Charly Pirot

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Charly Pirot, 2015

Wilhelm "Charly" Pirot (born September 22, 1939 in Cologne ; † October 15, 2015 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Charly Pirot was born on September 22, 1939 in Cologne-Nippes .

From 1979 he worked as a freelance painter in Cologne. Charly Pirot was given his nickname “the Cologne van Gogh ” by a former chief secretary of the Wochenspiegel. "The power of his colors reminded her of the painter without an ear."

To get to know the colors better, he spent a week in a castle ruin while on vacation in France, during which time he painted three pictures. For a long time he preferred to paint in nature, often in the north of Cologne. On the way he was on a moped with a specially made trailer, with which he transported painting utensils and provisions. On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Kaufhof Cologne in 1993, he set up his easel in the shop for a few days and was watched at work.

There is a stick puppet by Charly Pirot in the Hänneschen Theater .

Grave site in the Melaten cemetery

From 2010 onwards, Charly Pirot stopped painting after personal blows of fate: “In 2010 I painted my last picture. At the moment I am not bringing anything to the screen. Maybe it will come again. "

Charly Pirot lived with his wife Ute Pirot in Cologne-Riehl since 1986 , most recently in the Sozial-Betriebe-Köln (SBK).

His wife died on March 17, 2015. Charly Pirot died only a few months later at the age of 76 in Cologne-Riehl, he was buried in the Melaten cemetery (corridor 24 (W) No. UT38).

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Charly Pirot regularly painted around 30–35 pictures a year, his first painting at the age of 25, his last painting in oil at the age of 70 in 2010. His work comprises around 1350 paintings, preferably in oil on canvas , as well as a variety of other drawings and sketches in various techniques. His favorite subjects were Cologne motifs and Cologne such as B. Gerhard Jussenhoven . Another defining theme was clowns .

In September 2015, after a five-year break, Charly Pirot began again to make a few sketches and drawings of himself ( self-portrait ), celebrities and people from his circle of friends with pencil on drawing paper. He gave all of the works from this last creative period before his death to people in his daily environment. In October 2015 Charly Pirot made his last color picture, a portrait of a clown with oil pastels on drawing paper.

Charly Pirot has also designed record sleeves for artists such as King Size Dick , the three Colonias and the Bläck Fööss (LP / CD Em richtije Veedel… ). In addition, Charly Pirot designed artist orders for the Cologne carnival , including the 1996 artist order of the traditional corps of Old Town Cologne in 1922 under the motto of the session "Janz Kölle es e Poppespill".

Exhibitions (excerpt)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dein-riehl.de/CharlyPirot.html
  2. ↑ http://www.wirtrauern.de/Trauerbeispiel/Wilhelm-Pirot
  3. ↑ http://www.pixum.de/meine-fotos/album/265874
  4. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/King-Size-Dick-Bes-He-Hin-Un-Nit-Wigger/release/5091771
  5. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/De-Bläck-Fööss-Em-Richtije-Veedel-De-Bläck-Fööss-Singe-Leeder-Vum-Willi-Ostermann/release/3618329
  6. ↑ http://www.karnevalsorden-museum.de/altstaedter/altstaedter_sessionsorden.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.kunstkulturjustiz.de/veransta/bisherig/2002/21-11/21-11.htm
personal data
SURNAME Pirot, Charly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirot, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 2015
Place of death Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany