Rolf Krause (painter)

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Rolf Krause (born August 18, 1908 in Dresden ; † February 11, 1982 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Rolf Krause was born the son of a civil servant and as a child showed a talent for music, drawing and writing. From 1926 to 1933 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy , where he was a master student of Max Feldbauer and Ludwig von Hofmann . Between 1933 and 1940 he worked as a freelancer. He created commissioned works and especially portraits. During the Second World War he was seriously injured several times and his studio was destroyed.

From mid-1946 the severely disabled resumed his artistic work and took part in the first post-war art exhibition in Dresden . Together with Siegfried Donndorf and Ewald Schönberg , he founded the artist group Das Ufer in 1947 , to which Gerhard Augst , Rudolf Bergander , Rudolf Nehmer , Karl-Erich Schaefer and Fritz Skade also belonged. The group was active until 1952. Krause was involved in setting up and opening 47 of the group's company exhibitions. For the 2nd German Art Exhibition in Dresden, Krause created the mural Stahlwerk Riesa together with Alfred Hesse and Heinz Hamisch . From 1947 to 1949 he wrote articles on cultural policy for the Sächsische Zeitung . For four years he was a member of the board of directors of the Kunst der Zeit cooperative . Rolf Krause also held management positions in the GDR Cultural Association and the Association of Visual Artists .

In the 1950s, Krause devoted himself primarily to depicting paths, roads and rail tracks, initially using large-format woodcuts in black and white. The woodcuts looked blocky and clear. At the end of the 1950s he added clay and colored woodcuts as well as pastels and panel paintings until panel paintings dominated in the 1960s. He achieved greater fame in the GDR through reproductions of his works and various exhibitions . Thematically, he devotes himself to depictions of landscapes, whereby traffic facilities, but also vacation motifs, continued to play a role. He looks for hidden beauty in everyday life and uses a simple form of representation.

From 1955 to 1962 he worked as a lecturer at the workers 'and peasants' faculty for fine arts. From 1963 he worked as a freelancer in the Bertolt Brecht brigade within the framework of a contract with the Kraftverkehrskombinat Dresden . From 1965 to 1968 he was a lecturer at the evening school of the Academy of Fine Arts .

In the picture from February 14, 1945 , created in 1967, he depicts the suffering of the war. He was moved by thoughts of environmental protection and the beauty of nature, so that he devotes himself to the representation of landscape protection areas and, rather unusual for the official art of the GDR, the endangerment of the protection areas. In 1971, in his work Vision District Cottbus , he vividly portrayed the threatening mechanization of the environment.

Awards

In 1959 Rolf Krause received the medal for excellent performance. Together with the Bertolt Brecht Brigade, he received several awards as a collective of socialist work between 1965 and 1973 . In 1967 he was awarded the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden. This was followed in 1968 by the Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver, the badge of honor of the Kulturbund in 1969, the GDR Medal of Merit in 1975 and finally the Johannes R. Becher Medal in gold in 1978.

After his death in 1983 a memorial exhibition was held for him in the Dresden gallery Kunst der Zeit.

literature

  • Heinz Quinger : Rolf Krause , painter and work series, VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Quinger: Rolf Krause , series painter and work, VEB Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1983, page 5 f.
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1982
Place of death Dresden