Walther Hans Reinboth

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Walther Hans Reinboth (born December 18, 1899 in Nordhausen ; † December 15, 1990 in Walkenried ) was a German painter , poet and local researcher .

Life

Walther Hans Reinboth was born as the fifth of six children in the Prussian district town of Nordhausen . His father, Friedrich Ernst Reinboth, worked there as a painter and decorative painter, a business that he and his wife Amalie Reinboth, née. Hendrich, jointly operated.

His passion for art was awakened early on by his older brother, Friedrich Reinboth, who would one day take over his father's business. However, the imperial hussar fell in the Ukraine in 1918 shortly before the end of the First World War , which Walther Hans experienced as a young man in an artillery regiment in Baden .

Before the war began, Walther Reinboth had learned the trade of a businessman at Gebhard & König . In 1922 he got a permanent job at the Börgardts company in Branderode , and a year later he married Emma Wichmann, whom he had met after the war. In 1928 he went back to Nordhausen , where his two younger sons Walther Wolfgang (* 1928) and Friedrich Ludwig (* 1935) were born. The eldest son, Volker Herrmann, was born in Branderode in 1924.

After Nordhausen was largely destroyed by an Allied bombing attack on April 3 and 4, 1945 and Walther Hans, who was drafted into the Wehrmacht during the war, was released from American captivity, the family moved to Walkenried, where Walther Hans returned for the Börgardts company was active. During this time and in the decades of his retirement, most of the approximately 500 watercolors , oil paintings and charcoal drawings as well as the two volumes of poetry "Colored World" (1975) and "Glanz des Lebens" (1978) were created.

Walther Hans Reinboth died in 1990 shortly before reaching the age of 91 after a serious illness.

Artistic creation

Donation cemetery in Nordhausen , built around 1930

Walther Hans Reinboth learned the techniques of painting and drawing as a young man from the Nordhausen painter Albert Seewald , who died in 1923 , but was essentially more of an autodidact . The first drawings were made during the war. In 1943, for example , shortly before they fell victim to the bombing war , he recorded the winding old streets of Frankfurt in a series of chalk drawings. In the later war diaries there are motifs from Saloniki and the landscapes and villages of Albania , Bosnia , Croatia and southern Styria . A selection of his works can be found in the 1990 illustrated book "The Harz - seen by painters".

In addition to painting, Walther Hans also dealt intensively with poetry and cultivated a close friendship with the Nordhausen poet Rudolf Hagelstange . Even before the two volumes of poetry published in the 1970s, a first small booklet with poems on the Harz was self-published in 1923 .

He was also active in homeland and cave research and was the godfather of the Walkenried Association for Local History, which he led until he was 90. For his life's achievements in the artistic and historical field, he was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit (on ribbon) on February 14, 1984 .

literature

  • Siegfrid and Ursula Gehrke: The Harz - seen by painters (1850-1950) . Printing and publishing house Erich Golze GmbH & Co. KG, 1990, ISBN 3-88452-832-7

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