Klaus Meyer-Gasters

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The Frankfurt artist Klaus Meyer-Gasters, recorded in 2013

Klaus Meyer-Gasters (born May 15, 1925 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † November 25, 2016 in Steinau an der Straße ) was a German press illustrator , watercolorist , painter and publisher . He founded the Meyer-Gasters Bildverlag.

Life

Klaus Meyer-Gasters grew up in Ludwigshafen. After the early death of his father (1937), the architect Arthur Meyer-Gasters , he moved to Frankfurt am Main with his mother Hildegard and their two sisters in 1938 . There he attended the drawing school until 1943 . From 1943 to 1945 he was a soldier in World War II . As a schoolboy he drew character studies of teachers and friends.

From 1946 to 1949 Meyer-Gasters worked as a press illustrator for the Frankfurter Neue Presse . He produced in 1946 among others at the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals Court drawings , but also portrayed people in the Frankfurt daily life. At the same time he attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 1946/47 and in 1947/48 the class of Otto Pankok, ostracized by the National Socialists, at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1949 he worked as a freelance painter and draftsman, including for the BASF company magazine .

From 1963 to 1967 Meyer-Gasters portrayed personalities from the Rhine-Main area as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the weekly column “Frankfurter Faces” , he made theater sketches and illustrated reports. From 1961 onwards, Meyer-Gasters also became known nationwide as a designer of large-format watercolor calendars with motifs of plants, animals, cities and landscapes. Widespread reached particularly since 1965 by pharmacies usually issued free "pharmacies calendar" of the company Stada with medicinal plants and animal watercolors by Klaus Meyer-Gasters. In 1975 he founded the publishing house Gasters und Marien and from then on relocated the production and distribution of pharmacy calendars to his own family business. According to the publisher, almost 90 million pharmacy calendars had been produced by the turn of the year 2017/18.

In 1999, Cornelia Vilzmann, the artist's daughter, re -founded Meyer-Gasters Bildverlag and thus took over the full management of the publishing house. Since then, together with his granddaughter Jana, she has been taking care of the Wiesbaden-Erbenheim-based family business and the new gallery and publishing rooms with her father's original works of art. By making an appointment in advance, visitors can visit the permanent exhibition at any time and discover watercolors, oil paintings and sketches by the painter from the past 70 years on almost 400 m² of exhibition space.

On November 25, 2016, Klaus Meyer-Gasters died at the age of 91 after a short illness in his house near Steinau an der Strasse ; his wife Jutta died in 2013 after more than 64 years of marriage. The couple left two daughters.

Works

  • Medicinal plants from all over the world. Meyer-Gasters Bildverlag, Hofheim Taunus 2008
  • Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the 70th birthday of K. Meyer-Gasters. Klaus Meyer-Gasters, Frankfurt 1995
  • Watercolors and drawings. Verlag Gasters and Marien, Kronberg 1985
  • European medicinal plants. Watercolors by Klaus Meyer-Gasters. Publishing house Gasters and Marien, Königstein 1974
  • Humans and animals. Weisbecker publishing house, Frankfurt 1970
  • Sketches. Klaus Meyer-Gasters, Frankfurt 1950
  • Sketches under the school desk. Klaus Meyer-Gasters, Frankfurt 1943

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1968 participant in the exhibition Motive 1968 Frankfurt painters and sculptors in the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt-Höchst.
  • 1985 Participant in the exhibition Works by Frankfurt Artists in Beijing, China.
  • 1995 Large 4-week sales exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday in the private studio in Frankfurt-Bockenheim. Large color catalog accompanying the exhibition, ed. by Klaus Meyer-Gasters, Frankfurt 1995.
  • 2005 Large 8-week sales exhibition on the occasion of the 80th birthday, in the private studio in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.
  • 2006 works in a golden frame. Exhibition in the Ahrensburg gallery in the Arthouse, May 20 to June 3, 2006, in Hamburg.
  • 2007 Exhibition at the Hypovereinsbank from April 2nd to May 4th 2007, in Frankfurt a. M.
  • 2010 represented with loans in the art dealer JP Schneider, in Frankfurt a. M.
  • 2010 Klaus Meyer-Gasters - A retrospective for the 85th birthday. Exhibition in the Brothers Grimm House , November 14, 2010 to February 27, 2011. Illustrated booklet, ed. by Burkhard Kling, Steinau 2010.
  • 2011 Represented in the anniversary exhibition of the Art Tiberius Gallery July 2011, in Frankfurt a. M.
  • 2013 Large sales exhibition in the gallery of Meyer-Gasters Bildverlag, May to June 2013, in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim.
  • 2015 Participant of the Kunst Messe Frankfurt 15 as Galerie Vilzmann, January 30th to February 2nd, 2015, in Frankfurt a. M.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note by Meyer-Gasters-Bildverlag in the pharmacy calendar for 2018
  2. ↑ meyer-gasters.de Website of the Meyer-Gasters Bildverlag
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Gasters, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German press illustrator, watercolorist, painter and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2016
Place of death Steinau an der Straße