Jörg Scherkamp

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Jörg Scherkamp (born March 31, 1935 in Ravensburg ; † February 27, 1983 in Augsburg ) was a German painter, graphic artist and poet.

Life

Jörg Scherkamp was born in Ravensburg. He went to school there until, at the end of the Second World War in 1945, he and his mother moved to Mittelberg in the Kleiner Walsertal. In Mittelberg he finished his school education. In 1952 the family moved to Augsburg-Pfersee. Jörg Scherkamp completed an apprenticeship as a book printer and then worked in this profession. In 1962 he started his own business as a painter and graphic artist in Augsburg.

In 1965 he received the art award of the city of Augsburg and in 1966 the art award of the district council of Swabia.

The Augsburg painter and graphic artist Carlo Schellemann was the greatest help in developing his own artistic concept for Scherkamp .

Scherkamp was a member of the artist group tendenzen and in the editorial collective of the art magazine of the same name in Munich. In Augsburg he was involved in the professional association of visual artists. In addition, Scherkamp was a member and temporarily chairman of the graphic work group founded in Wuppertal in 1970, in which politically left-wing artists came together.

Jörg Scherkamp was married twice; from the marriages had four sons. In 1983 he died of a heart attack at the age of 47.

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Scherkamp has created numerous pictures, folders and book illustrations. Scherkamp has provided illustrations for works by the Augsburg playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht , e . B. The Schneider von Ulm , a linocut based on Brecht's poem, which Scherkamp created around 1968. Augsburg's old town motifs also appear again and again in Scherkamp's work. He has a split relationship with the Fugger city of Augsburg with its contradictions, the idyllic and leisurely backward-looking and the technical-industrial world city claim. Scherkamp and other politically left-wing activists protested against the official city boycotts that continued into the 1970s to honor the work and life of Bertolt Brecht, who came from Augsburg. These concrete disputes shaped Scherkamp's political life and repeatedly made him intervene directly with his work.

The anti-fascist artist oriented his artistic work early on to the greats of classical modernism. He adopted cubist elements in his visual language, experimented with shapes and colors - however, dealing with shape and color alone was not enough for him. Scherkamp included historical and political issues in his pictures early on, illustrated prose and poetry by committed authors, and worked on past and present with a pen, knife and brush. In addition, there were leaflets, painted display boards, linocuts against professional bans and against rockets from his studio.

Scherkamp was represented at many exhibitions in Germany, the GDR, the Netherlands, Austria and Italy. He was a time-critical artist who was politically active. Scherkamp's realism mostly referred to concrete social circumstances, but his pictures and texts were anything but flat naturalistic reflections of adverse realities, garnished with appeals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home / Jörg Scherkamp. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jörg Kamp - an artist in Augsburg. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
  3. ^ City of Augsburg. Retrieved February 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jörg Scherkamp. Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Peace Atelier . Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Scherkamp, ​​Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1983
Place of death augsburg