Bodo Olthoff

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Bodo Olthoff (born June 7, 1940 in Emden ) is an East Frisian painter and graphic artist who worked artistically far beyond the East Frisian area.

Career

He grew up in Emden and moved to Stuttgart with his parents . There Bodo Olthoff did a graphics apprenticeship from 1957 to 1960 and worked from 1960 to 1967 in graphic companies in Stuttgart as a reproduction specialist . He married Gerda Oesterle in 1962. Two daughters Silke (* 1962) and Gerswind (* 1964) were born. He attended the graphic arts college in Stuttgart for further training. When he returned to East Frisia, he worked in the civil service (police) from 1968 to 1971.

From 1972 to 1975 he studied at the Technical University of Münster in the Department of Design painting under Hans Griepentrog and Graphics at Marjan Voijska. From 1976 to 1980 he studied art education at the Institute for Art Education in Münster and the Düsseldorf Art Academy , sculpture with Ernst Hermanns and painting with Udo Scheel. Bodo Olthoff went to school as a student trainee from 1980 to 1981 at the New Gymnasium in Oldenburg and after the 2nd state examination from 1982 to 1985 he took over the management of an art and culture project (art school) in Aurich , East Friesland.

Since 1986 he has been a freelance painter with his own studio in Manslagt , Krummhörn and later in Aurich. Bodo Olthoff's love of the sea led him to undertake two sailing trips from Europe to the Caribbean in 1986 and 1988, followed by a painting stay there.

In 1991 he was awarded the Art Prize of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for East Friesland and Papenburg . In 1993 Bodo Olthoff went on an autumn sailing trip from Emden to Lisbon on the sea. He also documented this journey in many pictures, most of which were taken on board.

1997/1998 a television portrait about Bodo Olthoff was published, title: Navy-Man in the series Kunststreifzüge in German television (NDR, 3Sat).

Bodo Olthoff has numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions in Stuttgart, Münster, Bremen, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Emden, Aurich, Flensburg, Dresden-Pulsnitz and Seoul (South Korea).

Bodo Olthoff lives and works in Aurich (East Friesland).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog: Bodo Olthoff, Bugwelten (oil paintings-drawings-graphics), 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Olthoff, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden