Franz-Bernd Becker

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Room XX, 100 x 150 color print on canvas

Franz-Bernd Becker (born September 4, 1955 in Breinig , district of Aachen (today Stolberg (Rhld.) )) Is a German painter and writer.

Life

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Franz-Bernd Becker lives on the island of Rügen and lived in Stolberg-Breinig and the surrounding area until the late 1990s. From 1970 to 1973 he was trained as a window dresser before studying with Karl Kneidl (stage design) and Rissa (painting) from 1974 to 1981 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1981 he became a master student of Rissa.

With his artist colleagues Win Braun, Emil Sorge, and Hartmut Ritzerfeld, he founded the “Venn Academy” / “Eifelmaler”.

From 1978 to 1995 his works were assigned to the American pattern painting - banally patterned fabrics from the 1950s for a design made up of pure color surfaces and decorative ornaments - and the expressionistic, representational Neue Wilden. Most of the pattern painting work was later destroyed by the artist. There are only a handful of works in private ownership, as well as publicly in the city of Stolberg and in the KOGötz-Rissa-Stiftung.

Becker took an artistic break from 1996 to 2009, during which time he trained as a social business economist and was ordained as a deacon in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG). He lived from 1998 to 2000 on the island of Sylt and from 2000 on the island of Fehmarn . From 2009 he turned to surrealistic-informal images. Since 2019 he has been working on cool, matter-of-fact interior views of Prora, the longest building in Europe, which are transformed into abstract, warm depictions of rooms by the incidence of light and shadow.

In the meantime he did not always pursue his artistic profession, but worked first as a geriatric nurse and later as a facility manager in the free church Diakonie. He has worked as a co-author of his wife's specialist books for FIDA GmbH in Kiel , including: The Expertise in Elderly Care Volumes I-III Gerontopsychiatry . When he moved to Görlitz / Saxony for a few years in 2014 , he began writing detective novels with his wife Susanne Becker.

Exhibitions (selection)

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Exhibitions including 1989 with the group “Eifelmaler” Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, catalog: Editing and text by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Becker. As well as in 1984 in the Löhrl gallery, Impulse 3 paintings and shapes with Horst Gläsker, Mönchengladbach, and in 2000 in the European Kunsthof with Volker Tannert, Stolberg-Vicht.

Public collections

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Both the city of Stolberg and the K.-O.-Götz -und-Rissa-Stiftung in Niederbreitbach- Wolfenacker own works by Franz-Bernd Becker.

Writing activity

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The partly mystical-futuristic detective novels are written in a series with self-contained parts, in which the facility manager Markus Bürger is the main character. From his point of view, there are insights into a health system in which the care of the elderly and the well-being of employees play a subordinate role. After the state passed health care over to private investors, the principle of profit maximization automatically and noticeably moved to the fore. The discrepancy between human and economic needs is becoming overwhelming. Together with his family, the employees and the residents of the monastery, he gets into bizarre, horrific situations that indirectly also reflect the existing system.

Books

Ebook

  • The modern deadly sins . Mystery Thriller, Kindle Edition 2018
  • Martin's parents . Nursing thriller, Kindle Edition 2019
  • Emperor Charlemagne, room 405, block 4 . Nursing thriller, Kindle Edition 2020

Web links

Commons : Franz-Bernd Becker  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Venn Academy
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Franz-Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Breinig , District of Aachen (today Stolberg (Rhld.) )