Will Schestak

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Will Schestak (full name: Wilhelm Max Karl Schestak ; born July 18, 1918 in Mariaschein , Northern Bohemia - Austria-Hungary ; † April 1, 2012 in Burgstädt ) was a German portrait painter , draftsman and lithographer .

Life

Schestak attended the arts and crafts school in Reichenberg near Fraaß and von Friedenfels from 1932 to 1935 . He then began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with Heinrich Hönich , which he graduated in 1940. From 1940 to 1945 he was drafted into the war and in 1945, after expulsion from his homeland, Chemnitz became his adopted home. From 1945 he worked as a freelance artist in Chemnitz and met his wife Gertrud (* 1919). He became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Germany (later the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR ) and started a family. From 1946 he took part in all district art exhibitions in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. From 1947 to 1949 Schestak taught portrait drawing at the Volkshochschule Chemnitz. Together with Rudi Gruner , Willy Wittig and Gerhard Klampäckel , he designed the cultural new beginning in Chemnitz. From 1953 he took part in the third, fourth and fifth art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden and in 1973 at the international artist symposium in Piestany in Slovakia . Will Schestak was the oldest member of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund eV

Works (excerpt)

  • Boy with a Striped Vest, oil on canvas, 1948
  • Mother with son, oil, 1949
  • Activist of HO, Oil, 3rd German Art Exhibition Dresden, Albertinum, 1953
  • Renate, Oil, 3rd German Art Exhibition Dresden, Albertinum, 1953
  • Painter, chalk, 3rd German Art Exhibition Dresden 1953
  • Our children are in good hands, Öl, 4th German Art Exhibition Dresden 1958
  • Christian with a red sweater, oil on canvas, 1959
  • Cooperative farmer, oil, 5th German art exhibition 1962
  • Young ring spinner, oil, 5th German Art Exhibition 1962
  • Portrait Ulrich Wehling, oil, 1976
  • in public collections etc. a. in the National Gallery in Prague, the City Art Collections in Chemnitz, the Galerie Junge Kunst Frankfurt an der Oder, the new Saxon Gallery in Chemnitz, the gallery in Trnava, Slovakia.
  • The Kunstverein Laterne eV campaigned for the preservation of Will Schestak's mural in the former spinning machine building in Chemnitz.

Honors

Exhibitions

  • Participation in the third, fourth and fifth art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden
  • since 1946 regular participation in the district art exhibition Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1954 district art exhibition in Leipzig
  • 1963 Exhibition 10 years of architecture, fine arts and visual folk creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1971 Face of the Working Class, Berlin
  • 1976 Youth and Youth Objects, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1977 Art and Sport, Leipzig
  • 1982 Portrait + Group, exhibition of the painters and graphic artists section of the VBK / GDR, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1984 retrospective Karl-Marx-Stadt, ibid
  • Participation in the international artist symposium in Piestany in Slovakia in 1973

literature

  • Schestak, Will . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 182 .
  • Sven-Wieland Staps: Schestak, Will . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 101, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023267-7 , p. 457.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 824 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; District Art Center (Ed.): Retrospective 1945–1984 . Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985. Druckhaus, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .
  • Our portrait: Will Schestak . In: look . No. 6 , February 5, 1964, ZDB -ID 1139743-3 , p. 4 .
  • Georg Felsmann: Will Schestak - painting, graphic: Exhibition for his 80th birthday . Ed .: Artist Association. Wagner, Chemnitz 1998, OCLC 313476877 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgstädter Kirchenbote, May 2012, p. 7 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 881 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtkirche-burgstaedt.de  
  2. ↑ Freie Presse of April 10, 2012, p. 7: Chemnitz painter and graphic artist Will Schestak has died: Always with a special love for color.
  3. ^ Homepage of Gerhard Prokop: Academy Prague: Will Schestak ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Burgstädter Anzeiger (PDF; 1.7 MB), 27/2011, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Bio graphic from the Neue Sächsische Galerie
  6. ↑ Homepage of the Chemnitzer Künstlerbund eV ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ckbev.de
  7. ↑ Homepage of the Kunstverein Laterne eV
personal data
SURNAME Schestak, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schestak, Wilhelm Max Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH 18 July 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariaschein
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2012
Place of death Burgstädt