Elke Rehder

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Elke Rehder (born May 4, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German painter , graphic artist and book artist .

Etching by Elke Rehder on Kafka: The Trial
Springer beats tower , watercolor by Elke Rehder

Life and artistic creation

Education. Chess motifs

Elke Rehder studied fine art at the "Heatherley School of Fine Art" in London from 1979 to 1980 . 1984–1987 she was a member of the “Paddington Art Society” and 1986–1996 of the “Free Painters and Sculptors” in London. At that time she was mainly active as an object artist. Objects made of iron, steel, copper, granite, marble and small bronzes were created using the lost wax technique . During her time in London, the symbolism of the game of chess became a focal point in her art, following Boris Spasski's motto : "Chess is like life". Since then she has been creating large-format room installations and land art projects on the subject of chess .

In 1992 Rehder received the 1st prize from the Bernhard Kaufmann Society in Worpswede. She set up her own studio in Barsbüttel near Hamburg with hand presses for etching and woodcuts . In 1991 she started the international project “European Cultural Society”. 1991-1993 she took a. a. a master class with Ulrich Teske at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel . Since receiving a scholarship in 1993 at the Künstlerhaus in Cuxhaven, painting has been the focus of her work. Since then he has been creating large-format paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas, mixed media on paper and paper art (objects made from handmade paper).

Focus on literature

Rehder founded the Elke Rehder Press in 1993 , in which artist books, press prints and portfolios have been published in small editions to this day . Rehder is a member of the Society of Bibliophiles , the Maximilian Society and the Pirckheimer Society , in which she also worked on the board in 1998.

Collection of old engravings and lithographs

At the same time as the European Cultural Society project, Rehder began collecting and digitizing images from magazines and newspapers before 1900, such as Illustrirte Zeitung , Die Gartenlaube and Über Land und Meer as well as the family journals published by Albert Henry Payne . There is also a not yet bibliographed collection of caricatures from the satirical magazines Funny Leaves , Flying Leaves , Kladderadatsch and Le Charivari . In 2016, the collection contained around 55,000 wood engravings and around 11,000 lithographs, copperplate engravings, steel engravings and photographs from all areas. Some of the images were published in 2014 in the book Chess in Newspapers of the 19th Century and in 2016 in the publication series Chess Problems in the Original . These are often copies of historical chess diagrams and portraits of chess composers .

Rehder took part with books and portfolios containing woodcuts and etchings up to 2003 several times at the Leipzig Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair , the Mainz Minipressen-Messe and the "Quod Libet" in Hamburg. In addition to the prints of the Elke Rehder press and the single-sheet prints with woodcuts and etchings, numerous painter's books , book objects and paper art objects on the trial by Franz Kafka , on the chess novella by Stefan Zweig , as well as on Bertolt Brecht , Hugo Ball , Hermann Hesse , Friedrich Hölderlin and others were published . a.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Woodcut to Stefan Zweig's chess novella by Elke Rehder

Group exhibitions (selection)

Publicly owned works (selection)

literature

  • Johannes Spallek : Elke Rehder - pictures, graphics, bronzes . Stormarnhaus , Bad Oldesloe 1994.
  • Friedrich Wolfenter: Chess art at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Encounter with the artist Elke Rehder . Rochade Europe , March 1998, Maintal.
  • Hans-Georg Sehrt: Elke Rehder press . In: Marginalia. Book art magazine . H. 156 (4/1999). Harrassowitz . Wiesbaden. ISSN  0025-2948
  • Eduard Isphording: SeitenAnsichten. Book art since 1945 from the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-932545-43-5 .
  • Egisto Bragaglia: Elke Rehder . In: Lexicon of contemporary illustrators. Volume 1 . Documentation Center for Contemporary Illustration, Branzoll 2001, ISBN 88-900665-0-4 .
  • Günther Nicolin: Elke Rehder press - a decade . In: Illustration 63 . Curt Visel, Memmingen 2003, ISSN  0019-2457 .
  • Werner Arnold: The painter's book of the 20th century. The artist book collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004. ISBN 3-447-05051-9 .
  • Harry Schaack: Parlor game in color. The passion of the artist Elke Rehder . In: Karl , 3/2004, ISSN  1438-9673 .
  • Elke Rehder . In: Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists . Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-24734-6 .
  • Gerhard Stübner: artist books and graphics by Elke Rehder in the holdings of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover . Barsbüttel 2006.
  • Gerhard Stübner: Chess - Mirror of Life. Woodcuts and etchings by Elke Rehder. In: Graphic Art . Issue 2/2008, Memmingen 2008, pp. 20ff, ISSN  0342-3158 .
  • Jürgen Schweitzer: "Chess poisoning". Elke Rehder's chess illustrations in 20 years . In: Graphic Art . Issue 2/2013, Memmingen 2013, pp. 13ff, ISSN  0342-3158 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Rehder: Schach, Spiegel der Gesellschaft . ISBN 3-924833-26-5
  2. ^ Elke Rehder: European cultural society . Catalog for the exhibition project. With contributions and a. by Jean-Christophe Ammann , Christa Maar , Olaf Schwencke , Dieter Baacke , Christina Weiss u. a. Struck. Hamburg 1992. ISBN 3-922664-04-0
  3. ^ Elke Rehder: Chess in newspapers of the 19th century . Edition Jung, Homburg. 2014. ISBN 978-3-933648-54-9
  4. ↑ Elke Rehder: Chess problems in the original. Volume I: Payne's Illustrated Family Calendar 1858-1865 . Barsbüttel 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Rehder, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and book artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg