Walter Funkat

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Walter Funkat (born June 16, 1906 in Hanover ; † June 4, 2006 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German commercial artist and cultural politician .

Life

Funkat studied from 1924 to 1926 at the state art and trade school in Königsberg and then until 1927 graphics at the art academy there. He then studied at the Bauhaus Dessau until 1930 with the masters Josef Albers , Herbert Bayer , Marcel Breuer , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , László Moholy-Nagy , Oskar Schlemmer and Joost Schmidt . From 1940 to 1945 he did military service and was a prisoner of war as a soldier .

After returning to Germany, he went to Halle and in 1946 began teaching at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design . He founded a class for commercial art , which he headed until 1968th In 1948 he was appointed deputy director of the university and in 1950 director. From 1958 to 1964 he was the first rector of Burg Giebichenstein . He then worked as director of the Institute for Craft Art at the same educational institution until 1971, and from 1970 to 1983 headed the advanced training courses there for craftspeople . He also worked as a consultant in the trademark association “ expertic ”.

Funkat was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and from 1950 to 1952, as a member of the parliamentary group of the Kulturbund, a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt .

In 1976 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1981 in gold.

After the political turning point in the GDR in 1989, Walter Funkat played a key role in maintaining and expanding the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. In 1994 he was awarded the title of Honorary Senator in recognition of his services to the establishment and development of the university.

literature

  • Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle (Ed.): Walter Funkat and students. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle from April 29 to July 1, 1984) Halle 1984.
  • Walter Funkat: Beginnings. A monologue. In: Renate Luckner-Bien (Ed.): 75 years of Giebichenstein Castle 1915–1990. Hall 1990.
  • Renate Luckner-Bien (Ed.): Walter Funkat on his 90th birthday. Hall 1996.
  • Ute Brüning, Angela Dolgner , Helmut Brade , Eva Natus-Salamoun, Jens Semrau: Walter Funkat. From the Bauhaus to Giebichenstein Castle. Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000, ISBN 3-910192-33-5 .
  • Katharina Heider: From applied arts to industrial design. The Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) from 1945 to 1958. Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-89739-672-2 .
  • Beatrice Vierneisel:  Funkat, Walter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In conversation with Prof. Walter Funkat . In: Neues Deutschland , July 13, 1988, p. 4.
  2. ^ List of candidates in Minutes No. 5 of the Politburo meeting of the SED Central Committee on August 22, 1950 - Federal Archives
  3. ^ New Germany , 1./2. May 1976, p. 5
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1981, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Funkat, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2006
Place of death Halle (Saale)