Gerd Kehrer
Gerd Kehrer (born April 7, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German painter, draftsman, graphic artist , object designer and author. He lives and works in Frankfurt and on islands in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Life
childhood
Gerd Kehrer was born on the Mühlberg in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and spent his early childhood in Teichstrasse 5. He is the son of Gertrude Kehrer, b. Schuh (1909–2008), seamstress, and Friedrich Kehrer (1897–1954), factor and typographer. The father was in the large graphic company Georg Stritt & Co in Frankfurt am Main, Mainzer Landstrasse 184, head of the hand and machine typesetting (lead type) with around sixty employees. He gave his son his first artistic impulses in drawing and painting.
Due to the war and its aftermath (evacuation to Würges / Camberg im Hintertaunus and several moves within Frankfurt), Kehrer attended three primary schools in Frankfurt in 1946/49: Schwanthaler, Textor, Riederwald School and the Brothers Grimm Middle School with the final certificate Secondary school leaving certificate after a six-week examination period. At the beginning of the 1950s he was a member of the FSV Frankfurt , trained in the stadium on Bornheimer Hang (today's Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium ) and regularly played football on weekends in one of the many youth club teams. Kehrer learned to play the accordion at the Peter Ernst music school in Frankfurt and played in the youth orchestra at their concerts.
artistic education
Due to the early death of his father, he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a positive retoucher at Georg Stritt & Co and received a solid education in almost all disciplines of the graphic trade with theoretical and practical lessons (drawing and painting with Alf Bayrle ) at the Gutenberg School in Frankfurt. Then Kehrer studied painting and art history at the evening school of the Städelschule (State University of Fine Arts, Frankfurt am Main) as well as graphic design at the Westend Art School in Frankfurt am Main. His teachers were the Max Beckmann student Walter Hergenhahn and Max Bittrof .
As a graphic designer and artist
From 1959 Kehrer worked for almost fifteen years as a graphic designer in the advertising department of the Telefonbau und Normalzeit group. Even then, his creative work became known through national and international competitions as well as publications, exhibitions and awards.
A turning point in Gerd Kehrer's life meant his professional independence in 1974, which he had always strived for since his youth in order to be able to realize his artistic ideas independently. Since then he has been working as a freelance visual artist. Gerd Kehrer is married to Eva-Maria Kehrer, b. Farmer, industrial clerk. The couple has a son.
plant
Gerd Kehrer draws, paints and designs mostly in cycles, representational and abstract. The change in his painting style, the variety of his subjects and a diverse technical fund are just as much a hallmark of his work as the joy of experimenting. His work includes drawings, (print) graphics, watercolor , gouache , acrylic, oil painting , mixed media, collage , assemblage , objects. This creates groups of works that can be completely opposite and with which he deliberately evades classification. Cultivating a style seems just as suspect to him as theories about art.
Rotary images
Gerd Kehrer's rotating pictures are composed in such a way that they can be viewed from all four, but at least from two sides - there is neither a fixed top or bottom, nor a fixed right or left. This open offer of observation corresponds to the creation of the work: the image carrier was rotated repeatedly during the painting process.
The first film, James Dean and his fears, was made in 1983 and was shown for the first time two years later in the German Film Museum in the exhibition: Gerd Kehrer - Dean - Monroe - Fassbinder - Welles. Kehrer's rotating pictures, which can also be presented rotating slowly with the aid of a motor to be attached to the rear, are provided with a corresponding symbol.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1978 Frankfurt Municipal Gallery. Face faces faces
- 1979 Gallery Moering Wiesbaden. Between memory and dream
- 1979 Foote, Cone & Belding Frankfurt
- 1980 Frankfurt telecommunications tower
- 1983 Alte Oper Frankfurt. Fassbinder Memorial
- 1984 Bergen-Enkheim Museum of Local History, Frankfurt. Frankford - drawing pictures and babbling
- 1985 Nebbian garden house in Frankfurt. Insights Outlook
- 1985 German Film Museum Frankfurt. Dean - Monroe - Fassbinder - Welles
- 1987 Warendorf town hall. James Dean
- 1989 Bornheim Frankfurt community center. Frankfurt. Pictures for a city
- 1989 Zeilsheim City Hall, Frankfurt. Frankfurt. Pictures for a city
- 1989 BHF-Bank Frankfurt
- 1992 Café Cult Frankfurt
- 1994 Drs Tax Practice Gallery in Frankfurt
- 1995 St. Katharinenkirche (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1999 FES Frankfurt
- 2001 FES Frankfurt
- 2001 Gallery in the Quellenhof Bad Vilbel
- 2003 IHK Frankfurt am Main. Demonstration of democracy
- 2005 Heussenstamm Foundation Frankfurt. Pictures 04/05
- 2009 Diocesan Museum Limburg. Citykirchen
Participation in exhibitions (selection)
- 1964 Römer (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1967 Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich
- 1967 Recklinghausen art gallery
- 1967 Athens State Museum
- 1967 Cairo State Museum
- 1968 Gallery in the Rahmhof Frankfurt
- 1970 Bavarian Advertising Association, Munich
- 1970 Biennale of Graphic Design Brno
- 1971 Stone House (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1974 Biennale of Graphic Design Brno
- 1974 Poster Biennale Warsaw
- 1975 The Dublin Arts Festival Dublin
- 1975 International Poster Exhibition Warsaw
- 1977 Stone House (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1978 Biennale of Graphic Design Brno
- 1978 Première Triennale Européene de l'Affiche Mons
- 1978 Gutenberg Museum Mainz
- 1978 Darmstadt art market
- 1982 Biennale of Graphic Design Brno
- 1983 1st International Design Competition Osaka
- 1983 Fassbinder Memorial Alte Oper Frankfurt
- 1984 Canvas House (Frankfurt am Main)
- 1985 gallery in the bunker Frankfurt
- 1986 Biennale of Graphic Design Brno
- 1987 Hiroshima Peace Museum
- 1989 The Israel Museum Jerusalem
- 1995 Gallery double you Paderborn
- 1999 Conceivable Frankfurt
- 2000 imaginable Frankfurt
- 2004 Summer in Strackgasse Oberursel
- 2004 Luther Church Frankfurt
Publications
- Form and technology. Trade journal of the IG Druck und Papier for all branches of the graphic industry 10/1965
- Artist in the BBK Frankfurt. Painter graphic artist sculptor 1967
- Hessian graphics in Athens and Cairo. Traveling exhibition Exhibition catalog 1976
- Graphis Annual. International Annual of Advertising Graphics, The Graphis Press Zurich 1967/68
- International Poster Annual 14th Arthur Niggli Ltd. Niederteufen Switzerland 1969
- 1st Biennale of Graphic Design. Moravska Galerie Brno, exhibition catalog 1970
- International Poster Annual 15th Arthur Niggli Ltd. Niederteufen Switzerland 1973
- 6th Biennale of Graphic Design. Moravska Galerie Brno exhibition catalog 1974
- 5. Poster Biennale Warsaw. Exhibition catalog 1974
- Graphis posters. International Annual of Poster Art, The Graphis Press Zurich 1974
- Graphis Posters 75th The International Annual of Poster Art, The Graphis Press Zürich 1975
- The polygraph. Journal for the printing industry 10/1975
- Graphis 145th International Journal of Graphics and Applied Arts, The Graphis Press Zurich
- Graphis 188. International journal for graphics and applied arts, The Graphis Press Zurich 1976/77
- Gerd Kehrer - face faces faces. Exhibition catalog, Kommunale Galerie Frankfurt 1978
- 1st European Poster Triennial. Musée des Beaux- Arts Mons / Belgium, exhibition catalog 1978
- 8th Biennale of Graphic Design, Moravska Galerie Brno, exhibition catalog, 1978
- Vision - reflection. The 50th exhibition of the Communal Gallery Frankfurt Karmeliterkloster, exhibition catalog 1980
- Graphis Ephemera, Artists Self-Promotion. Graphis Press Corp. Zurich 1980
- Report of the 1st International Design Competition, Osaka. Exhibition catalog 1984
- Novum commercial graphics. International monthly for communication design Bruckmann Munich 10/1984
- Peace `85. Pocket calendar Lamuv Verlag 1985
- Peace Calendar `85. Harms Verlag pocket calendar 1985
- Ebbelweigebabbel by Gerd Kehrer. 102 colored drawings with Frankfurt dialect texts, postcard book, 1986
- JAGDA Peace Posters. International Exhibition Peace Museum Hiroshima Exhibition Catalog 1987
- Gerd Kehrer - Paulskirche. Gerd Kehrer Edition Art Frankfurt 1997
- Ruth Schwarz - The Eschenheim Tower A landmark of Frankfurt. Waldemar Kramer Verlag 2001
- Gerd Kehrer - Citykirchen. Diözesanmuseum Limburg, Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats Limburg / Lahn Exhibition catalog 2008
- ELLE CITY Frankfurt 05/2011. Culture: Gerd Kehrer art tour. Elle Verlag Munich 2011
- International Directory of Arts. Art address book
- Since 1965 constant reports and discussions about Gerd Kehrer and his work in all Frankfurt daily newspapers and in the national press
Act as an author
Since 1965 Gerd Kehrer has sporadically recorded his experiences and thoughts in the GK Notes in poems, aphorisms, sayings and prose texts. For a better understanding of his art, they supplement the picture of his work and thinking as a freelance visual artist and author.
- 2015 Internet: BIS Citizens' Initiative Sachsenhausen. Gerd Kehrer - Poetry for the environment - There are no limits to the creativity of our resistance! Gift - Makes you sick instead of forest - Eco-logic FFM - End of life - Sachsenhausen mountain - Hesse perverse - Infirmity - Noise = terror - Diagnosis of false cranes - Fear of ...
- 2016 wisdom - criticism - impulse. Anthology for the aphorism competition DAphA (German Aphorism Archive) Hattingen. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum.
- 2016 PRO LESEN writing workshop, library center Sachsenhausen - Gerd Kehrer, poetry from the region.
- 2016 literary magazine DIE BRÜCKE under MAIN 4/2016
Literature and Sources
- Günter Vogt: Face - faces - faces. Catalog text for the first solo exhibition by Gerd Kehrer, published by the Kommunale Galerie, City of Frankfurt am Main, February 1978, DNB 790472759.
- Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: Between Vedute and Vision. Catalog text for the Paulskirche picture cycle on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1998. Ed. Gerd Kehrer, 1997, DNB 1026447372.
- Gerald Hintze: Art strives away from the center. Text for the Gerd Kehrer exhibition MITTEN, Frankfurter Stadtkirchen, 5 Cycles of Oil Pastels, St. Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, 1995.
- Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: On the blue ribbon of the stock exchange. A “sightseeing tour” with Gerd Kehrer to six international stock exchanges. Catalog text for the stock market pictures cycle by Gerd Kehrer. Published by Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, DNB 1026234514.
- Thomas Regehly : New Schopenhauer portrait by Gerd Kehrer. Text published by Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft, 1999.
- Eva Mongi-Vollmer: Cyprus - A vision. Text for the picture cycle CYPRUS, 2005.
- Eva Mongi-Vollmer: Inside and out. - Pictures 04/05. Text for the Gerd Kehrer exhibition of the same name at the Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt, 2007.
- August Heuser: City churches and the inside view of the outside view. Five picture cycles by Gerd Kehrer on Frankfurt churches. Catalog text for the exhibition Citykirchen, Diözesanmuseum Limburg. Ed. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats, Limburg / Lahn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-921221-28-0 .
Web links
- Saatchi Online www.saatchionline.com/gerdkehrer
- University Library Frankfurt am Main Hilmar Hoffmann http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
- Art of Surgery www.art-of-surgery.com
- Frankfurt heads www.frankfurter-koepfe.de
- Exhibitions 1985 www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
- Exhibition 1985: Dean, Monroe, Fassbinder, Welles www.ausstellungen-kinematheksverbund.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kehrer, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman, graphic artist, object designer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |