Gerhard Kettner

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Extraordinary public plenary meeting of the Academy of the Arts, March 26, 1970 Berlin: Konrad Wolf , Klaus Wittkugel , Hans Rodenberg , Kurt Hager (first row, from left to right ), Gerhard Kettner, Martin Viertel , Jeanne Stern , Kurt Stern and Fritz Selbmann (second row from left to right) ).

Gerhard Kettner (born August 10, 1928 in Mumsdorf ; † June 14, 1993 in Dresden ) was a German lithographer and graphic artist . He was professor and rector of the Dresden University of Fine Arts .

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Gerhard Kettner was born on August 10, 1928 in Mumsdorf (today part of Meuselwitz ) in Thuringia as the youngest of four children. In 1943/1944 he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in the Altenburg playing card factory . He then did his military service until 1945 and was taken prisoner of war.

In 1948 the draftsman Kettner attended the Lindenau Museum School with Heinrick Burkhardt. From 1949 to 1951 Kettner studied at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts Weimar , among others with Otto Herbig and Hans van Breek. From 1951 up to and including 1953 he continued his studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden) with Hans Grundig . In 1953 he received the graphic diploma from Max Schwimmer . Then he was assistant to Hans Theo Richter until 1955 . In the period from 1956 to 1961 graduated Kettner an aspirant for Graphics at Max Schwimmer and was an assistant of the Department of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden.

From 1961 to 1965 Kettner was a lecturer in this department. As a teaching assignment, he took on the evening act for the art students. In 1965, Gerhard Kettner became a lecturer in drawing in the basic painting / graphics department at the HfBK Dresden. He held this lectureship until 1968, after which he became head of the “Complex Basic Studies” department in the painting / graphics department.

In 1969 Gerhard Kettner was appointed professor at the HfBK Dresden. Kettner was rector of the HfBK Dresden from 1970 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. In 1988 he took on a three-month visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Grave of Kettner in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden

Kettner was married to the artist Gitta Kettner (1928–2011) and had two children. The painter and graphic artist Hubertus Giebe is his son-in-law.

Awards

Kettner's master class

His master students included Stefan Plenkers , Hanns Schimansky, Johannes Heisig , Reinhard Minkewitz , Jochen Fiedler, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , Elke Hopfe , Manfred Zoller , Trak Wendisch, Christoph Wetzel, Ellen Fuhr and Henry Rademacher.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • September 1, 1977 to October 16, 1977 Gerhard Kettner - drawings and lithographs , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Altes Museum
  • 1999 Gerhard Kettner and students , Galerie Hebecker in Weimar
  • March 10 to May 18, 2002 Homage to Dresden in the Döbele Gallery, Dresden, with three works.
  • August 26 to October 8, 2003 Gerhard Kettner - drawings , Villa Eschebach (Dresdner Volksbank Raiffeisenbank) in Dresden. The opening speech was given by the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .
  • May 15 to July 4, 2004 Hans Theo Richter, Gerhard Kettner, Reinhard Minkewitz - drawings , gallery in Ernst Rietschel's birthplace in Pulsnitz
  • October 23, 2005 to November 12, 2006 Works on paper (with various other artists), Museum Junge Kunst , Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Permanent exhibition in the community room of his place of birth (Mumsdorf) - Dedication of the room in honor of Gerhard Kettner
  • December 1, 2018 to March 3, 2019, exhibition on the occasion of the 90th birthday, Leonhardi Museum in Dresden

Quotes

"I don't think anyone can break free from their chain of tradition, from their environment, from their form - all of that will occupy them."

- Gerhard Kettner

"For my work, it is true that dealing with Richter's work was most problematic where I tried to find new means through new content."

- Gerhard Kettner

"Good drawings are always open, they give new knowledge space and time."

- Gerhard Kettner

"The actual expressiveness of the drawing comes from the undrawn areas."

- Gerhard Schröder

“For me, the longest and most intense memories of Gerhard Kettner are connected with the encounters in his studio at the art college on Brühl's terrace. It was a room that impressed every visitor. In my memory, in the 18 years in which I visited Gerhard Kettner in his studio, hardly anything changed in that? Everyone who knew Kettner better is united in this room through their encounter with him, and of course these are mainly his students. The cigar smoke, the photos of the teachers on the wall, mostly a recent drawing on the easel. "

- Manfred Zoller, 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR. Berlin 2010, p. 431
  2. ↑ quoted from Hans Ebert in: Catalog GK, Drawings Lithographien, Berlin 1977, p. 5.
  3. ↑ quoted from Hans Ebert in: Catalog GK, Drawings Lithographien, Berlin 1977, p. 5.
  4. ^ May 1989 catalog GK, drawings Leonhardi-Museum Dresden 2018
  5. ^ Speech by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at the opening of the exhibition Gerhard Kettner - Drawings on August 26, 2003 Dresden (Villa Eschebach)
  6. ↑ Kettner, Gitta / Giebe, Marlies (ed.): Gerhard Kettner Encounters in the Atelier ISBN 978-3-930382-85-9

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personal data
SURNAME Kettner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lithographer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Mumsdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1993
Place of death Dresden