Dietmar Lemcke

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Dietmar Lemcke (born January 13, 1930 in Goldap , East Prussia ; † February 2, 2020 ) was a German painter and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Life

After fleeing East Prussia, Lemcke studied in Berlin from 1948 to 1954 at the University of Fine Arts . His teachers included Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Karl Hofer and Ernst Schuhmacher (1905–1963). Immediately after completing his studies, Lemcke received a one-year scholarship in 1954 at the Académie de Montmartre in Paris, where Fernand Léger was director at the time . During his stay at the academy, the future chansonist Serge Gainsbourg studied painting before devoting himself entirely to music a few years later. Lemcke also experienced the Fauvist Jean Puy , a close friend and companion of Henri Matisse , whose influences on Puy and Lemcke are equally evident in the works of both. In Paris, Lemcke was still deeply concerned with the works of Picasso , Braque and again and again with the work of Matisse, which had a great influence on his work throughout his life. Lemcke also shaped the abstract art of tachism in his Paris year. According to his own admission, other formative influences were Max Beckmann during his years in exile in Amsterdam and Emil Nolde in his later work. When classifying his own work, Lemcke himself relies on a sentence from Beckmann, as it were, as a motto, according to which he advances as far as visible into the visible in order to grasp the invisible. After returning from Paris in 1955, Lemcke was offered the professorship to succeed Erich Heckel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, which he refused because he saw his future in Berlin.

Lemcke took over a professorship at the Berlin University of Fine Arts in 1964 and worked there for 34 years. In 1998 Lemcke retired. His most famous students include Johannes Grützke and Burkhard Held, who later became the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin .

Lemcke is a member of the German Association of Artists , he is a member of the u. a. by his expressionist teachers Schmidt-Rottluff and Hofer as well as by Max Beckmann founded New Group Munich in 1946 , furthermore he belongs to the New Darmstadt Secession initiated in 1945 . Lemcke participated in exhibitions with his own works from 1955 to 1990 at all three artists' associations.

Dietmar Lemcke was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Dietmar Lemcke died shortly after his 90th birthday on February 2, 2020. He was buried in Berlin's Schöneberg III cemetery (department 22, grave 310).

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In addition to graphic work, especially in his early work, oil painting is the focus of his work, with landscape painting and still life being his special focus. The influence of Expressionism can be seen in his works, as well as the training under the masters of the Brücke artists' association . He never strived for the dissolution of objectivity, but he certainly preferred color to form. With it he models the objects and in part achieves a powerful and lively description of what he feels. He himself speaks of looking for the “absolute picture” without fixing an end point. By “absolute” Lemcke means to fight for the picture from its own shape every time anew: “kept within the frame of the picture, referring to the inner picture relationships and sounds and thus liberating oneself from the randomness of nature, far from all speculative references ".

This becomes particularly clear in his outstanding works of still lifes, in which he presents fruits from land and sea - quinces, peaches, lemons, mussels, lobsters, etc. - in a powerful color scheme as well as his bouquets of flowers, whereby he usually frames all these objects by arranging them on bowls or plates that are often only hinted at and then releasing them into a placeless cosmos of colors on a monochrome and complementary background, which further increases the effect. Lemcke's pictures testify to tremendous power, intensity and affirmation of life, they celebrate the richness of nature as seething vitality, as the exuberant eroticism of life. Lemcke found his motifs primarily in Provence .

His works hang u. a. in the following museums:

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Dietmar Lemcke :; Pictures, watercolors, drawings 1958–2003. Catalog on the occasion of an exhibition in the Galerie Bremer (Berlin). Berlin 2003
  • Ludwig Grote (among others): Young painters from Germany and France. Exhibition at the Lucerne Art Museum , Lucerne 1958
  • Karl Heinrich: Dietmar Lemcke - New strength from southern climes , in: Die Welt from January 16, 2004
  • Lemcke, Dietmar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 208-209 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituaries: Dietmar Lemcke. In: Tagesspiegel Mourning (online). February 9, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Max Beckmann says literally: "Make the invisible visible through reality [...] If you want to grasp the invisible - penetrate as deeply as you can - into the invisible." Cf. Max Beckmann: About my painting . Speech given in the exhibition Twentieth Century German Art in the New Burlington Galleries, London, July 21, 1938 in: R. Pillep (ed.): Max Beckmann, The Reality of Dreams in Pictures. Articles and lectures . Leipzig 1984, p. 135.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dietmar Lemcke in conversation with Tobias Bringmann, Georgia Galerie, Berlin, March 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Lemcke, Dietmar ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 17, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ Lothar Romain: The identification with the object through the color . In Dietmar Lemcke: pictures, watercolors, drawings 1958–2003 . Berlin 2003, p. 5.
  6. ↑ cf. → rudolf-kügler.de: Entry under "Solo exhibitions" (accessed on October 18, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Lemcke, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2020