Hans-Christian Tappe

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Hans-Christian Tappe (born March 26, 1943 in Stralsund ) is a German book illustrator , painter , writer and architect .

biography

Hans-Christian Tappe grew up in Wilhelmshaven as the son of the architect and town planner Ulrich Tappe . He has lived in Berlin since 1967 and studied architecture and painting. He then worked as an architect in Section IVE of the Berlin Senate Administration for Building and Housing. He has been working as a freelance (non-commercial) visual artist since the 1970s. Hans-Christian Tappe resigned from a leading position in the Senate in 2001 and has been active since then primarily as an artist. Since then he has lived and painted with his wife Erika Tappe (1939–2019) in Berlin.

Artistic creation

Hans-Christian Tappe first learned autodidactically, then from Reinhard Stangl, Franz Grabmayr and Peter Herrmann . He travels and so far has exhibited his works in Europe and Russia . His painting is more abstract than that of Erika Tappe, his broad repertoire ranges from oil painting and drawings to abstraction and nudes .

Books

as an illustrator
as an author
  • City splinters . Poems and graphics, Aphaia Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-926677-70-9 .
  • With a yellow pen . Mitlesebuch 138, Aphaia Verlag Berlin 2015.
as an author in anthologies

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