Richard Würpel

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Richard Würpel (born February 10, 1903 in Barby , † May 2, 1987 in Andernach ) was a German painter and art teacher .

Life

Würpel went to the seminary training school from 1909 to 1917, then he attended the teachers' seminar in Barby. He studied painting at the Berlin School of Art 1924-26 and art history at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After the examination in the subject of art education, he entered the school service in Barby and a secondary school . He later studied at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade . As a lecturer with a teaching position for art education, he came from 1935 to the college for teacher training in Elbing . In those years he took part in art exhibitions in Elbing and the Free City of Danzig as well as in Königsberg , Breslau and Munich .

During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . The flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 brought him to West Germany . In 1955 he received a teaching position for fine arts at the Pedagogical University of the Palatinate in Kaiserslautern. He served as a professor until 1969. On his 80th birthday, the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern organized an exhibition on his life and work.

Works

  • The sculpture of the St. John's Church in Barby . Barby 1933.
  • The Gödnitzer carved altar . Barby 1934.
  • Science and human education . Weinheim 1962.
  • Art and acting . Berlin 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Black Calendar 1995
  2. ↑ Alexander Hesse (1995)

literature

  • Richard Würpel on his 80th birthday . Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, February 13 to March 9, 1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Dice, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Barby
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1987
Place of death Then after