Joachim Albrecht (artist)
Joachim Albrecht (born September 5, 1913 in Kolberg , † April 9, 1997 in Hamburg ) was a German artist and an important representative of constructive art .
Life
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From 1931 to 1934 he traveled to Amsterdam , Stockholm , Prague , Vienna , Italy and France . He studied at the Königsberg Art College . He served as a soldier in World War II and was taken prisoner of war from 1945 to 1947.
In 1953 he made his first screen prints ; In 1957 he became a member of the German Association of Artists .
He is considered one of the most prominent artists in the concrete-constructive direction in the second half of the last century. Under the influence of Auguste Herbin and Victor Vasarely , Albrecht developed his style in the early 1960s, which discovered the surface as an independent space. As a member of the “new group hamburg” around Willy Breest , he received the Edwin Scharff Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 1964 .
From 1966 Joachim Albrecht was a professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Here he promoted artists of all styles. Joachim Albrecht thus had a decisive influence on artists such as Max Hermann Mahlmann , Winfried Gaul and Timm Ulrichs .
Joachim Albrecht was buried in the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf in grid square Q 26 (north of the water tower across from the Trumm mausoleum ). The grave sculpture made of light-reflecting metal rods was created by the artist himself.
His artistic and private estate is now being kept in Berlin by his niece Gisela Albrecht-Meissner.
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| SURNAME | Albrecht, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1997 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |