Ulrich Knispel

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Ulrich Knispel (born September 18, 1911 in Altschaumburg near Küstrin , † November 20, 1978 in Reutlingen ) was a German painter , mosaic artist , graphic artist , draftsman and art teacher .

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Life

Ulrich Knispel, son of a pastor, started his training with studies in art, physics and pedagogy after he had graduated from the State Lutheran School in Eisleben in 1930 . He started 1930/31 with a degree at the School of Art Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) at Erwin Hahs , followed by 1931-32 Studies at the Academy of Art Konigsberg at Alfred particles and Fritz Burmann and from 1932 to 1934 at the National Art School in Berlin at Konrad von Kardorff and Curt Lahs with the subsequent artistic examination for teaching at secondary schools. From 1934 to 1936 he studied physics at the University of Halle , graduating with the state examination. From 1939 to 1945 he was called up for military service and was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1948 he worked as a freelance painter, but formally he was listed as a pupil at Giebichenstein Castle under Erwin Hahs. From 1948 to 1951 he taught at Giebichenstein Castle as head of basic teaching. In 1950 he was honored with the Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

A year later, while staying with his students in Ahrenshoop on the Fischland , Knispel aroused the displeasure of the SED and became a victim of the formalism dispute . The study sheets of his students exhibited in the Ahrenshooper Bunten Stube did not correspond to the desired socialist realism, but showed approaches of the "... American putrefaction ideology ... decadent filth of the West ...", as in the defamatory letter to the editor from Ahrenshoop "Life-threatening art dictatorship in 'Giebichenstein'" by Wilhelm Girnus , editor of the newspaper Neues Deutschland . At the end of the "Knispel Affair", Knispel was dismissed from teaching without notice, and his own work was confiscated. He evaded possible arrest by fleeing to the West .

From 1951 to 1953 he worked as a freelancer in West Berlin and then until 1956 as a freelance and art teacher in Scheeßel near Bremen . In 1956 he moved to Dortmund , where he worked as an art teacher at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium , before he was head of the basic teaching department at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund from 1961 to 1965 . From 1965 he held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg , and from 1971 the full professorship for basic teaching in applied arts. From 1975 until his retirement in 1977 he was head of basic teaching in the visual arts department.

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Ulrich Knispel was a painter from the Halle School . He worked both representationally and abstractly . Initially, he oriented himself towards Expressionism and the great loners of modernity . Surrealism later shaped his imaginative artistic work . His work has been represented at numerous international and national art exhibitions alongside well-known artists such as HAP Grieshaber , Georg Meistermann , Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Hann Trier .

literature

  • Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , pp. 246–247.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 103.
  • Dorit Litt (et al.): Ulrich Knispel: the case of Ahrenshoop; a documentation. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg (including), Halle 1994, ISBN 3-86105-091-9 .
  • Knispel, Ulrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 71 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Girnus: Life-threatening art dictatorship in "Giebichenstein". A holiday letter from Ahrenshoop. In: Neues Deutschland , No. 153, July 6, 1951, p. 5
  2. ^ Dorit Litt (et al.): Ulrich Knispel: the case of Ahrenshoop; a documentation. See literature.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Knispel on his 100th birthday: Pictures from three decades. Burg Giebichenstein, Kunsthochschule Halle, 2011, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Knispel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, mosaic artist, graphic artist, draftsman and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Altschaumburg near Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1978
Place of death Reutlingen