Walter Günteritz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walter Günteritz , also Walter Roon-Günteritz , pseudonym Carl Heinz Roon (born July 11, 1888 in Neubrandenburg , † September 23, 1962 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Walter Günteritz was a son of the Neubrandenburg watchmaker Otto Günteritz. He attended grammar school in Neubrandenburg. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter , he began studying at the State School of Applied Arts in 1911. In 1913 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His main subject was drawing.

In 1914/15 he was a curator at the Grand Ducal Castle Museum in Neustrelitz and a specialist teacher for technical drawing at the Technikum Strelitz . He then became a soldier in the First World War . After its end he moved to Lübeck as a subject teacher in 1918/19 . Here he designed emergency money notes in 1921 , including for the Nordic Week , Lübeck- Gothmund , the Lübecker Schiffergesellschaft and a non-existent town of Neukirch .

Günteritz made numerous trips abroad, to Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Africa and Brazil. He came back in 1928, lived in Hamburg and worked as a set designer for films, including the film “Brothers”, 1929 (director: Werner Hochbaum ). In 1931 he moved back to Neubrandenburg. From 1935 to 1945 he was head of the municipal art collection in Palais Neubrandenburg and the local history museum . In the National Socialist SA he reached the rank of SA-Obersturmbannführer , in 1939 he was appointed to the SA culture. In 1945 he fled to Hamburg.

Güteritz spent his twilight years in Darmstadt. His widow bequeathed her fortune to the art collection Neubrandenburg . This enabled the art collection to make numerous new purchases and thus compensate for some war losses.

plant

Günteritz worked as a landscape and portrait painter. His preferred motifs included depictions of cities and landscapes from his northern German homeland, seascapes and portraits . Among other things, a portrait of Richard Wossidlo is known of him. His portrayal of young SA men was shown in full in 1939 in the magazine Der SA.-Führer .

In an exhibition review from 1933, his work is described as follows: Walter Günteritz is a dashing portraitist with a strong concession to the ladylike or gentlemanly. Everything he exhibits spreads an atmosphere of social security, even social well-being, around him.

In the early 1950s he painted numerous covers for the Güldensee booklet of the Fritz Maidicke Verlag, Hamburg. In 1953 he moved to Darmstadt, from where he designed several covers of the Erdball crime fiction booklets published by Kurt W. Blohm Verlag, Hamburg, with romantic depictions.

Illustrations

  • Goethe's unknown erotic epigrams with etchings after the poet's collection of erotic gems by Carl Heinz Roon. Venice: St. Mark's Circle 1924
Reprints: Dortmund: Harenberg 1983 ISBN 978-3-88379-405-1 ; Wolfenbüttel: Melchior 2009 ISBN 978-3-941555-08-2

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3622 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 05266 Walter Günteritz, register book 1884-1920
  2. ^ Banknote / Notgeld Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck "Gemeinde Neukirch" 3 Marks, 1922
  3. ↑ Pictures by Walther Güntritz. In: Father-city sheets. Illustrated entertainment supplement to the Lübeck advertisements. 1922, no.24, 4 ills. Of paintings. (Text NN, possibly Conrad Neckels?)
  4. ↑ Uta Baier: In the tradition of the bourgeois donors - the old art collections of the city of Neubrandenburg have been lost since 1945. Website of the Kulturstiftung der Länder
  5. ↑ Justice Administration of the State of Berlin: List of foundations with legal capacity under civil law based in Berlin: Mertens-Günteritz-Stiftung
  6. ↑ Interview with Merete Cobarg , head of the Neubrandenburg art collection
  7. ↑ Young SA man . Full-page illustration in Der SA.-Führer. Journal of the SA leaders of the NSDAP. 4 (1939), issue 4 April 1939
  8. ^ Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 9 (1933), p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Günteritz, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roon-Günteritz, Walter; Roon, Carl Heinz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1962
Place of death Darmstadt