Erik Buchholz

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Erik Buchholz (born July 19, 1969 in Gera ) is a German painter.

Erik Buchholz spent his childhood and school days in Gera, where he completed his professional training as a car mechanic. In 1990 he moved to the vicinity of Esslingen, worked as a nurse and attended the Kolping Art School in Stuttgart. After a stay in Hanover, Buchholz returned to Thuringia and began studying fine art at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 1993 , which he graduated with a diploma in 2002. Since 1993 he has been working as a freelance artist. In Gera he was one of the founders of the Klaushaus eV for Art & Culture , where he oversaw various projects and exhibitions. In addition to Kay Voigtmann and Joachim B. Schulze, Mirko Albrecht and Uwe Klos also belonged to the Klaushaus group . In 1996 he received a studio grant from the Kunsthaus Essen . He is a founding member of the Gera Art Association . In 2001 he illustrated with his fellow artists Kay Voigt man from Gera with 17 lithographs text Mr. Neitherkorn and the fate of Ingo Schulze . In 2003 his work was honored with the Glock-Grabe-Förderpreis in Nordhausen and in 2004 he received a scholarship from the Free State of Thuringia. In 2005 he received an award from the Federation of Expellees , Thuringia Regional Association. In 2010 he designed the bells for the new bells for the Johanniskirche , the main church in Gera.

Erik Buchholz's main works are works on paper, which are characterized by fine layers and almost graphic details. Various works are in public ownership, such as in the Gera art collection, in the Lindenau Museum Altenburg, in Mühlhausen museums and in the Thuringian Ministry of Culture. He is a member of the Association of Visual Artists Thuringia and had a teaching position for painting at the University of Erfurt.

On September 26, 2010 Erik Buchholz was elected the first district mayor of the Frankenthal / Scheubengrobsdorf district of Gera.

Since 2013 he has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts (part of the Zwickau University of Applied Sciences) in Schneeberg, specializing in textile art / textile design.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Art pavilion at the Federal Garden Show Gera, 2007
  • Gallery Profile Weimar, Fingerländer, 2006
  • Kunsthaus Erfurt, 2005
  • Grumov / Braunau, Czech Republic, 2005
  • stip.visite III, Museum Gallery Allerheiligen, Mühlhausen, 2004
  • Housing, house child, foreign kitchen, Otto-Dix-Haus, Gera, 2004
  • Kunstförderverein Creuzburg eV with Kay Voigtmann, 2004
  • Novalis and the Enlightenment, Museum for Early Romanticism Romantikerhaus, Jena, 2004
  • Homunculi, with Kay Voigtmann, Huber & Treff art dealer, Jena, 2003
  • Thanksgiving, Galerie Des VBK Thuringia, Erfurt, 2003
  • Gnadenthür, New Lobenstein Castle, 2003
  • eto sudba, with Kay Voigtmann, Handwert Gallery, Jena, 2002
  • friendly sensors AG, Huber & Treff art dealer, Jena, 2000
  • Smaller Nights, Galerie Kaiserwerke, Gera, 1996 *
  • Galerie am Schlachthof, Weimar, 1993
Group exhibitions
  • Galerie Noak Mönchengladbach, 2006
  • stip.visite III, Museum Gallery Allerheiligen Mühlhausen (catalog), 2004
  • Artforum Wiesbaden, 2004
  • Passage 04, Art Collection Gera (catalog)
  • Plastic, State Art Exhibition of the Free State of Thuringia, Erfurt (catalog)
  • Greetings from Far East, Art Association Gera, Thuringian Landtag Erfurt, 2001
  • Inside views. Art in Thuringia since 1945 until today, Art Collection Gera (catalog), 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Munteanu: Bells consecration in St. Johannis , Ostthüringer Zeitung (local edition Gera), September 15, 2010.
  2. ↑ Erik Buchholz is the first district mayor , Ostthüringer Zeitung (local edition Gera), September 27, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 19th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera