Otto Lackenmacher

Otto Lackenmacher (born May 16, 1927 in Saarbrücken , † November 2, 1988 ) was a German painter.

Life

Otto Lackenmacher attended the Trier art school from 1941 to 1943. From 1944 to 1947 he experienced war and imprisonment and was able to continue his studies from 1947 to 1953 in Saarbrücken, among others with Frans Masereel . His etchings began in 1966 . “ Parias ”, the outcast, is the name of one of the great etching cycles that Lackenmacher created in the early 1970s, another is the “Hommage à Goya ” etched on 36 copper plates . From 1978 Lackenmacher lived in the house at Schloßberg 5, which is now a listed building. He received two grants for stays in Paris and one for Berlin in 1979. From 1979 until his death in 1988 he lived and worked in Saarbrücken and Berlin. In Saarbrücken he ran a shop in the Nauwieser Viertel in which he had set up his studio and offered his works for sale directly.

Exhibitions of his works took place in Saarbrücken, Munich, Münster, Krefeld, Stuttgart, Homburg, Kaiserslautern, Schaffhausen, Heidelberg, Bonn, Hamburg, Paris, Ljubljana, Zurich, Berlin and Sweden.

Works

Against the resistance of his teachers, who taught the constructivist Bauhaus tradition and the abstraction of the École de Paris , he drew prisoners of war, the hungry and the broken. Only Frans Masereel encourages him in his painting. Lackenmacher was a realist, a passionate human painter, because he reacted to reality and represented it. Man and the urban landscape as the living space of his characters are the subject of his pictures. Throughout his life, his art met with rejection, incomprehension or moral indignation. As a person affected, he is committed to the world of the outsider, the unstable and the desperate. Passionate sexuality has become his obsession and ubiquitous image content.

Graphic works

• Kreuzberg 36. Das Haus, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922821-00-6 .
• Old geezer go home. Das Haus, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-922821-05-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Lackenmacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature on Otto Lackenmacher in the Saarland Bibliography
• Otto Lackenmacher on Saarland biographies
• Alfred Werner Maurer : Otto Lackenmacher - a Saarland painter - works, vita, bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charly Lehnert : The Saarland Geheichnis, Volume 1: Stories and glosses . Lehnert Verlag, Bübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-939286-18-9 , Unheimliches am Schlossberg, p. 289-290 .
2. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the state capital of Saarbrücken (PDF file; 1.73 MB)