Egbert Greven

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For copyright reasons Egbert Greven holds an empty frame in the camera. Recorded in May 2015.

Egbert Greven (born April 1941 in Neustadt , Upper Silesia ; † February 1, 2018 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German caricaturist , graphic artist and gallery owner .

Life

Egbert Greven comes from Upper Silesia, his family had to flee from there in World War II , came to Lower Bavaria and on to North Rhine-Westphalia . After completing school, he began training as a poster and decorative painter in a department store at the age of 13 . After three years he studied commercial graphics at the Werkkunstschule Dortmund .

After he married in Penzberg, Upper Bavaria, in 1976 or 1977 , he worked in the Boehringer factory there in exhibition construction and, with increasing frequency, as a freelance illustrator and later until 1997 at Rundschau-Verlag .

In 1990 he founded the Iffeldorfer Master Concerts with the Iffeldorfer Kulturbegegegenerungen , of which he was director until 2014. In the same year he also moved to Iffeldorf . In 1998 he founded the gallery "schön + bissig" there, with which he returned to Penzberg in 2015.

In 2004, when Greven for the second time after 2002 at the International Cartoon Contest in Japanese Kyoto participated and received a bronze medal, he was offered a visiting professorship at the local Seiko University , but he refused because of his involvement in Iffeldorf.

In 2001 he was diagnosed with cancer . On February 1, 2018, Greven died after about one and a half months in an artificial coma in the Murnau Accident Clinic . He left two daughters and three grandchildren.

Greven never worked on the computer , only in the traditional, handcrafted way.

Prizes and awards

  • 1989, 1990: First prizes in the selection of the Munich carnival poster
  • 2002: Federal Cross of Merit
  • 2004: Bronze medal at the International Cartoon Competition in Kyoto
  • 2008: District medal in gold for the district of Upper Bavaria
  • 2010: Culture Prize of the Iffeldorf community
  • 2014: Culture Prize of the City of Penzberg

Exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Speech for the award ceremony on October 23, 2014 in the conference room of the town hall. (PDF; 56.7 kB) In: penzberg.de. October 23, 2014, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Quite simply to the essentials. In: bekreis-oberbayern.de. March 21, 2010, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ "I wouldn't do anything differently". In: dasgelbeblatt.de. April 8, 2011, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ An analog dinosaur. In: dasgelbeblatt.de. February 2, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Found a new home. In: dasgelbeblatt.de. July 21, 2015, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Wolfgang Schörner: Mourning a master of the foil: Egbert Greven is dead. In: Merkur.de. February 2, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Invitation to the exhibition “Kunststücke”. In: komische-pinakothek.de. June 2016, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  8. ^ Iffeldorfer Egbert Greven receives district medal. In: Kreisbote.de. October 21, 2008, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Iffeldorf awards the master concert initiator Egbert Greven the culture prize. In: Merkur.de. April 18, 2010, accessed February 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Greven, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist, graphic artist and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH April 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 2018
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee , Upper Bavaria