Otto Beckmann (painter)

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Otto Beckmann (born September 2, 1945 in Knüppeldamm, today Fincken , Mecklenburg ) is a north German painter , draftsman and graphic artist with a focus on etching .

Life

He grew up in Schleswig-Holstein , where he spent the years 1952–1958 on the island of Föhr and lived in Lübeck - Travemünde from 1958–1966 . In 1966 he graduated from Carl-Jacob-Burckhardt-Gymnasium in Lübeck.

From 1967 to 1970 he studied at the College of Education in Flensburg the specialist art education at basic - primary and secondary schools . After graduating, he joined the school service of the city of Hamburg in 1970 . At this time Otto Beckmann began a lively exhibition activity with his own works of art at home and abroad. In 1971 he moved to the school in Friedrichstadt and at the same time began to rebuild the "Emanuel" mill in Garding / Eiderstedt .

Several trips to Norway followed . In 1975 Otto Beckmann became a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK). He left school in 1985 because his own artistic development could not be combined with teaching at the same time. Since then he has been working as a freelance artist. In 1986 he received a scholarship from the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Culture for a six-month study visit to Italy and from 1988–1989 a one-year work grant at the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg an der Elbe . During this time he developed the technical, handcraft and artistic basis for his large-format etchings.

In 1989 Otto Beckmann founded a studio and a printing workshop in Hamburg . The collaboration with Falko Behrendt and Hans-Ruprecht Leiß began in 1992, resulting in joint exhibitions, folders, catalogs and calendars. 1994–1998 he made several trips to Asia ( Vietnam , Thailand , Laos and Burma ) with his wife Barbara Mannitz . From 1997 to 2017 Otto Beckmann was a member of the Danish-German artists' association Grænselandudstillingen (German: Grenzlandausstellung) in Åbenrå , Denmark.

Otto Beckmann lives and works in Hamburg and Neustadt in Holstein .

Exhibitions

since 1970 numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland, France and Greece

Fonts (selection)

  • Otto Beckmann, Hans-Heinrich Lüth (Ed.): Otto Beckmann . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Husum Schobüll- Halebüll 2015, ISBN 978-3-927212-82-4
  • Otto Beckmann (Ill.), Hans-Heinrich Lüth (Hrsg.): Otto Beckmann, letters to the sea . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Halebüll 2003, ISBN 3-927212-47-4 .
  • Otto Beckmann (Ill.): Meanwhile at the sea . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Halebüll 2001, ISBN 3-927212-38-5 .
  • Otto Beckmann: The Schimmelreiter . Quetsche, Witzwort 1997, ISBN 3-925899-42-1 (Issue B).
  • Barbara Mannitz, Otto Beckmann, Notes in Vietnam . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Halebüll 1995, ISBN 3-927212-21-0
  • Otto Beckmann: Pictures . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Halebüll 1993, ISBN 3-927212-13-X .
  • Otto Beckmann, Joachim Kruse: Etchings . pictus-Verlag, Galerie Lüth, Halebüll 1989, ISBN 3-927212-04-0 .

literature

  • Hiltrud von der Heyde: Lammeslust . Pictus-Verlag, Halebüll 2001, ISBN 3-927212-36-9 .
  • H.-G. Pflughaupt: The graphic artist Otto Beckmann , in: Schleswig-Holstein, Book II, 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website: Otto Beckmann - Vita , accessed on August 31, 2015
  2. ↑ Website: Grænselandudstillingen (Portrait Beckmann) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved August 31, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / graenselandsudstillingen.dk
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Knüppeldamm, today Fincken , Mecklenburg