Gerhard Andrées

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Gerhard Andrées (born June 25, 1936 in Plau am See ) is a German painter and object artist.

Life

Gerhard Andrées was born in 1936 as the son of a master painter in the small Mecklenburg town of Plau am See. From 1961 to 1963 he completed his studies at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal , then until 1968 at the Berlin University of Fine Arts . Here he was a student of free painting with Peter Janssen , in 1969 as his master student . In the same year he received the European Prize for Painting in Belgium , and two years later the Art Prize of the Youth of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 1971 he has worked with the sculptor Joachim Schmettau and the painter and graphic artist Peter Ackermann on various occasions . In 1972 Andrées became an employee of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin.

Solo exhibitions

• 1969/1973 Archi balances
• 1973 situation in Berlin
• 1975/1977 Disguised realities
• 1978/1979 perspective frame
• 1983/1985 picture space accessible
• 1985 Scheme I - people and spaces
• 1986 Accentuation of an elevator axis
• 1988 spatial references
• 1990 across time
• 1992 across the room
• 1992/1993 The great departure
• 1998 transit area Berlin – Budapest
• 1998/1999 transit area Budapest – Berlin

Movie

• 1976 Questions to Reality

Video installations

• 1980 Gorleben – Nagasaki (35 years overlap)
• 1982 picture space accessible
• 1983 environment of the center
• 1985 Scheme I - people and spaces
• 1985 Triptyk

literature

• Gerhard Andrées: The great departure. Pictures objects installation . Booklet accompanying the 1986/1991 exhibition
• Gerhard Andrées: Transit Space Berlin – Budapest . Booklet accompanying the 1998/1999 exhibition

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Andrées in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Gerhard Andrées in the state bibliography MV
• Homepage of the artist