Arnold Daidalos Wande
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Arnold Daedalus walls (* 23. November 1924 in Braunschweig ; † 20th April 1990 in Cologne ) was a German painter and graphic artist of modernity . In the 1960s and 1970s, he attracted attention through various art campaigns.
biography
He was born as Arnold Wande in Braunschweig in 1924. He later adopted the stage name Daidalos . He spent childhood and youth in Braunschweig and Carinthia (Austria), his mother's home. He began his artistic training in 1940 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . This was interrupted by the call to war. After a serious wound in Russia and further war missions, he initially continued his studies in Vienna after being a prisoner of war.
After several months in Paris, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in early 1950 and became a master student of Ernst Geitlinger .
From the end of 1950 he lived and worked in Cologne. From 1968 to the end of the 1970s he attracted attention through various group and individual actions in Cologne and other cities. From 1980, however, he returned to painting and drawing. Various solo and group exhibitions followed.
After a serious illness, he died in 1990 at the age of 65. He is buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (Hall 19 (D) No. 83).
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After painting that was initially very representational, he found abstract graphic expression during his studies. At the beginning of 1960 he began drawing with black ink on small formats with filigree lines, the so-called " rune drawings ". In addition, prints were made as etchings . As a result, he also created large-format works with ink on primed canvas or in painting campaigns with dispersion on canvas, for example in 1973 at the Katschhof in Aachen or in 1975 during the Kiel Week in Kiel . Since 1975 he has also been painting colored oil paintings with alienated mythical creatures, the " chimeras ". In doing so, figurative fine drawings of feathers, eyes or portraits were repeatedly created using different materials. With the rise of the 1968 movement , he appeared as the initiator of various happenings at his former studio location in Cologne's Ladenstadt (today: Opern Passagen ) in the underground car park or in the Berrenrath open-cast lignite mine. These mostly cheerful to absurd events were led by Wande under the term " Polymorphism ". Towards the beginning of the 1980s he withdrew more and more from public appearances and devoted himself again to his painterly and graphic work.
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| SURNAME | Wande, Arnold Daidalos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wande, Arnold (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1990 |
| Place of death | Cologne |