Erich Bödeker
Erich Bödeker (born April 11, 1904 in Recklinghausen ; † February 21, 1971 there ) was a German naive sculptor .
life and work
After attending primary school, he was a miner for 41 years , 35 of them underground. As a part-time job he worked as a farmer and butcher . In 1959 he had to give up his job as a miner because of a silicosis and began to shape people and animals, friends, politicians and artists in wood and concrete and paint them with bold colors. In 1961, Thomas Grochowiak , then director of the Recklinghausen and Oberhausen museums, arranged for him to have his first public exhibition in Recklinghausen.
Bödeker's first figures were created as handicrafts from waste materials such as old cans, kitchen utensils, parts of decommissioned machines, etc. After these first attempts, he began to make his figurative sculptures from wood and concrete, which are stylized "after nature", reduced to basic forms. These figures are painted over a large area with strong colors and without further internal structures. His garden was often populated by more than a hundred colorful figures: miners and police officers, well-known athletes and anonymous bishops, film stars and politicians, all of them in the company of flowers and animals, both from their local homeland and from exotic countries.
His works have now found their way into many international museums, are sought-after by collectors and achieve considerable prices at auctions.
Erich Bödeker is regarded as an important naive sculptor.
Exhibitions (selection)
Large traveling exhibition in 1988/1989 with the publication of a catalog raisonné.
- 1963 Recklinghausen, Ruhr Festival
- 1964 Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe
- 1965 Hamburg, Galerie Brockstedt
- 1967 Bonn, municipal art collections
- 1968 Zurich, Galerie Bischofberger
- 1969 Essen, Folkwang Museum
- 1970 Oberhausen, municipal gallery
- 1971 Zagreb, Primitive Art Gallery
- 1972 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebæk
- 1973 Oslo, Henie Onstad Museum
- 1974 Munich, House of Art
- 1975 Kunsthaus Zurich
- 1976 Düsseldorf, Gallery Zimmer
- 1980 Berlin, Museum for German Folklore
- 1981 Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein
- 1982 Paris, Goethe Institute
- 1983 Zagreb, gallery for primitive art
- 1985 Siegburg, waterworks. Lange Gallery
- 1986 Reinbek, Museum Rade
- 1987 Hanover, Sprengel Museum
- 1988 Hamburg, Altonaer Museum
- 1989 Düsseldorf, Galerie Zimmer
- 1990 Munich, Charlotte Gallery
- 1996 Bönnigheim, Museum Charlotte Zander
- 2000 Oberhausen, Ludwig Gallery
- 2001 Venice Biennale
- 2002 Cologne ArtCologne (Wasserwerk.Galerie Lange)
literature
- Thomas Grochowiak : German Naive Art . Aurel Bongers Verlag, Recklinghausen 1976, ISBN 3-7647-0253-2 .
- Volker Dallmeier: Naive art. Past and present , Bielefeld 1981, OCLC 8845783
- Rita Burrichter: Carrying and being carried - On the religious themes in Erich Bödeker's work (1904−1971) . In: Albrecht Geck (Ed.): Church - Art - Culture. Recklinghausen and beyond . Lit Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12076-2 , pp. 146-165.
Web links
- Erich Bödeker Society for Naive Art, Hanover
- Works (with illustrations) in the Thurgau Art Museum
- Images of two works by Bödeker in the Munich gallery Hell
- Stefan Schwidder: Naive art by Erich Bödeker. From the German General Sunday Gazette .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bödeker, Erich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naive sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1904 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Recklinghausen |
DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1971 |
Place of death | Recklinghausen |