Richard Zscheked

Richard Zscheked (also: Richard Zschecked ; born 6. December 1885 in Weinböhla ; died 26. April 1954 in Schwerin ) was a German painter , illustrator , graphic designer and engraver and craftsman .

Life

Zscheked was born in the early days of the German Empire . After graduating from school, he initially studied in Zittau at the Saxon Higher Technical School for the Textile Industry and then worked for four years as a pattern maker in Gera. This was followed by studies in Dresden in 1907 at the Academy of Applied Arts and finally in 1908 in Weimar at the local academy , where Fritz Mackensen taught him, among others . Zscheked created landscape pictures, book illustrations, commercial art, posters and etchings.

In the last year of the First World War , Richard Zscheked moved to Schwerin in 1918. In 1921, along with Erich Bentrup , Hermann Koenemann , Georg Schütz and Egon Tschirch, he was one of the five artists who were supposed to design templates for the so-called “ Reutergelde ” bills for 70 localities in the then Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz states .

In the year of the height of German hyperinflation , Zscheked founded a painting school together with Wilhelm Facklam in 1923 .

Zscheked also created book graphics from the time of the Weimar Republic and later during the time of National Socialism , such as illustrations for various children's books .

Zscheked was married to the painter Gertrud (Friederike), born in Schwerin. Voss (June 5, 1886 - September 2, 1970).

Well-known works (selection)

Richard Zscheked: Moated Castle Tinz (1906)

• Book illustrations for Emmy Hinrichsen :
  • Lieselotte and her friend , Schwerin: Sandmeyer, 1928
  • Brigitte comes into the sun , ibid, 1935
• Landscape with a rainbow , 1909, pastel and chalk, 392 × 545 mm, Schwerin State Museum
• In 1921/22 he designed the Reuter banknotes for Boizenburg , Brüel , Dassow , Dömitz , Grevesmühlen , Hagenow , Lübz and Wittenburg .
• In 1939 he was represented with the work "Potato Harvest" at the exhibition Contemporary Mecklenburg Painters in the Mecklenburg State Museum in Schwerin.

literature

• Zscheked, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 652 .
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 11224 f .

Web links

• Literature about Richard Zscheked in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Stephan Sehlke: Zscheked (a. Zschecked), Richard, sa RZ ( monogr. ) , In ders .: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten. Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-9497-8 , p. 426 (reading sample, books. google.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ingrid Möller : The distribution area of ​​the Reuterscheine and the division among five artists. In this: The Mecklenburg Reutergeld from 1921. A curiosity in terms of cultural history. Pinnow: EDITION digital, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95655-583-1 (reading sample, partly without page number, books.google.de ).
3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 11224 f .
4. ↑ Museum am Alten Garten (Mecklenburgisches Landesmuseum) (ed.). In: Contemporary Mecklenburg painters associated with the Paul Wallat birthday exhibition. Schwerin, October 29 to November 19, 1939.