Willibald Krain
Willibald Krain (born December 11, 1886 in Breslau , † September 11, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German painter , draftsman and illustrator .
Life
Krain grew up in Silesia and studied painting from 1904 to 1907 at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau and then in Munich under Angelo Jank . From 1909 he was freelance.
He made a name for himself with illustrations of down-to-earth stories with local flavor, socially critical and anti-militarist drawing sheets and numerous press drawings, portraits, sketches and paintings. His works found a wider distribution, especially in democratic and left-wing press products, so he drew for the magazines Der Wahre Jacob , die Jugend , Simplicissimus and the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . From his experiences in the First World War, seven sheets with depictions of warlike atrocities come from 1916 under the title War. Dedicated to all peoples .
Immediately after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Krain was banned from working as a press illustrator, which was later lifted. In 1944 he published anti-Semitic caricatures in the Kladderadatsch, among other things (No. 26 and 32). In the last weeks of the war he was drafted into the Volkssturm . He was spared combat operations. The Red Army captured him. He suffered a gunshot wound on a prisoner transport, from which he died after his release from captivity in a Dresden hospital.
His grandson published a small excerpt of his work in the illustrated book Willibald Krain - celebrated - banned - forgotten . In 2010, some works were on display in the joint exhibition Discovered Modernism in the Jesuit Church in Aschaffenburg , and in 2017 several works in the exhibition The Great War in Small Format. Graphics and medal art for the First World War in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz .
Works (selection)
- Illustrations for Will Erich Peuckert: Schlesisch . Vol. VII of the series “ What is not in the dictionary ”, Piper Verlag, Munich 1937
literature
- H. Müller: Krain, Willibald . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , pp. 454 f.
- Peter Krain: Willibald Krain. celebrated as an artist - forbidden - forgotten , at Books on Demand
- Dieter Lemhoefer: Willibald Krain (Breslau 1886 - 1945 Dresden); an important Berlin press draftsman and graphic artist, painter and illustrator from Silesia in the mirror of his time . Berlin, 1987 [28 pp.]
Web links
- Literature by and about Willibald Krain in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Blasewitz death register, Johannstadt, Striesen, Tolkewitz (05), 1945, entry No. 2474
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krain, Willibald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dresden |