Dietrich Becker (painter)

Dietrich Becker (2015)

Dietrich Becker (born December 16, 1940 in Cammin i. Pom. ) Is a German painter .

Life

Becker graduated from high school in Wolgast in 1959 and began making his first attempts at painting and drawing in high school. At the University of Rostock he completed an agricultural degree, which he graduated with a diploma in 1965. During his studies he attended the painting and drawing circle of the university under the direction of Karl-Heinz Kuhn . In the early years of his artistic activity, he found inspiration, support and encouragement from Otto Niemeyer-Holstein and Kate Diehn-Bitt , two important representatives of northern German painting. There was a friendly relationship with both of them until their death. Connections to the Rostock painters Johannes Müller , Mechthild and Lothar Mannewitz , Jürgen Weber, Bernhard Koban as well as to the sculptor Jo Jastram influenced his artistic development. At the same time, he cultivated intensive contacts and a lively exchange of ideas with painter colleagues on Usedom , in Berlin and Dresden . Visits to large galleries and museums as well as study trips at home and abroad broadened his view of the visual arts . In 1964, while still a student, he became a candidate for the Association of Visual Artists . Becker had been a member of the GDR's Association of Visual Artists since 1969 and joined the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Artists' Association in 1990 . Dietrich Becker has been a freelance painter and graphic artist since 1966 , first in an old fisherman's house on Bauerberg near Wehrland / Wolgast district , then in Kühlungsborn and now in his home and studio in Bastorf near Kühlungsborn.

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He draws inspiration for his realistic works from nature, the immediate living environment and his native ties. Coastal landscapes, harbors, promenade and beach scenes, small town alleys with figures, scenes with village and rural character, city pictures, still lifes , interiors , nudes , portraits , self-portraits, figurative compositions and travel impressions are the themes of his oil paintings , gouaches , watercolors , drawings and colored pencil drawings.

Village with bridge - Canal du Midi, 1999/2000, oil / HF coated, 43 × 61 cm

Winter Garden, 1986, oil / HF, 29 × 38 cm

Deich am Achterwasser, 1978/80, oil / HF, 10.5 × 13 cm

Still life with Anthurium, 1987, oil / HF, 74.5 × 61 cm

Strandpromenade Kühlungsborn, 2001, oil / HF, 15 × 23.2 cm

Solo exhibitions / selection

1973 Greifswald, Kulturbund der DDR
1976 Rostock, Heinrich Mann Club
1979 Berlin, Galerie Mitte
1981 Potsdam, small gallery in the basement
1982 Jena, gallery in the town house
1983 Rostock, studio of the art gallery
1984 Kühlungsborn, gallery under the colonnades
1988 Rostock, gallery on the boulevard
1996 Bad Doberan, Galerie Roter Pavillon
1998 Schwerin, Sparkasse - Menden, Sparkasse
2000/01 Stralsund, Museum of Cultural History
2005 Rostock, art association Mönchentor
2006 Rostock, Kunsthalle - Ahrenshoop, Kunstkaten
2007 Heringsdorf, art pavilion
2011 Wolgast, Museum Kaffeemühle
2014 Diepholz, Old Town Hall
2015 Kühlungsborn, Kunsthalle

Participation in exhibitions / selection

1969 Greifswald, Museum of the City of Greifswald (Young Artists of the Rostock District)
1971 Helsinki, Stockholm (Rostock artist)
1979 Livorno / Italy (Rostock artist)
1981 Rostock, Kunsthalle (drawings by Berlin and Rostock artists)
1985 Riga, Art Academy (ten Rostock artists)
1987 Schwerin, State Museum (hand drawings and prints from Rostock artists)
1990 Paris, cultural center of the GDR (Rostock - Land am Meer)
1990 Potsdam, Galerie im Staudenhof (with Anne Sewcz , Sonja Rolfs, Jürgen Weber, Johannes Müller)
1998 Barnstorf / Fischland-Darß, art barn (with Michael Mohns )
2009 Parchim, Galerie ebe art (with Frank Göckeritz, sculptures)
2011 Wismar, gallery behind the town hall (with Christian Wetzel, sculptor)
2013 Wittenhagen, Kunsthalle REALISSIMA IX (with Gudrun Arnold, Jutta Bressem, Lars Lehmann, Henning Spitzer)
2014 Lüttenort, Museum Atelier Otto Niemeyer-Holstein (with Sabine Curio, Otto Niemeyer-Holstein)
2015 Bützow, Kunsthaus, Unterwegs, artists on the move

Works in public collections

Works can be found in numerous private and public collections:

literature

Painting, graphics, plastic: exhibitions 1987. Catalog of the gallery on the boulevard Rostock. State art trade, 1986.
Kornelia Röder (arrangement): Rostock artist, hand drawings and prints. State Museum Schwerin, 1987.
General artist dictionary, the visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 8, KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 158.
Dietrich Becker: I visited ONH. In: Rudolf Mayer, Achim Roscher (eds.): Mein Tabu, Otto Niemeyer-Holstein on the 100th birthday. Lüttenort 1996, ISBN 3-00-000644-3 , pp. 45-46.
Sparkasse Schwerin, Menden (ed.): Dietrich Becker- Painting and Drawings 1960–1998. Stock and Stein, Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-932370-68-6 .
Dietrich Becker, painter. In: Art and Artists in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Photographs by Monika Lawrenz. 1st edition. La Baum, Woosten 1989, pp. 166-175.
Jürgen Grambow: Between Bauerberg and Bastorf. In: Bad Doberaner Jahrbuch. 7th year, 2000, pp. 35-47.
Jürgen Jahncke, Coast Cooling and Convention, 2004, TSK-Verlag 1st edition, Dietrich Becker, painter and graphic artist, p. 102.
Katrin Arrieta: Dietrich Becker - painting and work on paper. roeseedition, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-9809969-4-8 .
Dietrich Becker painter and graphic artist. In: Kühlungsborner Jahrbuch 2008. Calendar. Touristik-Service-Kühlungsborn.
Ulrich Kavka: The painting of Dietrich Becker. In: Doberan leaves. Issue 3, 2012, pp. 15-19.
"Around us is a day of creation" From the artist colony to today., Ed. Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, Ahrenshoop 2013, p. 224f. ISBN 978-3-9816136-0-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cammin i. Pom.