Gerhard Finke
Gerhard Finke (born March 31, 1917 in Beeskow ) is a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor.
Life
Finke grew up in Berlin. From 1945 to 1948 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , among others with the painter and sculptor Ewald Mataré . One of his fellow students was Joseph Beuys . He learned ceramic and fine-plastic techniques at the Cologne factory schools. From 1952 he taught at a Düsseldorf grammar school, in the 1960s at the German School in Lisbon and then until 1979 in Voerde (Lower Rhine) . Later he lived in Flüren , then in Berlin . In 2003 Finke donated his artistic work to the Städtisches Museum Wesel: drawings, woodcuts and linocuts, pictures in oil and acrylic as well as collages and sculptures.
He has painted more than 8000 pictures and made sculptures from clay. His most famous clay figure was the bird of Voerde, which also stands in different versions cast in bronze in the city center of Voerde.
Finke produced black and white prints in the style of Otto Pankok in the 1960s . Finke only started making color pictures around the year 2000.
literature
- Jürgen Becks (Ed.): Gerhard Finke. 1917-2007. The artistic work. City of Wesel, Wesel 2007, ISBN 978-3-924380-81-6
Web links
- Maria Fiedler: painter Gerhard Finke. The old man and the pictures. tagesspiegel.de, October 6, 2015
- Cay Dobberke: painter Gerhard Finke: 8000 works in 100 years. tagesspiegel.de, March 31, 2017
- Gerhard Finke celebrates his 100th today in Berlin. nrz.de, March 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finke, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beeskow |