Manfred Bockelmann

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Manfred Bockelmann (born July 1, 1943 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian painter and photographer .

Life

family

Ottmanach Castle

Bockelmann's mother Käthe, b. Arp (1908–1989) came from Prasdorf . His father Rudolf (1904–1984) was born as the son of the German bank director Heinrich Bockelmann in Moscow and after the outbreak of World War I fled with his parents to Sweden, which was then neutral . After the war, his parents settled in Ottmanach Castle on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia , which the grandfather had given to his five sons. Bockelmann's maternal uncle was the Dadaist Hans Arp . An uncle on his father's side, Werner Bockelmann ( SPD ), was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main from 1957 to 1964 . Another uncle, Gert Bockelmann, lived on Gut Barendorf near Lüneburg, which now houses a folk high school, and was mayor there from 1964 to 1975. Uncle Erwin Bockelmann was a mechanical engineer and manager in the mineral oil industry.

Manfred Bockelmann's brother was the singer Udo Juergens . Bockelmann designed some record covers for him and finally his grave monument. Jürgens wrote the song My Brother is a Painter in his honor . Bockelmann was appointed executor of Juergens 'estate, but was dismissed after an objection by Juergens' youngest daughter Gloria Burda.

Career

Manfred Bockelmann studied fresco , photography and graphics in Graz from 1962 to 1966 . In 1966 he moved to Munich and earned his living in the field of photography and commercial graphics for the first few years. His travels as a press photographer took him to Madrid , Istanbul , Tunis and London . Since the early 1970s, he has appeared with increasing success as a painter and photographer through exhibitions and book publications. In 1974, on a three-month safari through East Africa, he got the decisive inspiration for his “Painting of Silence”, a synthesis between painted and photographed landscapes.

Bockelmann was married to the actress and daughter Hardy Krügers , Christiane Krüger , and they had a son. He now lives and works with his second wife Maria, with whom he also has a daughter, on what was once his parents' farm in Carinthia .

Drawing against oblivion

For more than ten years, Bockelmann has dedicated himself to “drawing against oblivion”. This series of works shows large-format portraits, all charcoal drawings, of children and young people who were victims of the Nazi terror. The artist Manfred Bockelmann wants to set "signs against forgetting". His aim is "to give faces to at least a few names and numbers, to lift a few people out of the anonymity of the statistics".

Awards

literature

  • Manfred Bockelmann, Albert Graf-Bourquin: Manfred Bockelmann. Painting of silence. Neufeld Verlag & Galerie, Lustenau 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barendorf. Politics economy. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .
  2. ^ Manfred Bockelmann at ORF in Vienna
  3. ↑ Last will, quiet anger . In: News . No.  38 , September 19, 2015, ZDB -ID 2152216-9 , p. 110-115 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Bockelmann at artnet
  5. ↑ Giving memory a face or regaining human dignity. Open House Oberwart , March 1, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Bockelmann: Drawing against forgetting. Leopold Museum , accessed on December 14, 2015 (May 17 to September 2, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Bockelmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt