Sieghard Pohl
Sieghard Pohl (born September 11, 1925 in Breslau ; † June 13, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German painter, graphic artist and publicist.
Life
Pohl attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Breslau and passed his Abitur examination there. Between 1943 and 1945 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht . After being wounded and imprisoned, he studied from 1951 to 1955 at the Institute for Art Education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig under Elisabeth Voigt and Hans Schulze and then became a freelance artist and art teacher. As an artist, he drew attention to the grievances in the GDR. Several times his pictures were hung up in exhibitions and confiscated, Pohl himself arrested. In 1964 he was sentenced to two years in prison by the Leipzig District Court for "subversive images" and imprisoned in Waldheim prison. In 1965 he was released from prison, ransomed by the Federal Republic and deported to West Berlin. In West Berlin he worked as an art teacher until 1987. In his last years he worked as a freelance painter and publicist.
Works
- The People's Spittoon , 1959
- Morality tables based on emetic poems , 1959/60
- Don't gawk so romantic or the prisoner , 1962
- In the human improvement establishment , 1962/63
- Memory of a Leipzig election campaign , 1963
- Drawings on Greek myths , 1963, created in Waldheim prison
- Raising a Siegesallee , 1972
- View into a Liberated Land , 1972
- Portrait of a coup general , 1973
Fonts
- Extra muros. Short prose, graphics, painting, objects . Bublies Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3926584083
- The disobedient painters of the GDR: claim u. Reality of the SED cultural policy 1965-1979 . Oberbaum, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-87628-164-4
literature
- Siegmar Faust, Bernd-Rainer Barth : Pohl, Sieghard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder: bounded − excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961 to 1989, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-05-003348-7
Web links
- Official artist page
- Literature by and about Sieghard Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ extra muros ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Memorial library in honor of the victims of communism / Stalinism
- ↑ Biography of Sieghard Pohl , Who Was Who in the GDR, Federal Foundation for Coming up with the SED dictatorship
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pohl, Sieghard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1994 |
| Place of death | Berlin |