Richard Liebermann

Richard Liebermann (born October 21, 1900 in Neu-Ulm , † December 10, 1966 in Saint-Rambert-sur-Loire ) was a German portrait and landscape painter of the first half of the 20th century.

Life

Richard Liebermann, who was deaf since birth, had three siblings, Paul, Gertrud and Hans, and grew up on Friedrichstraße 19 (today: Hermann-Köhl-Straße 19) in Neu-Ulm.

After he had compulsory schooling, he attended the Royal Deaf-Mute Institute in Munich. At the age of 21 he enrolled at the Munich Academy for painting. In 1923 he converted from Judaism to Christianity. In 1933 he was banned from working. In 1935 he moved with his parents and siblings to Konstanz , the birthplace of his mother Hedwig Liebermann, née. Wieler to emigrate to Switzerland, which however did not succeed. Despite conversion, he was in the "Crystal Night" on November 9, 1938 in the Dachau concentration camp in protective custody arrested and released again on 16 December 1938th

A year later, his siblings applied to emigrate to the USA via England. On October 22, 1940, a large part of the family was deported to the French concentration camp Gurs . His mother Hedwig and his brother Hans, who were in the hospital, were later murdered by the National Socialists' euthanasia program . Richard's father Heinrich died in Gurs in 1942. In 1943 the three siblings Richard, Gertrud and Paul escaped from the Noé camp and were able to survive undetected in the St. Rambert monastery.

Richard Liebermann continued to paint and draw in France. His atmospheric, realistic watercolors are dominated by a completely new, expressive and bright color scheme. Nothing is reminiscent of his originally academic painting in rather muted brown and gray tones.

Richard Liebermann died on December 10, 1966 in St. Rambert. His complete oeuvre should consist of 300 oil paintings, 180 watercolors, 530 drawings and numerous collages. A memorial plaque on the family's former home in Neu-Ulm and a stumbling block in Constance reminds of the deaf, Jewish painter.

Stolperstein in Konstanz in memory of Richard Liebermann

memory

A stumbling block was laid in Constance to commemorate Liebermann .

literature

• Raffael Wieler-Bloch: Richard Liebermann. the deaf portrait and landscape painter 1900 - 1966 , Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86628-300-8 .

Web links

• Richard Liebermann on the Stolpersteine ​​Konstanz website
• Search for traces: Richard Liebermann sel. A. (1900–1966). Interest group of deaf Jewish descent in Germany V.
• Literature by and about Richard Liebermann in the bibliographic database WorldCat