Ullrich Bewersdorff
Ullrich Bewersdorff (born January 5, 1920 in Bornzin , Stolp district ; † December 20, 2008 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German painter , graphic artist , medalist and university drawing teacher.
Life
Born as a teacher's son in a small town in Western Pomerania, he discovered his interest and passion for art when he was still at high school. He studied from 1939 to 1940 and 1942 to 1943 at the Institute for Art Education in Berlin and from 1948 to 1950 at Burg Giebichenstein and at the Martin Luther University in Halle. His teachers were Conrad Felixmüller , Karl Rössing , Erwin Hahs , Fritz Freitag, Herbert Post , Gustav Weidanz , Curt Lahs and Wilhelm Worringer .
After completing his studies in the field of art, Ullrich Bewersdorff took his first position (1950–1960) at the Francke Foundations in Halle as an art teacher. In 1962, Ullrich Bewersdorff took over from Felixmüller as a lecturer at the Martin Luther University, the only one in Germany to be called a "university drawing teacher". In 1985 teaching at the university ended with subsequent retirement, and Benno Schulz became his successor . From 1994 to 1998 Bewersdorff was politically active as a city councilor for the FDP in the Halle city council.
In addition to teaching, Bewersdorff created a number of paintings and portraits. With woodcuts, oil paintings, bookplates , drawings and watercolors, he became known as an artist nationwide. Ullrich Bewersdorff had exhibitions in many European countries. During his creative period 185 bookplates were created, preferably in black and white woodcut technique.
In 1974 he received the art prize of the city of Halle.
Publications
- Klaus Rödel: Bookplate som bogillustration. Ullrich Bewersdorff and hans bogejermaerker with motives from Bertolt Brechts digte and theater style. (= Bookplate publication. 100). Bookplate, Frederikshavn 1970.
- Illustrations to Brecht. With an essay by Günter Hartung. Halle-Wittenberg 1973. Honorary gift of the rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on the occasion of the Brecht year 1973.
- Impressions from the lecture life of the Leopoldina. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle 1993.
- Ullrich Bewersdorff: malarstwo i grafika. Catalog wystawy Kluki maj-czerwiec 2005. = Ullrich Bewersdorff: painter and graphic artist from Western Pomerania. Catalog of the exhibition Kluki May – June 2005. Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego, Słupsk 2005.
- Illustrated bookplate catalog raisonné. (= Bookplate publication. 424). Frederikshavn Art Museum, Frederikshavn 2007, ISBN 87-7317-331-2 . With an introduction by Klaus Rödel.
literature
- Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 72 (wrongly under: Bewersdorf).
- Margarete Wein: Capturing the diversity of the world in pictures. Ullrich Bewersdorff - artist, art teacher, university drawing teacher - is 80. In: Universitätszeitung , Halle, 2000, pp. 6–7 (PDF; 774 kB)
- Margarete Wein: In the Kluki museum village, pictures from “UB”. Personal exhibition on the occasion of Ullrich Bewersdorff's 85th birthday. In: Universitätszeitung , Halle, February 2005, p. 8 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
- Marlene Köhler: Everything has to come from me , artist from Halle. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 23, 2007
- Hans-Georg Sehrt: "... to awaken and promote the joy of painting and art" . Memories of Ullrich Bewersdorff. In: Marginalia. Journal of book art and bibliophilia. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 193, 2009, pp. 71-73 ISSN 0025-2948
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 72.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bewersdorff, Ullrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bornzin , Stolp district |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2008 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |