Robert Diedrichs

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Robert Diedrichs (born April 20, 1923 in Wesel , † April 25, 1995 in Chemnitz ) was a German graphic artist , painter and illustrator .

Life

Robert Diedrichs grew up in simple family circumstances in the Lower Rhine region . After graduating from school, he worked as a laborer. He took part in World War II as a fighter pilot. After the war he worked again as a laborer and later qualified as a new teacher , with drawing as his main subject. From 1948 to 1953 Diedrichs studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Erich Fraaß , Hans Theo Richter , Josef Hegenbarth ; He completed his diploma as a graphic designer with Max Schwimmer . With Hegenbarth he was still in contact by letter until 1957, who accompanied him as a critic in his work. From 1953 to 1955 Diedrichs was a press draftsman for the Karl-Marx-Städter "Volksstimme" and from 1955 to 1995 he worked as a freelance graphic artist in the then Karl-Marx-Stadt , where hundreds of pen drawings , etchings , Woodcuts as well as acrylic paintings and book illustrations were created. The focus of his work was on the objective area, above all he devoted himself to the representation of humans and animals. He particularly knew how to capture the type of an interesting figure and how to convincingly depict the essence of the scene with just a few strokes. Since 1955 Diedrichs was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , later a member of the section management and from 1977 first deputy of the section head of the painters and graphic artists of the district organization.

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Robert Diedrichs (2nd from left) working on the lead inlays
Lead inlays in the Chemnitzer Brückenstraße
Stamp issue 1977 : Overprint for the 30th International Peace Trip 1977
Stamp issue 1978 : Overprint 25 years of combat groups

With the Karl-Marx-Städter “Volksstimme”, the forerunner of the “ Free Press ”, his work on the “Weather Frog” was particularly well known. In addition to Berthold Lindner , Diedrichs was involved in the creation of the stamps for the 30th International Peace Trip in 1977 and, with Manfred König, in the collation for 25 years of working-class combat groups in 1978. In 1964/1965 he designed the lead inlays in collaboration with the Karl-Marx-Städter artists Johannes Belz , Rudolf Fleischer and Rudolf Kraus , which can still be seen in Chemnitzer Brückenstraße today. Diedrichs illustrated nine published books and other literary sources, including those by Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , Heinrich Mann and Maxim Gorki . He designed the cycle for the Georg Weerth School and the Clara Zetkin cycle, for which he was honored with an art prize, and other graphic cycles, such as the one for Fritz Heckert's 100th birthday in 1984. He also designed many areas with his works of public life, like NVA barracks. In 1975 the triptych "Brotherhood of Arms" (acrylic paints) was created, in 1976 a colored graphic board for a Lenin word for the Karl-Marx-Stadt military district command and in 1977 a triptych "Border officers - training / service / family" for the officers' college "Rosa Luxemburg" in Plauen, as well as other plants in various companies and combines . A diptych was also created in 1987 about the liberation of Chemnitz in 1945, which was in the town hall of Karl-Marx-Stadt until the fall of the Wall . In 1973 he went on a study trip to Siberia .

Book illustrations

Honors

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1995 Stages of an artist's life, Klaffenbach moated castle
  • 2000 graphics and sketches - before and after the fall of the Wall, Bürgerhaus Müllerstraße, Chemnitz
  • 2014 Fake contemporary history, head office of the Chemnitz settlement community, Chemnitz

Exhibition participation

  • 1955 to 1958 Central Saxon Art Exhibition, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1959 Connected to our new life. Ten years of fine arts in the GDR, German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1959, 1960 and 1961 art exhibition in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district
  • 1963 Exhibition 10 years of architecture, fine arts and visual folk creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1965, 1974, 1979 and 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1969 and 1977 art and sport, Leipzig
  • 1982 Portrait + Group, exhibition of the painters and graphic artists section of the VBK / GDR, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1983 Karl Marx - artist confessions, Berlin, Magdeburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig
  • 1984 retrospective 1945–1984, Karl-Marx-Stadt

literature

  • Volker Frank: Diedrichs, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 221.
  • Diederichs, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 426 .
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 150 f . (erroneously sv Dietrichs).
  • Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 , p. 162 .
  • Erich Schwanecke: The book illustration of the German Democratic Republic . Verlag Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig 1974, DNB  750861517 , p. 14 .
  • Association of visual artists of Germany, district of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Hrsg.): Central Saxon art exhibition. Associated with the art award of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . DNB  023999640 (1955-1958).
  • District Art Center Karl-Marx-Stadt (Hrsg.): Art exhibition of the district Karl-Marx-Stadt. Associated with the art award of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . OCLC 83913505 (1959-1961).
  • Association of German Visual Artists, Central Board (publisher): Fourth Congress of the Association of German Visual Artists, December 1–5. 1959 in Markkleeberg . 1959, OCLC 25891519 , p. 147 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; District Art Center (Ed.): Retrospective 1945–1984 . Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985. Druckhaus, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .
  • Ministry of Culture of the GDR (ed.): Karl Marx - artist confessions . Art exhibition on the occasion of the Karl Marx Year 1983; Berlin - capital of the GDR, Magdeburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig; Painting, graphics, plastic, poster, photo. Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR, Berlin 1983, DNB  551438525 .

Journal articles

  • Georg Brühl, Lothar Lang: Graphics in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . In: Fine arts . No. 3 . Henschel-Verlag, 1977, ISSN  0006-2391 , p. 122 ff .
  • Günter Zinram: With a pen and fine knives . Notes after a visit to the graphic artist Robert Diedrichs. In: Deutsches Sportecho . No. 81 , April 7, 1971, ZDB -ID 600841-0 , p. 2 .
  • HH Wille: Co-designer on the book: Robert Diedrichs . In: look . No. 45 , November 5, 1975, ZDB -ID 1139743-3 , p. 7 .
  • H. Schwarz: Our portrait: Art connected with tradition and life . Graduate graphic artist Robert Diedrichs / Karl-Marx-Stadt. In: Sächsisches Tageblatt . Volume 32, No. 189 , August 11, 1977, ZDB -ID 1138343-4 , p. 3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JH: Masterful graphics by Robert Diedrichs. Sachsenbund initiates an exhibition of the late Chemnitz graphic artist in the moated castle Klaffenbach. In: Free Press. Chemnitz July 31, 1995, p. 4.
  2. ↑ MZ: playful light stroke. Graphics by Robert Diedrichs can be seen in the community center. In: Free Press. Chemnitz, May 3, 2000.
  3. ↑ Mara Lisa Strohbehn: Pretended contemporary history. The settlement community shows works by Robert Diedrichs - a silent contemporary witness of the turn. In: Free Press. Chemnitz November 14, 2014, p. 10.

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personal data
SURNAME Diedrichs, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1995
Place of death Chemnitz