Martin Engelman

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Martin Engelman (born February 22, 1924 in Hoenkoop near Utrecht , Netherlands ; † March 27, 1992 in Munich ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Martin Engelman attended the graphic school in Amsterdam from 1940 to 1942 . When the German occupying forces wanted to force him to do labor, he fled to live with an uncle in Limburg. In 1942 he began an apprenticeship as typesetter in the printing works of the Boosten & Stols publishing house in Maastricht . At the same time he attended the local arts and crafts school for two years and specialized in graphic techniques.

In 1943 Engelman made contact with a group of young humanities scholars who formed around the German writer Wolfgang Frommel . At that time Frommel was in hiding in the Amsterdam apartment Herengracht 401 of the painter Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht . A group of mostly Jewish youth from Germany and the Netherlands hid in this apartment until the end of the Second World War . The group was called Castrum Peregrini . Martin Engelman printed a number of bibliophile books for Castrum Peregrini on a hand press . Another group of Jews hiding in Bergen aan Zee provided Engelman with food. In 1944 he managed to travel to London via Brussels . Engelman volunteered in the Dutch Navy in London and was assigned to the Propaganda Department .

After the end of the war he returned to the Netherlands and worked as a graphic designer for the publishing house Mouton and Stols in The Hague until 1947 . Engelman lived and worked in Milan and Paris in the 1950s and 1960s . Martin Engelman had an important exhibition as a painter for the first time in 1960 at the Giraudoux Gallery in Paris . But he also became internationally known as a commercial artist , designer and exhibition architect. His graphic oeuvre includes lithographs , woodcuts , etchings and aquatints . In his work he dealt with Hieronymus Bosch , Pieter Bruegel and Surrealism . His early pictorial and graphic work is populated by chimeras , wind spirits and non-human-non-animal creatures .

In 1964, three of his paintings were shown at documenta III in Kassel . In 1969 he accepted a one-year scholarship as part of the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin . In 1971 Engelman was appointed professor of free painting at the Berlin University of the Arts . In the 1970s, nature became increasingly important as a source of inspiration for his art. He combined figurative and vegetable elements to create interior landscapes . In 1965 and 1997 Engelman had solo exhibitions of his work at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

"Examples of works from all creative phases of Martin Engelman, including key works of his painterly and graphic work from the late 1950s to a late work from 1990 ..." can be found in the archive for artist bequests of the Art Fund Foundation in Brauweiler.

literature

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Literature by and about Martin Engelman in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Andreas Haus, Heike Catherina Müller (eds.): Martin Engelman: The painterly work 1958–1992 (on the occasion of the exhibition Martin Engelman. The painterly work 1958–1992 , November 30, 2007 - January 27, 2008; Villa Oppenheim, Gallery for Contemporary Art ). Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-87909-920-7
  • Lothar Romain, Heike Catherina Müller (Hrsg.): Catalog raisonné of prints / Martin Engelman . Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-87909-678-3

Web links

Individual evidence

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