Bernd Damke

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Bernd Damke (born January 13, 1939 in Graefendorf , Torgau district ) is a German graphic artist and painter .

Life

Damke moved to Oldenburg in 1945 , where he graduated from high school in 1959. He then studied until 1963 with Fred Thieler and Mac Zimmermann at the Berlin University of Fine Arts , department of art education.

Since the two professors were very different in their conceptions of art, Bernd Damke remained a loner between Tachism and Surrealism . After initial collage work (gloomy house silhouettes, e.g. the still life "Houses in Grunewaldstrasse" 1959) he gradually switched to a minimalist and constructive imagery, arranged forms he found as double forms or serially and treated the space as color or used the color as an existing space. This contradiction between the two forms creates the tension in his pictures. The Berlin art critic Heinz Ohff declared the interchangeability of the color spaces to be infinitely changeable.

In 1964, shortly after completing his studies at the university, Günter Wirth accepted him early on in the ranks of his contract artists, exhibited him in 1965 at Galerie Schiessel, Freiburg and Galerie Wirth Berlin, and sent works by Bernd Damke to exhibitions abroad in London, Lichfield and Naples.

Between 1966 and 1972, Bernd Damke made screen prints (as annual gifts for the Westfälischer Kunstverein and for the Kunstverein Münsterland), which are reminiscent of Georg Karl Pfahler , but were much more convincing, stricter and more minimalist than these. Bernd Damke convinces with the conciseness of his individual works, which in their entirety show a continuous consistent development. In particular, there were influences of hard-edge painting , here Ellsworth Kelly , with Damke's works appearing softer. An example of this would be the work "Red Block" from 1973.

The traveling exhibition organized in 1984, starting from the Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen via the Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg and finally in the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, was of importance for Damke's public perception, which was extended until July 1984 and for which a detailed catalog was published. The art critic Michael Nungesser notes: A counterpoint to the neo - expressive and figurative artists mentioned is the painter Bernd Damke, born in Gräfendorf (Saxony-Anhalt) in 1939 , one of the most prominent representatives of abstract-concrete art alongside Lenk , Pfahler and Geiger .

In 1969 Damke was a co-founder of the artist group B1 . In the same year he was awarded a Villa Romana Prize and in 1973/74 a Villa Massimo scholarship holder . In 1977 he was awarded the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize.

From 1972 to 2004 Damke was a professor in the design department at Münster University of Applied Sciences . Damke lives in Berlin.

Works are u. a. in the public collections of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn.

Part of his early work can be found in the archive for artists' bequests of the Art Fund Foundation , Pulheim-Brauweiler.

Exhibitions

  • Further exhibitions up to the present: see web link "Art Aspects"

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibition

  • 2009: Galerie Clasing, Münster, double exhibition Damke: "Retrospective", Franek: "Rückblende"

Publications

Exhibition catalogs
  • Bernd Damke. Recklinghausen municipal art gallery, January 22, 1984 - February 26, 1984; Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, March 8, 1984 - April 8, 1984; Haus am Waldsee Berlin, May 25, 1984 - July 8, 1984. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1984, ISBN 3-7647-0350-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Republic of Artistic Landscape: Münster, Westphalia and Ruhr Area. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-76193-4 , pp. 124-127.
  2. ↑ Illustration in the Kunstfonds Foundation , tempera / paper / hard fiber, 36.5 × 34.5 × 2.5 cm, inventory no. 2011/1425.
  3. ^ Magazin Kunst , 4th quarter 1965, p. 218
  4. ↑ Illustration in the Stiftung Kunstfonds , synthetic resin / canvas, 180 × 218 × 6 cm landscape format, inventory no. 2011/1440.
  5. ↑ Michael Nungesser: Letter from Berlin. In: Kunstforum International . Volume 73/74, 1984, exhibitions: Berlin, p. 321f.
  6. ^ Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-0400-1 , pp. 83-84 (No. 32).
  7. ↑ a b Academy Franz-Wärme-Haus: Exhibition report on Bernd Damke “Formenspeicher”, works from the studio in Münster 2004 - 2011 , accessed on October 31, 2012.
  8. ↑ Object meets geometry: Wärme-Haus shows art by long-time design professor Bernd Damke. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of January 21, 2012 , with photo series, accessed on October 31, 2012.
  9. ↑ District of Osnabrück: Bernd Damke: From the Pacific via Cairo to Budapest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Exhibition notice, accessed on October 31, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landkreis-osnabrueck.de  
  10. ↑ Maike Schultz: Stranded in the butterfly bay. In: Berliner Zeitung of February 17, 2009 , accessed on October 31, 2012.
  11. ↑ Sabine Müller: Lines and wild spirits: Bernd Damke and Franek exhibit at Clasing. In: Münstersche Zeitung , article from March 24, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , with illustration Warmer Regen (2008), accessed October 31, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.muensterschezeitung.de  
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SURNAME Damke, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefendorf , Torgau district