Rudolf Lipus

Rudolf Lipus (born December 6, 1893 in Leipzig ; † October 5, 1961 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the Nazi era .

Life

From 1908 to 1912 he completed his first apprenticeship at the Leipzig publisher CG Röder, after which Lipus studied painting and graphics at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts , with Alois Kolb among others . During the First World War he worked as a trench draftsman and received a prize from a competition for a war memorial sheet. He graduated after the end of the World War, from then on he worked as a freelance graphic designer, bookplate and landscape and portrait painter and became a permanent employee of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung .

During the Nazi era, Lipus was regularly represented at the annual exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art . During the Second World War he was initially integrated as a painter in a war reporter company, before he was assigned as a war painter to an army propaganda company from 1942 , the "squadron of visual artists" of the Propaganda Operations Department in Potsdam , which is directly under the command of the Wehrmacht . His propaganda images glorifying war are among the best-known examples of this genre . It created works such as "armored fighting" , "Fighter" , "German artillery on the rise" , "German Sergeant after street fight" , "The Russian steppe" , "drone aircraft" , "In the firing position" , "the task force" . Between 1941 and 1944 he was represented with 20 pictures at the " Great German Art Exhibition " and thus the most productive painter of propaganda pictures of that time. The buyers of the works included Adolf Hitler (2), Joseph Goebbels (6) and Albert Speer (1). In 1943 he lost his studio and most of his works. In 1944 he was represented at the art exhibition of the Reichsführer SS in Breslau " German Artists and the SS ".

After 1945 he was still working as a book illustrator for the Volk und Wissen publishing house and as a press illustrator without much success

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Lipus in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 203.