Georg Cadora

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Georg Cadora (born July 6, 1939 in Darmstadt ; † December 31, 2011 in Wuppertal ) was a German painter , draftsman , collagist and graphic artist of the classical modern age . For his unmistakable graphic work he has developed a special filigree technique, the "loop technique". He used this new type of elaborate ink and pen drawings made of countless hatched round elements for portrait drawings by artists. This was a contribution to art history as a "painter of poets and writers".

Live and act

Cadora was born Herbert Kanold on July 6, 1939. He began his artistic work after graduating from school in Darmstadt. He completed his first training as a stonemason and sculptor in the 1950s in various artist studios. At the same time he dealt with painting and the various techniques. After two years and the early loss of his parents, he was drawn “into the distance” and directly to his “world capital of art: Paris” , where he quickly found acceptance in artistic circles. With the beginning of his years of traveling and study trips , he devoted himself increasingly to the field of drawings and painting, as he could take his equipment with him in his luggage. According to his own account, Cadora experienced a “formative time” in Paris , where he met Jean-Paul Sartre in artistic circles . He portrayed him in the Cafe “La Pergola”. He found his way into post-war bohemia and subsequently enjoyed life as a “street painter on the Seine” at times. As a Francophile German, he soon belonged to the circle of friends of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin such as Jean Genet and Manès Sperber, as well as other famous contemporaries. One of Cadodra's acquaintances in Paris at the time was the architecture student Farah Diba , to whom he gave parts of his photographic equipment.

Study and research trips

Throughout his life, Cadora made study and research trips to the end, without giving up his close ties to Germany and his domicile in Krefeld, where he maintained an artist friendship with Herbert Zangs . Close ties also remained with the Freundeskreis in what was then the federal capital of Bonn . Abroad, he first toured France all the way south and made friends with Lucien Maillol, Aristide Maillol's son , in Banyuls-sur-Mer .

In 1973 he married the chemist Christa Priewe (Berlin), who came from an old Huguenot family from France. As a wife, she accompanied Georg Cadora on his travels for decades and managed the artistic estate. Cadora traveled to most European countries and other continents. Long stays have taken him to Asia (India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka), Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) as well as South and North America including Cuba. On the adventurous missions he worked on excavations and research work with the search for traces of ancient cultures of mankind. His main fascination, however, was with the poets, thinkers, writers and musicians of his time and previous eras. He also maintained correspondence with a few contemporaries: Henry Miller , Günter Grass and art historian Paul Wember . He conducted social dialogue with all relevant circles in art, culture and politics.

Portrait art

As a painter, he captured the portraits of several hundred artists in his drawings and pictures. "Even as a child I was fascinated by artists of all ages," said Cadora, explaining his passion for setting another monument to these geniuses in the visual arts. The ink drawings that are typical for him are sometimes reminiscent of a kind of icon painting in their mystical effect . This is how portraits emerged in his work , many of which are now in museums and public collections. The following works are examples:

The last few years

Tired of traveling, Cadora spent the last few years withdrawn, but from July 2005 in Püttlingen , Saarbrücken regional association . Then at the beginning of 2011 he moved back to the Rhineland . Sick of cancer, he moved with his wife Christa to Wuppertal, where he died on New Year's Eve 2011 at the age of 72. He found his final resting place in the family grave on the Protestant "Friedhof Ehrenhainstraße" in Wuppertal, which was laid out in 1890 as a park forest cemetery.

Exhibitions

Georg Cadora had over 200 solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, institutes and public buildings. The first major exhibition of his works in the federal city of Bonn took place

  • 1970: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . (Patronage of art historian Hugo Borger ). It followed
  • 1975: The exhibition “Artist Portraits” in the Galerie Marco Edition with a prominent audience from politics and diplomacy.
  • 1974 and in the following years: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Museum Simeonsstift Trier, W. Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern and others
  • 1976 and the following years exhibitions in German, French and bilateral cultural institutes as well as universities in the Federal Republic, in France, England, USA, Colombia and at Goethe Institutes in the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • 2001: Kulturspeicher Dörenthe e. V./Ibbenbüren (Steinfurt district)
  • 2010: "Gustav Mahler and his time", Saar University of Music , Saarbrücken
  • 2011/2012: Villa Goecke, Krefeld "Hommage a Georg Cadora"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist archive: https://www.meaus.com/0236-cadora-archiv.htm
  2. ^ Museum of European Art , North Rhine-Westphalia
  3. ^ German Dante Society
  4. ^ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  5. ↑ http://www.europaeische-kultur-stiftung.org/
personal data
SURNAME Cadora, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, collagist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2011
Place of death Wuppertal