Robert E. Konrad

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Robert Edgar Konrad (also Robert E. Conrad , born April 24, 1926 in Zurich ; † August 8, 1951 in Bedano , Ticino ) was a German writer , poet , translator and painter .

Life

Konrad was born in Zurich to a German father and a Swiss mother, whom he lost at the age of three. In 1942 he moved to his father's home in Munich , where he attended teacher seminars and courses at the art academy . In 1944, during the Second World War , he returned to Switzerland. He was employed as a simple worker in a factory in Zurich for four years because he could not make a living from his art, painting and poetry.

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After his marriage in 1949 and financially supported by his wife, he began to work as an artist. He created 48 poems, short stories, translations by the American poet Emily Dickinson , the French poet Henri Rousseau and the poet Andri Peer and around 70 paintings. He also made drawings, one of which was published in pencil in the monthly Swiss cultural magazine du in December 1951. From 1950 to 1951 he published the monthly literary magazine Essence . On August 8, 1951, while visiting relatives in Bedano, the artist died when torrential rain during a storm caused a mudslide to bury the house in which he was staying.

reception

He left behind a largely unpublished poetic and painterly oeuvre, which testifies to an outstanding dual talent. Some things were published posthumously and received abroad. In September and October 1951 a commemorative exhibition by Robert E. Konrad took place under the patronage of the graphic collection of the ETH Zurich in the Museum Strauhof in Zurich. In 1955, works by Konrad were exhibited in Albert Wiener's ABC gallery in Winterthur .

Fonts

  • Seal and picture. Collected works of the painter-poet , Arche Verlag , Zurich, 1961 poems, stories, translations, drawings
  • Monika Laederach, Robert E. Konrad: Poèmes pour U .; Chevaux de l'amour et de l'adieu
  • Songs for U. (Margaret Unholz) . Private print, 1947, 33 sheets. Original typewriter typescript

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My feature section: Conversations, essays, glosses on literature, page 335 [1]
  2. ^ Hans Galinsky : Wegbereiteriter Moderne American Poetry , C. Winter, 1968, p. 52 online
  3. ↑ Bibliografia Andri Peer / Bibliography Andri Peer, PDF file, 349 kB, p. 3 ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nb.admin.ch
  4. ^ Translated literature in German anthologies: Teilbd. Anthologies with seals of the British Isles and the USA page 269 [2]
  5. ↑ Oil picture by Robert Konrad ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturgrab.ch, the website of André Grab @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturgrab.ch
  6. ↑ Drawings by Robert Konrad ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kulturgrab.ch, the website of André Grab @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturgrab.ch
  7. ↑ You. Swiss monthly. December 1951. 11th year. To our Christmas notebook. No. 12/1951
  8. ^ A b Schweizerischer Kunstverein Bund Schweizer Architekten Schweizerischer Werkbund Werk, Volume 42, page 160, 1955, Robert Konrad drawings [3]
  9. ↑ (Konrad, Robert (ed.) :) Essence. Monthly magazine for young visual arts and poetry.
  10. ↑ ZDB -ID 806689-9
  11. ^ 9 German literary journals, 1945–1970: a repertory, volume 1, commentary The September issue of the 1951 year is dedicated to Robert E. Konrad, page 243 [4]
  12. ↑ Documents: revue des questions allemandes, Volume 25, page 103 [5]
  13. ↑ Exhibitions Museum Strauhof
  14. ^ Work , Volume 42, Ed. Schweizerischer Kunstverein, Bund Schweizer Architekten, Schweizerischer Werkbund, 1955, p. 160
  15. ↑ American studies, Volume 28, page 246 [6]
  16. ^ Hermann Boeschenstein , Rodney Symington : On German literature and philosophy, Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1986, p. 306 online
  17. ↑ Poèmes pour U.; Chevaux de l'amour et de l'adieu [7]
  18. ↑ find-a-book.com
personal data
SURNAME Konrad, Robert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conrad, Robert E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet, translator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1951
Place of death Bedano , Ticino