German painter Philly zeta

German painter Philly zeta

Painter died and German graphic designer Philly olive oil, Saturday, according to the announcement by the artist who was renowned in the former East Germany Foundation.

Born olive oil (92 years) in the city Krastava in the former Czechoslovakia and olive oil is considered the most prominent artists of the socialist realism that prevailed in the former East Germany and other countrie

And he took over the presidency of the olive oil Fine Artists Association of East Germany in the period (1974-1988) and received the State Prize of the first layer of the Arts in 1979.

For his part, President of the Foundation Philly olive oil, Hubert Hans Werner, said that "his death a great loss for us, although we were aware of ill-health

 

Werner added that "the center of our attention at the moment to publish artistic heritage and now this interest has become stronger"

The newspaper "Bild" German has reported that its oil died in his sleep at his home in Halle, and the death of its oil came four years after the death of his younger brother Rudolph who is also known as an artist was the East Germans

The olive oil won a scholarship to study art school, but expelled in 1941 because of his criticism of those in charge of the school, belonging to the Nazi party

It was sending its oil to the Eastern Front during World War II and then was sent to Italy, but he withdrew from the Nazi army and joined the rebels Italians and after the war he married in 1947 and moved to the town of Halle, where he joined in later to the Communist Party that ruled East Germany later 

After the reunification of Germany in 1990 he had raised controversy over the role of olive oil in communist East Germany as a member of the ruling Communist Party

In 2001, a ceremony was due to be held at the National Museum in Nuremberg on the occasion of the birth of its oil eighty festival was canceled, and after the incident olive oil withdrew from public life and devoted all his efforts to his foundation established in 2003 by