Volker Engelhardt

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Gustav Volker Engelhardt (born September 13, 1910 in Wurzen ; † November 29, 1983 ibid) was a German artist , painter and graphic artist . He lived and worked mainly in his hometown.

Live and act

Childhood, youth, studies

Volker Engelhardt was born to Hermann Engelhardt (1869–1953), a graduate engineer in the Wurzen machine factory, and Margarethe Engelhardt (née Rieß, 1876–1949). His grandfather Hermann Gustav Riess was vice principal at the Königlich Gymnasium in Wurzen. After graduating from the state high school in Wurzen (1929), he studied from 1930 at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry (today University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig ); he was a student in the master classes of Paul Horst-Schulze and Walter Tiemann . He completed his studies in February 1937. From May 1, 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP .

First professional activity

In 1937 Engelhardt designed and realized a three-part leaded glass window in what was then Stadtsparkasse Wurzen, Schweizergartenstrasse 2, at the corner of August-Fleischer-Strasse. From November 1938 to 1943 he was the exhibition manager for the annual national art exhibitions in Wurzen , and from the fourth exhibition onwards he was also the curator.

1939 to 1947

At the beginning of the Second World War , the short Engelhardt was called up for alternative service, from then on he kept his personal war diary until 1944. In 1945 the NKVD arrested him , he was imprisoned in Bautzen ( camp for special contingent no. 4 ) and in Tost (today Toszek ). Thanks to his art of drawing - he portrayed Soviet officers - he received better food. After the camp was closed, he returned to Wurzen. In 1946 Engelhardt became a member of the CDU and was active in the local advisory board, in the district association and in committees of the city council. He created - probably on commission - portraits of the politicians Otto Nuschke and Wilhelm Pieck (both lost).

Since 1948

Engelhardt worked as a freelance graphic designer, for example for today's Kulturhistorisches Museum Wurzen, for companies and institutions in the region. He created lettering for the city library, for the Viktoria Theater, for the 850th anniversary of the Wurzner Dom and a corporate design for the CDU. He worked for the Albert-Kuntz-Kombinat and for the clinic in Thallwitz and designed both murals for the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Wurzen as well as a memorial plaque for the fallen members of the parish, the Evangelical Lutheran St. Wenceslai - Wurzen Church.

Since 1950 Engelhardt worked as a graphic designer for the CDU regional newspaper Die Union and as a designer for the CDU regional newspaper Der Neue Weg . He designed vignettes and illustrations for articles in the Wurzen regional magazine Rundblick . He was involved in the preservation of monuments and cultural policy in his hometown.

Engelhardt increasingly devoted himself to his artistic work. In the 1950s and 1960s, many sketchbooks with landscape motifs from the Baltic Sea, Rügen, Hiddensee, Harz, Thuringian Forest and Prenzlau were created during numerous trips.

In 1959 he carried out an order from the Wurzen adult education center for a wall design. In 1961, Volker Engelhardt was responsible for the complete artistic and graphic design of the 1000th anniversary of Wurzens; he designed the corresponding festival plaque. In 1972 he created an abstract wall design from colored ceramic tiles for the Wurzen public swimming pool (which fell victim to the renovation years later).

Until shortly before his death at the age of 73, Engelhardt made portraits and animal pictures to order. His grave is in the Wurzen cemetery.

Private

Volker Engelhardt lived in his parents' villa at Hindenburgstrasse 19 (today Strasse des Friedens 19 in Wurzen). On June 4, 1955, he married Ellen Schroeder from Berlin / Prenzlau, who was sixteen years his junior. She died in 2011.

Engelhardt's life was marked by a number of difficulties due to his short stature . At the same time, however, this prevented his drafting into military and war service and the associated consequences.

Exhibitions

  • 1938: Art exhibition of the Grimma district
  • 2011: Commemorative exhibition of the city for the 100th birthday of the painter and graphic artist, from March 6th to April 15th 2011, in the municipal gallery in the historical town hall Wurzen.

Publications

  • Small study trip on the Main and Rhine. State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry , Leipzig 1933, DNB 579347265 .
  • The old City Hall. Linocut. In: In the millennial city - Wurzen 961–1961. Portfolio with 18 linocuts from Wurzenerviews. (Works by Rudolf Wiegand, Hans Thust, Volker Engelhardt, Hans-Peter Zoche, Hans-Peter Hund, Arno Strassberger and Egon Peisker.) Edited by the editorial team of the Rundblick and working group for fine arts in the German Cultural Association. Wurzen 1961 (?).

literature

  • Sabine Jung (Ed.): Volker Engelhardt - a piece of home. Catalog for the commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday of the city's painter and graphic artist. Municipal gallery in the historic town hall, March 6 to April 15, 2011. Wurzen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814317-0-4 , DNB 1010480375 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ellen Engelhardt: Obituaries. In: lvz-trauer.de. Leipziger Volkszeitung , accessed on October 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Sabine Jung (Ed.): Volker Engelhardt - a piece of home. Catalog for the commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday of the city's painter and graphic artist. Municipal gallery in the historic town hall, March 6 to April 15, 2011, Wurzen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814317-0-4 . Pp. 4, 7, 44-48.
  3. ↑ Volker Engelhardt: Art Exhibition of the Grimma District, 1938 . 1938 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ Ingrid Leps: Wurzen - Volker Engelhardt exhibition in the city gallery. In: LVZ-Online , March 6, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Gustav Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1983
Place of death Spice up