Susanne Kandt-Horn

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Susanne Kandt-Horn , born Anna Susanne Nebe (born October 3, 1914 in Eisenach ; † June 11, 1996 in Ückeritz ), was a German painter and graphic artist .

From 1954 she and her husband, the painter Manfred Kandt , belonged to the independent group of Usedom painters around Otto Manigk, Otto Niemeyer-Holstein and Herbert Wegehaupt.

After the change in cultural policy in the GDR at the beginning of the 1970s, in addition to the building-related works and the large-format, strong zincographies (by Gerhardt Günther, Halle / S.), Her paintings in particular attracted a lot of social attention. In 1979 she was awarded the national prize for her “part in shaping the image of man in painting”.

Life

Susanne Kandt-Horn was born in Eisenach in 1914. Her father was the castle warden and castle captain of the Wartburg , Hermann Nebe ; her mother was Irmgard Kürschner (1888–1961), a daughter of the lexicographer Joseph Kürschner . From 1932 to 1936 she trained as a bookseller and attended Hermann Blechschmidt's drawing school in Eisenach . She then continued her artistic education in Berlin with the sculptor Hermann Hosaeus , in whose house she also lived, and in evening studies at the Berlin-Charlottenburg University of Fine Arts. From 1940 she worked as a technical draftsman in the Air Force as part of the obligatory military service . Between 1942 and 1944 she married the Air Force officer Johannes Horn and had two children. In 1944 her husband fell victim to the war as a soldier. From 1945 she worked as a freelance painter in Eisenach. Since 1954 she lived and worked with her second husband, the painter and graphic artist Manfred Kandt (1922–1992), in Ückeritz on the island of Usedom . At the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s, the creative phase began, for which she became known in large parts of the population. Today your name stands for an unmistakable and impressive image of man.

Susanne Kandt-Horn died on June 11, 1996 at the age of 81 in Ückeritz.

Act

Susanne Kandt-Horn and her husband were part of the Usedom artist group around the painters Otto Manigk , Otto Niemeyer-Holstein and Herbert Wegehaupt . Unlike their colleagues, the couple also devoted themselves to large-scale and monumental art with thematic references.

From 1961 to 1963 she went on study trips to Bulgaria and the USSR , followed by trips to Italy , Great Britain , France and the Netherlands .

The focus of Susanne Kandt-Horn's work from the beginning to the end of her work was the image of man, whereby the enormous number of her concrete and general portraits of women and nudes attracted great attention from society as a whole. The stylistic change in her work at the beginning of the 1970s was accompanied by a turn to thematic works, from “Charitas 72” to “Threat” or “Strange Gathering or Napoleon Was Not Invited”, in which she foreshadowed significant social changes. She left more detailed works of art around 1980 in the former military base of Prora / Rügen, where she made colorful mask images for the dining room of the officers 'college for foreign military personnel, symbolizing the origins of the officers' students from Asia, Africa and Latin America. She mastered a wide variety of techniques with ease: oil painting, watercolor, drawing, lithography, zincography, mosaics, templates for tapestries.

Publicly owned work

  • Beeskow, art archive
  • German Peace Council V.
  • Eisenach, Thuringian Museum
  • Eisenhüttenstadt, Municipal Museum
  • Erfurt, Angermuseum
  • Frankfurt / Oder, Museum of Young Art
  • Gera, art collections
  • Halle, Moritzburg Foundation, Saxony-Anhalt Art Museum
  • Heringsdorf, Seebad, Villa Irmgard - Maxim Gorki Memorial
  • Leipzig, Gewandhaus
  • Leipzig, university
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts (loan from Gewandhaus)
  • Lüttenort (Koserow), Otto Niemeyer-Holstein memorial studio
  • Rostock, art gallery
  • Rostock, town hall
  • Rostock, University
  • Rostock, Volkstheater
  • Rostock, DRK nursing and retirement home Evershagen
  • Schwerin, State Museum
  • Szczecin (Stettin), National Museum
  • Stralsund, Museum of Cultural History
  • Stralsund, Theater Vorpommern
  • Ückeritz, Evangelical Church Koserow, (currently Koserow parish hall)

Numerous building-related works can be found in schools, kindergartens, theaters, cinemas, hospitals, holiday homes, hotels and ships in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Exhibitions

Kandt-Horn participated in all major art exhibitions in the GDR and numerous exhibitions abroad, including a. in the cities of Prague, Bratislava, Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Helsinki, New Delhi, Warsaw, Krakow, Szczecin, Damascus, Genoa, Livorno, Vienna, Bonn, Güstrow. She had solo exhibitions in Eisenach, Weimar, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Sondershausen, Schwerin, Berlin, Erfurt, Bad Kösen, Ahrenshoop, Rostock, Stralsund, Riga, Szczecin, Krakow, Greifswald, Halle, Leipzig, Eisenhüttenstadt, Steinau an der Straße and Heringsdorf.

A selection of the exhibitions

Honors

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Petra Dubilski: Usedom . DuMont , Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7701-5978-9 , pp. 39 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Susanne Kandt-Horn 100th birthday . In: Hallo Eisenach, September 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Naked and natural: nude photography by Günter Rössler. Märkische Oderzeitung , October 12, 2008, accessed on November 7, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Kandt-Horn, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nebe, Anna Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1996
Place of death Ückeritz