Peter Ackermann

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Peter Ackermann (1975)

Peter Ackermann (born January 31, 1934 in Jena ; † February 20, 2007 in Cortona-Valecchie ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He became known for his alienation of architectural subjects .

biography

Ackermann moved to West Berlin in 1949. After graduating from high school in 1953, he began studying theater, philosophy and German at the Free University of Berlin in 1954 . From 1956 to 1962 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Georg Kinzer (1896–1983), among others. As a member of the New Group , Ackermann took part in the Great Art Exhibition in Munich as early as 1963 . After 1963, Ackermann initially worked as a freelance painter in Karlsruhe . In 1965 he received the German Critics' Prize , the Villa Romana Prize in 1971 and the Darmstadt City Art Prize in 1976 .

Ackermann was a visiting professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1972/73 and professor at the Berlin University of Fine Arts in 1976/77. In 1977 he moved to the Karlsruhe Academy as a professor. To mark his departure, an exhibition was held in Karlsruhe in 1997. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a double exhibition took place in 2004 in the Landesmuseum Mainz (drawings, prints) and in the Dagmar Rehberg gallery in Mainz (oil paintings, watercolors).

Ackermann was a representative of fantastic realism . The preferred subject of his work was classic Italian architecture, which he drew on site. So he put together columns, portals and walls with machine parts, ruins and deserted parts of the city, which were piled up threateningly and thus alienated. In his etchings he was based on the techniques of the old masters , and his conception of images is compared with that of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Canaletto . His drawings Nach Canaletto II and Nach Canaletto IV (each pencil and ink on paper, 42 × 53 cm) were shown at Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 .

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Robert Darmstädter: Reclams Künstlerlexikon , Stuttgart 1979. ISBN 3-150-10281-2
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982. p. 28 f. ISBN 3761081219

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to an advertisement in the FAZ of March 31, 2007 by companions in the Villa Romana Florence; s. Meckel, Christoph, characteristic miniatures Peter Ackermann
  2. ^ Exhibition signs of decay and fragments ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.karlsruhe.de
  3. ↑ Peter Ackermann on his 70th birthday: Drawings and prints ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Landesmuseum Mainz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesmuseum-mainz.de
  4. ^ Gerhard Ahrens, Katrin Sello : Nachbilder , Kunstverein Hannover, 1979, p. 116
  5. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger (Ed.): Documenta 6, Kassel 1977. P. Dierichs, 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X , p. 16.
  6. ↑ Exhibition catalog 1970: Fig. 1 (Peter Ackermann: Landscape with glass and iron construction , 1970, synthetic resin on canvas, 150 × 140 cm)
  7. ↑ Large Art Exhibition Munich 1963 , Süddeutscher Verlag Munich, official exhibition catalog 1963 (p. 105: Ackermann, Peter, Berlin: catalog no. 498a, view of the remaining city , collage and oil, 93 × 66 cm)
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist, professor in Karlsruhe
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2007
Place of death Cortona-Valecchie