Saturday, December 22, 2012

Helmut Arz


Born on 12 April 1930 in Sibiu, the son of the physician Dr. Arnold Arz von Straussenburg (nephew of Colonel - Arthur Arz von Straussenburg) and his wife Anna, nee Schuller.

1941-48 student of Hans Hermann
1949-55 The Art School "Ion Andreescu" - Cluj, painting class of Aurel Ciupe; additional teachers: Catul Bogdan and Daniel Popescu (art historian)
1953-55 first book illustrations: Saxon folk tales (1954), Grimm's Fairy Tales (1954), A. Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1955) 1955 Marries Traute Thull (granddaughter of  dialect poet Ernst Thullner), two children
1955-65 freelance illustrator and cartoonists for Útunk, including Napsugár
1961-65 lecturer in graphic design at the Art School in Sibiu
1965 Moved  to Germany
1967 Second State Exam in Dusseldorf
1967-69 art teacher in Dusseldorf and Wuppertal
1970 Lecturer at the College of Education  of Essen,  from 1972 professor at the University of  Essen
1980 Regular exhibitions at Galerie Bredeney  (Essen)
1982-83 Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts Berlin
1985-87 Dean, Faculty of Art Education-design of the University of Essen
1995 retirement
1998 Exhibition "The Lichtenberg sketchbook" in Essen
1999 retrospective exhibition at the Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim
2002 Moved from Essen to Berlin
2009 Exhibition at the Chamber Hall Berlin Friedenau


WWorks illustrated:
  • 1953 - Povesti alese - Josef Haltrich (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1954 - Povesti alese – Fratii Grim, (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1956 - Cei trei muschetari – Al Dumas, (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1957 - Märchenschau - Jessika Drimer-Sperber, (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1958 - Roten Meer : Ein siebenbürgischer Kaufmannslehrling forscht in Afrika (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1960 - Spargatorul de nuci – E.T Hoffman, (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1963 - Mackó Marci kalandjai - Sipos Bella (Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó)
  • 1963 - Aventurile lui Martinica - Sipos Bella (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1964 - Prinz Zeisig und andere Märchen - Lotte Berg, (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1964 - Brumbrums Abenteuer - Bella Sipos, traducere din maghiară de Else Kornis (Ed. Tineretului)
  • 1967 - Sächsische Volksmärchen aus Siebenbürgen - Josef Haltrich (Ed. Tineretului, Bucuresti)
  • 2010 - Transsylvanien - Spielplatz der Gedanken - Bettina Schuller (Schiller Verlag)

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