Willi Neubert

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Enamelled mural International Solidarity near the train station in Thale / Harz

Willi Neubert (born November 9, 1920 in Brandau , Czechoslovakia ; † August 7, 2011 in Ballenstedt ) was a German painter . He was best known for his large-format enamel murals .

Life

During his work as an unskilled worker and locksmith from 1934 to 1938, Willi Neubert completed further training at evening school and completed a distance learning course to become a technical draftsman and designer . After working as a draftsman in Plauen , he was drafted into military service from 1940 to 1945. Immediately after the war he worked from 1945 to 1950 as a steelworker and device designer in the iron and steel works Thale (Harz), where he was a member of the management of the SED's Works Party Organization (BPO) , to which he had belonged since 1948. From 1950 to 1952 he studied at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein under Charles Crodel , Ulrich Knispel and Kurt Bunge, among others . From 1953 he worked as a freelancer in Thale.

From 1960 to 1962 and 1970/71 Willi Neubert took on a teaching position at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle . In 1970 he was appointed head of the Institute for Architectural Email in Thale, which he co-founded and which was attached to the university. In 1971 he became a professor here .

Thanks to the close cooperation with the iron and steel works in Thale, Willi Neubert was able to further develop the technology of industrial enamel . Here colored enamel is applied to steel plates. The resulting enamel panels are put together to form large-scale works. An example of this technique is the mural from 1977/78 on the town hall in Suhl .

Since 1964 Willi Neubert was a member of the Akademie der Künste . From 1963 to 1967 Neubert was a member of the People's Chamber for the Kulturbund of the GDR .

Study trips took him to Albania (1958), India (1963), Finland (1972), Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union (1959, 1960, 1961, 1966). He had solo exhibitions in New Delhi (1963) and Finland (1972), among others .

Since October 2006 Willi Neubert was an honorary citizen of Thale; there is also his final resting place.

Works

Postage stamp with the image Discussion in the innovator collective

painting

  • 1956 Harz winter
  • 1958 Thale ironworks (oil)
  • 1960 break from work (oil; in the collection of the Angermuseum Erfurt)
  • 1960 Discussion in the brigade (oil)
  • 1961 Stahlwerker I (oil)
  • 1962 Party Discussion II (Oil)
  • 1964 chess player (oil; in the collection of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister)
  • 1968 Stahlwerker II (oil; the State Council of the GDR in the building at that time)
  • 1969 Newer discussion (mixed media ; in the collection of the Nationalgalerie Berlin)
  • 1975 yesterday - today (mixed media, picture for the Palace of the Republic , 280 × 345 cm)
  • 1981 chess players and robots (oil)
Wall frieze Die Presse as Organizer , 1977

Working in industrial enamel

  • 1964 enamel wall design Die Presse as a collective organizer at the Freiheit printing house in Halle (Saale) , (500 × 1600 cm)
  • 1969–73 Wall frieze at the press café at the house of the Berliner Verlag (today covered by advertising)
  • 1969 Facade design on the building of the Ministry of Science, Berlin (today destroyed)
  • 1977/78 mural international solidarity at the town hall Suhl (750 × 2,500 cm), since 2010 opposite the main station in Thale
  • 1980 mural at the FDGB vacation home Friedrichroda (today destroyed)
  • 1983 mural chemistry on the house of the SED district leadership in Halle (today destroyed)
  • 1986 mural 300 years of EHW Thale at the vocational school in Thale, since 2005 on the house steam engine No. 7 on Hüttenplatz (336 panels, each 51 × 51 cm)
  • 1988 Facade cladding at the Steg shopping center (Halle)

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1982 Berlin, gallery of the Academy of Arts of the GDR in the New Marstall
  • 1982 Halle, Moritzburg
  • 1993 Thale, town hall
  • 1995 Wernigerode, gallery on the first floor
  • 1997 Magdeburg, gallery in the state parliament
  • 2003 Quedlinburg, Palais Salfeldt
  • 2006 and 2010 Thale, Galerie Kapelle

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 4th legislative term. State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1964, p. 439 ( gvoon.de [PDF]).
  • Ullrich Kuhirt: Willi Neubert - Colored painting reproductions. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1969. DNB 740277278
  • Ullrich Kuhirt: Willi Neubert (= painter and work series), Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1973. DNB 740517325
  • Willi Neubert. Painting and enamel . Textbook printing Naumburg, 1981
  • Short biography for:  Neubert, Willi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Willi Neubert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e picture index of art & architecture
  2. ↑ Willi Neubert In: dhm.de , accessed on September 5, 2018.
  3. ^ Andreas Montag: Thale: Great station for Willi Neubert. In: mz-web.de. November 8, 2010, accessed September 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Mural “300 Years of EHW Thale” :: Hüttenmuseum Thale In: museum-digital.de , accessed on September 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2011
Place of death Ballenstedt