Frank Rödel

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Frank Rödel (* 1954 in Weimar ) is a German painter. The artist lives and works in Berlin .

Career and biography

Rödel attempted to escape from the GDR in 1977, in which his son Emanuel Holzhauer died . He was sentenced to five years in prison and ransomed in 1980.

He then studied painting from 1982 to 1988 at the Berlin University of the Arts , where he was a master student of Karl Oppermann . Studio and work scholarships have taken him to Gut Salzau in Schleswig-Holstein (1991), to San Sebastian in Spain (1992), to Dinan in France (1994), to the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado , USA (1995) and on a guest scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to Cadenabbia , Italy (1995).

In 2001 he received a teaching position at the Ragamangala Institute of Technology , Department of Fine Arts, in Bangkok , Thailand. A year later, I received an artist-in-residence program from Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai , Thailand. In 2005, the Goethe-Institut in Tokyo commissioned Rödel with the artistic design of a Buddy Bear sculpture, which Federal President Horst Köhler and Japan's Prime Minister Jun'ichirō Koizumi signed at the opening of Germany in Japan in 2005/2006 . In 2007 a studio grant from the Upernavik Museum, Greenland, followed, as well as the design of the stage set for the 2007 Quadriga Prize award in the Komische Oper Berlin and one picture for each of the four winners, including a. for Queen Silvia of Sweden and former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .

Pictures by Frank Rödel were presented to guests as official gifts from the Federal Government of Germany, including the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Armando Emílio Guebuza , the Irish President Mary Patricia McAleese , the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the President of the Republic of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano .

Rödel's works have been shown in exhibitions in Denmark , Israel , Japan , Thailand and the USA, as well as in many German cities. With his more recent works, Frank Roedel tries to establish an intercultural dialogue between Iran and Israel.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1985: Deutschlandhaus, Berlin
  • 1988: Jewish Museum / Bamberghaus, Rendsburg
  • 1989: Museum Old Synagogue, Essen
  • 1990: Galerie Nora, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1990: Berlin Museum, Jewish Department, Martin Gropius Bau
  • 1990: Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1992: Sievi Gallery, Berlin
  • 1993: Spandau Citadel, Berlin
  • 1994: Museum Residenzschloß, Bad Arolsen
  • 1995: Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg, Schmalkalden
  • 1995: Angermuseum, Erfurt
  • 1995: Red City Hall, Berlin
  • 1996: Foundation Burg Kniphausen, Wilhelmshaven
  • 1999: Weimar Weimar 1999, European City of Culture
  • 2000: Ostholsteinmuseum, Eutin
  • 2002: German House Gallery, German Consulate General, New York, USA
  • 2003: Gong Dee Studio, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2003: National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2003: Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • 2007: Hyogo Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
  • 2008: art. Is gallery, Castrop-Rauxel
  • 2011: Academy of Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  • 2012: German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friendly Society Berlin: Frank Rödel
  2. ^ Parole morning rat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1985, pp. 29 f . ( online - December 31, 1984 ).
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: "Pictures by the painter Frank Rödel exhibited" Combined desert and city
  4. ↑ United Buddy Bears: The Art of Tolerance , ed. by Eva and Klaus Herlitz , Neptun-Verlag Berlin 2009, pp. 22-23, ISBN 978-3-85820-189-8
  5. ^ Antarctic images by Frank Rödel
  6. ↑ IRANKULTUR.com, 2014: "From a trip to Isfahan"
  7. ^ Pattaya Blatt, Issue 45, 2003: Frank Rödel
  8. ↑ Frank Rödel exhibition at art. Is Galerie Winfried Radinger, Castrop-Rauxel
  9. ^ Passport, November 13, 2012: "Terra Incognita - Unknown World"
personal data
SURNAME Rödel, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar