Richard Sprick

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Richard Sprick (born January 3, 1901 in Herford , † January 26, 1968 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German draftsman , portrait and landscape painter .

Life and career

Richard Sprick was born on January 3, 1901 in Herford. After attending elementary school and the Friedrichs-Gymnasium , he began studying in 1919 in Ludwig Godewols' painting class at the Bielefeld School of Applied Arts . Just one year later he moved to the Kassel Art Academy , where he was a student of Curt Witte (1882–1959) and Kay Heinrich Nebel (1888–1953) from 1921 to 1923 . He then took an exam to become a drawing teacher. Between 1923 and 1925 he lived in Berlin. During a visit to the Worpswede artists' colony near Bremen in 1924, he happened to meet the metal artist Lotte Heidelbach, an acquaintance from his time as a student in Kassel, who ran Bernhard Hoetger's metal workshop at the Worpswede Kunsthütten . Sprick himself moved to Worpswede the following year, where he worked as a freelance artist. In 1926 he married Lotte Heidelbach.

From 1926 Sprick was able to present his art in first exhibitions in Dortmund, Kassel and Bremen, among others. In 1927 Lotte and Richard Sprick moved from Worpswede to Bochum. Richard Sprick worked there between 1927 and 1943 as an art teacher at the Bochum Goethe School . Sprick became an established and respected artist during his time in Bochum. The close connection to the Bochum theater under the direction of Saladin Schmitt , with whom the Spricks had a close friendship, also contributed to this. Richard Sprick provided well over 1000 drawings by well-known actors and scenes from the various performances in Bochum and other large theaters. Sprick's daughter Karen was born in 1933.

During the National Socialist period, Richard Sprick's painting "Father and Son" was confiscated from the Gelsenkirchen City Gallery as part of the " Degenerate Art " campaign (since then missing). Sprick was interrogated by the GeStaPo , but escaped further pursuits. After the Spricks had to leave their Bochum apartment after being bombed in 1943, they fled to relatives in Schötmar (today a district of Bad Salzuflen). In 1943 Richard Sprick was drafted briefly as an anti-aircraft helper, despite being night blind , and later assigned to supervise captured Russian soldiers.

Richard Sprick's former home and studio

Even after the end of World War II , the Spricks stayed in Schötmar and had a residential and studio house built according to their own designs ( listed as a historical monument since 2010 ). In the decades that followed, Richard Sprick was an enormously hardworking artist. He created numerous portraits of well-known personalities and landscapes, often inspired by his study trips across Europe, murals for public buildings, book illustrations, but also postcards and technical drawings. In addition, he took part in exhibitions almost every year, especially in the Westphalian region. Important museums bought his works. After a short, serious illness, Richard Sprick died on January 26, 1968 in Bad Salzuflen. The majority of his estate has been in the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold since 2010 .

The art historian Rainer Zimmermann (1920–2009) counts Richard Sprick among the representatives of the lost generation and expressive realism .

literature

  • Stefan Wiesekopsieker and Vera Scheef: “What I have to say hangs on the walls”: The painter Richard Sprick (1901–1968) (Bad Salzufler Lebensbilder). Lippischer Heimatbund, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941726-24-6 .
  • Kurt Uthoff: Master of the portrait - love of landscape. On the 60th birthday of the painter Richard Sprick , in: Westfalenspiegel , January 1961, p. 26f.
  • Kurt Uthoff: Richard Sprick in memory , in: Westfalenspiegel, March 1968, p. 17f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Wiesekopsieker and Vera Scheef: "What I have to say hangs on the walls": The painter Richard Sprick (1901-1968) (Bad Salzufler Lebensbilder). Lippischer Heimatbund, 2012
  2. ^ Lippische Landeszeitung: Landesmuseum receives estate of the Salzufler painter
  3. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994
personal data
SURNAME Sprick, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1968
Place of death Bad Salzuflen