Rudolf Bergander

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Rudolf Bergander (born May 22, 1909 in Meißen , † April 10, 1970 in Dresden ) was a German painter and rector of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .

Life

Bergander completed his training as a porcelain painter from 1923 and worked in the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meißen . From 1928 to 1932 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Richard Müller and as a master student with Otto Dix . From 1928 he was a member of the KPD , from 1929 a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists . From 1933 to 1940 he lived as a freelance artist in Meissen. In 1940 he joined the NSDAP . Until 1945 he was a map maker in the Wehrmacht .

After the war, Bergander joined the SED in 1946 . In 1947 he became a member of the Dresden artist group “ Das Ufer ”. Until he started working as a lecturer in painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1949, Bergander worked as a freelancer. In 1951 he was appointed professor. In the same year he went on a study trip to Bulgaria . In 1955/56 he went to Italy to study .

From 1952 to 1958 and 1964/65 he was rector of the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. Since 1961 he was a member and permanent secretary for fine arts of the German Academy of the Arts . I.

Bergander is buried together with his wife, the gynecologist Ursula Bergander, in the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum (Walcha siblings, oil painting, 1936)
  • Berlin, Nationalgalerie (inter alia: Snowball fight / In the snow, oil painting; 1960)
  • Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett (Seated Woman, chalk drawing, 1931)
  • Chemnitz, Municipal Art Collection (Spring Day, oil painting, 1963)
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (including: House Peace Committee, oil painting, 1959)
  • Dresden, Collection of the University of Transport Friedrich List (portrait of the former Rector of the University of Transport Prof. Rehbein, oil painting)
  • Erfurt, Angermuseum (view of Meißen, oil painting, 1940)
  • Frankfurt (Oder), Museum Junge Kunst (among others: Trümmerfrauen, oil painting, 1954)
  • Gera, Gera Art Collection, Otto-Dix-Haus (rubble woman, drawing with graphite and charcoal, 1954)
  • Halle (Saale), State Gallery Moritzburg (including: Gudrun, oil painting, 1933)
  • Schwerin, State Museum Schwerin (schoolwork, oil painting, 1962)

Honors (selection)

literature

  • Bergander, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 177 .
  • Rudolf Bergander: Encounters with people. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1959 (Zwinger books)
  • Lothar Lang : The picture poetry of Rudolf Bergander. In: Die Weltbühne , Berlin, Volume 15, Issue 6, February 1960
  • Walter Heese:  Colored paintings by Rudolf Bergander. EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig, 1961
  • Werner Klemke et al .: Rudolf Bergander. Painting, drawings, graphics. Berlin, German Academy of the Arts, 1969
  • Erhard Frommhold:  Pioneer: 25 artists of the GDR . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 1976
  • Waltraut Schumann (Ed.): Rudolf Bergander. Hand drawings. Watercolors. Printmaking . Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1978.
  • Artur Dänhardt : Rudolf Bergander. Painter and work. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1978.
  • Lothar Lang : Painting and graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig, 1983; P. 13ff. and more
  • Monika Spiller: Bergander, Rudolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 324 f.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 63 ff.
  • Anke Scharnhorst, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Bergander, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Rudolf Bergander . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , pp. 173-175.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Bergander  - Collection of Images

Remarks

  1. ^ Harry Waibel : Servants of many gentlemen: Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p.
  2. ↑ Ursula Bergander - Stadtwiki Dresden. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Image index of art & architecture
  4. ↑ http://www.zeit-geschichten.de/visuals/Laudatio_Goeseke.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Bergander, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1970
Place of death Dresden