Bodo Kraft (painter)

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Bodo Kraft (* 1951 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German painter and draftsman.

Life

From 1968 to 1969 Kraft studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Horst Antes and from 1969 to 1970 at the Free Art School in Stuttgart with Gerd Neisser . Years of study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Rudolf Haegele from 1970–73 and again at the Karlsruhe Academy from 1973–76, there from 1974 to 1976 as a master student of Herbert Kitzel . From 1976 to 1977, Kraft held a DAAD scholarship in Amsterdam . 1977–86 the artist lived in Bremen. 1978–1988 he was a member of the Bremen artist group Gruppe Grün. Further grants followed, for example a studio grant from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1978/1979 and the Künstlerhaus grant from Worpswede from 1979 to 1980 . Between 1981 and 1983 the painter stayed in Italy and had a studio in Bologna . Since 1987 he has lived and worked in Ettlingen , Karlsruhe and Kressbronn on Lake Constance . Bodo Kraft is a member of the Baden-Württemberg Artists Association. He is married to the sculptor Irmela Maier.

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Kraft's work has its roots in dealing with the work of his teachers at the Karlsruhe Academy, Horst Antes and Herbert Kitzel . Antes, himself a student of HAP Grieshaber in Karlsruhe , was one of the founders of the New Figuration , which, starting primarily from Karlsruhe, gave important new impulses to figurative painting in Germany in the 1960s. His early works show large-format motifs in which the human figure - mostly it is the artist himself or portraits of friends or artist colleagues - is sometimes seen from behind in front of a wall surface. His painting in the 1970s was strongly determined by a representational language of forms. This style changed after studying in Bologna . Small-format pictures were created there that were developed purely from color. The “tozzi rossi” with their mostly square image surface formally refer to the following “quadri”. In them you can already find his predilection for composing individual images into large blocks.

The motif of the window can also be found in Kraft's work, in which the geometrically structured image composition with latticed lines of lines seems to allow a view from a room to the outside. These "window pictures" give the human figure, seen in outline and often depicted as a torso , space for activities or events that can be imagined. In the “studio walls” (since 2007), the artist deals with an unusual image format. They are narrow canvases that are only 50 centimeters wide and 2.20 meters high. The long, partly two-part vertical rectangles are descriptions of the state of the space as well as the content.

Publicly owned work (selection)

Working in collections
  • Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe
  • State Art Gallery Karlsruhe
  • Karlsruhe State Museum
  • Museum of New Art Freiburg
  • Municipal gallery Bremen
  • Artothek Bremen
  • City Gallery Wolfsburg
  • State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • Würth Künzelsau collection
  • City of Bad Waldsee
  • City of Weingarten
architectural art
  • Bremen, Senator for Science and Art (Lessingstrasse School)
  • Mainz, State Theater, Small House
  • Karlsruhe, House of Crafts

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1979: Galerie Gruppe Grün Bremen (EA / K), Galerie Jochen Weise Hannover (EA)
  • 1980: love documents of our time. Kunsthalle Darmstadt and Kunstverein Hannover (K)
  • 1981: Gallery House 11 Karlsruhe (EA)
  • 1982: 4 realisms - 4 results. Kunsthalle Darmstadt (EA / K); tozzi rossi. Galerie Gruppe Grün Bremen (EA / K)
  • 1983: Municipal Gallery Bad Waldsee (EA), tozzi rossi, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (EA / K)
  • 1984: Artistic Landscape Federal Republic, Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal (K)
  • 1985: Galerie Katrin Rabus Bremen (EA), Galerie Györfi Herrenberg (EA)
  • 1986: Galerie art-contact Karlsruhe (EA), masterpieces from the collection of the municipal gallery Wolfsburg , art gallery Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo / Yugoslavia (K)
  • 1987: Galerie Christa Schübbe Düsseldorf (EA)
  • 1989: humans and animals. Gallery Ewald Schrade Mochental Castle
  • 1990: Society of Friends of Young Art V. Baden-Baden (EA / K), Galerie Doris Wullkopf Darmstadt (EA), Villa Berberich Bad Säckingen (EA)
  • 1991: Galerie Billi Strauss Stuttgart (EA), opening exhibition, Hermann-Billing-Haus Karlsruhe (K)
  • 1993: Head Views. Palatinate Gallery Kaiserslautern and City Museums Heilbronn (K)
  • 1994: Herbert Kitzel and his students. Gallery art-contact Karlsruhe
  • 1997: quadri. Hermann-Billing-Haus and Galerie Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe (EA / K)
  • 1999: Municipal gallery in the Kornhaus Weingarten (EA)
  • 2001: Galerie Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe (EA)
  • 2003: Encounters, Bodo Kraft and Herbert Kitzel. Galerie Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe (EA) and Galerie der Majolika Karlsruhe
  • 2005: Municipal gallery in the Torhaus Leutkirch im Allgäu (EA / K)
  • 2007: Herbert Kitzel and friends, works from 1958 to 1978. Gallery Domplatz Halle / Saale and Galerie Alfred Knecht in the organ factory in Karlsruhe (K)
  • 2008: Städtisches Museum Engen, Stubbengesellschaft (with Irmela Maier) (EA / K)
  • 2009: studio walls. Gallery Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe (EA / K)
  • 2012: friends. Hermann Billing House Karlsruhe
  • 2013: studio walls and quadri. Municipal gallery in the Kornhaus Weingarten (EA)
  • 2014: Critical Observers - Karlsruhe Realists of the 1970s in Context. Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe
  • 2015: Art Oberschwaben, 1970 until today. Achberg Castle (K)
  • 2016: in between. Art Association Nördlingen

Since 1973 involved in various annual exhibitions a. a. Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg (C), Karlsruhe artists, Badischer Kunstverein (C), New Darmstadt Secession (C), Society for Contemporary Art Bremen (C), Society of Friends of Young Art eV Baden-Baden (C).

Represented at the art fairs Art Cologne, Cologne, Art Bodensee, Dornbirn / Austria (K), Art Karlsruhe (K).

(EA = solo exhibition, K = catalog)

Bibliography (selection)

Exhibition catalogs

  • Bodo Kraft, studio walls. Edited by Galerie Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe and Medoza Museum Otterndorf. Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-937295-94-7 . (Text by Veronika Mertens)
  • Bodo Kraft, painting. Gallery in the Torhaus, City of Leutkirch, Alfred Knecht Gallery, Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-937295-45-3 . (Texts Sabine Heilig, Ulrich Zimmermann)
  • Bodo Kraft, quadri 1995–1997. Exhibition catalog Hermann-Billing-Haus Karlsruhe, in cooperation with Galerie Alfred Knecht, Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, 1997, ISBN 3-925521-38-0 . (Text by Ursula Merkel)
  • Bodo force. Society of Friends of Young Art eV , Baden-Baden 1990. (Text by Dr. Ulrike Grimm)
  • Bodo Kraft, tozzi rossi 1981–1983. Galerie Gruppe Grün Bremen, Kunstverein Karlsruhe 1983. (Text by Hajo Antpöhler)
  • Bodo force. in: Green group. Exhibition Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen 1978 (texts by Herbert Albrecht, Volker Plagemann)
  • Bodo force. In: 4 realisms. Kunsthalle Darmstadt 1982 (text by Dr. Hans-G. Sperlich)

Further literature

  • Würth Collection 4, Insight Outlook Overview. C. Silvia Weber (Ed.), Swiridoff Verlag Künzelsau 2015, ISBN 978-3-89929-323-4
  • Art Oberschwaben - 20th century, 1970 until today. Martin Oswald, Heiderose Langer, Stefanie Dathe. Kunstverlag Fink, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-845-6 .
  • Herbert Kitzel (1928–1978) and friends. Kirsten Claudia Voigt, Hans-Georg Sehrt, (Eds.) Hallescher Kunstverein and Galerie Alfred Knecht Karlsruhe, Halle / Saale 2007.
  • Art in public space in Bremen 1973–1993. Lothar Romain, Hajo Antpöhler, Hans Joachim Manske (eds.). Bremen volumes on cultural policy VII, Worpsweder Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-89299-169-3 .
  • Head Views - Painting and Sculpture of the 80s. Erich Thiess, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern and City Museums Heilbronn. Kaiserslautern 1993, ISBN 3-89422-064-3 .
  • Art landscape Federal Republic. Ursula Peters and Georg F. Schwarzbauer, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen edition . Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine, Ernst Klett Verlage, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-76197-7 .
  • Love - documents of our time. Katrin Sello, Dorit Marhenke, HW Sabais, Martin Schmid. Kunsthalle Darmstadt and Kunstverein Hannover. Prisma Verlag Gütersloh 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Kraft, Diary of the Painter 2012
  2. ^ Bodo Kraft, exhibition catalog of the painter
  3. ↑ Sabine Heilig: Bodo Kraft - The painter and his work , article 2016
  4. ^ "The painter finds himself in the painting ground" , Schwäbische Zeitung, June 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse