Erhard Hippold (born January 24, 1909 in Wilkau, † June 18, 1972 in Bad Gottleuba) was a German painter and graphic artist.
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Erhard Hippold began in 1926 after completing his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter in the arts and crafts department of the United Technical Schools in Zwickau. After his local discovery and promotion by the painter Hans Christoph, he studied at the Academy of Arts and Crafts Dresden with Carl Rade and Ferdinand Dorsch. From 1928 Hippold became a master student of Max Feldbauer and regularly took part in evening dossier with Otto Dix.

In 1931 he met the painter Gussy Ahnert know, with whom he made numerous study trips together and he married in 1936. In 1933 he had to leave the Dresden Academy for political reasons. In 1934 he made friends with the painter Carl Lohse.

During the Second World War he became a soldier, became a British prisoner of war and was released in 1945. From 1945 his wife Gussy Hippold-Ahnert and he retired as a freelance painter in the house Sorgenfrei in the district Oberlößnitz in Radebeul, where they both took over in 1949 the corsetry workshop of her father, which represented a long time their only source of income.
literature
From: Birgit Dalbayeva (ed.): Erhard Hippold. In: New Objectivity in Dresden. Sandstein publishing house, Dresden 2011, ISBN

Source:"Erhard Hippold," Wikipedia-Google Translate, July 2018

Erhard Hippold studied at the Art Academy Dresden, in 1928 a master student of Max Bauer field and regularly took part in at Otto Dix evening acts.
After 1945 he went again and again to study visits to the North and especially to the Baltic Sea where our atmospheric watercolor was painted.

Works on paper of this size are found rarely in the artist.