Bernd Pfarr

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Bernd Pfarr (born November 11, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 6, 2004 in Cologne ) was a German painter and comic artist .

Life

Bernd Pfarr studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach and has been drawing cartoons and illustrations for various magazines and publishers since 1978 , for example for Zeit-Magazin . He was best known for his cartoon character Sondermann , who appeared regularly for many years in the satirical magazine Titanic , and for his paintings , which typically got their humorous note from the captions (see also Komische Kunst ). Numerous collections of his cartoons and paintings as well as a small number of comics appeared in book form. Together with Hans Zippert he also published the illustrated book When Animals travel (2003).

In addition to drawing, Bernd Pfarr also devoted himself to large-format painting in acrylic. Here he developed a unique style full of surreal and comical elements. He was also a collector of toy cars with a focus on the period from 1920 to 1935. In 2001 he was responsible for an illustrated book in which he presented 221 examples from his own and other collections.

He lived with his wife Gabriele in Frankfurt am Main and in southern France and had a son. At the age of 45 he died of lymph gland cancer .

In the opinion of Robert Gernhardt , himself an author of comical drawings and texts, Bernd Pfarr, despite 25 years of struggle to survive against his cancer, "[...] has provided counter-evidence for the thesis that a difficult life must bring difficult art" . He brought "[...] things into cartoons that have no place there. The light, this extreme architecture, the backgrounds. The pictures remain exciting ” . The Frankfurt head of cultural affairs, Hans-Bernhard Nordhoff, also said that his cartoon character Sondermann “took up everyday life in a very unique way and gave an interpretation beyond the everyday using characters” . Patrick Bahners wrote on the occasion of Bernd Pfarr's death that he was "[...] a master of balance, the harmony of tones and moods" . "Such a re-creation of the classic comic drawing and painting was probably only possible in the supposedly low art" .

After his death, Gabriele Roth-Pfarr gave the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg around 180 tin toys on permanent loan. The museum showed them from February 5 to April 30, 2017 in the special exhibition "The fascination of moving sheet metal - collectors' toys of the 20th century". A number of tin toys from Bernd Pfarr's collection as well as five acrylic paintings made by him can be seen in the permanent exhibition in Oldenburg Castle .

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In honor of him and his best-known figure Sondermann , the art prize "Bernd-Pfarr-Sondermann for comic art" was launched in 2004, which honors comics and works of comic art. From 2004 to 2012 the prize was awarded by the Frankfurt Book Fair together with the “Frankfurter Rundschau” and the specialist portal “Comicforum”. Since 2012 the prize has been awarded by the non-profit association Sondermann eV, to which Bernd Pfarr's heirs also belong. The prize is endowed with a total of 7,000 euros.

Works

I. Individual works

  • Bernd Pfarr - Adult Comics from Germany (Volume 2) , 1984 (Volksverlag)
  • Dulle - seriously annoyed , 1985 (Semmel Verlag)
  • I love you , 1985 (Semmel Verlag)
  • Nights like velvet , 1987 (Semmel Verlag)
  • Sondermann strikes , 1991 (Eichborn)
  • Dulle , 1992 (Edition Art of Comics)
  • Dog life , 1992 (Eichborn)
  • Everyone loves Sondermann , 1993 (Eichborn)
  • Comic pictures , 1996 (Steidl)
  • The double Sondermann , 1997 (rororo)
  • Dangerous Everyday Life , 1998 (Edition Moderne)
  • One day Zeus got tired of flinging lightning , 1998 (two thousand and one)
  • Alex the Raven , 1999 (Edition Moderne)
  • Angels & other poultry 7 - An advent calendar to snip open , 2000 (rororo)
  • Rolling sheet metal, toy cars and motorcycles from 1920-1935 , 2001 (here and now)
  • Heroes of Today , 2001 (Edition Moderne)
  • Driving pleasure , 2002 (no & buts)
  • Sondermann in luck , 2002 (two thousand and one)
  • The Lords of Creation , 2006 (edition book guild)
  • Sondermann , November 2007 (Steidl), ed. by Gabriele Roth-Pfarr
  • Komische Welten , September 2008 (Edel Edition), ed. by Gabriele Roth-Pfarr
  • The wild beauty of carpeting: Bernd Pfarr's comical universe , May 2018 (Carlsen)
  • Sondermann: 1987 to 2004 , October 2018 (Carlsen)

II. Illustrations

  • The Stranger's House (Michael Gutmann) , 1987 (Semmel's Handy Schriften)
  • Job search - information, tips and strategies (Peter Köster) , 1987 (Beltz)
  • The wise professor von Katastroff and his cat Attila (John Saxby) , 1997 (Hanser)
  • Anything else ( Elke Heidenreich ) , 1999 (Hanser)
  • "It all depends on your time!" (Piet Klocke) , 2000 (Knaur)
  • So ... The last columns from "Brigitte" (Elke Heidenreich) , 2001 (rororo)
  • Mittelpünktchens Reise around the World ( Zoë Jenny ) , 2001 (Hanser)
  • Chief of his own hearth - Issue 11 (edited by Vincent Klink and Wiglaf Droste) , 2002 (edition Vincent Klink)
  • Federseel (Ralf Schlatter) , 2002 (No & But)
  • When animals travel (Hans Zippert) , 2003 (No & But)
  • The Secret Diaries (Samuel Pepys) , 2004 (Eichborn)
  • "Dat can be healthy then" - Else Stratmann on sport, ... (Elke Heidenreich) , 2004 (rororo)
  • "May it be a little more?" - Else Stratmann weighs (Elke Heidenreich) , 2005 (rororo)
  • "With or without bones?" - The last one by Else Stratmann (Elke Heidenreich) , 2005 (rororo)

III. Exhibition catalogs

  • 70 x the full truth - a cross-section through the German caricature of the present (caricature 1987, Kassel) , 1987 (Zinnober)
  • Little night music (Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen and others) , 1999 (No & But)
  • Comic art (Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover) , 2003 (No & But)
  • Komische Welten (Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, Frankfurt aM), 2008 (noble)

IV. Contributions in collective works

  • New Pullover Comics (together with: Brösel, Reiche, Fritsche, Drühl, Gutmann), 1984 (Semmel Verlag)
  • Ko-Li-Bri Reader - Volume 1 (together with Kähler, Saalfeld and others), 1985 (Semmel-Verlach)
  • Relationship boxes , 1985 (Elefanten-Press)
  • Ko-Li-Bri Reader - Volume 2 (together with Kähler, Saalfeld and others), 1986 (Semmel-Verlach)
  • Ko-Li-Bri Reader - Volume 1 (together with Kähler, Saalfeld and others), 1986 (Semmel-Verlach)
  • Jealous? , 1987 (Elefanten Press)
  • Porn? Si! Si! - Cartoons , 1988 (Elefanten Press)
  • "There is more like tennis in this world" - comics and cartoons from Kowalski 1987-1990 , 1991 (Semmel-Verlach)
  • The Raven 36 , 1993 (Haffmans)
  • Alice in Comicland (Ed. By Irene Mahrer-Stich) , 1993 (edition modern)
  • Genschman was Engholms lollipop with Thomas Gottschalk - The best Titanic satires from seven years, 1987-1994 (Ed. Von Zippert, Hans) , 1995 (Elefanten-Press)
  • Accidents and other crimes (together with Mattoti, Loustal, Kamagurka), 1996 (Edition Moderne)
  • The Raven 48 - The Money and Gold Raven , 1997 (Haffmans)

V. Working in magazines and newspapers

  • star
  • Titanic (satirical magazine) , u. a .: Cover (11/85, 3/90, 8/93), Ko-Li-Bri (3 / 81-3 / 87), Sondermann (9 / 87-8 / 04)
  • Health food courier (Alex the Raven, until 2003)
  • Kowalski
  • Der Tagesanzeiger (Zurich), magazine (Saturday supplement)
  • The time (individual illustrations, most recently in issue 48/2004)
  • Die Zeit - ZEIT magazine (illustrations, 1994–1999)
  • De Volkskrant Magazine (magazine for the newspaper de Volkskrant in the Netherlands)

VI. comics

  • Pardon , issue 7/78
  • Wheel off! , Volume 1 + 2 (Rad ab! Verlag)
  • Hinz & Kunz Komix , issues: 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11 - 1979 ff (Volksverlag)
  • U-Comix , special volume 24 (anthology: German drawing artists), 1979 (Volksverlag)
  • Zomix - German Komiks Heft , Heft 8, 1980 (Ewald Lang)
  • Zebra, No. 14 (October 1997)

VII. Book covers

  • Erofeev, Venedikt: Moscow Petuski , (CDs in a slipcase) 2004 no & but records
  • Erofejew, Wenedikt: Die Reise nach Petuschki , (CDs in a slipcase) 1998 no & but records
  • Literary forays through gourmet temples and taverns (Schiefer, Manfred / Simon, Karin, eds.) , 1995 (ars vivendi)
  • Kästner, Erich: Works in nine volumes , 1998 (Hanser) and from 2002, in individual volumes (Hanser)
  • Erofejew, Wenedikt: The Journey to Petuschki , 1998 (Piper)
  • Droste, Wiglaf: Zen Buddhism and Cellulite , 1999 (Kunstmann)
  • Kesten, Hermann: Complete Edition , 1999 (Steidel)
  • Droste, Wiglaf: Bombed Belgium & Bread and Shingles , 2002 (Reclam Leipzig)
  • Perutz, Leo: The Marques de Bolibar , 2004 (Paul Zsolnay Verlag)
  • Perutz, Leo: The Swedish Rider , 2002 (Paul Zsolnay Verlag)
  • Perutz, Leo: Night under the stone bridge , 2002 (Paul Zsolnay Verlag)
  • Heidenreich, Elke: Cut or in one piece , rororo 2004
  • Heidenreich, Elke: Datt can be healthy , rororo 2004
  • Heidenreich, Elke: May it be a little more? , rororo 2004
  • Heidenreich, Elke: So ... , rororo 2004
  • Heidenreich, Elke: No beautiful country , rororo 2004
  • Simon, Axel: Tatütata for Peter Sputnik , Rowohlt Berlin 2009

VIII. Miscellaneous

  • Calendar: Strange times in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 , (all no & buts)
  • Advertisement: Renault Kangoo

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1999 City Museum Ludwigshafen: Little Night Music , from June 10, 1999
  • 2001 Oldenburger Kunstverein: Frankfurt three-way costume , from November 4, 2001
  • 2004 Wilhelm Busch Museum Hanover, 2004
  • 2005 Caricatura, Museum of Comical Art in the Historical Museum Frankfurt, July 9 to August 28, 2005
  • 2005 Caricature & Cartoon Museum Basel, exhibition: Sondermann is coming , from October 15, 2005 to March 12, 2006
  • 2005 Schwarz, Brot, Gold, Kunstverein Oldenburg
  • 2006 Fumetto, Lucerne
  • 2006 Caricatura , Kassel, from September 9th to November 5th, 2006
  • 2008 Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst , Frankfurt aM, opening exhibition October 3, 2008
  • 2009 Olaf Gulbransson Museum Tegernsee , "Komische Welten"
  • 2017 State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg : The fascination of moving sheet metal - collectors' toys of the 20th century , February 5 to April 30, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 7, 2004, No. 155 / page 31

See also

personal data
SURNAME Pastor, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2004
Place of death Cologne