Rudolf Donnerhack
Rudolf Donnerhack (born July 16, 1903 in Plauen , † October 23, 1980 ibid) was a German painter , local history researcher and museum director .
Life
Rudolf Donnerhack was born in Plauen in the Vogtland ( Kingdom of Saxony ) in 1903 . After attending the community school (elementary school), he went to the state art and technical school for the textile industry. Because of lack of resources, the half-orphan had to move to the municipal trade school in Plauen, where he acquired his apprenticeship certificate as a painter and varnisher in 1922. The next two years he was on the waltz (wandering) through southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia; most recently on a mine in Lower Silesia. In 1923 he emigrated to South America; in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay he worked as a decorative painter and interior designer. At the end of 1926 he returned to Germany, where he not only worked as an art and decorative painter, but also trained in watercolors . In 1931 he had his first personal exhibition, mainly with landscape motifs. In 1937 he was appointed to the painting class of the municipal trade school as a specialist teacher, and in 1938 he passed the master craftsman's examination in painting. In 1940 he was called up for army service. Until the end of the war he was a frontline soldier in the air intelligence force . After his release from American captivity, Rudolf Donnerhack earned his living as an art and decorative painter in his hometown of Plauen. He was involved in the cultural association for the democratic renewal of Germany , was chairman of the Plauen working group in the Association of Visual Artists and co-founder of the Intelligence Club . In 1951 he was appointed head of the Vogtland District Museum in Plauen, which he ran for almost twenty years. After his retirement (1970) he was able to devote himself to watercolor painting again. His death (1980) was "worth nothing to the officials of the city of Plauen, just a brief press release," wrote his long-time colleague Horst Fröhlich in the foreword of the catalog in 2003 (Rudolf Donnerhack, 1903–1980: painter, local researcher, museum director) to one Special exhibition in today's Vogtland Museum Plauen .
Fonts
- 9 Vogtland hiking trails , [1951]
- Plauen District Museum , Plauen, 1952
- The Vogtland peasant uprising in 1525 , Plauen, 1953
- (with Kurt Arnold Findeisen ): Hermann Vogel , Plauen, 1954
- The Vogtland District Museum , Plauen, 1955
- Vogtland, old transit country between north and south , in: Natur und Heimat , Leipzig, Urania-Verlag, 1957, pp. 323–328
- Unrest, distress, war in the Vogtland 1790-1815 , Plauen, 1958
- From the November Revolution of 1918 in Plauen , Plauen, 1958
- Three months. Prehistory and course of the Kapp Putsch in Plauen , Plauen, 1961
- Small Vogtland Lexicon , Karl-Marx-Stadt 1966
- Our Plauen , Plauen 1967
- Our Plauen , Plauen 1969
- Vogtland , 2nd, revised. Ed., Leipzig 1971
Honors
- Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver, 1962
- Culture Prize of the Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1964
literature
- Seiler: Rudolf Donnerhack 75 years , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 24 (1978), p. 283
- H. Fröhlich: Rudolf Donnerhack died , in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 27 (1981), p. 93
- Wolf Donnerhack: Rudolf Donnerhack: painter - local researcher - museum director , 2003 ISBN 978-3-00-010426-8
- Horst Fröhlich: Rudolf Donnerhack's work honored , in: Vogtländische Heimatblätter , (2003), no. 4, p. 29
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donnerhack, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, local researcher and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1980 |
| Place of death | Plauen |