Richard Ziegler

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Richard Ziegler ( pseudonym Jean Georg Vincent , Robert Ziller ; born May 3, 1891 in Pforzheim ; † February 23, 1992 ibid) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Richard Ziegler, son of an elementary school teacher and high school graduate at Reuchlin-Gymnasium , then attended the Shakespeare Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon in Great Britain in 1910 and 1911 . As a result, he turned to the study of German at the University of Geneva , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald , which he, interrupted by his participation in the First World War , in 1919 in Heidelberg with the Doctorate to Dr. phil. completed.

The autodidact subsequently embarked on an artistic career. In 1925 he moved to Berlin , where he took part in the November group exhibitions from the following year . In 1925 he married Mathilde Rosenthal, a relative of Max Liebermann , from whom he divorced in 1928. At the end of 1932 Richard Ziegler emigrated to Yugoslavia with his Jewish fiancée and later second wife Edith Lendt , where he lived mainly on the southern Dalmatian island of Korčula until 1937 . During this phase of his life, Ziegler, an avowed opponent of the National Socialists , created three anti-fascist portfolios, which in particular portray the “leaders” of National Socialist Germany.

In 1937 Richard Ziegler went to England , in 1938 he married Edith Lendt. Interned as an "enemy alien" in Huyton near Liverpool from July to September 1940 , he was subsequently assigned to the British Ministry of Information and the American War Office of Information during the war. He also worked under the pseudonym Robert Ziller as a press illustrator and book illustrator for “ Die Zeitung ” , “Die Auslese” , “Lilliput” and “ Picture Post ” in London . Ziegler, who had lived with the Englishwoman Susan Snow since 1944, received British citizenship in 1948 .

Richard Ziegler spent his old age in his hometown of Pforzheim. In 1982 he founded the Richard Ziegler Foundation in Calw , to which he bequeathed a large number of his pictures and graphics. In 1991 Richard Ziegler received honorary citizenship of the city of Pforzheim on the occasion of his 100th birthday . He died in February 1992 just before the age of 101.

Publications (selection)

  • We make history, Allen & Unwin, London, 1940.
  • Faces behind the news: drawings D. Dobson Limited, London, 1946.
  • Judith the widow of Bethulia: the drawings and script, D. Dobson Limited, London, 1946.
  • Analyzes of the Masters, London, 1949.
  • A chapter from "Salt of the Earth", Large district town of Calw, Calw, 1986.
  • Lost pictures: 1923 - 1937, large district town of Calw, Calw, 1986.
  • And the heart as heavy as stone German autumn 1948 - Diary of a re-encounter, Kreissparkasse, Calw, 1995.

literature

  • Wendelin Renn, Horst Zimmermann, Andreas Zoller, Albertinum (Dresden, Germany) (Eds.): Southwest German art between tradition and modernity: 1914 to 1945; [19. June to August 29, 1993, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum ...], Thorbecke Jan Verlag, 1993, p. 251.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . P. 656.
  • Uwe Fleckner, Dirk Luckow : The true face of our time: Images of people in the drawing of the New Objectivity; [on the occasion of the exhibition The True Face of Our Time. Pictures of people in the New Objectivity drawing, May 2 - June 27, 2004], Kunsthalle, Kiel, 2004, p. 202.
  • Hellmut J. Gebauer, Hartmut Würfele: Significant women and men, in: Calw (Series), Archives of the City of Calw: Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw, Calw, 2005, p. 167.
  • Ziegler, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 491 .
  • Gerd Presler: Richard Ziegler (1891–1992). Last witness of the "Golden Twenties", in: WELTKUNST April 15, 1992, p. 1043

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personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincent, Jean Georg (pseudonym); Ziller, Robert (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1992
Place of death Pforzheim