait of Adolf Hitler .
literature
- Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 310.
- Little Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 447 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Zetzmann: German silver medals of the First World War on the military actions and memorable events from 1914 to 1919 . H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2002, ISBN 3-924861-52-8 , p. 374 .
- ↑ Münchner Stadtmuseum (ed.), Ulrike Heraendel and Bernadette Ott (ed.): Munich - "Capital of Movement". Catalog for the exhibition in the Munich City Museum October 22, 1993 - March 27, 1994
- ↑ Large German Art Exhibition poster . Munich City Museum , accessed on January 22, 2011.
- ↑ 1949 - Remarkable, curious and everyday things from the Munich city chronicle . State capital Munich, accessed on January 22, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Little Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1967 |
| Place of death | Weßling |