Joachim Boettcher

Joachim Böttcher (born January 24, 1946 in Oberdorla , Thuringia) is a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Joachim Böttcher learned to be a stonemason and from 1967 to 1972 studied painting and graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Herbert Kunze and Gerhard Kettner . From 1980 to 1983 he was a master class student at the GDR Academy of Arts with the sculptor Werner Stötzer . Since that time he started his own sculptural work. Since 1983 he has been living freelance in Berlin, and since 1991 at Stabeshöhe in the Uckermark . In 2000 he had a teaching assignment for sculpture at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee . In 2003 Joachim Böttcher received a scholarship from the Kunstverein Röderhof eV, and in 2007 at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop. In 2010 he received the Brandenburg Art Prize of the MOZ ( Märkische Oderzeitung ) for sculpture, and in 2016 the Honorary Prize of the Prime Minister of Brandenburg for a life's work.

His college friends include a. the painters Rainer Zille and Stefan Plenkers . Joachim Böttcher is the younger brother of the painter Manfred Böttcher .

Exhibitions

Joachim Böttcher has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad since 1975.

Working in collections

Works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including:

• Ahrenshoop Art Museum
• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin, National Gallery , Kupferstichkabinett and collection of drawings
• Ludwig Collection , Aachen
• Art collection in the German Reichstag
• Senate of Berlin
• Art collection of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
• City Museum Berlin Foundation
• Brandenburg art collections , Cottbus
• Victoria Insurance Group , Düsseldorf
• Museum Ludwig , Cologne
• Deutsche Bank art collection , Luxembourg
• Monastery of Our Dear Women , Magdeburg
• Art collection Neubrandenburg
• Art collection of the Sparkasse Uckermark
• Rostock art gallery
• State Museum Schwerin
• Collection Ulrike and Stefan Behrens, German Art of the 20th Century

literature

• Joachim Böttcher - on the way. Published by Galerie Berlin, 2001.
• Joachim Boettcher. Painting. Drawing. Sculpture published by Galerie Berlin and Leonhardi Museum Dresden. MCM Art, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809969-9-0 .
• Joachim Boettcher. Sculpture garden. Works on paper. Edited by Joachim Böttcher, Bernd Heise, Kathleen Krenzlin on the occasion of the exhibition in the Leonhardi Museum Dresden. 2010/2011.

Web links

• official website of Joachim Böttcher
• Literature by and about Joachim Böttcher in the catalog of the German National Library