Ekkehard Drefke

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Ekkehard Drefke
Commemorative plaque on the death of the Brühl artist Ekkehard Drefke in Venice by drowning (May 7, 2015)
Example of Drefke's "river watercolors": Cappricio 29, "fabelartig" (1996)
Example of Drefke's "Flow Art Style" (2007)
Memories of Orpheus (2008)
Drefke's grave in Brühl

Ekkehard Drefke (born March 17, 1939 in Berlin ; died May 7, 2015 in Venice ) was a German artist.

Life

Drefke studied from 1959 to 1964 at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart with Rudolf Daudert , Christoff Schellenberger and Albrecht Appelhans . In 1966 he passed the first and in 1969 the second state examination. He carried out his first free artistic activities and exhibitions from 1966. From 1980 Drefke set up a permanent residence with a studio in his own home in Brühl .

While filming and taking photos in Venice for a new art project that he called "Venice - Lost Paradise", Drefke lost his balance, fell into the Grand Canal and could only be recovered dead.

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Until 1986 Drefke mainly painted expressionistically abstracted landscapes and still lifes, then he increasingly divided the motifs into small-scale structures.

“Art and cultural history determine the themes of his [Drefke's] paintings: images that were known, but are covered in excess of media images, are forgotten. By including them as quotations in his paintings, Ekkehard Drefke refers back to them as the archetypes. His artistic method is to break it down into small structures and to bring them back into our consciousness via a synthesizing visual process. "(Prof. Dr. Heijo Klein)

In the 1990s, the artist invented flowing watercolors, in which small-scale structures come together as if by chance, sometimes "fabulous", to create new motifs.

After 2000, the media-interested artist developed a new style, “an artistic signature with a high recognition value. Using the 'flow method' he invented, he poured paints diluted with solvent onto the flat canvas. This resulted in extremely delicate color gradients with softly blurred contours from which the motifs emerged. Blurs and fades served the artist as stylistic devices. He was inspired by a database in which his own photographs, but also images from magazines and the Internet, were saved. Motifs from this archive found their way into his painterly work, which was based on well-founded cultural-historical knowledge. "(Hanna Styrie)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989: Sauerland Museum, Arnsberg
  • 1990: Wilhelm Morgner House, Soest
  • 1990: Bruno Goller House, Gummersbach
  • 1992: Stone and lavender, oil paintings and pastels , Neuhaus Castle in Paderborn
  • 1994: Capriccios , exhibition of the Kunstverein des Siegkreis in Rheinbach
  • 1996: The Ville - Aquarelle and New Oil Paintings , Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn
  • 1998: In -Sights - Out-Sights (pictures from 1988-1998) , Kreishaus-Galerie in Bergheim
  • 1999: Faust Variations , Haus am Hirtenturm in Blankenheim
  • 2005: Time pieces and new works , Rathausgalerie in Brühl
  • 2007: Paradise handmade , group exhibition with 8 artists, gallery at the castle in Brühl
  • 2008: Flow Art , municipal "gallery" Wesseling
  • 2010: Scène Noire - La Vie, L'Amour, La Mort , cultural talk on Friday with Hitchpod, Kunstverein Wesseling
  • 2011: Chanson D'Amour , exhibition and concert on the subject with Nageeb Gardizi (piano), Bürgerhaus-Galerie Hürth
  • 2014: Paths of Life-Star Trails , ArtForum Wesseling
  • 2015: Ekkehard Drefke: Characterologies , Brühler Kunstverein

Publications

  • with Uta Koppel: stone and lavender: Provence experiences and shapes in words and pictures . Verlag Graphikum Mock, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-88996-375-8 .
  • Harald Gröhler: The Ville: a poem and his journey from 1956-1996 . Verlag Landpresse, Weilerswist 2001, ISBN 978-3-930137-49-7 .
  • Harald Gröhler: Störtebeker. Folk hero and pirate. The biography. With 6 drawings by Ekkehard Drefke. Bergstadtverlag WG Korn, 2nd, extended edition, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87057-277-8 .

literature

  • Klein, Dr. Heijo: Forms and contents of the works of E. Drefke . In: Ekkehard Drefke. Works from 1985–1988. Oil paintings. Gouaches. Watercolors. Catalog. Posted December 28, 1988.
  • Styrie, Hanna: Brühler drowns in Venice. Bad luck. The artist Ekkehard Drefke falls into the Grand Canal while taking photos. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, May 18, 2015. Rhein-Erft. P. 31.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German artist drowns in Venice , Monopol Magazin, May 19, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2020
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Drefke . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 353.
personal data
SURNAME Drefke, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2015
Place of death Venice