Sepp Semar

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Sepp Semar (born November 9, 1901 in Zweibrücken , † October 20, 1971 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Postage stamp designed by Sepp Semar in 1936 for the World Congress for Leisure and Recreation in Hamburg

In 1919 Semar was an intern at the district building trade school of the Palatinate Museum of Applied Arts in Kaiserslautern with Hans Dietrich. In 1920 he began studying at the Munich School of Applied Arts with Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and was most recently a master student of Richard Riemerschmid . After completing his studies, he settled in Kaiserslautern in 1924 and worked primarily as a commercial artist, at times with Carl Maria Kiesel in a studio community in Mannheim and in the Rhineland . From 1928 Semar worked as an assistant at the Landesgewerbeanstalt in Kaiserslautern under the graphic artist Hans Dietrich who taught there. During this time, Semar took on numerous design assignments for industry and also received orders from the public sector.

In 1934 Semar then founded his own studio in Berlin, but kept his workshop in Kaiserslautern. In the following years he received numerous large orders in the capital, including orders from the Olympic Office during the preparations for the 1936 Summer Olympics . In 1938 he was allowed to design the “Germany Show” in Greece. Semar had to interrupt his artistic activity in 1943 when he was drafted into military service. He served as a soldier until the end of the war.

In 1945 Semar settled down again in the Palatinate and worked there as a freelance artist and graphic designer. In 1947 he was a founding member of the cultural workers 'union in the DGB, in 1948 co-initiator of the Palatinate Artists' Self-Help, the Working Group of Palatinate Artists and the Association of German Commercial Graphic Artists. From 1955, Semar received several orders from state building construction authorities in Rhineland-Palatinate and was allowed to create numerous works in public spaces.

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As a graphic artist, Semar realized numerous posters for National Socialist organizations in the 1930s, including for Kraft durch Freude , the German Labor Front and the SA . He also designed a poster for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He also created stamp samples for the Reichspost and drew the cover of the magazine "Die Westmark". He also worked for companies in Kaiserslautern, including the machine manufacturer Pfaff . For the printing company Carl Philipp Schmidt (today packaging company CP Schmidt) he created posters, advertising prints and packaging. Around 1967 he was based in Zweibrücken .

Works in public space (selection)

  • Wall mosaic and colored glass windows on the reception building of the Dingler-Werke in Zweibrücken
  • Sgraffito on the building of the agricultural school in Kaiserslautern
  • Sgraffito with strap iron attached to the festival hall in Zweibrücken
  • Work at the district office in Kaiserslautern
  • Work at the Helmholtz high school
  • Ornamental wall in the rose garden in Zweibrücken

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1972: Sepp Semar memorial exhibition , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , February 20–15. March 1972
  • 1972: Sepp Semar memorial exhibition , foyer of the Zweibrücken vocational school, June 17th – 25th. June 1972
  • 2008: Sepp Semar (1901−1971) - A retrospective , City Museum Zweibrücken

Group exhibitions

  • 1924: Young Palatine Graphics , Palatinate Trade Museum, Kaiserslautern

literature

  • Hans Weis: Young Palatinate Graphics . Palatinate Trade Museum, Kaiserslautern 1924
  • E. Hausen: Sepp Semar. An important Saarpfälzer and poster artist . In: Die Westmark , April 1938, p. 379.
  • Carl Maria Kiesel: Sepp Semar, a graphic artist from the Palatinate . In: Pfalz and Pfälzer 3, 1952, No. 7, p. 9.
  • Semar, Sepp . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 360 .
  • Carl Victor: Lexicon of Palatine personalities . 3rd edition, Edenkoben 2004.
  • Charlotte Glück-Christmann: Sepp Semar (1901−1971) - A retrospective . Exhibition catalog, City Museum Zweibrücken, Zweibrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024409-4 .

Web links

  • Biography , German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg
  • Sepp Semar at germandesigners.net: German graphic designers during the Hitler period. Biographical and bibliographical references

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sepp Semar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 360 . and memorial exhibition Sepp Semar , exhibition catalog Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , 1972, p. 6; occasionally Contwig is incorrectly named as the place of birth
  2. ↑ Charlotte Glück-Christmann: Zweibrücken 1793 to 1918: a long century. 25 authors on 125 years of city history . Zweibrücken City Archives, Zweibrücken 2002, p. 443.
  3. ^ Art at CP Schmidt , company website
  4. ^ Biography , German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg
personal data
SURNAME Semar, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 1971
Place of death Zweibrücken