Werner Schinko

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Werner Schinko (2009)
Mural by Werner Schinko in Sietow

Werner Schinko (born October 4, 1929 in Wurzelsdorf (Kořenov, Czechoslovakia ); † July 5, 2016 in Röbel / Müritz ) was a German painter and graphic artist . In the GDR he was one of the most important book illustrators .

Life

The son of a tailor attended elementary school in Wurzelsdorf in Bohemia from 1935 . In 1943 he began an apprenticeship as a glass painter at the state college for the jewelry industry in Gablonz an der Neisse . In April 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm , but was never used. After the end of World War II , he was, like most Sudeten Germans from the Czechoslovakia expelled . In 1946 he was relocated to Röbel / Müritz and initially worked as an unskilled worker in a wood turner's workshop .

Werner Schinko studied from 1950 to 1955 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , where Werner Klemke , Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer and Ernst Jadzewski were among his teachers. As a diploma thesis , he produced a series of woodcuts for Fritz Reuter's verse tale Kein Hüsung . In 1955 he returned to Röbel and worked there as a freelance graphic designer.

His diploma thesis earned him membership in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . He became a book illustrator for Hinstorff Verlag and edited more than 100 book titles between 1959 and 1989, including 30 volumes of Low German literature and numerous children's books. In 1962 Werner Schinko took over the title design of the magazine Die Unterstufe and designed over 300 cover pictures for the magazine by 1996.

Between 1958 and 1987 he was represented at the art exhibitions of the GDR (4th to 10th). After the fall of the Wall , he took part in several study events in the Worpswede artists' colony . In 1996 he exhibited at Palais Rameau in Lille and at the Old Stock Exchange in Amsterdam .

The Fritz Reuter Society , whose letter of honor Werner Schinko received, determined in 1997 when evaluating their Stasi files (enemy object "center") that the Stasi had tried in 1988 in vain to "use Schinko" against the Reuter Society. In 2004, on Schinko's 75th birthday, the society expressly thanked him for “his upright and clear attitude towards the Ministry for State Security of the GDR”. In their bulletin read: "The attempt of the ministry to win him as an informant 'to clarify entanglements to the enemy object file center' (meaning the FRG) failed." In the Stasi files on the Fritz Reuter Society is documented : “The contact to the person Sch. [Schinko] Röbel could not be made positive. Sch. [Schinko] refuses to cooperate. "

Honors

Mural in Röbel

Book illustrations

Schinko illustrated, among other things:

literature

  • Werner Schinko: "Pictures of the North" . With 240 illustrations and texts by Raimund Hoffmann and Werner Schinko. Ed. Morizaner, Waren 2011, ISBN 978-3-941803-03-9 .
  • Werner Schinko: "Mecklenburg has become my home". The painter and graphic artist Werner Schinko has lived in Röbel an der Müritz for more than 60 years. In: Nordkurier . April 27, 2009, p. 25.
  • Linda Schmitz-Kleinreesink, Christine Vogt (eds.): Robber Hotzenplotz, Krabat and The Little Witch Otfried Preußler - figure creator and storyteller , Oberhausen 2020. ISBN 978-3-932236-44-0

Exhibitions

  • "Drawn Life - Painting and Graphics by Werner Schinko", on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2009 in the Schleswig-Holstein House in Schwerin and then in the art collection Neubrandenburg
  • 2020: Robber Hotzenplotz, Krabat and The Little Witch Otfried Preußler - figure creator and storyteller Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

Letters

  • 93 Letters and cards Werner Schinko to Hans-Joachim Griephan March 8, 1986 to November 17, 2007
  • 35 letters and cards from Hans-Joachim Griephan to Werner Schinko February 19, 1986 to February 17, 1992
  • 9 cards Werner Schinko to Gottwalt Pankow , owner of the Reinhold Pabel antiquarian bookshop in Hamburg. March 6, 1989 to August 1, 1990
  • Werner Schinko to Helmut de Voss April 11, 1986 and October 1992

Web links

Commons : Werner Schinko  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schinko is dead . Norddeutscher Rundfunk , July 6, 2016, accessed on July 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Reuter Society, Neubrandenburg, November 2004, No. 62, p. 7.
  3. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
  4. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
  5. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
  6. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Schinko, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th july 2016
Place of death Röbel / Müritz