Erich Radscheit
Erich Max Radscheit (born June 8, 1911 in Gelsenkirchen ; † April 11, 2008 in Gröbenzell near Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist whose works range from surreal and abstract to informal.
Life
As the first of two sons of a mining family from East Prussia , he grew up in a Baptist church in Gelsenkirchen . First he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, but was accepted into the Folkwang School in Essen at the age of 17 due to his artistic talent . From 1928 to 1933 Max Peiffer-Watenphul, Josef Urbach, Max Burchartz and Karl Rössing were his teachers there. After participating in the renovation of the old town of Duisburg , he came to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Here and at the Kalkar Landakademie with Max Clarenbach , Julius Paul Junghanns and Franz Radziwill as well as at the Landakademie Schloss Cinder with Otto Coester , he attended the free artistic design class from 1934 to 1938.
After a short period of freelance work, he was drafted into military service in 1940.
In 1942 he married the painter Lieselotte Werth, who had also studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
An air raid on Düsseldorf in the night of June 11th to June 12th 1943 destroyed his apartment and all the work stored there. Few portraits and sketches have survived.
Their daughter Regine was born in 1944.
In 1947 he returned home from a Soviet captivity.
In 1948 he founded a studio for product design and advertising in Haan, which he ran until 1975.
In the 50s and 60s, while at the same time building up a professional life, every free minute was filled with drawing and painting.
In 1975 he freed himself from any professional obligation and devoted himself to unrestricted artistic activity in a breakthrough in creativity. He made numerous trips to France, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Middle East and North Africa.
Numerous exhibitions with paintings, gouaches and etchings take place during his lifetime. He becomes a permanent participant in the EXPERIMENTELLES at Randegg Castle.
He spends the last years of his life from 2001 to 2008 in Gröbenzell near Munich.
Works
Oil, acrylic and mixed media
The themes he spins around are of wide variety and basically revolve around the human motif, sometimes almost compulsively - also in series of similar, related image solutions - human configurations with the addition of landscapes, plants, animals, in a complex combination or connected complex in the double sense of their concepts .
The indeterminacy of place and time in his pictures - backgrounds and backgrounds are mostly monochrome - increase their expressive urgency.
Erich Radscheit seeks and develops poetic, lyrical, often dramatic figures and designs in the field of tension between sometimes bizarre, melancholy and sometimes cheerful characters.
His questioning of the visible or contemplatively imaginable resembles an intellectual and creative adventure that ends in metaphors that are present in the senses and in the penetration of reality and phantasms. (Gunnar Leyendecker)
Gouaches
In order to be able to appreciate the painter Erich Radscheit, it is best to study his work not only in the representative large formats, but in the practice fields, which often allow the artist to experience more risk-taking and courageous. Erich Radscheit had chosen the small-format gouaches that were supposed to serve him as drafts and spontaneous writing of artistic ideas, but which then developed into an independent body of work. His estate includes a good 250 of these sheets, an indispensable wealth of artistic experience that combines the charm of the fleeting with the consistency of the valid. ( Rainer Braxmaier )
Primed and painted over sheets
The background of the picture is important here. Erich Radscheit preferred to make his final works on plywood, occasionally on canvases, which allowed him to upgrade his mixed techniques with completely different materials. The gouaches, on the other hand, are mostly applied to primed paper, an image ground that reacts much more sensitively and softer to the painterly actions than the “hard” image grounds. The wide range of effects of color between being absorbed and the tangible material on top of the mass of paint allow an escalating range of "peinture", the neat painting order. The picture ground itself reacts to the application of paint, twists and turns under the coagulated paint and, so to speak, forms its own relief as a real third dimension, which is retained even when framed under glass and gives the pictures the organic content of a grown process. Here, space and time intersect in pure painting, without the artist having to simulate this dimension through a sequence of content. ( Rainer Braxmaier )
Etchings
“This work is a little sensation. Because it is images that testify to an irrepressible pleasure in seeing and discovering, in the urge to transform contexts into easily readable visual language that amazes the viewer. "(Rheinische Post, October 9, 1993)
Publications
- Erich Radscheit, Ibiza, 12 sketches, portfolio with screen prints, 1977.
- Graphein, Hommage à Otto Coester, catalog for the exhibition 20.08. – 24.09.1989, Eller station.
- Erich Radscheit Gouaches, 1979–1992, catalog, Thema media GmbH, Munich 1992.
- Erich Radscheit, catalog for the exhibition March 22 – May 11 , 2007 , Vossius & Partner, Munich 2007.
- Erich Radscheit, catalog for the exhibition June 12–9, 2015, Galerie Titus Koch, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen, Thema media GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 2015.
- Experimental , catalogs to the exhibitions at Schloss Randegg, Gottmadingen 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014.
Exhibitions
- 1952–1975 Various atelier, event and annual exhibitions
- 1976 Galerie Thema 1, Munich
- 1984 Sombers Gallery, Haan: collages and etchings
- 1988 Haan State Finance School: Gouaches
- 1992 Eller cultural station , Düsseldorf: 100 gouaches
- 1994 Atelier Przygoda & Hoppenhaus, Cologne: Acrylic painting and printmaking
- 1995 Experimental , Randegg Castle , Gottmadingen
- 1995 Haus Hildener Künstler, Hilden: Acrylic painting and graphics
- 1996 Experimental, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen
- 1996 Haan State Finance School: Haan artist
- 1997 Complete works, exhibition in the state finance school, Haan
- 1997 Experimental, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen
- 1997 Eller culture station , Düsseldorf: 100 acrylic paintings
- 1997 SK Gallery, Baden Museum, Solingen
- 1998 Art and Communication, Bochum: Painting
- 1998 Experimental, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen
- 2001 Haan pumping station
- 2004 permanent exhibition Thema media, Munich
- 2006 gallery in the community center, Gröbenzell
- 2007 Vossius & Partner, Munich: paintings, icons and gouaches
- 2008 permanent exhibition, international publishing agency Claus Hilschmann, Gröbenzell
- 2008 Experimental, Meierhof culture workshop, Randegg Castle
- 2010 Experimental, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen
- 2010 art Karlsruhe
- 2012 Experimental, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen
- 2014 Experimental, Bad Schussenried
- 2015 Galerie Titus Koch, Erich Radscheit - Das Werk, Randegg Castle, Gottmadingen, June 12th to August 9th, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Erich Radscheit. Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Participating artists of the Experimental 15. In: galerie-titus-koch.de . Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
- ↑ We are pleased to present you another very special exhibition: Erich Radscheit (1911 - 2008). In: galerie-titus-koch . Retrieved April 24, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radscheit, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radscheit, Erich Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2008 |
| Place of death | Groebenzell |