Peter Bömmels

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Peter Bömmels (born November 11, 1951 in Frauenberg ) is a German painter and draftsman. Through his connection to the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit , he is one of the most important representatives of the New Wilds of the 1980s. From 2004 to 2018 he taught at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life

From 1970 to 1976 he studied sociology, politics and education at the University of Cologne . From 1977 to 1980 he worked in a children's shop . Bömmels was one of the co-founders of the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit , which also included Hans Peter Adamski , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Gerard Kever and Gerhard Naschberger . From 1979 onwards, the young artists shared a backyard studio in the “Mülheimer Freiheit” street in Cologne, which leads to the Rhine. In 1980 he co-founded the music magazine Spex . In 1983 he received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for fine arts . In 1986 and 1987 he was visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , from 1990 to 1992 at the then Berlin University of the Arts , in 1996 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and from 2001 to 2002 at the Braunschweig University of Art . From 2004 to 2018 professorship for painting at the HfBK Dresden . In 1993 he received the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting.

As an artist, Bömmels is self-taught . He is known for his drawing pictures on large-format acrylic canvases, which he processes with pastel and wax crayons . In his hair pictures he applied tufts of hair glued together on white canvas. Peter Bömmels is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Solo exhibitions

  • 1982 "Orbis Pictus", Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne
  • 1983 "Pictures that mean the world", Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 1984 “New Works”, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York
  • 1985 “Via Mala Replics”, Buchmann Gallery, Basel
  • 1986 “People Trials”, Onnasch Gallery, Berlin
  • 1987 “Seven stones for the location”, Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne
  • 1991 "Third Nature", Innsbruck Art History Institute
  • 1993 “… not a political artist”, Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
  • 1994 "Drawings / Heads", Galerie Monika Sprüth , Cologne and Galerie Ernst Busche, Berlin
  • 1995 "like yourself" heads / hair / oil, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
  • 1996 “Neuulm ua” travel photos, south station Krefeld; “Mantua u. a “Travel photos, Christian Gögger Gallery, Munich
  • 1999 “Stay hard while softening”, Galerie Almut Gerber; "Secret Offer", Horsens Art Museum
  • 2000 “Badcomplex Installation”, Brussels
  • 2001 "Drawings", Andreas Junge Gallery, Wuppertal
  • 2002 “Sporenklinglers Chance”, Almut Gerber Gallery, Cologne; "Have time" Dany Keller Gallery, Munich
  • 2005 "The slow dances of the Ypsilonists", Gallery Westend, Munich
  • 2006 "Picture bid" Gallery Axel Holm, Ulm
  • 2008 “Thinking is only perfect when a Gamsbart grows”, Galerie Westend, Munich
  • 2011 Peter Bömmels. just and past , Akira Ikeda Gallery , Berlin
  • 2012 "Peter Bömmels. Below the Line", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin
  • 2012 "Peter Bömmels. On'n On", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo

His works are represented in a large number of collections, including that of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where they are exhibited on the twelfth floor of one of the twin towers. In 2003/2004 his work was shown in Obsessive Painting - A Review of the New Wild in Karlsruhe.

Movies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "B" / Peter Bömmels (accessed on February 25, 2016)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bommel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter Der Junge Wilde, draftsman, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenberg (Euskirchen)