Albert Christoph Reck

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Christoph Reck (2012)

Albert Christoph Reck (born July 25, 1922 in Krappitz , Upper Silesia , † May 20, 2019 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Reck was born as the son of a postal worker in the former Silesia. From 1932 to 1938 he attended the Hindenburg Realgymnasium in Opole. At the age of 16 he became a sailor in the merchant navy. From 1941 he was a soldier in the Navy. After the end of the war he and his family moved to Flensburg. After graduating from high school in 1947, he was a student of the painter and writer Hans Holtorf in Bockholmwik near Flensburg. In 1948 he became a student at the State Art School in Hamburg with Alfred Mahlau. In 1949 Reck received a six-month scholarship at the Art School in Nottingham, England. In 1950 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Until 1954 he went on study trips through England, France and Northern Italy.

From 1951 Reck lived as a freelance artist in Hamburg. In 1952 he received a scholarship from the BDI culture group, and in 1955 the Lichtwark scholarship from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. From 1954, Reck was with Maria-Louise, b. Married to Schlueter, with whom he has eight children. From 1961 he lived with his family in Henstedt-Rhen.

In 1962 he received a ship travel grant from the BDI, which, because of the Cuba crisis, did not go to Mexico, but to South Africa. Enthusiastic about the African landscape, he moved with his family to Johannesburg in 1963 . From 1965 to 1968 he worked there as a lecturer at the School of Art. 1969 he returned to Germany and studied in Düsseldorf at the municipal seminar for working education with Erwin Heerich , where he graduated in 1970 with a teacher diploma. After that he was a teacher at the Hamburg Technical School for Social Pedagogy for five years. In 1976 he sold the Rhen house and bought a pilot cutter which he made seaworthy. He also made the offshore sailing patent. From September 1976 he undertook a nine-month crossing with most of the family on board the “Inopoleku” to Natal. From 1977 he devoted himself to the development of the picture weaving "Phumalanga" in the Ezulwinital in Swaziland together with his wife Maria-Louise. 1979 Establishment of an “Art and Craft Center” in Ngwenya, Swaziland. 1984 saw the opening of studios with workshops and training facilities for young Africans in Ngwenya. In 1989, the opening of its own exhibition rooms "Endlotane Studios" took place. He returned to Germany in 2003. From 2006 he had a studio in Hamburg-Niendorf. From the end of 2011 he lived again near the Alster spring in Henstedt-Ulzburg. Reck published numerous articles in the Times of Swaziland and in the Joseph von Eichendorff Conservatory . In June 2017, Reck moved back to Hamburg with his wife.

  • Fall of Man, 1962, coal, 180 × 140

  • Choreography of a native dance, 1966, tempera, 150 × 109

  • Alsterquelle Midsummer Night's Dream, 1993, tempera, 70 × 100

  • Farmer Knudsen and his horses, 1993, colored pencil, 120 × 150

Works in public collections

  • Municipal Museum, Flensburg
  • Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Schleswig
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Kiel art gallery
  • Veste Coburg
  • Art Museum, Basel
  • Oregon State University, USA
  • Pelmana Permanent Art Collection, Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg Municipal Art Gallery

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953 Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1954 Municipal Museum, Flensburg
  • 1958 Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1959 House of Encounters, Hamburg
  • 1962 Kunsthalle zu Kiel
  • German Bridge, Schleswig
  • Hameln Art Circle
  • 1965 artist club “Die Insel”, Hamburg
  • South African Association of Arts, Pretoria
  • 1966 Serendipity Gallery, Johannesburg
  • 1967 Bauzentrum, Hamburg
  • 1969 North Frisian Museum, Husum
  • SA Association of Arts, Pretoria
  • 1970 House of the German East, Düsseldorf
  • Exhibition pavilion on Brunswiker Strasse, Kiel
  • 1971 Gallery 101, Johannesburg
  • 1972 Municipal Museum, Flensburg
  • 1974 Municipal Museum, Flensburg
  • Exhibition pavilion on Brunswiker Strasse, Kiel
  • 1975 Galerie Stekhoven, Westensee
  • 1976 Gallery Wishes, Hamburg
  • 1978 Gallery 21, Johannesburg
  • South African Art Association, Durban
  • 1979 Spar- und Leihkasse, Kiel
  • 1981 City Museum , Schleswig
  • 1982 Futurum Gallery, Hamburg
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • 1983 Gallery 21, Johannesburg
  • 1984 National Library Mbabane, Swaziland
  • Princeton Sqipp Gallery
  • 1985 Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel
  • USB Bank, St. Gallen
  • Gallery 21, Johannesburg
  • 1987 Dr. Bambergerhaus, Rendsburg
  • 1988 Shell Gallery, Johannesburg
  • Municipal Museum, Schleswig
  • Hansen Gallery, Süderschmedeby
  • 1989 SA Association of Arts, Pretoria
  • Brazilian Cultural Center, Maputo
  • 1990 Bamberg House, Rendsburg
  • Stadtwerke, Kiel
  • 1991 Nucleo de Artistos Mocambicanos, Maputo
  • 1992 National Library Mbabane, Swaziland
  • Brasilian Cultural Center, Maputo
  • 1997 Hamburgische Landesbank, Hamburg
  • 1998 Forum im Raum für Kunst, Paderborn
  • National Art Museum, Lobamba, Swaziland
  • Barthels Hof, Leipzig
  • 2002 Gallery “Art piece and quiet space”, Hamburg
  • 2003 Catholic Academy, Hamburg
  • 2005 DGB training center, Hamburg
  • 2006 Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
  • 2008 National Library, Mbabane, Swaziland
  • Embassy of Taiwan, Mbabane
  • Gallery in the Elysée, Hamburg
  • 2012 Kulturkate Beckersberg, Henstedt-Ulzburg
  • Sarafand Gallery, Henstedt-Ulzburg
  • Schalom Church, Norderstedt
  • Sootbörn Artists' House, Hamburg
  • Diocesan Museum, Opole
  • Henseleit Foundation, Kiel
  • SzybWilson Gallery, Katowice
  • 2013 Kulturkate Beckersberg, Henstedt-Ulzburg
  • 2014 Nicodemus Church, Hamburg-Ohlsdorf
  • Rathausgalerie, Norderstedt
  • Hafenliebe Gallery, Hamburg
  • Villa Flath, Bad Segeberg
  • Little Michel, Hamburg
  • 2015 Musée de Peinture, Saint-Frajou (F)
  • St. Marien, Hamburg-Fuhlsbuettel
  • Church on the market, Hamburg-Blankenese
  • 2016 Residence les Chataigniers, Veyrier (CH)
  • Nütschau Monastery, Travenbrück
  • 2017 Cismar Monastery, Grömitz
  • Residence at the Mühlenau, Hamburg
  • 2019 Schattin, Hof Alte Zeiten
  • Hafenliebe Gallery, Hamburg
  • Kerinnes House, Tangstedt

Awards

literature

  • Armin Eichholz: cheerfulness down to the smallest detail. The little natural history of Mr. Albert Christoph Reck. In: Nutzgraphik 8/1961, pages 18–23
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , supplements H – Z, Verlag EA Seemann, 1962
  • Albert Christoph Reck. Catalog Gallery Sfeir-Semler. Kiel 1985
  • Albert Christoph Reck. Logbook . Exhibition catalog Stadtwerke Kiel 1990. Ed. By Walter Niebergall
  • Birte Gaethke: Albert Christoph Reck: Painting, Graphics and Tapestries , July 9, 1997 to January 15, 1998.
  • Albert Christoph Reck. Ars Borealis. Edition on contemporary art in the north. Kiel 2012

Web links

Commons : Albert Christoph Reck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Kruse (Ed.): Contemporary Art in Schleswig-Holstein , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Gottorp Castle, 1973, page 84 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ Peter Reindl: Alfred Mahlau and his students. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg, page 43.
  3. ↑ Efrem Tavoni, Elaina Guidi (ed.): I. Triennale internazionale della xilografia contemporanea , Museo della xilografia Ugo da Carpi, Verlag Alfa, 1969, page 42 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ Volker Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg , Volume 3 (1966–1974), Verlag Christians, Hamburg 1977, page 138 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Reck, Albert Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Krappitz
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2019
Place of death Hamburg