Diether Kressel

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Dieter Kressel in front of his studio in Herrenhallig
Color etching - puppet shows - 1970

Diether Kressel (born December 17, 1925 in Düsseldorf ; † January 7, 2015 in Hamburg ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist . His representational works mix reality and illusion.

Life

During the first years of his life in Düsseldorf, Kressel grew up in a middle-class atmosphere that was influenced by the art and fashion of the twenties. After the family had moved to Hamburg in the early 1930s, he went to school, which he completed with the Abitur in 1943. After labor service , military service and captivity he learned from Tom Hops the watercolors and studied from 1945 to 1948 at the State Art School in Hamburg Erich Hartmann and Willi Tietze.

Kressel drew and painted in Kampen on Sylt , among other places , where he met his future client, Axel Springer . In 1947 he married his wife Dorothea; the couple had three children. In the 1950s, in addition to drawing and painting, Kressel also devoted himself to woodcuts and worked as an illustrator for Stern and Hamburger Abendblatt , among others . He furnished public buildings with large-scale murals. In 1965 he began to produce etchings that gave his artistic work a new direction and earned him recognition from critics and art collectors.

In the early 1970s, Kressel acquired a 300-year-old Frisian house in Schleswig-Holstein ; from then on he lived and worked alternating between town and country. In his two studios he concentrated his artistic work on the production of drawings and large-scale oil paintings .

Drawing self-portrait -Bowling- 2003

Kressel lived and worked in Hamburg and near Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein.

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“Kressel's pictorial language is a narrative language of its own.” In addition to the early woodcuts, watercolors and etchings of the 1960s and 1970s, the work consists of drawings and oil paintings, the changing formats of which correspond to the development of the artistic tasks that Kressel took on. Overall, the formats have become larger over the years and are always part of the image composition.

The narrative character of the work allows stories to emerge when viewed. The graphic elements play just as important a role as the color, which, mostly based on a basic color mood, sets accents, such as a bright blue in a violin case or the pink of the soap on a sink. The colors often convey an ironic distance that also characterizes the erotic subjects, for example in a pair of briefs lying around, shoes that are quickly stripped off or in a hip belt in the suitcase. Certain topics recur again and again, including jazz in addition to the self-portrait. The realism of the representation is often alienated by an incomprehensible perspective, which is more subordinate to the compositional necessities than to the usual spatial ideas.

Siegfried Lenz wrote about Kressel: “Where a depicted world is characterized by so much independence as with Diether Kressel, I consider it pointless to talk the painter into a tradition, to remember Giorgio de Chirico or Magritte in front of his pictures [...] what he took in, transformed his gaze, his temperament, his astonishing will to form - into a creation that belongs to him alone and whose artistic autonomy bears his name. "

Prices

  • 1960 BDG annual award for the woodcut bicycle thieves
  • 1969 Edwin Scharff Prize from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • 1970 Prize for critical graphics from the Heinrich Zille Foundation

Solo exhibitions

  • 1951 Overbeckgesellschaft, Lübeck.
  • 1952 City Museum Flensburg.
  • 1958 Hamburger Kunsthalle .
  • 1959 City Hall Lübeck, Böttcherstraße, Bremen.
  • Oil painting -Tuba- 2008
    1961 Galerie van der Höh, Hamburg.
  • 1967 Kunsthalle Kiel , Galerie van der Höh, Hamburg.
  • 1968 Kunstverein Steinburg, Itzehoe, Kunstverein Hattingen, City Museum Flensburg, Böttcherstraße Bremen.
  • 1969 State Museum Oldenburg.
  • 1972 Art Circle Hameln, Cultural History Museum Osnabrück.
  • 1973 Galerie Brockstedt (also 1976, 1981, 1988, 1995 and 2001); Hamburg, Bonner Kunstverein.
  • 1974 Hauswedell Gallery, Baden-Baden.
  • 1975 Galerie Peerlings, Krefeld and Kampen (also 1977 and 1983)
  • 1976 Osnabrück Cultural History Museum
  • 1979 Art Circle Hameln.
  • 1981 Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig, Kunstverein Wiesbaden.
  • 1984 Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth.
  • 1985 Art Association Elmshorn.
  • 1996 retrospective, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum.
  • 2004 Gottorf Castle, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum.
  • 2005 “For the eightieth birthday” gallery of the Hamburger Sparkasse
  • 2013 Galerie das kunstwerk, Stade
  • 2015 Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll
  • 2016 Cismar Monastery

literature

  • Maike Bruhns, Kai Rump (eds.): The new Rump: Lexicon of the visual artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Hamburg 2005
  • Hans Peter Bühler: Diether Kressel - drawings and etchings . Exhibition catalog Galerie Bühler Graphics, Stuttgart 1971
  • Heike Doutine: Diether Kressel - 13 plus 8 . Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg 1981
  • Hans Theodor Flemming: Reality and Alienation . In: Weltkunst , issue 14, 1972
  • Hans Theodor Flemming; Manfred Meinz : Diether Kressel - etchings and woodcuts . Catalog raisonné of graphics, Osnabrück 1972
  • Hans Theodor Flemming, Manfred Meinz: Diether Kressel - etchings 1965-1976 . Catalog raisonné, Osnabrück and Hamburg 1976
  • Hans Theodor Flemming: Insights - Outlooks , exhibition catalog Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen 1976

Movies

  • Jörg Grüber: Creation of a color etching (45 min.), 1972
  • Georg Wildhagen: Artists of Our Time - Diether Kressel (30 min.), First broadcast on ZDF 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning Diether Kressel: The poet with the brush is dead , Hamburger Abendblatt , January 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Thomas Grochowiak, Anneliese Schröder, Insights - Views , Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 1976 p. 179
  3. ↑ Siegfried Lenz : Diether Kressel - Review 1995–1946 . Hamburg 1997, p. 7
  4. ^ Siegfried Lenz: Affection for the subject . In: Diether Kressel (1997), p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Kressel, Diether
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2015
Place of death Hamburg