Exhibition catalogue published
23.12.2024
On December 23, 2024, the accompanying exhibition catalog will be available “Solingen artists in the Rhineland art region 1933-1945 moor soldiers? A search for clues” appeared. On 272 pages, there are scientific overview articles, thematic in-depth research, personal insights, biographies and extensive pictorial sections that shed light on the Solingen art landscape during the Nazi era.
The catalog is available at ISBN 978-3-9825528-1-1 for the price of 29.90 euros available in bookstores or museums via info@verfolgte-kuenste.de
excerpt (pdf)
In 2024, Solingen celebrated the 650th anniversary of the founding of the city. On this occasion, the museum dedicated itself Center for Persecuted Arts of the art scene in Solingen between 1933 and 1945. Over 100 works by Solingen artists are on display, supplemented by historical newspaper articles that reflect the cultural and political climate of the Nazi dictatorship and address both resistance and adaptation of artists. The exhibition and accompanying catalog were created in cooperation with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, advised by Prof. Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister from the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.
Editors Aileen Berndt, Jürgen Joseph Kaumkötter, Clara Lundershausen, Polina Scerbonos, Center for Persecuted Arts
curators Jürgen Kaumkötter, Daniela Tobias
shaping Studio Tino Grass, Brauweiler (Serin Gatzweiler, Tino Grass)
Repros Dirk Rose
manufacturing DruckVerlag Kettler GmbH, Bönen/Westphalia
Realized with the support of LVR Regional Cultural Funding, the Gerd Kaimer Citizens' Foundation Solingen and private sponsors.
Table of contents
- Preface 6
- Persecuted and unpersecuted arts under National Socialism and in the post-war period in the history of research and exhibition to the present day — a sketch (Christian Fuhrmeister) 8
- Solingen as an art landscape 16
- Friedrich August De Leuw 20
- Willy Spatz 21
- Resistance and Persecution in the Nazi Regime: “Bog Soldiers? “30
- The “Song of the Moor Soldiers” A journey through its history and present (Fietje Ausländer) 35
- Wolfgang Langhoff 48
- George Paul Heyduck 50
- Willi Dickhut 52
- Ernst Walsken 54
- About my father (Ernst-Martin Walsken) 64
- Art in the long shadow of the NS regime (Jürgen Joseph Kaumkötter) 67
- Present despite absence 82
- Robert Engels 92
- Fritz Hülsmann 93
- Solingen during National Socialism (Stephan Stracke) 97
- The influence of the Rhineland 104 art landscape
- Ludwig Gies 106
- Peter Herkenrath 114
- Werner Heuser 116
- Ewald Matare 124
- Heinrich Nauen 130
- Paul Wynand 132
- Wynand — A sculptor between tradition and modernity (Heinz-Willi Müller) 137
- The Künstlerbund Solingen in the local features section of the NS era (Daniela Tobias) 155
- Working is all 174
- Carl Barth 178
- Curt Beckmann 180
- Walter Berg 184
- Erwin Bowien 188
- Willi Deutzmann 192
- Albert Eichenberg 200
- Paul Ern 202
- Paul Erns mural in the company Bergfeld & Hoppe (Gabriele Bergfeld) 207
- A childhood with Paul Ern — when sparrows chirp on the corridor wall (Philipp Müller) 211
- Anneliese Everts 216
- Ernst Hoepp 220
- Karl Julius Joest 224
- Read Ketterer 226
- Georg Meistermann 228
- August Preuße 250
- Carl Reschke 256
- Harry Stratmann 260
- Heinz-Willi Müller talking about his collection (Clara Lundershausen and Polina Scerbonos) 265
- imprint
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