Schönebecker circle

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The so-called Schönebecker Kreis was a group of artists around the graphic artist and sculptor Katharina Heise in Schönebeck-Salzelmen on the Elbe , who was particularly active in the 1950s and early 1960s.

The loose association, which was initially stylistically based on the former Magdeburg connection Die Kugel , emerged after the end of the Second World War . Katharina Heise, a student of Richard Winckel and Benno Marienfeld at the Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg and influenced by Käthe Kollwitz , Hugo Lederer , Bruno Beye and Wilhelm Höpfner , returned to her parents' house in Schönebeck in 1942 after the destruction of her studio and apartment in Berlin. Despite massive political hostility from the National Socialists as well as in the post-war period, a group of young artists quickly formed, most of whom met in Heise's parents' house at Salzelmener Edelmannstrasse 22. These later included prominent artists such as Werner Tübke , Hans Helmbrecht , Hans Oldenburger , Christof Grüger , Ewald Blankenburg , Wilfried Kiel and Günter Zenker , who were also organized in the Association of Visual Artists .

In addition to its own artistic work, the Schönebecker Kreis also played a key role in local art education. After the death of Katharina Heise in October 1964, at the latest after the aggravation of the political situation after 1968 and the arrest of Hans Oldenburger in 1970, the Schönebecker Künstlerbund disintegrated.

literature

  • Hans Oldenburger, life and work of Katharina Heise. Diploma thesis at the Erfurt University of Education (Erfurt 1962).
  • Jörg-Heiko Bruns, Katharina Heise - reference to a forgotten artist. In: Bildende Kunst 7, 1983, 333–335.
  • Anja Cherdron, “Prometheus was not her ancestor”. Berlin sculptors of the Weimar Republic (Berlin 2000).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An expressionist from Schönebeck. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bianca Oldekamp, ​​Volksstimme Magdeburg: The Schönebecker Kreis and Tübke. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Oldenburger, Hans Ludwig Gerhard Wilhelm. Accessed April 30, 2020 .