Joachim John

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Joachim John, Berlin 1965

Joachim John (born January 20, 1933 in Tetschen , Czechoslovakia ; † March 26, 2018 in Neu Frauenmark ) was a German painter , graphic artist and author .

Life

John's family had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 and went to school in Köthen . The parents moved to Zerbst in 1948 , where the father fled to West Germany in 1951 after an argument with the mayor and the family from the GDR . Joachim John returned to the GDR after a short time and lived with his grandmother in Zerbst. After graduating from high school in 1952, he trained as a chemical worker. After the authorities refused to travel to West Germany for the funeral of their father in 1953, John and his grandmother left the GDR illegally. John lived for a year on auxiliary and casual work with his mother in Kleve , but returned to the GDR in 1954. He then lived in Dresden-Loschwitz , worked at the State Operetta House as a prop master and completed a four-month course at the Leipzig Theater Academy . In 1955 he began studying art education at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald .

In 1959 John broke off his studies and moved to Zempin on the island of Usedom . In 1961 Fritz Cremer arranged for him to take part in the exhibition “Young Artists - Painting” at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , where he became a master student of Hans Theo Richter in 1963 . In the spring of 1965 he had his first exhibition in the art gallery of the Institute for Teacher Training in Berlin-Weißensee . During a three-month study tour through the Soviet Union , John visited the major museums in Moscow and Leningrad and traveled through the Caucasus .

From 1966 Joachim John lived as a freelance artist in Berlin. In 1977 he moved to Frauenmark near Schwerin . In 1982 he was given a study trip to Colombia , in 1986 he became a member of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR and in 1990 took over a visiting professorship in the visual communication department at the Kassel University . From 1991 to 1993 John was secretary of the visual arts section of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (East) and a member of the Twentieth Committee appointed by Heiner Müller , which shaped the process of unifying the two Berlin academies of the arts.

Joachim John was a member of the United Academy of Arts Berlin . He died in March 2018 at the age of 85 after a brief illness.

Awards

Works

  • Numerous solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad
  • 1989: Panorama (100 m²) for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution in the Schwerin State Theater
  • 1993: Panorama Metamorphoses in Germany (80 m²) in the Cottbus State Theater

Literature (selection):

  • Colombiana , 1991
  • The parlor rider with illustrations by the author, federchen Verlag, Neubrandenburg 2000
  • Zoo , 2003
  • Kuckuck , Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle (Saale) ISBN 978-3-86237-728-2 , special edition with original graphics by Joachim John, 2012

Radio plays:

  • Shock! , 1999
  • Gloomfish , 2000
  • Get Up , 2000
  • Fare well , 2000

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Kankel: “I wasn't looking for myself” . svz.de , March 29, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Draftsman Joachim John died . dpa message on sueddeutsche.de , March 29, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 . .
  3. ^ The 1984 Art Prize Winners , In: Neues Deutschland , May 26, 1984, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME John, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Děčín
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2018
Place of death New Frauenmark