Eckhard Buchholz

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Eckhard Buchholz (born March 14, 1941 in Stettin ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Buchholz's father Emil Buchholz was an officer in the Wehrmacht and fell off Moscow during the German-Soviet War in 1942 . Mother Elly raised the older son Wolfgang and the younger Eckhard alone. In the course of the advance of the Red Army and the ongoing British bombing raids on Stettin, the family fled to Stralsund in 1944 . There she experienced the end of the war and a new beginning in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR .

From 1947 to 1955 Buchholz attended elementary school in Stralsund. In 1956 he learned the trade of a car mechanic there and in 1959 he obtained a skilled worker certificate. He then worked as an engine fitter in the Stralsund shipyard . His talent for painting and drawing was recognized early on. Finally Buchholz came to the genre of the fine arts as an autodidact .

The Stralsund artist Tom Beyer , who looked after the folk art groups at the Volkswerft, became aware of him and took him as a student. In this way, Buchholz was able to acquire basic artistic tools between 1976 and 1979. Beyer was influential as a teacher and role model. Buchholz then studied art history with Nikolaus Zaske at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald until 1981 . He completed further distance learning in painting and graphics with Günther Brendel at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1986 and 1987.

Buchholz's work received attention and recognition in the Rostock district . For this he received the “Gold Medal in Recognition of Outstanding Achievements on the occasion of the 21st GDR Workers Festival ” in Magdeburg in 1986 .

Creation and commitment

During the turning point in the GDR, Buchholz was particularly committed to the re-establishment of the Pomeranian Artists Association in East Germany, which was re-established in the west in 1973 in Düsseldorf . In 1992 he was appointed second chairman of the Pomeranian Artists Association. V. (PKB), which he held until 2006.

Important works in Buchholz's creative process are the triptych “The Reunification” (1989/90), the “Viking Cycle” (1998 - 2002) and the other history pictures from 2001 to 2011. The history portraits by Buchholz refer to in terms of statement and style the works of Tübke .

Manfred Prinz, former First Chairman of the Pomeranian Artists Association, paid tribute to the entire work. V., in 2007. Buchholz's pictures are “[...] characterized by a light, warm color scheme, a dynamic painting style spread across a wide area and a simplification of the form rooted in the realistic. This connection with his homeland Pomerania and a love for his Nordic habitat in the broadest sense have brought about another aspect of his range of subjects beyond the design of the landscape and the image of man: the history picture. And here he stays true to his style. He completely rightly avoids any ideological approach and aims to visually promote an objectifying connection to history [...]. His historical images are clear in form and the events are illustrated figuratively, but in terms of color, mood images that emotionally involve the viewer and almost poetically enchant them. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Angler on the Strelasund (oil, 95 × 122 cm, 1979)
  • Neuendorf on Hiddensee (oil, 40 × 50 cm, 1984)
  • Fishing boats in the port of Vitte (oil, 61 × 86 cm, 1987)
  • The reunion . The triptych consists of the portraits: Place of Meeting , Fall of the Wall and Peaceful Revolution (oil, all the same dimensions of 130 × 100 cm, 1989/90)
  • Ocean yacht (oil, 80 × 60 cm, 1997)
  • Elector Friedrich the Wise and the reformer Martin Luther on the Wartburg 1521 (oil, 80 × 100 cm, 2001), historical picture
  • Memory (triptych, oil, dimensions 120 × 46 cm each, 2002)
  • Eldena monastery ruins (oil, 82 × 62 cm, 2002), history picture
  • The fire death of the young witch from Alt-Gaarz (oil, 30 × 40 cm, 2003), history picture
  • The Christianization of Pomerania by Bishop Otto von Bamberg in 1124 and 1128 (oil, 105 × 83 cm, 2004), history picture
  • Prelude to the Battle of the Raxa on October 16, 955 (oil, 102 × 137 cm, 2005), history picture
  • The siege of Stralsund by Wallenstein's troops in 1628 (oil, 84 × 105 cm, 2006/07), historical picture
  • Pomeranian Duke Johann Friedrich and Count Ulrich von Schwerin in the winter of 1567/68 at Spantekow Castle (oil, 84 × 102 cm, 2007), history picture
  • In the casemates of Spantekow Castle 1627 (oil, 83 × 102 cm, 2007), history picture
  • View of Stralsund from the New Rügen Dam Bridge (oil, 72 × 88 cm, 2007)
  • Monks on Hiddensee (oil, 104 × 84 cm, 2008), history picture
  • Störtebeker's capture near Helgoland in 1400 (oil, 80 × 100 cm, 2009), history picture
  • Major Ferdinand von Schill in Stralsund 1809 (oil, 85 × 110 cm, 2009), history picture
  • Galleon under the tricolor in defense (with Wolfgang Fock, oil, 106 × 82 cm, 2010), maritime history picture
  • The peace treaty of Stralsund 1370 (oil, 103 × 137 cm, 2010/11), history picture
  • The Swedes on Usedom 1630 (oil, 86 × 105 cm, 2012/13), history picture
  • The Pomeranian reformer Johannes Bugenhagen in May 1535 in Stralsund (oil, 96 × 122 cm, 2013), history picture
  • The Dutch in Japan 1609 (oil, 102 × 122 cm, 2014), history picture
  • Painter Professor Tom Beyer (oil, 107 × 85 cm, 2014/15), portrait
  • Development aid in Africa (oil, 86 × 112 cm, 2015)

The "Viking Cycle". It was created as an independent composition of historical pictures in the years 1998 to 2002 with expert advice from Greifswald historian Lutz Mohr and comprises the following eight oil paintings:

  • Landing of the Vikings on the Pomeranian coast (oil, 84 × 105 cm, 1998)
  • The Joms Vikings and their Jomsburg (oil, same dimensions, 1998)
  • Everyday life in a Viking settlement (oil, same dimensions, 1999)
  • The defeat of the Vikings against King Arnulf of Carinthia in the Battle of Leuven in 891 (oil, same dimensions, 1999)
  • The Viking Royal Battle of Svoldr on September 9, 1000 (oil, same dimensions, 1999)
  • The surrender of the Slavic temple castle Arkona on the island of Rügen in June 1168 (oil, same dimensions, 2000)
  • The last way of the Vikings by Menzlin (oil, same dimensions, 2000)
  • The Viking's Dream: Longing for the Distant (Oil, 65 × 55 cm, 2002)

In the context of this, he created the ten-part graphic series "From the Viking Age" (2002). He presented a corresponding “Viking art calendar” with texts by Lutz Mohr, Greifswald, for 2004.

Literature (selection)

  • Dieter Hägermann u. Manfred Leier (Ed.): How it was - how it is. Scenes of European History , Chapter: The Danes Conquer Pomeranian Coast . With colored illustrations of the paintings “Landing on the Pomeranian Coast” and “The Surrender of the Slavic Temple Castle Arkona on the island of Rügen June 1168” by Eckhard Buchholz, Stralsund. Gütersloh / Munich: Chronik Verlag im Wissen Media Verlag GmbH 2004, pp. 34–35
  • Friedrich Lampert : A trip to Rügen. Historical travel report . With illustration by Eckhard Buchholz. Elmenhorst: Edition Pommern 2009. ISBN 978-3-939680-01-7
  • Dieter Lander: Stralsund painter exhibits in the USA . In: Ostsee-Zeitung Rostock, Stralsunder Zeitung , edition of April 1, 2003, p. 19
  • Lutz Mohr: The Vikings and their time in modern visual arts. To the history pictures of the “Viking Cycle” by the Stralsund painter and graphic artist Eckhard Buchholz and the historical background . In: Bull and Griffin . Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Vol. 12, Schwerin 2002, pp. 15-25
  • Lutz Mohr (ed.): The saga of the Jomswikinger . With seven graphics by Eckhard Buchholz. Grimmen: Edition Pommern 2006. ISBN 978-3-939680-00-0
  • Lutz Mohr .: Eckhard Buchholz - A Pomeranian artist. Historical and modern painting . Fritzson-Verlag, Greifswald 2007
  • Lutz Mohr : From Christianization to the Reformation. Triptych by Eckhard Buchholz for the "Luther Decade" complete . In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , Volume 64, Volume 5 of February 1, 2014, pp. 1–2, 3 figs.
  • Wolfgang R. Moldenhauer: The triptych “The reunification of Germany” by the Stralsund painter and graphic artist Eckhard Buchholz from 1990/91. "Thoughts, emotions and critical considerations". Edited by Lutz Mohr. Manuscript (5 pp. Maschschr.), Stralsund 1992
  • POMOSTY ("building bridges"). Art catalog. Miedzynnarodowe Biennale Malarstwa i Garfiki . European artists in Stettin 2002, including Eckhard Buchholz with a short biography and illustration of the painting “The Church - Place of Human Encounter”, p. 30
  • Erika Pfeil-Volz: Standard triptych in the National Museum. From the work of the Pomeranian Artists Association . In: Ostsee-Zeitung Rostock, Stralsunder Zeitung , edition of December 3, 1993, p. 18

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreword by Manfred Prinz. In: Lutz Mohr: Eckhard Buchholz - A Pomeranian painter. Historical and modern painting. fritzson-Verlag, Greifswald 2007, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Ines Engelbrecht: A tribute to Tom Beyer. His former and only student Eckhard Buchholz portrayed the famous Stralsund painter in large format . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , Stralsunder Zeitung. Issue (Thursday) of February 12, 2015, p. 12, 1 fig.
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Eckhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin