Manfred Beelke

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Manfred Beelke (1986)

Manfred Beelke (born September 27, 1939 in Berlin ; † March 5, 2009 in Genoa ) was a German painter and graphic artist . Beelke left behind over 900 marked works and many graphics.

Life

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In 1957, Beelke wrote his first play When the shadow burns while he was still at school , which was staged with students from the Albrecht Dürer high school in Berlin-Neukölln. In the same year he took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition for the first time . In 1960 he took part in the collective exhibition in the Kreuzberg town hall, where he also met the painter Traudbert Erbe. In the same year he broke off his chemistry studies at the TU Berlin and went to Vallauris in southern France. There he met Pablo Picasso and worked with him.

Under the guidance of Manit Ozère, Beelke made ceramics and exhibited them in the “Galerie France” in Cannes. There he met his future wife Marina Profumo, whom he married in Berlin in 1963. A year later he set up a studio in Kreuzberg, Görlitzer Str. 74. In 1968 he founded the artists' association “Die Rote Nelke West-Berlin”, which he called a “multimedia group” together with Harald Budde . A year later his first child, son Manolo Ernesto, was born. In 1972 Beelke moved his studio into an old factory on Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg. The daughter Melina Colomba was born and four years later the last daughter Masina Paloma.

In 1983 he opened his own gallery in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which was free as an exhibition space for all artists without any conditions: the “Dreigroschen Galerie” and later the “Kunsthalle Kreuzberg”. In 1984 he met the painter NIL Ausländer. Many joint projects emerged. 1989 came the end of the artistic work in the workshop and in Kreuzberg. Beelke began working with the cultural magazine La Parete . He wrote texts for this magazine, partly under the pseudonym Amedeo Salinbocca. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he gave up his apartment, his workshops and the gallery to move to the Mark Brandenburg.

In 1991 he moved to Hagelberg / Klein Glien, a village with around 80 inhabitants near Belzig. In the summer he met the publicist Francesco Moisio in Marghera (Venice). From 2000 to 2002 he worked in Italy: Bologna, Genoa, Savona and Santo Stefano di Belbo. From October 2002 to April 2003 he stayed in the house in Fläming (Mark Brandenburg). The first novel, Last Refuge, was written . A year later he moved to Italy in the countryside (Mignanego near Genoa), where he developed new cycles with a new technique. It was an attempt to portray the human body as a chemical factory. He called it "Art-Art Hole Art". Manfred Beelke died on March 5, 2009 in Fumeri (Genoa).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960: Collective exhibition in the Kreuzberg town hall.
  • 1960: Ceramics exhibition at Galerie France in Cannes.
  • 1962: Solo exhibition in the "Leierkasten" in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
  • 1963 Jury-free art exhibition in Berlin, where he shows his picture, painted in Vallauris, waiting room (200 × 130 cm).
  • 1964: First studio exhibition in Görlitzer Strasse.
  • 1964: Painting and graphics in the Kreuzberg town hall.
  • 1964: Kreuzberg artist in the Kreuzberg city library.
  • 1964: Second studio exhibition with Peter Ehlebracht in Görlitzer Straße.
  • 1967: Collective exhibition of graphics in the Kreuzberg town hall.
  • 1970–1988: Participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition.
  • 1972: Exhibition Ten Years of the Ben Wargin Gallery in Jebenstrasse at the Zoo.
  • 1972: Exhibition Brecht the power of the monopolies in Stuttgart.
  • 1973: Exhibition in the Neue Galerie im Marstall in East Berlin (GDR).
  • 1974: Solo exhibition in the gallery on Savignyplatz, West Berlin. Participation in the realism studio of the NGBK
  • 1975: Large solo exhibition in the Galerie Schnecke in Hamburg: Manfred Beelke - cloud images and other windy phenomena .
  • 1980: Participation in the exhibition 30 Years of BBK in West Berlin.
  • 1983: Solo exhibition Greetings and Thanks from the Bourgeoisie in the Threepenny Gallery.
  • 1984: Solo exhibition We give you our lives .
  • 1984 Publication of Hallucinations - the world of images by the painter Manfred Beelke ; Author collective, Verlag Werkstatt Drucke.
  • 1985: Participation in the BBK exhibition Realism in Osnabrück.
  • 1985: Solo exhibition pain, desire, infamy and no inner enlightenment , in the Dreigroschengalerie in Kreuzberg, West Berlin.
  • 1986: Exhibition Breakfast with NIL Foreigners and reading of own texts in the NIL Gallery in Bleibtreustraße, Charlottenburg, West Berlin.
  • 1987: Retrospective Manfred Beelke - Pictures 1962–1987 , in the Kunsthalle Kreuzberg.
  • 1988: Solo exhibition Cauliflower & Blasphemy , in the Kunsthalle Kreuzberg.
  • 1988: Participation in the project by Ben Wargin We the parliament of chairs or we fell off the branch , in the theater of the Freie Volksbühne, West Berlin.
  • 1988: Solo exhibitions Black Holes and Pictures from Damaged Life .
  • 1989: Exhibition The Drawn I - Self-portraits and portraits of other artists by MB
  • 1997: Exhibition at the “Centro Culturale - Città di Colombo” in Genoa (Italy).
  • 1999: Solo exhibition in the district office in Belzig (October).
  • 2007: Exhibition with his last works from the series of perforated pictures, in Savona.

Bibliography (selection)

  • 1969: Catalog Manfred Beelke Stadtbücherei Kreuzberg, April – May 1969, short listing of the pictures on display, text by HDBudde
  • 1969: Tendenzen, 10 years tendenzen, Damnitz Verlag, Munich, Dec. 1969; Article by Jürgen Beckelmann: Anger makes you precise , pp. 257–260.
  • 1969: Art in Berlin, 1945 until today. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin / Zurich.
  • 1972: Ben Wargin: It has been my wish to have one for a long time, there it is, Manfred Beelke Bilder 1968–71. Catalog, exhibition program in March 1972, Berlin; Pictures p. 11, 21 and a personal brochure.
  • 1973: Dieter Biewald: Berlin artist in conversation with me. Nicolaisch Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1973, text and images
  • 1976: Catalog for the 5th anniversary of the Apex gallery. Weender Buchdruckerei, Göttingen, December 1976; Text and pictures pp. 20–24.
  • 1985: 22 Berlin realists. Catalog of the educational work of the professional association BKB on the occasion of the exhibition in the Dominican Church in Osnabrück, Rasch printing and publishing house, Berlin Nov. 1985. Biography and picture pp. 18-19.
  • 1995: Manfred Beelke, catalogo per esposizione testo in italiano biografia
  • 1997: Franco Cardinale: L'amaro in bocca, poesie edite e inedite con undici disegni di Manfred Beelke. Centro Stampa Cavallermaggiore. (Copertina ed 11 grafiche opertina e 11 grafiche bianco / nero)
  • 2002: Pier Paolo Pasolini, caos - dialogues 1967-1970. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin, graphics for title page
  • 2002: Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Dream of the Centaur, Dialogues 1968–1975. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin. (Graphic for title page)
  • 2003: Cesare Pavese: il mito, la donne e le due Americhe. a cura di A. Catalfamo I quaderini di CE.PA.M (quadro a colore copertina)
  • 2005: Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Beautiful Flags, Dialogues 1960–1965. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin. (Graphic for title page)
  • 2015: Dietmar Bührer: West Berlin artist, 1974–2015. Zeitensprünge, Epubli Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7375-5757-3 .

Web links

Commons : Manfred Beelke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum : Manfred Beelke Collection, accessed on May 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Beelke, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2009
Place of death Fumeri , Genoa