7th April 1941
Rudolf Lipus
Feldpost postcard featuring the artwork of Rudolph Lipus (described as a 'Wachtmeister' - In the German army ground forces, the designation of the Feldwebel rank of Cavalry and Artillery was the 'Wachtmeister' until 1945). Taken from 'Soldatenblätter für Freie und Freizeit'. These soldatenblätter contained photos, stories, small removable pictures for decorating your bunker or barracks, games, tips and tricks for different things, postcards, etc. Ref: 07.04.1941
Rudolf Lipus (1893-1961)
German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the National Socialist era.
From 1908 to 1912 he completed his first apprenticeship at the Leipzig publishing house CG Röder, after which Lipus studied painting and graphics at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts, including with Alois Kolb.
During the First World War he worked as a trench illustrator and received a prize from a competition for a war memorial sheet. He completed his studies after the end of the World War, and from then on he worked as a freelance graphic artist, ex-librist and landscape and portrait painter and became a permanent employee of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung.
During the Nazi era, Lipus was regularly represented at the annual exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art.
With the advent of the Second World War he was initially integrated into a war reporter company as a painter, before being assigned as a war painter to an army propaganda company from 1942 onwards, the 'Fine Artists Squadron' of the Potsdam Propaganda Operations Department, which was directly subordinate to the Wehrmacht High Command.
His propaganda images glorifying war are among the best-known examples of this genre, including Tanks in Battle, Fighters, German Artillery on the Advance, German Non-Commissioned Officer after the Street Fight, Through the Russian Steppe, Reconnaissance Pilots, In Firing Position, and In Combat Formation.
Between 1941 and 1944 he was represented with 20 pictures at the “'Great German Art Exhibition', making him the most prolific painter of propaganda pictures of that time. The buyers of the works included Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer.
In 1943 he lost his studio and most of his works. In 1944 he was represented at the art exhibition Reichsführer SS in Breslau 'German Artists and the SS'.
After 1945, he worked as a book illustrator for the publishing house Volk und Wissen and as a press illustrator, without much success .
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