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Andreas Petersen-Röm 1977

Andreas Petersen-Röm (born October 13, 1914 in Havneby on the island of Röm ; † March 4, 1985 in Mølby on Röm) was a painter and one of the most famous artists of the German minority in Denmark in the post-war period.

Life

Andreas Petersen-Röm (also spelled Andreas Petersen-Røm in Danish) was an autodidact . In the year he was born in 1914, the island of Röm (Danish Rømø ) belonged to the German Empire as part of the Tondern district and only came back to Denmark after the referendum in Northern Schleswig in 1920 . The national conflicts in the border region shaped his life. As a volunteer in the German Wehrmacht , he lost his right arm in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Soviet and Czech Republic . After his return to Denmark, he was arrested under the retroactive Danish laws introduced after the war and interned in the Frøslev internment camp for a year and a half . In Frøslev, where he was held with other painters from northern Schleswig (including Arndt Georg Nissen ), he managed to switch to painting with his left hand. There are only a few of the first pictures from Frøslev, most of them have been destroyed.

In 1948 Petersen-Röm first took part in an exhibition in the German secondary school in Tingleff. In 1951 he showed his pictures at "Sønderjydsk Malersetzungenlutning af 1935", probably the most important association of visual artists in the south of Denmark, which annually puts on a jury exhibition. Petersen-Röm was represented in all subsequent exhibitions of this organization until his death. Solo exhibitions followed in North Schleswig , North and West Germany, but also in the rest of Denmark in Sweden and Iceland . The painting of Andreas Petersen-Röms has always been said to have a similarity to that of his compatriot Emil Nolde , which the former attributed to a common preference for the same landscape and nature.

Study trips took him to North Africa , Egypt , Cyprus , Lebanon and Turkey . Andreas Petersen-Röm's work includes well over a thousand, primarily watercolors , but also drawings and a smaller number of oil paintings . Most of his works are privately owned or owned by institutions of the German minority in North Schleswig, a larger number u. a. Deutsches Museum Nordschleswig, Sonderburg and in the Artothek of the Deutsche Büchereizentrale and Central Library in Aabenraa .

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

• Joint exhibition of artists from North Schleswig at various locations, 1950–1984
• Sønderjydsk Malersamenslutning af 1935, at various locations, 1951–1984
• Vestslesvigske Kunstnere, Art Museum Tondern 1963 (today Sønderjyllands Art Museum)
• Easter exhibition, Schaumburg, Holstebro, 1968
• Museum Aabenraa / Aabenraa Museum, 1978 (today Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot )
• Det Gule Palæ, Gravenstein / Gråsten, 1975–1984
• Easter exhibition at Sønderjydske Kunstnere, Sonderburg / Sønderborg, 1978–1984
• Landsdelens Galeri, Hoyer / Højer, 1979–1984

Solo exhibitions

• German Central Library Aabenraa, 1974
• German-Danish Society, Meeting Point Denmark, Hamburg, 1975
• Dynt Art, 1975
• Sandkorn Art Gallery, Karlsruhe, 1975
• Sevedebygdes Konstförening, Grankvistgården, Vimmerby / Sweden, 1976
• Ribe Statsseminarium, 1977
• Jugendhof Knivsberg , together with his son Art Tudsborg, 1979
• various exhibitions in art associations and banks in Denmark, from 1977

literature

• Ankjær: Havets painter på besøg. , Århus Stiftstidende 1979.
• Uwe-M. Troppenz: A. Petersen-Röm. Mohrdieck-Tryk, Aabenraa 1980.
• Gerd Stolz and Günter Weitling: North Schleswig - landscape-people-culture. Husum 2005 ISBN 3-89876-197-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Petersen-Röm in the catalog of the German National Library