Friedel Deventer

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Friedel Deventer (born January 26, 1947 in Meschede ) is a graphic designer , photomontage artist , painter and object artist. He lives as a freelance artist in Kassel .

life and work

education

Deventer completed an apprenticeship as an art teacher and graphic designer at the Kasseler HbK in 1972 . Since 1968 he has appeared with graphics and caricatures that are politically and socially critical. In 1969 he co-founded the Democratic Graphics Hamburg collective . Since the early 1970s, he has been creating photo montages, objects and political posters that criticized the destruction of the environment , the Vietnam War and world hunger .

Public Works

Since 1974 Deventer has created more than 50 murals in public spaces in Kassel, more than 120 throughout Germany. The works, mostly created in a photo-realistic style, were often created in collaboration with local commercial enterprises or housing associations and also served to improve the quality of living. In addition, he also transformed the transformer house into a classicist winter garden or a palm house . In 1995 and 1996 he created the world's largest landscape panorama on an area of ​​3,000 m² at the Galluswarte S-Bahn station in Frankfurt .

Since 1986 Friedel Deventer has realized several electronically controlled kinetic objects and wind objects. He created counter-rotating metal rods for the Kassel Königsgalerie and slowly rolling red balls for an office building on Wilhelmshöher Allee in Kassel.

Deventer Art Academy

Friedel Deventer and his wife Maya mediate artistic expression at the Art Academy Deventer .

Awards

  • 1968: Prize of the Heinrich Zille Foundation for Contemporary Critical Graphics, Hanover.
  • 1976: Art Prize Art in Public Space, model projects, Bremen.
  • 1976: Prize of the 6th International Graphic Biennale, Warsaw.

Exhibitions

  • Solo exhibitions
    • 1971 “Satire against violence”, Neukölln Art Office, Berlin
    • 1973 Elefantenpress Galerie, Berlin
    • 1976 Emschertal Museum, Herne
    • 1976 "Critical Graphics" Municipal Gallery Bergkamen
    • 1983 Theater Oberhausen, Oberhausen
  • Group exhibitions
    • 1972 Autumn Salon, House of Art, Munich
    • 1972 Political graphics, artists against Franz Josef Strauss, Berlin-Köpenick:
    • 1973 The political poster ( Essen )
    • 1974 Anti-imperialist Solidarity, Hanoi
    • 1974 Aspects of the committed art art association Hamburg
    • 1976 studio in the farmhouse, Fischerhude
    • 1982 La Liberté guidant le peuple de Delacroix, Musées Nationaux, Paris
    • 1983 Art moves a city, Bergkamen
    • 1986 The Tree, Heidelberger Kunstverein

literature

  • Nikos Hadjinicolaou: La produciòn artista frente a sus significados. Siglo Veintiuno Editores, Mexico 1981, ISBN 968-23-1034-2 .
  • KP Wolf: Artist for Human Rights. Weltkreis Verlag, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88142-193-9 .
  • Peter Strahlendorf: Yearbook Sponsoring. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-430-15011-6 .
  • Albrecht Dürer House Foundation: Düreriana. Nuremberg 1990, ISBN 3-418-00349-4 .
  • Harald Kimpel: Art in Public Space, Kassel 1950–1991. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1991, ISBN 3-89445-109-2 .
  • Hans-Joachim Löwer: Artists for nature: the environmental initiative "Artists for Nature". DA Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-922619-41-X .
  • Harald Kimpel: Art in Public Space, Kassel 1992–2005. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89445-347-3 .
  • Helmut Kronthaler: Deventer, Friedel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 26, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22766-3 , p. 529.
  • Kurt Flemig : Caricaturist Lexicon. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-10932-6 , p. 51.

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personal data
SURNAME Deventer, Friedel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Meschede