Tom Beyer

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Tom Beyer (born May 17, 1907 in Münster , † September 9, 1981 in Stralsund ) was a German painter.

Life

Beyer was born in 1907 in Münster, Westphalia, where he attended the Werkkunstschule from 1924 and then the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts until 1926 . Study trips through Europe in 1927 led him to Sweden , where in Landskrona at Ernst Norlind his attitude was decisively shaped the landscape of the North. Further stops on the study trips between 1927 and 1931 were Paris , Denmark and Finland .

In 1931 he moved to Berlin , where he opened a studio in the same year and joined the KPD . In 1935 he traveled to the island of Rügen , where he settled in Göhren . Like many other artists, Tom Beyer was also affected by the National Socialists' ban on exhibitions . From 1939 to 1945 Beyer took part in the Second World War as a soldier.

After the war Tom Beyer lived in Göhren until 1952. He opened and directed an art school (Landeskunstschule Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) in Putbus Castle. In 1950 he became regional chairman of the Association of Visual Artists .

In 1952 he moved to Stralsund, where he married Lieselotte Pelzner in the same year, with whom he also had a son, Peter Beyer, in 1952. In Stralsund, he looked after folk art groups at the Stralsund shipyard and gave lectures. Numerous exhibitions in the GDR and abroad underline the importance of Beyer, who as a member of the SED also recorded the socialist construction in his works. He created a large mural for the “Löwen's Hall” in Stralsund Town Hall . Mostly he was dedicated to the people and nature of his adopted home. From 1972 he was a part-time professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Beyer died in Stralsund in 1981. A school was named after him in Göhren. His student, the Stralsund painter and graphic artist Eckhard Buchholz , recently created an artistic monument for him in the form of the large-format portrait “Painter Professor Tom Beyer” (oil, 105 × 85 cm, 2014/15) as a portrait.

Works (selection)

  • Church in Middelhagen , 1946
  • Fishing boats on the beach
  • Netzflicker on Hiddensee , 1951
  • Fishermen on the Beach , 1954
  • At a shipyard , 1959
  • Landscape with a Cornfield , 1965
  • Fishermen at the harbor
  • Klönsnack in front of the house on Rügen
  • View of Stralsund
  • Stony beach
  • City on the Sund , 1965
  • Homestead on the Bodden , 1979
  • Stony coast , 1979
  • Sunny Beach , 1979

Numerous works by Beyer are in the possession of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund , others are privately owned.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Christine Beyer and Jo Jastram : Tom Beyer (1907-1981). For the exhibition on the 100th birthday in May 2007 Hanse-Galerie Stralsund in cooperation with the Cultural History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund . Stralsund, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-937938-11-0
  • Ruth Negendanck : Hiddensee: the special island for artists. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2005, ISBN 978-3-88132-288-1 . Pp. 169-171
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 968 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 29, 1967, p. 2
  2. ^ New Germany, April 30/11. May 1977, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1981
Place of death Stralsund