Robert Liebknecht

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Robert Liebknecht (born February 26, 1903 in Berlin , † October 26, 1994 in Paris ) was a German painter .

Life

After attending grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz , Robert Liebknecht was confronted in 1919 with the murder of his father Karl Liebknecht . During this time he got to know Käthe Kollwitz , a friend of the family, better. When she had made sketches of his father in the morgue, she encouraged him to become a painter himself after viewing his drawings. He then attended the Lewin-Funcke painting school in Berlin's Kantstrasse , where he took drawing lessons from Hans Baluschek . After graduating from high school in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1921, Robert Liebknecht applied unsuccessfully to the Berlin and Vienna art academies. Therefore, he initially continued to attend courses at the Lewin-Funcke painting school with Hans Baluschek and Willy Jaeckel .

In 1923 he began studying at the Art Academy in Dresden with Ferdinand Dorsch and Max Feldbauer , where he was a master class student with Robert Sterl from 1928 to 1930 . During this time he went on a study trip to France in 1926/27. In 1927 he married Hertha Goldstein in Dresden . In 1928/29 Robert Liebknecht traveled six months to the Soviet Union at the invitation of a cultural institute , where he was commissioned to paint a portrait of his father.

After completing his studies, Robert Liebknecht moved to Berlin, where he lived and worked as a freelance painter on Heubuder Strasse in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen (then Wedding district ). He also gave drawing lessons at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Neukölln . On April 5, 1933, he emigrated to Paris . During the escape, he had to leave a large part of his previous work with his uncle Adolf Curt Carl Liebknecht (1879–1966) in Berlin. This part was later destroyed in bombing raids. In 1936, together with Max Ernst , Otto Freundlich and Paul Westheim, he was one of the co-founders of the collective of German artists in Paris, from which the Free Artists Association emerged in 1938 . After the German expatriation in 1937 and internment in Les Milles , he fled to Switzerland with his wife Hertha and daughter Marianne in 1943 . In 1946 the family returned to France, where Robert and Hertha Liebknecht initially worked in a home for Jewish orphans in Moissac . In 1947 Liebknecht moved back to Paris with his family and took French citizenship in 1956.

Robert Liebknecht's grave in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery

Numerous exhibitions made Robert Liebknecht internationally known. Since he never wanted to subordinate himself to a popular painting style, his work was misunderstood for a long time.

After his death in October 1994 in Paris his urn was transferred to Berlin in January 1995 at the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the Memorial of the Socialists buried. His father Karl Liebknecht and his grandfather Wilhelm Liebknecht are also buried in the memorial of the socialists .

Exhibitions

  • 1927: Participation in the Dresden academy exhibition
  • 1929: Participation in the exhibition of the German Association of Artists in Nuremberg
  • 1932: Solo exhibition in the house of the jury-free art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1937, 1939, 1953, 1957: Participation in the exhibitions at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris
  • 1938, 1949, 1956: Solo exhibitions at the Jeanne Castel Gallery in Paris, participation in the Free German Art exhibitions in Paris in November 1938 and 20th Century Art in London
  • 1939: New York City , ACA Gallery
  • 1945: Basel
  • 1957: Hanover , Galerie Koch
  • 1958: Exhibitions in the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin ( GDR ) and in the Kulturhaus Kassel
  • 1970, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1987: Exhibitions in the Rotapfel-Galerie Zurich
  • 1983: Exhibition on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the Peinture Fraiche gallery in Paris
  • 1985: Exhibition in the Galerie am Weidendamm in Berlin and in the Galerie Rähnitzgasse in Dresden
  • 1991: Exhibition Gallery K 61, Amsterdam
  • 2007: Exhibition of the late work in the Lux gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

literature

  • Michael Janitzki: Robert Liebknecht. Paintings and drawings, oil paintings, drawings, graphics and texts on life and work ; Giessen: Anabas, 1991: ISBN 3-87038-167-1
  • Center for Art Exhibitions in the GDR: Robert Liebknecht, Paris. Pictures and drawings ; Editing: Günter Rieger, design: Klaus-Peter Olthoff, production: Hajo Schmidt; 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Liebknecht, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1994
Place of death Paris