Ewald Platte

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Ewald Platte (* 9. October 1894 in the Honschaft Garschagen in today Untergarschagen in Luettringhausen , now part of Remscheid , † 27. December 1985 in Opladen ) was a German painter of Expressionism .

Life

Ewald Platte's birthplace in Lüttringhausen

Ewald Platte studied from 1909 to 1913 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Barmen with Ludwig Fahrenkrog and Gustav Wiethüchter (1873-1946) painting. While still a student, he began to exhibit his works in the Kunsthalle Barmen . From 1914 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War . After the end of the war he returned to Barmen , where he had a major influence on the Wuppertal art scene in the 1920s and the period after the Second World War. In 1920 he joined the artist group Die Wupper and the progressive artists' association Young Rhineland . His pictures were exhibited in Düsseldorf and Cologne . Finally, in 1927, he was invited with two pictures to the exhibition European Contemporary Art in Hamburg . Ewald Platte's works have also been exhibited in the USA and Japan (including works by Emil Nolde , Pablo Picasso , and Henri Matisse ).

The work of Plattes was classified as degenerate by the National Socialists . In 1938, 15 of his paintings were taken from the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal and the Barmen art gallery. In 1943, fire bombs destroyed his apartment and all of his works in it. In 1945 there was a new beginning with open-air painting and landscape paintings of his homeland. 1950–1960 he was a member of the West German Artists Association . In 1962 he was awarded the Richart Reiche plaque in connection with a solo exhibition in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . In 1971 an exhibition of his wax paintings took place in the Von der Heydt Museum. In 2006 the Remscheid association “Pro Arte” organized an impressive exhibition of the artist's works in the city gallery with the support of the Netuschil gallery. An exhibition of Ewald Platte's works was on view in the historic Haus Graven moated castle in Langenfeld (Rhineland) from May 2011 to June 2012.

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His early creative periods were characterized by an increasing turn to an abstract - cubist style. In his later creative years he mainly used different encaustic techniques . According to his own information, he has developed around 300 variants. He dissolved the wax with various means, including white spirit and turpentine, and applied the layers of color to paper one after the other. He used newsprint and other absorbent papers. The hardened wax with its pigments continued to be worked on with soldering irons and heated spatulas . Individual parts fixed on paper were collaged into larger units in a second work step and again covered and connected with partly transparent layers of colored wax. The finished pictures were then glued onto chipboard with high pressure. To do this, he used adhesive he had developed himself and a DEMAG press weighing several tons. Relief-like color structures were protected by interlaying down pillows during pressing. The plate left his color samples in the sunlight, half covered, for months to test their color fastness. His aim was to produce works that were as durable as the Egyptian mummy portraits, the oldest paintings in the encaustic technique.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1913/20/21/22 Kunstverein, Wuppertal-Barmen
  • 1924 Galerie Flechtheim / Cologne and Düsseldorf
  • 1929/30/31/32 Art Association, Wuppertal-Barmen "The Wupper District"
  • 1950-80 Gallery Kosice / Slovakia
  • 1952 Wuppertal Hall of Fame, artist in exile
  • 1960 Wermelskirchen High School, Wermelskirchen
  • 1962 Bergisches Studio / House of Youth in Wuppertal
  • 1964 Leverkusen-Opladen town hall
  • 1966 From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal, "Art on the Wupper 1919-33"
  • 1971 Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal (wax pictures)
  • 1986–2005 Galerie Nicole Netuschil Wermelskirchen
  • 1992 Tokyo Art Expo in Japan
  • 1994 From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal, retrospective for the 100th birthday
  • 1995 Morsbroich Castle Museum in Leverkusen, retrospective for the 100th birthday
  • 1999 Art Antique in Düsseldorf
  • 2004 Historical Museum am Strom Bingen / Rh., "A Rhenish-Bergisch painter between expressionism and abstraction"
  • 2008 Museum Baden Solingen
  • 2010 Museum Art Trove Singapore

literature

  • Ekkehard Mai : Ewald Platte. Still a stranger. In: Art and Antiques , Heft 3, Munich 1991, p. 50 ff.
  • Ewald Platte (1894–1985) . Exhibition catalog Von-der-Heydt-Museum. Wuppertal 1994
  • Siegfried Schmidtke: Blow by blow - the 5 strokes of fate in the life of the artist Ewald Platte . In: Niederwupper - Historical Contributions ( ISSN  1433-4038 ), Issue 24 (2011) = catalog for the Ewald Platte exhibition in the Wasserburg Haus Graven, Leverkusen 2011, p. 37 ff

swell

  • Wuppertal city archive
  • Bergischer Almanach 1990, pp. 43-45
  • Bergische Heimat; October 1927, p. 27
  • Hans Kadereit: Where there is still celebrations, reels and delights , a historical illustrated book Lüttringhausen, RGA-Buchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-07-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Anzeiger , October 8, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Platte, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and painter of expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Garschagen , Lüttringhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1985
Place of death Opladen