Walter Reger
Walter Reger (born November 13, 1889 in Hamburg as Julius Walther Reger ; † December 12, 1969 in Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot ) was a German sculptor and professor of sculpture in Berlin . He emerged through building sculpture and was persecuted as "degenerate".
life and work
Walter Reger completed his training at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts and was in Paris for studies in 1912/13. In the years after 1924 he taught as a professor of sculpture at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in the Department of Applied Art. He mainly designed sculptural facade designs and represented an abstract, experimental style, which is why he was targeted by campaigns against so-called “ degenerate art ”.
In autumn 1933 Walter Reger was dismissed from his teaching post by the Nazi authorities because of his conception of art and emigrated to France, where he worked as a farmer. In 1940 his land was expropriated by the German occupying forces; In 1949 he got it back.
Literature and Sources
- Christine Fischer-Defoy: Art makes politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1988, pp. 69, 203, etc.
- Reger, Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 34 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register StA Hamburg 2, No. 4827/1889
- ↑ Death register StA Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot (Lot-et-Garonne), No. 59/1969
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reger, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1969 |
| Place of death | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot |