Jan Peter Tripp

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Jan Peter Tripp (born May 15, 1945 in Oberstdorf im Allgäu ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life and work

Jan Peter Tripp is the son of the painter Franz Josef Tripp and his wife Josefa Tripp. Jan Peter Tripp went to elementary school and high school in Oberstdorf together with the later writer WG Sebald . The two shared a deep friendship until Sebald's death in 2001, and Sebald dedicated the last chapter in his essay volume Logis in a country house to Tripp's painting. Tripp graduated from high school in Oberstdorf in 1965 and then studied for two years at the Free Art School in Stuttgart with Gerd Neisser . From 1967 to 1970 he attended the Stuttgart Academy and studied sculpture with Rudolf Daudert . He then spent two years in painting with Rudolf Hausner . In 1971 he was awarded a study grant in Vienna by the German Academic Exchange Service . In the following year he received another award from the German National Academic Foundation .

After completing his studies, Jan Peter Tripp painted for a month in the Weissenau State Psychiatric Hospital near Ravensburg . The etchings made there made him known nationwide. In 1976 he had numerous commissions as a set designer at the Stuttgart State Theater . In 1979 he wrote the prose work Pantalon ouvert together with the artists Johannes Grützke and Arno Waldschmidt . In 1983 he received a grant from the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede from the Barkenhoff Foundation . As a member of the German Association of Artists , Tripp participated in a total of twenty large annual DKB exhibitions until 1992, including the special exhibition in the Greek National Pinacoteca in Athens in 1984.

Jan Peter Tripp is considered an important German representative of realism . He lives and works as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Mittelbergheim in Alsace . Since 1971 he has exhibited in many galleries and institutions in Germany and abroad.

Works / publications

  • with Johannes Grützke and Arno Waldschmidt: Pantalon ouvert. Dramatic conversations. Merlin, 1979.
  • with Peter Renz (Ed.): The reverse side of things. Images from twelve years. Drumlin, Weingarten 1984.
  • with Max Bense, Ludwig Harig, René N. Ehni and Louis Schittly: January 17th: 30 watercolors of landscapes from Alsace seen on the afternoon of January 17th, 1985 painted in the following autumn & winter. The gallery, Offenbach / Main 1986.
  • The list of difficulties. Reiff, Offenburg 1993.
  • The first ten. With ten original etchings (author portraits) by Jan Peter Tripp and an essay on the graphic books by Herbert Kästner . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2001.
  • Poet - Literary Art Calendar 2003. DuMont, Cologne 2002.
  • with WG Sebald: Untold. Hanser, Munich 2003.
  • Cross-country - in search of Jupp: To the exhibition "Father & Son". Franz Josef Tripp - Jan Peter Tripp . Keicher, Leonberg 2006, ISBN 3-938743-30-1 .
  • Lapland. Cantz, Stuttgart 2007.
  • Ego trip. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2014.
  • with Hans Magnus Enzensberger : Confusion . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Variants - Sequences . Thirty German painters. Special exhibition: National Pinacoteca Athens ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 11, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Kultur-oa.de: The exhibition 33 pairs of eyes (2008) in the Villa Jauss , Oberstdorf i. A.

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personal data
SURNAME Tripp, Jan Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstdorf