Peter Albert (painter)

Karl Peter Albert (born July 15, 1936 in Dresden ) is a German architect , painter and graphic artist .

Life

From 1950 onwards, Albert took drawing lessons from Etha Richter for several years as a teenager ; Paul Wilhelm instructed him in the art of watercolor painting , both techniques remained his artistic passions.

After graduating from the Kreuzschule , Albert studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden from 1954 to 1960 under Horst Schubert , Heinrich Rettig , Oswin Hempel and Walter Hentschel , supported by Röcke in the art of freehand drawing and watercolor sketches. After completing his studies as a graduate engineer, he taught for five years as an assistant to Georg Nerlich and Ernst Alfred Mühler in the subjects of painting and graphics in the architecture department.

He later worked as an architect in Dresden until 2005, after which he continued as a visual artist. Albert has been married to the architect Reingard Albert (née Frönicke) since 1966. In April 2019, he donated 37 gouaches and oil paintings to the Technical University of Dresden, which were exhibited in the Rector's Office on Mommsenstrasse from June 12, 2019. Albert is an honorary member of the Künstlerbund Dresden.

Work (selection)

Architecture
From 1965 he and Dieter Schölzel helped set up the branch of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Buildings (theaters, museums, libraries and cultural centers), in Dresden he concentrated on the reconstruction of the Semperoper . Further tasks up to 1995 were planning the reconstruction and use of the Dresden Palace , the Sempergalerie and the Elbschlösser , as well as after the success of the competition for the Taschenbergpalais , the development plan of the Elbe slope in Dresden-Loschwitz.

He also took part in national architectural competitions , e.g. B. for the Theater Erfurt , the Schauspielhaus Dresden , the Keppschloss Dresden, and in international architecture competitions, z. B. for the opera houses in Belgrade, Gothenburg and Paris and the National Library in Damascus. He participated in a joint competition design with the architects Horst Witter and Gunter Just for the planning of the Baghdad Congress Center.

From 1995 to 2005 he worked freelance with the architects Dieter Schölzel and Dieter Seidlitz. Albert was in charge of the renovation and interior renovation of the Dresden Kreuzkirche .

Graphics, watercolors, paintings
Peter Albert has been creating pen and pencil drawings of journeys in drawing books since 1955 , as well as more than a thousand watercolors created on site, primarily of landscapes and architecture from Italy, Portugal, France, Finland, Prague, the Meissen region, the Elbe, the island of Rügen and Saxon Switzerland. Between 1962 and 1963 he created his first geometric-constructive paintings in oil, which have shaped his artistic work ever since. Large-format geometric works followed in 1963, of which around 400 have been oil paintings to date.

Works by Peter Albert can be found in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Galerie Neue Meister and in the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden ), in the Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony , in the Städtische Galerie Dresden , in the collections of the Technical University of Dresden , in the Foundation for Concrete Art Roland Phleps in Freiburg (Breisgau) and in private collections.

Exhibitions

• 1979–2013: Solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, churches and castles in the Dresden, Jena, Meißen area, in Halle (Saale), Rostock, Coswig
• 2011: Color experience , Roland Phleps Foundation for Concrete Art in Freiburg (Breisgau)
• September 1, 2011: Exhibition "Color Experiences" in the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf
• 2012: Solo exhibition in the main building (later AGORA) of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg
• March 28, 2015 to November 1, 2015 News on the heights in the Königstein Fortress
• October 10, 2015 to January 24, 2016: You have to see it! Municipal Gallery, Dresden
• May 29 to September 28, 2019: undesirable! - East German abstraction from the 50s to 80s - from Peter Albert to Willy Wolff in the art exhibition Kühl

literature

• Peter Albert, Reingard Albert, Wolfgang Holler: Peter Albert - paintings from the years 1964 to 2008 . Self-published, Dresden 2009, OCLC 699205480 .

Web links

• Biography peter-albert.com
• Peter Albert Short biography stiftung-konkrete-kunst.de
• Directory of exhibitions bildatlas-ddr-kunst.de
• Albert, Peter (painting) private-kuenstlernachlaesse-brandenburg.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Albert donated 37 oil paintings and gouaches to the Technical University of Dresden. In: Dresdner Latest News. pressreader.com, July 20, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ List of members - Künstlerbund Dresden eV kuenstlerbund-dresden.de, accessed on March 8, 2020 . 
3. ^ Fritz Löffler : Speech for the opening of the Peter Albert exhibition in the Galerie Kühl 1985. In: Sigrid Walther (Ed.): Fritz Löffler (1899–1988). A life for art and monument preservation in Dresden. (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from September 12 to October 31, 1999 at Kunst Haus Dresden ) M. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 1999.
4. ^ Jürgen Schieferdecker in: Dresdner Latest News. August 3, 2001 (review of the exhibition in Pulsnitz Castle)
5. ↑ exhibitions. peter-albert.com, accessed March 8, 2020 . 
6. ↑ H.-U. Lehmann in: Dresdner Latest News. July 2, 2003 (text on the exhibition in the Galerie Kühl )
7. ↑ G. Ziller in: Dresdner Latest News from May 21, 2006 (text on the exhibition in the Galerie am Blauen Wunder)
8. ↑ Jens-Uwe summer shoe in: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 13./14. January 2007 (review of the exhibition in the gallery in the Ständehaus)
9. ↑ Address by Roland Phleps at the opening of Peter Albert's exhibition “Color Experience” stiftung-konkrete-kunst.de (held on May 22, 2011 in the sculpture hall of the Foundation for Concrete Art in Freiburg).
10. ↑ Exhibition “Color Experiences”. hzdr.de, accessed on March 8, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Albert, Peter werkdatenbank.de (artist record wdb_00000003).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Albert - work documentation. Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen eV, accessed on March 8, 2020 . 
13. ↑ undesirable! Art Exhibition Kühl, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 .