Peter Becker (painter, 1937)
Peter Becker (born June 30, 1937 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg ; † September 26, 2017 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and author.
Career
After training as a mechanical engineer, he began in 1957 to study at the time still in Berlin-Charlottenburg -based College of Fine and Applied Arts , which he broke 1959th In 1960 he began to work as a commercial artist for DEWAG advertising in Berlin. From 1967 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist, illustrator and author.
In addition to the triptych “War and Peace”, a commissioned work (120 × 500 cm), and the unfinished triptych “Die Stadt” (120 × 300 cm), Peter Becker created poetic, metaphorical oil paintings with mostly fairy-tale subjects. Including numerous cityscapes in which the threatening anonymity and forlornness of today's metropolises have been lifted by the magic of deep love and a defiant optimism. He painted scenes of German fairy tales and used them to illustrate children's books, the attention to detail, simplification and exaggeration, joy of color and humor of which stimulated the imagination and the joy of telling stories. "Frau Holle" was published in 1989 by Quarry Press, Canada .
Peter Becker found writing about the book design. Since around 1980, stories have been created that are fairytale-like, obvious and autobiographical, and found adult and young readers alike. How to Help a Wizard was produced in 1982 for television. In 2007 the story "Katz und Ratz" was created for the graphic series "Am Bodenfenster". In addition, Peter Becker created original commercial graphics such as rummy sets with the themes of opera, drama and operetta for the Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik as well as posters and calendars. All of his works are lovingly bizarre, melancholy and naive.
Works (selection)
- 1981: How to help a magician - text and illustration by Peter Becker, children's book publisher Berlin
- 1983: Brothers Grimm : Sleeping Beauty , Alt-Berliner Verlag
- 1984: Brothers Grimm : Frau Holle , Alt-Berliner Verlag
- 1986: Brothers Grimm : Hansel and Gretel , Alt-Berliner Verlag
- 1992: Brothers Grimm : Snow White , Alt-Berliner Verlag
- 1999: Brothers Grimm : Rotkäppchen , self-published
- 1999: Drachenträume - text and illustration by Peter Becker, Edition Dodo, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ German Academy of Arts in Berlin (ed.): Posters by young artists . Club of cultural workers "Johannes R. Becher" . VEB Graphische Werkstätten, Berlin 1964.
Web links
- Web presence of the artist
- Literature by and about Peter Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 26th September 2017 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Pankow |