Vincent Burek

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Vincent Burek (born July 18, 1920 in Ruda , Upper Silesia , † December 21, 1975 in Ziegenhain ) was a painter and graphic artist .

Life

From 1936 to 1939 he studied fine and applied arts in Breslau . At the age of 18, he received the scholarship of the year for a trip to the Balkans . When the war broke out, he returned to Germany and remained as a master student at the Breslau Academy until he was called up.

He came to Russia as a soldier , was captured in Stalingrad and remained in captivity in the Urals until the end of the war . Numerous, mostly small-format watercolors and drawings were created during the war and in captivity. After the war he worked as an illustrator for the horizon in Berlin .

In 1947 Vincent Burek came to Ziegenhain in Schwalm in Hesse, where he founded the artist group “ neue schwalm ”, an offshoot of the Willingshausen painters' colony , in 1951 . As a member of the Kassel Art Association , he was also a member of the " Kassel Group " since 1955 .

Mural Bureks at the school on Alleeplatz in Ziegenhain in April 2020, shortly before the removal in the course of a major renovation.

Since 1949 he has been creating oil paintings, watercolors, as well as charcoal drawings and linocuts that are typical for him , with which he picked up the tradition of Schwalm painting and introduced a new design method. Between 1955 and 1970 he carried out numerous orders for wall design on public buildings, for example at the Schwalm School in Treysa or at the school on Alleeplatz in Ziegenhain . In addition, he designed ground glass and church glass windows and worked in the fields of industrial design and advertising graphics . The linocut series graphics from the Schwalm was created in 1965 .

Vincent Burek was co-initiator of the German-Belgian artists' association " Zwalmbruecke " and founder and head of the art cabinet in the Museum der Schwalm. He died on December 21, 1975 in his adopted home town of Ziegenhain.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylke Grede: Traces of an artist are disappearing: Burek mural is removed from the facade. Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine, April 19, 2020, accessed on April 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Burek, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruda , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1975
Place of death Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt)