Jeff Beer
Josef "Jeff" Beer (born April 19, 1952 in Mitterteich , Upper Palatinate ) is a German contemporary artist. Beer works as a composer and musician as well as a painter and graphic artist, photographer and visual artist. Sculptures made of iron form a focus of his work.
Life
Jeff (Josef) Beer grew up in a family of craftsmen in the Upper Palatinate. He discovered painting and drawing at an early age, took piano lessons at a young age and completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic. With his Hammond organ he achieved his first musical successes in Regensburg together with the bassist Bernhard Mrohs , before he began studying composition, percussion and piano at the University of Music in Würzburg . He toured Germany with the rock band Odin and made his first recordings.
After the state examination and master class diploma, he spent a long time in Paris and New York as a scholarship holder . This is where the beginnings of his sculptural activity lie, which he soon cultivated intensively. With his iron sculptures, he gained increasing international attention since the mid-1980s. He also writes music for a wide variety of line-ups, which has won numerous awards, and is a successful graphic artist and photographer. Jeff Beer lives and works in Gumpen , a district of Falkenberg . His daughter Raphaela is known as a musician under the pseudonym " Phela ".
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“Some people only find their artistic work through the freelance musician and composer Jeff Beer, without knowing that drawing and painting were a primary need for them from an early age, first opening horizons towards art and finally always parallel to music received more weight and validity. [...] Both areas are closely connected with each other, stimulate each other while at the same time preserving the specific laws and using all possible freedoms. "
Prizes and awards
Jeff Beer has received various prizes, awards and grants, including:
- 1st prize of the German Music Competition 1977 (drums)
- 1st prize in the German University Competition
- Double scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
- Scholarship from the Oskar and Vera von Ritter Foundation
- Special prize of the international competition for the interpretation of contemporary music by Radio France / Paris
- Scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
- Bavarian State Prize for Music and Fine Arts
- Prize of the German Phono Academy
- Composition prize from the Würzburg Music Academy
- Art and culture prize of the Tirschenreuth district
- Nordgaupreis of the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association 2000
- 2003 award from the Joe and Xaver Fuhr Foundation
- Culture Prize of the Upper Palatinate District 2004 for sculpture
Web links
- JK: Beer, Jeff . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
- Video about Jeff Beer
- Jeff Beer website with images of the artist and his works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Jeff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beer, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German contemporary artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitterteich , Upper Palatinate |