Toni Trepte

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Toni Trepte (born March 10, 1909 in Ampfing ; † June 6, 1981 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist , sculptor , essayist and writer .

life and work

Trepte studied painting and art history at the Munich Academy of Applied Arts. The magazine Jugend and the weekly Simplicissimus published articles by Trepte while he was still a student. In 1930 Treptes first story, The Disturbed Knödelbogen , with his own drawings, appeared in what was then the Munich Latest News . As a freelancer, he worked for various daily newspapers (including the Augsburger Allgemeine ) and satirical papers. Trepte did not publish anything during the time of National Socialism .

Shortly before the Second World War , he worked as a technical employee of the Reichsbahn, and later, transferred to Danzig, designed signal boxes, waterworks and residential buildings until 1943 and supervised their completion. After imprisonment in Russia he moved back to Munich and worked as a drawing teacher at a grammar school and at the adult education center. Trepte wrote art reviews for the Augsburger Allgemeine and became a regular draftsman at the Neue Zeitung , Munich, where he made a name for himself with bizarre graphic series. In addition, he created book illustrations and portraits of prominent people.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Trepte received - mostly after competitions or tenders - numerous commissions for art in construction in administrative buildings, schools and companies, including for a school in Munich-Fürstenried, a wall relief for a crèche in Moosach and a fountain Nagelfluh for the so-called Plobenhof in Nuremberg , but also work in France and Italy. The spectrum of these works ranges from wall graphics to reliefs, church windows and facade designs, with materials ranging from stone to concrete, metal to glass and wood. His work was awarded the gold medal at an international art exhibition in Monaco, and he was awarded another medal at the Biennale Regionale Ancona.

In 1972, Trepte received the Schwabing Art Prize in the painting and graphics category.

In the last years of his life he was a member of the jury for the Schwabing Art Prize . Trepte died in 1981 at the age of 72. He was buried in the family grave in the Munich cemetery at Perlacher Forst .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Franz Freisleder: Toni Trepte . In: From the dream city: 50 years of the Schwabing Art Prize; the winners from 1961 to 2010 . Editor: Kulturreferat München, editor: Brigitta Rambeck, Edition Monacensia, Allitera-Verlag, 2010, pp. 110–111.
  2. ^ Marianne Heilmannseder: Toni Trepte . In: Bayern Magazin, vol. 2, no. 11, 1972, pp. 44-45.
  3. ↑ Schwabing Art Prize Winner '72 . Münchner Leben, 1972, No. 6, pp. 46–47.
  4. ^ Karl Ude: On the death of Toni Trepte . Münchner Stadtanzeiger, vol. 37, no.47, June 26, 1981.
  5. ^ Tomb in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 29, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Trepte, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Ampfing
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1981
Place of death Munich