Lothar Böhme

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Lothar Böhme (born July 26, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German painter . He is assigned to the Berlin School . Boehme's motifs focus on the nude, still life and head. His pictorial figures achieve their impressiveness through strict form reduction.

life and work

Böhme completed an apprenticeship as a decorator from 1954 to 1956 and studied trade fair design until 1961 in the master school for arts and crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Günter Scherbarth and Heinz Weißbrich . The construction of the Berlin Wall forced him to quit his studies and he set up a studio in Berlin-Pankow , the eastern part of the city, and lived as a freelance painter. 1964 marriage to the painter Christa Krefft. Since 1965 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists . From 1976 to 1990 he headed a circle for autodidacts at the Otto-Nagel-Haus of the Staatliche Museen Berlin and was thus an important sponsor of young artists in the GDR . In 1988 he took part in the Venice Biennale . Böhme has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 1994.

Böhme was married to the painter Christa Böhme .

reception

“ Lothar Böhme sticks to the canon of his lonely figure. His concentrated painting on the individual figure continues. But the motif of the female nude is increasingly abandoned in favor of the elementary definition of painting: volume - surface - space. The original act of painting has become more important. The uncompromising painting of Lothar Böhmes, which always stayed away from ideological distortions, today neither has to stand up nor “turn”, it is simply there and in its painterly compactness stands in the room as a vital fact. From the time tunnel of the years, the painter ... lets his long, pent-up, dark creatures step into the public eye with concentrated force "

Honors

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

Portraits

Movie:

  • Visit of the studio of Lothar Böhme (Germany 2008). Director: Norbert Wartig (* 1973). Production: LNW FILM

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gallery Pankow: Lothar Böhme - painting. With contribution by Roland März , October 15, 2008, accessed on June 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The art historian Roland März after https://galerie-pankow.de/2008/10/15/lothar-boehme-malerei/
  3. ↑ https://galerie-pankow.de/2008/10/15/lothar-boehme-malerei
  4. ↑ http://www.galerieparterre.de/ausstellung.php?id=22
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin