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Those satirical works include ''Persil-]'' (1933),<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, Kat.-Nr. 82, Abb. S. 37.</ref> ''The Nazis Are Here'' (1933), ''Attack'' (1932), ''Street Fighting'' (1932)<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Ich und die Stadt. Mensch und Großstadt in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Ausstellungskatalog, ], Berlin 1987, S. Abb. 203 (Aquarell und Tinte auf Papier, Sammlung Marvin and Janet Fishman, Milwaukee/Wisconsin).</ref> and ''At the Sign of the Swastika'' (1934),<ref>{{in lang|de}} {{cite web|url=https://lehr-kunstauktionen.de/catalogue/483-voigt-bruno/|title=Drawing}}</ref> putting him alongside ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] as major ] artists.<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin.</ref><ref>{{in lang|de}} {{Cite web|url=https://taz.de/!1826474/|title=''Kunstwiderstand. Bruno Voigts „Widerstandskunst“ in der AGO Galerie.'' In: ''].'' 7. Januar 1989}}</ref> His works are in collections such as the ] in Berlin, the ] in Dresden and the ] in ]. Those satirical works include ''Persil-]'' (1933),<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, Kat.-Nr. 82, Abb. S. 37.</ref> ''The Nazis Are Here'' (1933), ''Attack'' (1932), ''Street Fighting'' (1932)<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Ich und die Stadt. Mensch und Großstadt in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Ausstellungskatalog, ], Berlin 1987, S. Abb. 203 (Aquarell und Tinte auf Papier, Sammlung Marvin and Janet Fishman, Milwaukee/Wisconsin).</ref> and ''At the Sign of the Swastika'' (1934),<ref>{{in lang|de}} {{cite web|url=https://lehr-kunstauktionen.de/catalogue/483-voigt-bruno/|title=Drawing}}</ref> putting him alongside ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] as major ] artists.<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin.</ref><ref>{{in lang|de}} {{Cite web|url=https://taz.de/!1826474/|title=''Kunstwiderstand. Bruno Voigts „Widerstandskunst“ in der AGO Galerie.'' In: ''].'' 7. Januar 1989}}</ref> His works are in collections such as the ] in Berlin, the ] in Dresden and the ] in ].

<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 7</ref>


== Life == == Life ==
===Early life===
Born at Rathausstraße 11 in Gotha, he was the son of a housewife and a ] and fanatically anti-war drawing teacher.<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 94.</ref> His father was a member of ] and wrote for the ] press as well as a part-time theatre critic.<ref name="Lebenslauf">{{in lang|de}} {{Cite web|url=http://www.hebecker.com/voigt/biographie.htm|title=Mein Lebenslauf (Website der Galerie Hebecker, Weimar, ohne weitere Quellenangaben}}</ref> Voigt's parents set up a field hospital for wounded soldiers in their house during the 1920 ].<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, page 5.</ref> Born at Rathausstraße 11 in Gotha, he was the son of a housewife and a ] and fanatically anti-war drawing teacher.<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 94.</ref> His father was a member of ] and wrote for the ] press as well as a part-time theatre critic.<ref name="Lebenslauf">{{in lang|de}} {{Cite web|url=http://www.hebecker.com/voigt/biographie.htm|title=Mein Lebenslauf (Website der Galerie Hebecker, Weimar, ohne weitere Quellenangaben}}</ref> Voigt's parents set up a field hospital for wounded soldiers in their house during the 1920 ].<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, page 5.</ref> Bruno's family background also brought him into contact with theatre and art at an early age. His cousin married the architect ], who encouraged the young Bruno to draw and paint.<ref name="Lebenslauf"/>


===Weimar and the Nazis===
His family background also brought him into contact with theatre and art at an early age. His cousin married the architect ], who encouraged the young Bruno to draw and paint.<ref name="Lebenslauf"/> From 1929 he studied under ] at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in ], where Bruno set up a studio in the university's Prellerhaus. He also became friends with the painter ] in Weimar and in 1931 joined the "Rote Einheit" (Red Unity) Communist artists' collective. He also worked for "Rote Raketen" (Red Rockets), a Communist ] theatre group. In 1932 he gained a contract with the ]-Verlag in Munich, but that body was dissolved the following year for producing ']'.<!--- From 1929 he studied under ] at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in ], where Bruno set up a studio in the university's Prellerhaus. He also became friends with the painter ] in Weimar and in 1931 joined the "Rote Einheit" (Red Unity) Communist artists' collective. He also worked for "Rote Raketen" (Red Rockets), a Communist ] theatre group. In 1932 he gained a contract with the ]-Verlag in Munich, but that company was dissolved the following year for producing ']'.


Im Januar 1933 wurde in Voigts Atelier das „Linkskartell der Geistesschaffenden“ zur Verhinderung des „Dritten Reiches“ gegründet, dem sich sozialdemokratisch engagierte Ärzte und andere unabhängige Persönlichkeiten anschlossen.<ref> auf der Website der Galerie Brockstedt, abgerufen am 22. März 2021.</ref> Nach der fünften Sitzung wurde aufgrund der ] Hitlers die Auflösung beschlossen. Daraufhin gründete Voigt mit ] und ] die ]-Ortsgruppe Weimar. Kurz darauf erfolgte auch hier die Auflösung. In January 1933 the "Linkskartell der Geistesschaffenden“ zur Verhinderung des "Dritten Reiches"" (Left-Wing Cartel of Intellectuals for Preventing the "Third Reich") was founded in Voigt's studio, consisting of doctors and other independent personalities committed to the ].<ref>{{in lang|de}} {{Citeweb|url=https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/3707d9ab/files/uploaded/Voigt_Bruno_2.pdf|title=Biographie auf der Website der Galerie Brockstedt}}</ref> The cartel dissolved itself after five sittings due to Hitler's seizure of power. Voigt, ] and ] then set up the ]-Ortsgruppe Weimar, but this too soon self-dissolved.


Im Sommer 1933 vernichteten ] und Polizei Bilder und Bücher in seinem Atelier. 1936 zog Voigt zu seiner Tante Hedwig Rücker nach ] bei Weimar, über die er den Malern ], ] und ] begegnete.<ref>siehe: ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, S. 5.</ref> Dort sorgte er unter anderem durch Gelegenheitsarbeiten für seinen Unterhalt. 1941 wurde er zum Militärdienst eingezogen und an der ] zur ] und in ] eingesetzt. Im Februar 1944 wurde Voigt schwer verwundet. Im September 1944 wurde er nach Holland verlegt, von wo er nach wenigen Tagen in englische Kriegsgefangenschaft floh. 1946 wurde er an das französische Militär überstellt und in ] beim ] eingesetzt, gleichzeitig arbeitete er als ] und Zeichner. Im November 1947 kehrte er aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft in die sowjetisch besetzte Zone nach Gotha zurück.<ref name="Lebenslauf"/> In summer 1933 the ] and police destroyed books and artworks in Voigt's studio. In 1936 he moved in with his aunt Hedwig Rücker in ] near Weimar, where he supported himself through odd jobs and other means and met the artists ], ] and ].<ref>{{in lang|de}} ''Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, page 5.</ref>


===War and post-war===
Ab 1948 besuchte Voigt die Parteischule der ]. Er wurde Stadtrat für Kultur und Erziehung in Gotha sowie Kreisvorsitzender im ]. Ab 1949 war er Mitglied der Kreisleitung der SED für Kultur und Propaganda sowie hauptamtlicher Studienleiter für die Neu-Lehrerausbildung am Berufspädagogischen Institut für Biologie, Kunst und die Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung.
He was conscripted in 1941 and posted to the ], where he was caught up in the ] and fighting at ]. He was badly wounded in February 1944 and that September was transferred to the Netherlands, where after a few days he gave himself up to the British. In 1946, still a prisoner of war, he was transferred to the French mine-removal unit, whilst also working as a draughtmsan and interpreter.


He was finally freed in 1947 and sent to Gotha, by then in the ].<ref name="Lebenslauf"/> There he joined the ]'s party school in 1948 and the following year also joined the SED's district leadership for Culture and Propaganda and was appointed full-time study lead for teacher training at the Vocational Institute for Biology, Art and Workers' Movement History. He also became a city councillor for culture and education in Gotha and a district chairman for the ]
1951 wurde Voigt zum Direktor der Staatlichen Museen in Gotha ernannt. 1954 wurde er durch Vermittlung von ] Direktor der ] der ], deren Sammlung er aufbaute.<ref>siehe biografische Angaben in: ''Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944.'' AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 7</ref> In 1963 he edited '']. Nine colour woodcuts'', an exhibition at ] Verlag in Leipzig.


In the 1950s he took on museum directorial posts in Gotha then Berlin, whilst in 1963 he edited '']. Nine colour woodcuts'', an exhibition at ] Verlag in Leipzig. He was married twice and had a son, Lucas, by his second marriage. He died in ] in 1988.
Voigt war zweimal verheiratet. Aus der zweiten Ehe ging sein Sohn Lucas Voigt hervor.
--->He died in ] in 1988.


== Artworks ==<!--- == Artworks ==<!---

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Bruno Voigt (20 September 1912 - 14 October 1988) was a German political artist. His designs, paintings and drawings include secret biting commentaries on National Socialism produced in the 1930s. From 1951 to 1983 he was Director of the State Museums of Gotha and from 1954 of the East Asian collections of the Berlin State Museums.

Those satirical works include Persil-Hitler (1933), The Nazis Are Here (1933), Attack (1932), Street Fighting (1932) and At the Sign of the Swastika (1934), putting him alongside John Heartfield, Hans, Lea Grundig, Johannes Wüsten, Otto Pankok, Alfred Frank and Eva Schulze-Knabe as major resistance artists. His works are in collections such as the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden and the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle in Saale.

Life

Early life

Born at Rathausstraße 11 in Gotha, he was the son of a housewife and a freethinking and fanatically anti-war drawing teacher. His father was a member of workers' and soldiers' councils and wrote for the SPD press as well as a part-time theatre critic. Voigt's parents set up a field hospital for wounded soldiers in their house during the 1920 Kapp Putsch. Bruno's family background also brought him into contact with theatre and art at an early age. His cousin married the architect Fred Forbát, who encouraged the young Bruno to draw and paint.

Weimar and the Nazis

From 1929 he studied under Walther Klemm at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Weimar, where Bruno set up a studio in the university's Prellerhaus. He also became friends with the painter Alfred Ahner in Weimar and in 1931 joined the "Rote Einheit" (Red Unity) Communist artists' collective. He also worked for "Rote Raketen" (Red Rockets), a Communist agitprop theatre group. In 1932 he gained a contract with the Bavaria-Film-Verlag in Munich, but that company was dissolved the following year for producing 'degenerate art'.

In January 1933 the "Linkskartell der Geistesschaffenden“ zur Verhinderung des "Dritten Reiches"" (Left-Wing Cartel of Intellectuals for Preventing the "Third Reich") was founded in Voigt's studio, consisting of doctors and other independent personalities committed to the Social Democrats. The cartel dissolved itself after five sittings due to Hitler's seizure of power. Voigt, Martin Pohle and Alfred Ahner then set up the ASSO-Ortsgruppe Weimar, but this too soon self-dissolved.

In summer 1933 the SA and police destroyed books and artworks in Voigt's studio. In 1936 he moved in with his aunt Hedwig Rücker in Ulrichshalben near Weimar, where he supported himself through odd jobs and other means and met the artists Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Kokoschka.

War and post-war

He was conscripted in 1941 and posted to the Eastern Front, where he was caught up in the Siege of Leningrad and fighting at Karelia. He was badly wounded in February 1944 and that September was transferred to the Netherlands, where after a few days he gave himself up to the British. In 1946, still a prisoner of war, he was transferred to the French mine-removal unit, whilst also working as a draughtmsan and interpreter.

He was finally freed in 1947 and sent to Gotha, by then in the Soviet Zone. There he joined the SED's party school in 1948 and the following year also joined the SED's district leadership for Culture and Propaganda and was appointed full-time study lead for teacher training at the Vocational Institute for Biology, Art and Workers' Movement History. He also became a city councillor for culture and education in Gotha and a district chairman for the Cultural Association of the DDR

In the 1950s he took on museum directorial posts in Gotha then Berlin, whilst in 1963 he edited Hokusai. Nine colour woodcuts, an exhibition at E. A. Seemann Verlag in Leipzig. He was married twice and had a son, Lucas, by his second marriage. He died in East Berlin in 1988.

Artworks

Selected exhibitions

Solo

  • 1983: Bruno Voigt. Am Vorabend der braunen Nacht, Satiricum, Greiz
  • 1983/1984: Bruno Voigt. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Grafik 1930–1948, Neue Münchner Galerie, Munich
  • 1985: Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
  • 1987: Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, a city of decadence, revolt and chaos: watercolors and drawings of Bruno Voigt, Haggerty Museum of Art/Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • 1988: Bruno Voigt. Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Bodo Niemann, West-Berlin
  • 1988/1989: Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944, AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin
  • 2005: Kurt Erhard, Bruno Voigt. Zwei Künstler der verlorenen Generation, Galerie Hebecker, Weimar

Group

  • 1978/1979: Revolution und Realismus. Revolutionäre Kunst in Deutschland 1917–1933. Zum 50. Jahrestag der Gründung der ARBKD. Ausstellungskatalog, Altes Museum, Ost-Berlin
  • 1981: 25 Jahre NVA, Ausstellungszentrum am Fučík-Platz, Dresden
  • 1983: Maler bauen Barrikaden, Haus der Kultur und Bildung, Neubrandenburg, Rostock
  • 1984/1985: Die Stadt in den Zwanziger Jahren, Galerie Bodo Niemann, West-Berlin
  • 1986: Worin unsere Stärke besteht. Kampfaktionen der Arbeiterklasse im Spiegel der bildenden Kunst. Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
  • 1987: Ich und die Stadt. Mensch und Großstadt in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Martin-Gropius-Bau, West-Berlin
  • 1988: Künstler im Klassenkampf. Sonderausstellung des Museums für deutsche Geschichte (Zum 60. Jahrestag der ARBKD-Gründung), Ost-Berlin

Catalogues

  • Bruno Voigt. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Grafik 1930–1948. Ausstellungskatalog, Neue Münchner Galerie, München 1983/1984.
  • Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986.
  • Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, a city of decadence, revolt and chaos: watercolors and drawings of Bruno Voigt. Ausstellungskatalog, Haggerty Museum of Art/Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1987 (3 Abbildungen).
  • Bruno Voigt. Arbeiten auf Papier. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie Bodo Niemann, West-Berlin 1988 (5 Abbildungen).
  • Wolfgang Thiede (1988), Bruno Voigt 1912–1988, Widerstandskunst 1933–1944, Berlin: AGO-Galerie, ISBN 978-3-927415-00-3

Bibliography (in German)

  • Voigt, Bruno. In: Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexikon Künstler in der DDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9, S. 982
  • Revolution und Realismus. Revolutionäre Kunst in Deutschland 1917–1933. Zum 50. Jahrestag der Gründung der ARBKD. Ausstellungskatalog, Altes Museum, Ost-Berlin 1978.
  • Ursula Leibinger-Hasibether, Einer, den es zu entdecken gab: Bruno Voigt. In: Tendenzen. Nr. 146, April–Juni 1984, S. 76f. (4 Abbildungen).
  • Die Stadt in den Zwanziger Jahren. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie Bodo Niemann, West-Berlin 1984/1985 (6 Abbildungen).
  • Ich und die Stadt. Mensch und Großstadt in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ausstellungskatalog, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87584-213-8, S. 202, 203 (2 Abbildungen),
  • Künstler im Klassenkampf. Sonderausstellung des Museums für deutsche Geschichte (Zum 60. Jahrestag der ARBKD-Gründung). Ost-Berlin 1988.

External links

References

  1. (in German) Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, Kat.-Nr. 82, Abb. S. 37.
  2. (in German) Ich und die Stadt. Mensch und Großstadt in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ausstellungskatalog, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1987, S. Abb. 203 (Aquarell und Tinte auf Papier, Sammlung Marvin and Janet Fishman, Milwaukee/Wisconsin).
  3. (in German) "Drawing".
  4. (in German) Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944. AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin.
  5. (in German) "Kunstwiderstand. Bruno Voigts „Widerstandskunst" in der AGO Galerie. In: [[Die Tageszeitung]]. 7. Januar 1989". {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  6. (in German) Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944. AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 7
  7. (in German) Bruno Voigt 1912–1988. Widerstandskunst 1933–1944. AGO-Galerie, West-Berlin, S. 94.
  8. ^ (in German) "Mein Lebenslauf (Website der Galerie Hebecker, Weimar, ohne weitere Quellenangaben".
  9. (in German) Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, page 5.
  10. (in German) "Biographie auf der Website der Galerie Brockstedt" (PDF).
  11. (in German) Bruno Voigt. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen. Ausstellungskatalog, Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, page 5.
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