Lukas Kramer

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Lukas Kramer

Lukas Kramer (* 1941 in Saarbrücken ) is a German painter.

Life

Lukas Kramer studied painting at the former Werkkunstschule in Trier , then at the Ecole des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg and then at the Istituto di belli arte in Urbino, Italy . He is a member of the Saarland Artists Association and the German Werkbund . He has been on the board of the Saarland Künstlerhaus for years. Kramer lives and works as a freelance artist and art educator in Saarbrücken.

Works

Kramer works in groups of works that he calls “fluid system”, “black-out”, “aggregate”, “jumping”, “raster images”, “column images” or “pulsations”. In his works he permeates the apparent order of things, whereby for him the term “order” in the dialectical sense also implies its antipode “disorder”, i.e. chaos and darkness. His basic colors in the earlier works are accordingly black, gray and brown tones in all shades; again and again, sometimes in bright flashes of color, they are permeated by foggy white tones and thus create unique, irritating and disturbing (un) worlds.

In later works, steel-gray basic colors dominate, interspersed with a few bright flashes of color. Again and again the artist uses harsh and hard-looking neon colors that make his visual worlds appear cold and repellent and yet exert a strange suggestive power on the viewer. “It is difficult for the visitor to escape the gray magic of these images. The consequence of Kramer's pictorial thinking is striking, the magical suggestive power of breaking orders, endangered darkness is frightening and fascinating at the same time, especially in the inevitable pull that his works radiate ”(Michael Jähne in: Künstlerlexikon Saar).

Awards / prizes

Audiovisual media

  • TV film "Blackout" about the night pictures by Lukas Kramer (© Saarländischer Rundfunk, director: Georg Bense , length: 45 minutes)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Galleria Raffaello (Urbino)
  • 1966 Elitzer Gallery (Saarbrücken) / Galleria d'arte contemporanea "Tunnel" (Rome)
  • 1968 Monika Beck Gallery ( Zweibrücken ) / Gellhaus Gallery (Berlin)
  • 1970 Inter Art Gallery (Cologne) / Gallery Schillerhof (Graz)
  • 1971 Gallery Latham (New York)
  • 1972 Galleria Duomo ( Desenzano del Garda )
  • 1976 Divergence Gallery ( Metz )
  • 1977 Gallery in the Zwinger ( St. Wendel )
  • 1981 Weinand-Bessoth Gallery (Saarbrücken)
  • 1984 Eisenwerk Neunkirchen (Saar) : "Night Exhibition"
  • 1986 Art Gallery (Luxembourg)
  • 1987 Kunstblock Gallery (Munich)
  • 1989 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken)
  • 1992 Hoflößnitz Museum ( Radebeul )
  • 1994 Theisen Gallery (Bonn)
  • 1996 City Museum ( St. Wendel )
  • 1998 St. Ingbert Museum
  • 2000 Impomal galerij en Kunstuitleen ( Landgraaf , Netherlands)
  • 2002 Gallery Artec No 1 ( Mannheim )
  • 2003 K4 Gallery (Saarbrücken)
  • 2004 Saarländische Galerie, Palais am Festungsgraben (Berlin)
  • 2005 Tehnthaus ( Jockgrim )
  • 2006 Miejskabwa ( Bydgoszcz , Poland) / Gallery Palais Walderdorff (Trier) / Municipal Gallery ( Neunkirchen (Saar) )
  • 2012 Gallery Schlassgoart (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg)
  • 2014 Museum St. Wendel (double exhibition Lukas Kramer & Anne-Marie Klenes)

literature

  • Lukas Kramer: Blackout, Fluid-System, 1983–1989. Ed .: Meinrad Maria Grewenig. [Exhibition catalog]. Saarbrücken: Saarlandmuseum, 1989. 113 p., With numerous. partly colored.
  • Lukas Kramer: painting, photography. [Catalog to Nachtbilder 1978-82, Blackout 1982-88, FluidSystem 1988-90, Lichtraum 1989]. Cottbus: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1990. 100 p., Numerous. Fig.
  • Lukas Kramer: pulsation. [Exhibition catalog]. Ed .: Stadtmuseum St. Wendel. Dillingen: Krüger, 1996.
  • Lukas Kramer: measuring station. Work 1990–1998. [Exhibition catalog]. St.Ingbert: Museum St.Ingbert, 1998. 64 p., Numerous. Color ill.

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personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken