Kai Sudeck
Kai Sudeck (born May 16, 1928 in Lübeck , † October 20, 1995 in Ratzeburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Sudeck was a student at the Katharineum in Lübeck , where he graduated from high school in 1947 after an interruption due to work as an air force helper. During the war he was in danger of going blind due to an eye disease, while recovering he turned to painting and drawing and after school, encouraged by his drawing teacher Hans Peters , began to study art at the State Art School Hamburg. Until 1950 he studied there with Willem Grimm , Erich Hartmann and Karl Kaschak, closely connected with his fellow students Gisela Bührmann , Reinhard Drenkhahn and Lutz Dille in a studio and shared apartment. With these three and Albert Christoph Reck , he attended an art school in Paris in 1950/51. During the subsequent study of art history at the University of Heidelberg in 1951/52 he was encouraged by the art historian Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub to pursue the path of a freelance artist. Atelier in Mannheim and the first restoration practice (including Jakobskirche in Urphar) represent this period. Due to the trip to Paris and the influences of Jean Dubuffet , Jean Fautrier , Henri Michaux and Wols there , he found his own informal and abstract style of painting. In later works Sudeck again turned very strongly to figurative drawing and mixed media.
In 1962 he was appointed professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and worked as such until 1993. Together with Franz Erhard Walther , he was one of the poles of this university in its pre- Goehler time.
His studio was located in Kastorf from 1968 to 1994 , where he and his wife took a long time to renovate the classicist mansion built by architect Joseph Christian Lillie according to plans by architect Christian Frederik Hansen . The gallery owner Michel Hauptmann stood up for him during his lifetime. Sudeck is represented with works in the Kunsthalle Hamburg and in the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck.
Exhibitions
- 1964 Galerie Brechbühl, Switzerland (group exhibition with colleagues from the HfbK Hamburg)
- 1966 Gunar Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1967 Pro Gallery, Bonn
- 1977 Hauptmann Gallery, Hamburg
- 1978 Kunstverein Hamburg (group exhibition with colleagues from the HfbK Hamburg)
- 1979 Kunsthaus Hamburg on the occasion of the award of the Edwin Scharff Prize (cat.)
- 1980 Kunstverein Mannheim
- 1981 Kunstverein Bremerhaven
- 1984 Kunsthalle Bremen (with other Hamburg artists)
- 1986 Overbeck Society Lübeck (cat.)
- 1994 Kunsthalle Hamburg (cat.)
- 1997 Galerie Hauptmann, Hamburg
- 1999 Kunsthalle Hamburg (with, among others, Wunderlich, Drenkhahn, Janssen and Bührmann)
- 2012 Gallery Kammer, Hamburg (cat.)
- 2015 Richard Haizmann Museum Niebüll (cat.)
- 2017 retrospective exhibition on the premises of ABACUS, Hamburg
honors and awards
- 1967 Italy scholarship from the Prussian Academy of Arts
- 1978 Edwin Scharff Prize
literature
- Uwe Haupenthal (Ed.): Northern art. Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century. Neumünster 2003, p. 408.
- The new Rump: Lexicon of Hamburg's visual artists… Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3529027928 .
- Catalog "Bathers" for the 1986 Overbeck Society exhibition
- Catalog Kai Sudeck Hamburger Kunsthalle 1994
- Catalog "The excitement through silence" for the exhibition Galerie Kammer 2012
- Catalog "Traces in the Void" for the exhibition in the Haizman Museum Niebüll 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Kai Sudeck in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sudeck, Kai |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1995 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg |