Gerhard Meyerratken

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Gerhard Theodor Meyerratken (* 1937 in Löningen ; † October 30, 2005 in Münster ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

In the 1960s he studied fine arts in Münster, Antwerp and Berlin. Even then, he made trips around the world with longer stays in Australia, the South Seas , Asia and South America, during which many drawings and watercolors were created. From 1972 to 1983 he taught graphic design at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. In the early 1980s, Meyerratken developed the idea of ​​“Anonymous Realism”. On one of his further study trips, he proclaimed this philosophical point of view in 1986 as a manifesto in an art action over the date line on a flight from Honolulu (Hawaii ) to Nadi ( Fiji ).

After his first long trip to Asia, he began his training as a sculptor at the Werkkunstschule Münster in 1962 , which he completed in 1965. The rest of his life also consisted of longer trips around the world. He came to South America before studying in Antwerp in 1964 and then to the South Seas from 1969 to 1971 after completing his training at the art academy in Berlin , a goal he kept aiming for.

Gerhard Meyerratken spent more than seven years on these tours from the 1970s to the 1990s in non-European countries in order to get to know their cultures, living conditions and nature. Traveling had become his way of life, hitchhiking, by bus and train, ship and plane, in the meantime earning money for the next ticket.

Gerhard Meyerratken repeatedly experimented and looked for new forms of artistic expression. He developed the idea of ​​his recycling pictures further with the later collages - now using scissors instead of a brush, editing everyday advertising material. Image details are initially composed in a small format, then brought onto large-format canvases.

Publications

  • Grotesques by Gerhard Meyerratken . Berlin: Zahl-Wienen 1968
  • Baptism . Stage play in 4 acts. Münster 1985
  • Pub theater, pen drawings, cover pictures . Münster: Kakus Verlag 1978
  • Anonymous Realism Manifesto - Art at the End of the 20th Century . Münster / Aachen: Verlag Murken-Altrogge 1991
  • Meyerratken, Gerhard u. a .: Anonymous realism . Reading book. Munster 1998

literature

  • Axel Hinrich Murken : Of people and spaces . Drawings, watercolors and gouaches by Gerhard Meyerratken. Herzogenrath: Verlag Murken-Altrogge 1984
  • Andre Lindhorst: Gerhard Meyerratken - drawings, watercolors, gouaches, travel pictures, catalog overpainting . Published by the city of Osnabrück. Osnabrück 1992
  • Kulturforum Rheine: Gerhard Meyerratken - paintings . Exhibition catalog. Rheine 1997
  • Axel Hinrich Murken: Gerhard Meyerratken. In: Your kingdom come. Variations on the question of meaning . Munich, Zurich 1986
  • Dorothea Eimert : Gerhard Meyerratken. In: Murken Collection. Contemporary painting and sculpture . Exhibition catalog for a traveling exhibition in Bonn, Oldenburg, Wiesbaden, Düren, Regensburg. Ed. Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Münster: City Museum - Preview / Review. In: www.muenster.de. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyerratken, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyerratken, Gerhard Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Loeningen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2005
Place of death Muenster