Eberhard Schlotter

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Eberhard Schlotter (born June 3, 1921 in Hildesheim , † September 8, 2014 in Altea , Alicante Province , Kingdom of Spain ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He lived in Spain and Germany.

Life

Mural by Eberhard Schlotter for the exhibition "Art in Architecture", 1955, Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe
Signature "es" on mural from 1955

Childhood, school, training, war (1921–1945)

Schlotter's parents were the sculptor and trade teacher Heinrich Schlotter (* June 16, 1886; † May 4, 1964) and Irene Schlotter, b. Noack (February 28, 1898 - May 18, 1987); the three siblings Georg, Gotthelf and Johanna Irene also took up artistic and craft trades.

Schlotter was already drawing and painting during his school days at the Evangelical Moritzberg School in Hildesheim. 1936/1937 he was a guest student in the local crafts and trade school to enter and erase , ( drypoint ) and aquatint study with William May fence. After an apprenticeship as a painter, which he completed in 1939 with the journeyman's examination, he held his first own art exhibition in the bone carving office in Hildesheim. About 30 to 40 plates were later destroyed in the air raids on Hildesheim in 1945.

He learned from 1939 to 1941 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich according to the alla prima painting , that is, the orientation to the “old Munich school” as Wilhelm Leibl and the traditional approach of the Munich Academy demanded at the time; at the Doerner Institut he acquired a thorough knowledge of materials. In 1941 he was the youngest artist to take part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. In the same year, the Roemer Museum in his hometown organized an exhibition for him in which 120 works were shown. His works aroused displeasure among National Socialist party cadres, for example Gauleiter Hartmann Lauterbacher declared the “Self-Portrait with a Cigarette” (1941) as degenerate art. Schlotter, exempted from military service as a student, received the draft order and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in October 1941. He was then used in the Soviet Union, where he was seriously wounded in 1944. In the hospital he met Dorothea von der Leyen (born May 18, 1922). The couple married on August 30, 1944.

After 1945

After his release from American captivity at the end of August 1945, Schlotter initially worked as a freelancer in Darmstadt . In the first years after the Second World War he caught up with modern painting of the 20th century: he attended numerous exhibitions and studied art magazines in which painters such as Paul Cézanne , Matisse, Braque and Pablo Picasso were made known to the German public.

Schlotter took up the pictorial means of Cubism and Fauvism in his own work . He quickly moved away from the traditional illusionistic room design and found a flat design language that took into account the two-dimensionality of the image carrier. These new pictorial inventions benefited him in addition to his technical training as a white binder - he became one of the busiest artists in the field of “ art in construction ”.

Mainly in Darmstadt and the surrounding area, he realized almost 30 mural projects between 1951 and 1958, including several specially for the exhibition in Darmstadt 1955, which was also titled “Art in Architecture”. One of the first large-format wall paintings of the post-war period was the mural “ Joie de vivre ”from 1951, followed by“ Women making music ”. Thematically, the murals reflect the longing of people suffering from the destruction of the war and the hardships of the post-war period for a peaceful and carefree life. Arcadian scenes with women making music, bathing or dancing and a colorful and decorative colourfulness trained by Matisse conjure up the joie de vivre of this longed-for world. In the 1970s, the murals of the post-war period were perceived as out of fashion and partially destroyed. His complete oeuvre, which exists in Darmstadt, was placed under monument protection in the 1980s.

In 1952 he made his first trip to Spain. As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Eberhard Schlotter took part in twelve major annual exhibitions between 1956 and 1991. From 1955 until he left in 1957 he was chairman of the New Darmstadt Secession . In 1955 he helped the writer Arno Schmidt and his wife Alice move to Darmstadt and in 1958 brokered their house purchase in Bargfeld . Since then he was one of the few friends with Schmidt until his death in 1979; Schlotter created numerous portraits of the writer. In 1956 the Schlotter family traveled to Spain, where they bought a farmhouse in Altea (Alicante), to which they temporarily moved in 1957.

Eberhard Schlotter withdrew from the "Art in Architecture" program in 1958 and has since devoted himself entirely to his own artistic goals. In 1958/59 he created the picture cycle "Eine Großfamilie" or "Die Metzgerfamilie", an allegory of the lying people of the present. This theme was continued in the triptychs of the following years. From 1980 to 1986 Schlotter was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1982 he became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando , Madrid . In 1986 he took over a visiting professorship at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá .

Since April 2015, a park in Altea has been named "Jardines Eberhard Schlotter" in memory of the great painter.

Awards

Schlotter received u. a. the following awards and prizes:

Eberhard Schlotter Foundation in Altea, Spain

The Eberhard Schlotter Foundation Altea was founded on September 6, 1995. The foundation (Eberhard Schlotter Fundacion) was located at Plaza Tonico Ferrer in the old town of Altea until May 24, 2007. On May 25, 2007, the foundation moved into its new and larger premises in Costera dels Matxos 2, where it houses more than 1000 works by the painter.

Eberhard Schlotter Foundation Celle

The Eberhard Schlotter Foundation Celle , founded in 1993, owns an extensive collection of works by the artist; Parts of it can be seen in the Bomann Museum in Celle .

Artistic works (selection)

Paintings (selection)

  • Large seated woman , 1949
  • Entrance to the toilet , 1953
  • From Mallorca , 1953
  • Empty department store , 1954
  • The yellow facade , oil on canvas, 115 × 70 cm, 1954
  • For Maria and Hermann (Hermann Heiss, composer), 1956
  • Facades , 1956
  • The big laundry problem , 1957
  • Picture cycle: An extended family , 1958–59
  • Landscape with the monument , oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 1968
  • The angel from the western window , oil, 40 × 30 cm, 1968
  • Portrait of H. and V. Dieckmann , oil, 60 × 49 cm, 1969
  • Triptych: O, how will I freeze after the sun, here I am a gentleman, at home a parasite , oil, 1970
  • Radar station , oil on canvas, 35 × 52 cm, 1970
  • Datura , oil / canvas, 54 × 69 cm, 1982
  • Black mirrors , 1984
  • Swan song , 1993
  • Tabarca North , 2006

architectural art

  • Two frescoes in the Viktoriaschule , Darmstadt, 1951.
  • Ceiling and wall paintings in the Kurhaus, Bad Nauheim, 1952.

Bibliophile editions (etchings)

  • Arno Schmidt : Tina or about immortality. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1965.
  • Kasimir Edschmid : Kean. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1965.
  • Karl von Holtei : Only once did you see the roses blooming here on the Rhine. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1965.
  • Celander : Baroque poems. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1965.

Portfolios

  • 1957 10 lithographs from Spain. Reinheimer-Druck, Darmstadt 1957.
  • 1960 woodcuts, etchings and own stories. Villa press, Darmstadt 1960.
  • 1964 March trip through Northern Germany. 10 etchings.
  • 1965 Daniel in the lions' den in winter. 15 etchings. With your own text.
  • 1967 Alimentos. 15 etchings. With your own text. Edition Rothe, Heidelberg 1967.
  • 1968 16 etchings on Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the boudoir”. Galerie Kress, Munich 1968.
  • 1968 7 etchings for "Kaff" by Arno Schmidt. (On his 55th birthday).
  • 1969 25 etchings on Apuleius "The golden donkey". Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969. (First state).
  • 1969 10 etchings on Carl Mumm "Liberation". A story. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1969.
  • 1970 11 etchings for James Joyce "Anna Livia Plurabelle". After the translation by Hans Wollschläger.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions in Celle

  • 1992: ... and in the middle of it all, Celle
  • 1993: stations
  • 1994: Al fondo negro
  • 1995/1996: youth - war - departure
  • 1996: 75 watercolors - exhibition on the occasion of his 75th birthday
  • 1996: Don Quixote
  • 1999: Oil paintings. A selection from the early work
  • 2000: Faust - Aspects
  • 2001: Empty pictures
  • 2002: New Empty Pictures
  • 2003: The butcher family
  • 2007: Arquipintura 1997-2006
  • 2011: I am who I am; Author portraits

Further exhibitions

Literary works

publication

Letters

  • Arno Schmidt : The correspondence with Eberhard Schlotter . (BA, letter edition volume 3).

literature

Festschriften

  • Rolf Becks (Ed.): Eberhard Schlotter. Greetings from friends and colleagues on his 50th birthday. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1970.
  • Rolf Becks (ed.), Günther Flemming (ed.): Congratulations to Eberhard Schlotter on his 70th birthday. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-87390-097-1 .
  • Günther Flemming (Ed.): Homage to Eberhard Schlotter. Text and criticism, München 1996, ISBN 3-921402-50-6 . ( Bargfelder Bote. Lfg. 207/208).
  • Hans Reinhardt (Ed.): Light, shadow. Festschrift for Eberhard Schlotter on his 85th birthday. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-87390-212-1 .

Exhibition catalogs

  • Eberhard Schlotter, stations. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 1994. (Exhibition catalog, February 27 - April 30, 1994, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, Youth - War - Awakening Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 1995. (Exhibition catalog, October 29, 1995 - March 31, 1996, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, Empty Pictures. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 2001, ISBN 3-925902-41-4 . (Exhibition catalog, February 18 - July 22, 2001, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, The Butcher Family. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 2003, ISBN 3-925902-47-3 . (Exhibition catalog, May 10 - September 21, 2003, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, Arquipintura 1997-2006. Kerber, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-047-7 . (Exhibition catalog, February 24 - May 20, 2007, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, collages. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 2007, ISBN 978-3-925902-64-2 . (Exhibition catalog, July 28 - December 30, 2007, Bomann Museum Celle).
  • Eberhard Schlotter, the bottom line. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-87390-294-7 . (Exhibition catalog, May 10 - August 22, 2011, Kunsthalle Darmstadt).
  • I am who I am. Portraits by Eberhard Schlotter. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, Celle 2011, ISBN 978-3-925902-79-6 . (Exhibition catalog, May 22 - October 16, 2011, Bomann Museum Celle).

Catalog raisonnés

  • E. Schlotter, H. Schöffler: Eberhard Schlotter. Catalog raisonné of the etchings from 1936–1968 . Roether, Darmstadt o. J.
  • B. Krimmel, M. Stübler: Eberhard Schlotter. Catalog raisonné of the etchings from 1968–1978 . Roether, Darmstadt 1978.
  • Eberhard Schlotter Foundation (Ed.): Volume 1: Oil paintings-watercolors-drawings . Volume 2: Etchings . Hildesheim, 1981.

Treatises

  • Max Peter Maass: Eberhard Schlotter . Bläschke, Darmstadt 1971.
  • Eberhard Schlotter: Sri Lanka . Gallery Stübler, Hanover 1978.
  • Hans-G. Sperlich: Eberhard Schlotter - The pictures of the 70s . Justus von Liebig, Darmstadt 1981, ISBN 3-87390-064-5 .
  • Eberhard Schlotter: A painter discovers his landscape . E. Merck Darmstadt 1980.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers . Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 146f.
  • Max Peter Maass: Eberhard Schlotter. Monograph in 4 volumes . Zurich 1985. (Due to the death of MP Maass in February 1992, only volumes 1 and 2 appeared)
  • Michael Stübler: Eberhard Schlotter - people and masks . Galerie Stübler, Hofheim, April 1986.
  • H. Roch-Stübler, G. Flemming: Eberhard Schlotter, painting 1941–1986 . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-87390-085-8 .
  • Eberhard Schlotter: The trip to Umbria . Galerie Stübler, Hanover, November 1987.
  • Eberhard Schlotter: Columbus - The tragedy of man. Etchings . Justus von Liebig, Darmstadt 1992.
  • Eberhard Schlotter, Hans Reinhardt (collaboration): Art in architecture 1950–1958. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1991, ISBN 3-7959-0607-5 .
  • Bärbel Herbig: KUNST-AM-BAU. State art funding in the 1950s. In: Preservation of monuments in Hessen. H. 1 & 2/1995, pp. 12-15.
  • Bernd and Elisabeth Krimmel (collaboration): Eberhard Schlotter, watercolors . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-87390-151-X .
  • Irena Stiefel: Eberhard Schlotter, still life . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-87390-174-9 .
  • Wolfgang Schneider: Swan song. Eberhard Schlotter. The late work . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-87390-190-0 .
  • Eberhardt Schlotter: Drawings on old paper. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-87390-193-5 .

student

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography , website of the Eberhard Schlotter Foundation, accessed on October 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Schlotter, catalog raisonné of the etchings from 1936–1968. Roether, Darmstadt undated, undated P. 2.
  3. ^ Max Peter Maass: Eberhard Schlotter. Bläschke, Darmstadt 1971, p. 18.
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participations / Schlotter, Eberhard (accessed on January 21, 2016)
  5. ↑ Ars Viva
personal data
SURNAME Schlotter, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2014
Place of death Altea , Alicante Province , Kingdom of Spain