Franz Eichhorst (
Berlin
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7 September 1885 – 30 April 1948
Innsbruck
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) was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, one of a number of German artists known for his war paintings supporting the
Nazi
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regime.
[McCloskey, Barbara]
''Artists of World War II''
p. 50 (2005) () ("Paintings and drawings by Elk Eber, Fritz Erler
Fritz Erler (15 December 1868 – 11 December 1940) was a German painter, graphic designer and scenic designer. Although most talented as an interior designer, he is perhaps best remembered for several propaganda posters he produced during Wor ...
, Franz Eichhorst, Wolf Willrich, Rudolf Hengstenberg, and other soldier-artists instead glorified Germany's war effort ...")
Eichhorst volunteered for military service for Germany in
World War I
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.
[Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945'' (in German). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 131.] In the early 1920s, Eichhorst set up a summer studio in
Matrei in Osttirol. There in 1928, he created one of his most well-known works, ''Mädchen mit Krug'' (Girl with Pitcher).
In 1938 he created a series of war and Nazi propaganda murals representing the last 25 years of German history for the
Schöneberg city hall in Berlin;
[Brett-Smith, Richard]
''Berlin '45: The Grey City''
p.135 (Macmillan 1966) ("the murals of the leading Nazi war artist, Franz Eichhorst, to be found formerly in the Rauthaus Berlin-Schoneberg") these were repainted and deleted at the end of World War II in May 1945. In April 1938,
Adolf Hitler
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bestowed upon him the honorary title of
Professor
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. Over 50 of his paintings were displayed at the Great German art exhibition (
Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung
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The ...
) at the
Haus der Kunst
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N ...
in
Munich
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, including battle scenes from the Second World War, particularly those from the conflicts with
Poland
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and
Russia
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.
Wehrmacht
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'' soldier, 1940
See also
*
List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (182 ...
Bibliography
* Julius Redzinski, Erinnerung an Stalingrad. Franz Eichhorst as a War Artist in the Nazi Era, in: Meike Hoffmann, Dieter Scholz (ed.), Unmastered Past? Modernism in Nazi Germany. Art, Art Trade, Curatorial Practice, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95732-453-5, p. 112–131.
* Hans Rosenhagen, Franz Eichhorst, in: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Vol. 35, No. 12 (1921), p. 545–560.
References
External links
Nazi War Art 1940-44 Small gallery includes three Eichhorst paintings.
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20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
German muralists
1885 births
1948 deaths
German war artists
Nazi propagandists
World War II artists