Rudolf Sievers (artist)

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Windmill in a storm, 1915 in the Liebenwerda home calendar
Windmills, 1915 in the Liebenwerda home calendar

Rudolf Sievers (born October 19, 1884 in Braunschweig , † October 13, 1918 in Besny-et-Loizy , near Laon , Aisne department ) was a German graphic artist , author and songwriter of the youth movement .

He became known for his portfolios of Black Games and Braunschweig as well as for the motley picture book . Rudolf Sievers also wrote the text for the song Wilde Vögel, Wandervögel (melody by Kurt Heerklotz ). He was friends with the graphic artist Günther Clausen .

Until the outbreak of the First World War, Sievers was editor of the magazine "Wandervogel - Monthly magazine for German youth hiking", to which he also contributed numerous texts and illustrations.

Works

  • Guide to the Braunschweig Municipal Museum . Book decorations by Rudolf Sievers. Braunschweig: Krampe, 1908
  • Drawing arts , in Die Kunst - monthly journals for free and applied arts. 1912 XIII. Vol. 5 (February) Munich, Bruckmann 1912
  • Wibbelt, Augustin : An Autumn Book . Drawings by Rudolf Sievers. Warendorf: Fast 1914
  • France 1915: Drawings from the field by Rudolf Sievers . Wolfenbüttel: Zwissler 1915
  • Black games . Wolfenbüttel: Zwissler 1917 (3rd edition)
  • Braunschweig: Pictures from an old city . Drawn by Rudolf Sievers. Wolfenbüttel: Zwissler 1917 (2nd edition)
  • From the estate of a painter . (Afterword by Friedrich Kammerer). Wolfenbüttel: G. Kallmeyer 1925
  • Colorful picture book . Wolfenbüttel: Zwissler 1919. Bibliophile new edition Kassel: Lometsch, 1959
  • Otto Ahrends: The battle: Fights on the Somme 1916 / from Otto Ahrends' war diary, fallen on November 16, 1916 . With drawing. by Rudolf Sievers. Frankfurt a. M .: Diesterweg 1927

literature

  • EH (Emil Heinrich) Schomburg : That will not be forgotten ... memorial sheets to Rudolf Sievers, the man and his work Wolfenbüttel, J. Zwißler 1921

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Sievers, Rudolf . In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 124 .
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, author and songwriter of the youth movement
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1918
Place of death Besny-et-Loizy , Aisne department