Walter Nikusch
Walter Nikusch (born August 10, 1908 in Leipzig , † April 1, 1987 in Kassel ) was an expressionist German graphic artist , book designer , curator and painter .
education
Walter Nikusch studied from 1924 to 1930 at the Leipzig Academy with Georg Mathéy and Walter Tiemann . From 1934 to 1937 he lived in Frankfurt am Main . In 1937 he moved to Kassel. In 1948 he was a member of the exclusion from work for the re-establishment of the KasselerKunstVereins under the leadership of curator Herbert von Buttlar and was curator and managing director of the KasselerKunstVereins from 1949 to 1976 . In 1953 he created a fresco on the outside of the Kassel Luisenschule.
Exhibitions
- 1947: Ständehaus, Kassel,
- 1948: Meißen City Museum, Meißen
- 1955: Group Kassel , KasselerKunstVerein, Ständehaus, Kassel
- 1974: The graphic work , KasselerKunstVerein, Kassel
- 1985: Five painters in Kassel , KasselerKunstVerein, Kassel
Book designs
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.): Young German painters . Kassel, 1959
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.): Art from 1835 to 1960 from Kassel private collection: 125 years of the Kasseler Kunstverein . Kassel, 1960.
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.): Memorial exhibition Carl Döbel . Kassel, 1960
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.) 5 young artists, scholarship holders of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry . Kassel, 1962
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.): Fritz Winter: New pictures and pictures from Kassel private collection . Kassel, 1962.
- Kasseler Kunstverein (ed.): Friederike Voigt: Naive painting . Kassel, 1962.
Works in museums
- New gallery , Kassel
literature
- Paul Schmaling: Artists' Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000 , Kassel 2001
- KasselerKunstVerein (ed.): Walter Nikusch: Das graphische Werk , Kassel, 1974.
- Michael Eissenhauer (Ed.): A House for Modernity , Kassel, 2001.
- Manfred Marx, Heiner Georgsdorf: 150 Years of the Kasseler Kunstverein - A Chronicle . Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1985
- Nikusch, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Nikusch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kasseler Zeitung , July 15, 1949
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikusch, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expressionist painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1987 |
| Place of death | kassel |