Gerhard Schlueter

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Gerhard Schlueter (born January 18, 1937 in Rostock ; † February 17, 1998 in Bremen ) was a German artist who mainly devoted himself to painting . As part of the Bremen program “ Art in Public Space ”, he was commissioned several times with extensive artistic work.

Life

Schlüter grew up as the son of a philatelist and stamp dealer in Rostock, where he experienced the times of National Socialism and the Second World War as a child . In the post-war period he began to draw and paint as a teenager. In his father's stamp collections he found motifs, in particular "from nature with a soul" and from "winged beings", which accompanied him throughout his life alongside maritime motifs. Schlüter trained as a painter in what was then the GDR . When he was called up to do his basic military service in the NVA in 1957 , he fled the GDR to West Germany . He managed to get from Rostock to Hamburg on a motorcycle .

In Hamburg, Schlüter worked as a house painter and went to sea for a year . At the end of the 1960s he moved to the Bremen area, where he lived and worked as a freelance artist, partly near Bremen in neighboring Lower Saxony , partly in Bremen-Nord and most recently in the Bremen “ trendy district ”, in the district of Steintor in Humboldtstrasse .

Schlüter was an autodidact as an artist and was assigned to magical realism and partly also to surrealism . As part of the Bremen long-term funding program “Art in Public Spaces” , he received several commissions for public murals and for the artistic design of public spaces, such as in schools . He also created drawings , etchings and, above all, numerous paintings , mainly working with oil paints , but also with acrylic and water-soluble watercolor paints .

He was considered a nonconformist and "liked his freedom above everything".

The Humboldt & Schlüter Art Association

After Schlüter's untimely death, two of his friends, the Bremen artist Erwin Noack (1940–2006) and the Bremen scene innkeeper Günter Parzentny († 2010), founded the Kunstverein Humboldt & Schlüter e. V. The association became Schlüter's lease successor and set up a gallery for art exhibitions in his mezzanine apartment at Humboldtstrasse 67 in Bremen , which at the same time represents a “memorial to the Bremen artist Gerhard Schlüter, who died in 1998”. The art association pursues the concept of "art and pub "; it is currently open every Tuesday to Saturday evening and organizes art exhibitions, book readings as well as film, music and cabaret evenings in its rooms at irregular intervals.

The association now has around 60 members, including many artists from Bremen, and has held around 30 art exhibitions to date. Among other things, at the beginning of 1999 the art association showed the memorial exhibition "Original or Fake?" In honor of Gerhard Schlueter with a selection of his pictures. On the occasion of the ten-year existence of the association, a retrospective of Schlüter works took place at the beginning of 2008 , at which works from the in-house estate of the artist and “founding initiator” as well as from collectors' holdings were exhibited.

Works (selection)

Art in public space

  • 1980: Door sign , 20 panel pictures in the school at the Marcusalle (school for the hearing impaired, new building 1980) in Bremen- Horn , Marcusalle 31; Acrylic on laminated wood board; Dimensions: height × width = 0.4 m × 0.5 m each (owned by the municipality of Bremen)
  • 1987: Gallery in the city , panel at Waller train station / bridge abutment at Osterfeuerberger Ring in Bremen- Walle ; Acrylic on laminated wood board; Dimensions: 2.5 m × 3.5 m (owned by the municipality of Bremen)
  • 1988: Untitled, wall design in Bremen- Woltmershausen , Woltmershauser Straße  241 (in collaboration with Birgit Hansen)
  • 1988: The four seasons , 5 panels in the school on Marcusallee (school for the hearing impaired, extension in 1988) in Bremen-Horn, Marcusallee 31; Acrylic on laminated wood board; Dimensions: 1.25 m × 1.75 m; 1.05 m × 1.45 m; 1.25 m × 1.74 m; 2.05 m × 1.45 m; 0.45 m × 2.2 m (owned by the municipality of Bremen)

painting

  • 1987: U-boat before port exit , watercolor on drawing paper, 20 cm × 29 cm (privately owned)
  • 1986: Steep coast and storm sky , acrylic on cardboard , 20.5 cm × 27 cm (privately owned)
  • 1981: Panzertrasse at night , acrylic on cardboard, 49 cm × 69 cm (privately owned)

Graphics

  • 1980: Padlock with "enclosed" key , 11 cm × 9 cm, "EA" (privately owned)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Our artists →  Schlüter, Gerhard at the Kunstverein Humboldt & Schlüter e. V. , Bremen. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  2. ↑ k: art in public space bremen : Gerhard Schlüter
  3. ↑ a b Franco Zotta: A friendly service . In: taz , regional edition Bremen , January 1999. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  4. ↑ Our association. History of the founding of the art association at Kunstverein Humboldt & Schlüter e. V. , Bremen. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  5. ↑ Klaus Irler: Gold rush on the mezzanine floor . In: taz Bremen , April 27, 2002. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  6. ↑ 1999: January - “Original or Fake?” Exhibition history at the Kunstverein Humboldt & Schlüter e. V. , Bremen. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  7. ↑ 2008: February - “10 Years of the Humboldt-Schlüter Art Association” . Exhibition history at the Kunstverein Humboldt & Schlüter e. V. , Bremen. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  8. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  9. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  10. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  11. ^ "Art in Public Space Bremen - South" →  Wall painting (oT) on the website www.bremen-freizeit.de. (Accessed October 26, 2010.)
  12. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1998
Place of death Bremen