David Bekker
Dawid Juljewitsch Bekker ( Russian Давид Юльевич Беккер ) (born April 15, 1940 in Odessa ) is a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist .
Life
Bekker's father Julius, whom he never met, came from a family of German colonists , worked as a professor at an industrial institute, where he also met his mother, who was then a student at the institution and later a permanent member of the CPSU . The father was executed in 1939 . David took the family name Bekker from his mother. From 1955 to 1960 he attended the art school "M. Grekov" Odessa and from 1960 to 1966 the applied arts institute in Kharkov . In 1966 he began his first creative phase; mainly with pictures, drawings, engravings and lithographs. Two years later he created the first bookplate based on a linoleum engraving. From 1970 to 1980 he mostly worked with the "drypoint engraving" technique.
In 1970 he was accepted into the USSR Artists' Association. In 1991 he became a member of the Artists Association of Ukraine. Since 1994 he has devoted himself increasingly to the creation of bookplates, mostly for private customers. Today he is active as an artist worldwide in the field of engravings and lithographs.
His works are among others in the Pushkin Museum Moscow, in St. Petersburg , Ex Libis Center / St. Niklaas * Belgium and The Book Museum / Gravenhaag * Netherlands .
Awards
- 1986 second and third place / art exhibition in Poland
- 1987 Albrecht Dürer Prize / Nuremberg in Germany
- 1996 "Reynaert de Vos" first prize / St. Niklaas in Belgium
- 1997 International bookplate competition "Fairy Tales" / in Belgium
- 1999 third place (Maus Ketti competition) / in Luxembourg
- 1999 second place at the VIII Biennale / in Poland
- 2001 Japanese Grand Prix for "Best Exlibis 2000"
literature
- Nina Martynovna Beloglazova, Dagmar Kassek: Bekker, Davyd Julijovyč . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 355.
Web links
- Literature by and about David Bekker in the catalog of the German National Library
- David Bekker's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bekker, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bekker, David Juljewitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |