Alfred Pohl

Alfred Pohl (2009)

Alfred Pohl (born August 22, 1928 in Essen ; † February 4, 2019 ) was a German graphic artist and wood cutter .

Life

Alfred Pohl studied at the Trier Werkkunstschule from 1947 to 1948. He then studied from 1954 to 1957 at the Lüneburg University of Education, the current University of Lüneburg and from 1960 to 1961 at the Werkkunstschule Hannover . In 1965 Alfred Pohl worked in Johnny Friedländer's studio in Paris. From 1963 to 1967 he was assistant for art education at the University of Education in Göttingen , and from 1967 to 1970 he was a teacher at the Colegio Alexander von Humboldt Lima ( Peru ). From 1972 to 1974 he was a member of the misión pedagógica in the Colombian Ministry of Education. From 1974 until his death in early February 2019, Alfred Pohl lived in Göttingen.

Artistic peculiarity

When making woodcuts, Alfred Pohl preferred to work with the “lost plate”. With the technique of the “lost panel”, the woodcut is created by processing only one “printing block”, whereby after each color has been printed, the color-bearing part of this color is cut out of the wood panel before the next color is printed. In doing so, the color-bearing part of the plate is reduced color after color, while color after color appears on the picture. In the end, the record is “lost”, the picture completed. The number of copies selected for the first color is therefore the final one. Reprints are not possible.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Alfred Pohl, Engel - Remembrance of Tepotzotlan (color woodcut using the technique of the lost panel, 1994)

• 1970 Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia, Porto Alegre a. Sao Paulo (Brazil)
• 1973/74 Goethe-Instituts in Bogota (Columbia), Lima (Peru), Quito (Ecuador), La Paz (Bolivia) a. Santiago de Chile (Chile)
• 1971 International Print Society, New Hope (USA) / Overbeck Society Lübeck (catalog)
• 1973 Museo Zea, Medellin (Colombia)
• 1978 Bellevue Palace Kassel / Gallery Klaus v. Francheville, Hanover (catalog)
• 1979 City. Gustav Lübcke Museum Hamm
• 1982 Galerie am Grasholz, Würzburg / Galerie Wolfgang Böhler, Bensheim
• 1983 Princeton University Library (USA)
• 1985 Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne
• 1988 Frankfurter Kunstkabinett
• 1990 Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
• 1996/97 City Museum Göttingen (catalog)
• 2005 Evangelical parish hall Aichwald-Aichschieß (catalog)
• 2008 Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn - retrospective - (catalog)
• 2009 Hildesheim Cathedral Museum (catalog) / Altes Rathaus Göttingen, art collection of the Georg August University a. Culture Service of the City of Göttingen
• 2010 Old Town Hall Winterbach
• 2011 Gallery Alte Feuerwache, Göttingen

Book illustrations

Alfred Pohl, Zu Jorge Amado , Nights in Bahia (color woodcut from 4 panels, 1985)

Alfred Pohl, Macondo (color etching, 1986)

• Rudolf Otto Wiemer : Kalle Snowman. With reproduced woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Stuttgart 1964.
• Gerhard Ettl: You America of the South. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Hamlet in the Allgäu 1968.
• Carl Heinz Kurz: African Reminiscences. With drawings by Alfred Pohl. Munich 1975.
• Winston Orrillo : The mountain falls into the park. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Memmingen 1975.
• Jörg Loskill: Time. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Gelsenkirchen 1980.
• Karl Krolow : Mortal. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Pfaffenweiler 1980.
• Alfred Pohl: What else I will do. Gelsenkirchen 1980.
• Rose Foreigner : Riding a Dragon. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Pfaffenweiler 1980.
• Barbara Frischmuth : From the life of Pierrot. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Pfaffenweiler 1982.
• Reiner Kunze : twenty-one variations on the topic of “die post”. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Hauzenberg 1983.
• Rudolf Otto Wiemer : Longing of the crocodiles. With reproduced woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Göttingen 1985.
• Erich Fitzbauer : The southern lights. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Vienna 1985.
• Michael Querbach: Deposits. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Hauzenberg 1985.
• Walter Helmut Fritz : Like never before. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Pfaffenweiler 1986.
• Sigrid Grabert: Message in a bottle. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Hauzenberg 1986.
• Erich Fitzbauer: Wish list. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Vienna 1990.
• Erich Fitzbauer: Sun, moon and cloud animals. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Vienna 1990.
• Siegbert Hein: Sunday site inspection. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Passau 1991.
• Ernst Jünger : Serpentara. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Passau 1991.
• Sibille Brenner: Sloth dreams. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Gerlingen 1992.
• Alfred Pohl: cross sections. Passau 1992.
• Hubert Schirneck : The festival. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Krefeld 1992.
• Ernst Jünger : November. With colored woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Passau 1993.
• Karl Krolow : Enough is never enough. With a woodcut by Alfred Pohl. Passau 1997.
• Josef Imbach : Was it light? Was it saved? With reproduced vignettes by Alfred Pohl. Wuerzburg 1998.
• Alfred Pohl: Drawings I. Gelsenkirchen 2000.
• Alfred Pohl: Images of the desert. Göttingen 2000.
• Heinrich Heine : Göttingen. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Göttingen 2005.
• Jens Jenßen: Münchhausiaden. With woodcuts by Alfred Pohl. Göttingen 2006.

literature

• City Museum Göttingen: Alfred Pohl, graphic works. Goettingen 1996.
• Klaus v. Francheville: Alfred Pohl. Hanover 1978.
• Hanna Bekker vom Rath : Alfred Pohl. Frankfurt / M. 1988.
• Intergrafica Print & Pack GmbH: Discoveries - Connections - Lost Plates. Essen 2002.
• Frieder Gadesmann : Alfred Pohl, Connected in South America. Aichwald 2005.
• Landesverband Rheinland / Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn / Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (ed.): Alfred Pohl, retrospective. Exhibition catalog. Bonn / Göttingen 2008.
• Frieder Gadesmann : Seven Angels for Württemberg. Stuttgart 2009.
• Frieder Gadesmann : Angels for Sindelfingen. Sindelfingen 2010.

Web links

• Alfred Pohl: Connected in South America Exhibition at the Kunstkrais Aichwald 2005
• Literature by and about Alfred Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library