Herbert Weitemeier

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Herbert Weitemeier (March 12, 1935 - July 10, 1998 ) was a German painter.

Life

His father showed Weitemeier how to draw. After the war began, he only saw his father when he was on leave from the front. At the age of seven, Weitemeier's daily rhythm was dominated by the bomb alarm. At the end of 1944 he and his brother were brought to Aussig (now Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic) to live with a distant relative. Everything seemed calm there, the aunt was nice, but one day she disappeared. Weitemeier and his brother moved back to Berlin with the influx of refugees and experienced terrible things for six months. Later, Weitemeier had to dream again and again of low-flying planes, dead, beatings and roars. After their escape, they ended up in a home where they were guarded and mistreated by nuns. Nevertheless, the two managed to flee. Weitemeier initially did an apprenticeship as a carpenter, but broke it off. He passed the entrance examination at the art college without having completed high school. Weitemeier studied from 1957 to 1959 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Hans Jaenisch and life drawing with Ernst Schumacher . From 1959 to 1960 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then stayed for twelve years in Vallauris (southern France). Thanks to Traudbert Erbe , Peter Sauernheimer and Weitemeier, the restaurant “ Die kleine Weltlaterne ” on Kohlfurter Strasse in Kreuzberg became an artist's pub in 1961. They suggested hanging their pictures there. If he painted too much, he got into financial hardship and had to pawn his belongings and sit by candlelight in the evening - just so he could buy more paint and canvas. He often painted on large sheets of plywood, which he framed with dark painted strips. He almost exclusively used large picture formats, for which he needed a ladder. He persuaded the landlady of his local pub "Kleine Weltlaterne" to exhibit pictures by him and other painters. This turned into a whole movement, the Kreuzberg bohème.

New way
Herbert Weitemeier , 1981
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120.5 × 100.5 cm

Link to the picture
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From 1972 to 1998 he had a studio and an apartment in Berlin. Weitemeier was a realist, abstract art meant nothing to him.

The retrospective in the Mairie von Vallauris in southern France in 1997 was an important final point for Weitemeier because he could no longer paint for health reasons. He died in Berlin in 1998. His works also include some wall pictures.

Weitemeier belonged to the environment and circle of friends of the Berlin painter-poets .

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1962 "Graphic 62" in the Kreuzberg town hall, Berlin
  • 1971–1986 May 1st Salon in the house on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1972–1973 participation in the Berlin art fair
  • 1973 Large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 1975 Berlin painter and sculptor in Brazil
  • 1978 “Berlin Realists” in the Mayakowski Gallery , Berlin
  • 1979 NBK Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • 1979 Great Orangery, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
  • 1982 “Construction and Decay” house on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1984 Participation in the Otto Nagel Art Prize, Berlin
  • 1985 Berlin painter in Egypt
  • 1985 New acquisitions by the Berlinische Galerie , Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin
  • 1986–1987 Association of Berlin Artists
  • 1987 touring exhibition for the 750th anniversary (Berlin-Vienna-Amsterdam-Nijmwegen-London-Istanbul-Paris-Los Angeles-Zurich)
  • 1987 Birgit Waller Gallery, Bremen
  • 1987 European painting, Brussels
  • 1988 Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
  • 1990–1991 “Fall of the Wall” touring exhibition Riga-Moscow-Tbilisi

Solo exhibitions

  • 1963 Small world lantern
  • 1969 Gallery Kreuzberger Forum, Berlin
  • 1965 Gallery Vernissage, Berlin
  • 1968 Foyer de Jeunesse, Vallauris
  • 1979 Small orangery at Charlottenburg Palace , Berlin
  • 1981, 1983 Galerie Schwarz auf Weiß, Berlin
  • 1982 Artificium Gallery, Berlin
  • 1982 Gallery Art and Form, Berlin
  • 1983 Gallery on the Havelufer, Berlin
  • 1986 Galerie Adlung und Kaiser, Berlin
  • 1987 Gallery in the Gropiusbau , Berlin
  • 1989 Schering Kunstverein, Berlin
  • 1990 Friedrichstädtische Galerie Berlin
  • 1991 Croce Gallery, Rome
  • 1995, 2007 Gallery ZONE F, Berlin
  • 1997 Mairie, Vallauris

Awards

  • 1982 Charlottenburg Art Prize

Publicly owned works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Those who build bunkers also throw bombs - memory of the painter Herbert Weitemeier | Anja Röhl.
  2. ↑ a b c d FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum - 'Sammlung Herbert Weitemeier' [Collection] (museum-digital: berlin). Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Martin Blath: Without the arts, existence would be unbearable . In: Moabit! - The magazine for the island, April 2013 (retrieved from moabitonline.de)
  4. ^ Vita Herbert Weitemeier. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Anke Kuhrmann et al. (Ed.): The Berlin Wall in Art: Fine Arts, Literature and Film . Published by the Berlin Wall Foundation and the Chair for Monument Preservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-652-9
  6. ↑ a b Circle of Friends of Herbert Weitemeier: Herbert Weitemeier 1935-1998. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weitemeier, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1935
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1998