Godehard Lietzow

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Godehard Lietzow (born November 18, 1937 in Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , † August 6, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German artist and gallery owner.

biography

Godehard Lietzow was born on November 18, 1937 in Schneidemühl, the second son of a police officer. After fleeing and stopping in Mecklenburg, the family moved to Springe am Deister, southwest of Hanover . He attended school and high school in Hanover, where he also graduated from high school in 1959. He did not comply with his parents' wish to become a teacher. Instead, he began studying painting and drawing at the Werkkunstschule Hannover . His teachers included Johann Georg Geyger and Gerhard Wendland .

In 1960 Godehard Lietzow went to Berlin and continued his art studies at what was then the University of Fine Arts (HdK, now UdK ) with Fred Thieler . At the same time he took German studies at the Free University. He had been very interested in literature since the mid-1950s. The talent for formulating and writing led Lietzow to write texts and reviews about art (exhibitions) and films in Berlin daily newspapers ( Der Kurier , Telegraf , Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt ) as well as on the SFB , RIAS , Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle from 1963 ( Berlinale ). In 1967 he met his future partner.

An outpatient art trade that had been in operation since 1969 led to the establishment of the Lietzow Gallery in 1970. His own artistic activity had been inactive since the beginning of the journalistic period. Lietzow had created a forum where he could find talented and at that time largely unknown artists such as B. Peter Ackermann , Louis Caballero, Heinrich Richter , Hermann Schenkel and Holger Bunk sponsored and presented their works to the public with exhibitions.

During this time he also wrote numerous texts on the works of the artists, which were published in the gallery's catalogs, and later also texts about his own work.

The Stranded Coast , 1973, ink / pen and watercolor on paper, 16.4 × 23.8 cm

In 1973 he took up the thread of his own painting and drawing again, in addition to the gallery activity, which he gave up in 1979 and since then has lived exclusively as a freelance artist. First, small-format drawings were created, a symbiosis of watercolor and ink drawing, from which the directions of painting and drawing then developed independently. His preferred technique in painting was watercolor, which then became the basis of his acceptance as a painter. Lietzow's search for further possibilities of expression then led him - in addition to the drawings, which were always created parallel to painting - to the photo. In a very intense phase he captured pictures with his camera, which he then called light pictures - "pictures of light and color". Another technique piqued his interest - the collage (which he called sticky pictures). In 2005, around 300 works were created in exclusively postcard-sized formats. It should be his last work.

In all phases of his life, however, he continuously and privately cultivated his love for poetry and prose. From the early 1950s until shortly before his death, he put numerous poems and stories on paper.

Godehard Lietzow died on August 6, 2006 in Berlin.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Untitled (standing figure) , 1987, ink / brush, 30 × 20.5 cm
  • 1979 Drawings, watercolors 1977-79 , Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin (catalog and poster)
  • 1980 New Aquarelle , Galerie Lietzow, Berlin (together with Dale Chihuly / USA)
  • 1982 New drawings 1980-82 , Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin (poster)
  • 1983 Watercolors , Rainer Wehr Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1985 watercolors and drawings , Galerie am Eichenwald, Erlangen (together with Oskar Koller)
  • 1988 Lietzow bei Lietzow , drawings and washes, Galerie Lietzow, Berlin
  • 1990 watercolors 1977-1989 , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin (catalog); Watercolors , Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn (poster)
  • 1991 Night and Fire , watercolors, House of Culture and Education, exhibition hall, Neubrandenburg (poster)
  • 1992 Farbwasserfelder , Kunstverein Pforzheim (poster); Watercolors , Municipal Gallery of Fauler Pelz, Überlingen (poster); Aquarelle , C-Line Gallery, Kuta / Bali (together with Henning Kürschner) (poster)
  • 1993 watercolors , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin
  • 1994–95 elements , watercolors, Romano Guardini Foundation, Berlin
  • 1995 Body fields and clear water , watercolors and gouaches 1992–95, Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin
  • 1996 Fire, water, body fields, watercolors and gouaches 1992–96, ARTFORUM Gallery, Thessaloniki
  • 1997 Lietzow 60 , watercolors, gouaches, drawings; Studio Pels-Leusden, Berlin
  • 2002 fire, water, body fields , watercolors and gouaches, Künstlerhaus Göttingen
  • 2003 Vibrations - Pictures, Color Light Pictures, Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin

Group exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

Night and Fire X , 1990, watercolor, 70 × 96 cm
  • 1960 Bornholm , Brusberg Gallery , Hanover
  • 1982 Accrochage , Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin
  • 1983 Color fields , Uertingen town hall
  • 1984 ARCO 84 , International Art Fair Madrid, Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart; ART COLOGNE , Int. Cologne Art Fair, Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin; Six Berliners , Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin; Bilder der Nacht , Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin;
  • 1985 Masculine / Feminine , Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin; 5 years at Galerie Rainer Wehr , Stuttgart; Aquarelle (together with Anke Holfeld and Oskar Koller), Galerie Lietzow, Berlin
  • 1988 Large art exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf; Accrochage , Galerie Ingrid Mensendiek, Düsseldorf
  • 1989 in honor of Eberhard Roters , Museum Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; The head - or: The argument begins in the head , Galerie Wiegand, Cologne; Leaf art , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin; ART BASEL , 20th Int. Art fair Basel, Galerie Wiegand, Cologne; Small formats , Gardy Wiechern Gallery, Hamburg; Final line , Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin; Graphic 1989 , Taborpresse, Berlin;
  • 1990 The Head , Bäumler Gallery, Regensburg; Deutscher Künstlerbund , 38th annual exhibition, Berlin (Staatl.Kunsthalle); Large art exhibition North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf; Small works , Galerie Lietzow, Berlin
  • 1991 Black and white in space - color in space , Darmstädter Sezession, 27th exhibition, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt; New pictures and graphics , Gardy Wiechern Gallery, Hamburg; "Aquarelle", Galerie Lietzow, Berlin
  • 1992 color gold - decor, symbol, allegory , house on Lützowplatz , Berlin; Fire, water, earth, air , Die Halle, Schering AG, Berlin
  • 1993 Still pictures, screens, picture objects, art objects , Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin
  • 1995 20 years Galerie Moderne , Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn; Dix auction exhibition , Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Works on paper: Rot , Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
Blue slope, sliding , 1994, watercolor, 12 × 15.5 cm
  • 1996 Review - Preview , Documentation I, Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin; I see something that you don't see , auction exhibition, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 1997 A big world in a small way , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin; art on cards , Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin
  • 1998 Auslese - Gleaning , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin
  • 2000 Gleanings , Galerie Wewerka, Berlin
  • 2001 art à la carte , Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin
  • 2003 art pieces , Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin
  • 2004 With the rainbow and also without ... , Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin; Review - Outlook , Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin

Works in public collections (selection)

Godehard Lietzow's works are represented in numerous museums and public collections, such as B. in the Artothek of the New Berlin Art Association, Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, the collection of the company Schering AG., Berlin, in the European Bread Museum, Ebergötzen, in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, Hanover, im Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg and in the Graphothek, Stuttgart.

bibliography

  • Various articles in the catalog Godehard Lietzow - drawings and watercolors 1977-79 , Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin
  • Black and white painting , in the catalog of the Darmstadt Secession, black and white in the area - color in the space , Darmstadt, 1991; Color gold , in color gold , Nicolai-Verlag, Berlin, 1992; ISBN 3-89479-007-5
  • Fire - water - body fields , text for the exhibition Godehard Lietzow, "Fire - water - body fields , Künstlerhaus Göttingen, 2002
  • Vibrations - pictures, colored light pictures, text for the exhibition Lietzow, vibrations - pictures, colored light pictures , Galerie Hartmann & Noé, Berlin, 2003

literature

  • Horst Haack and Brigitte Wersche: Watercolor painting as art and hobby , Falkenverlag, Niedernhausen, 1983; ISBN 978-3-8068-4147-3
  • Heinz Ohff : The Structure of Silence , in the catalog Godehard Lietzow - Aquarelle 1977–1989, Galerie Ludwig Lange, Berlin, 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Lietzow, Godehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2006
Place of death Berlin