Peter Engel (painter)

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Peter Engel (born August 6, 1944 in Birstein ; † July 21, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German artist and teacher at the Städelschule in Frankfurt .

biography

Engel came from a working class family. From 1961 to 1964 he completed an apprenticeship as an offset printer. He then studied at the Städelschule HfBK Frankfurt am Main until 1967 , with Johannes Schreiter , among others . His studies took him to London (1967) and northern England (1968–1970 and 1974).

From 1974 to 1992 Engel worked as a lecturer for painting technique in the basic semesters of the Städelschule. He also taught at the evening school there from 1980 to 1985. From 1980 he had a studio at Arnsburger Straße 76 and showed his works at monthly exhibitions until the end of 1981. In 1982 he bought a house in Creglingen -Freudenbach (Baden-Württemberg). In 2003 his wife Margit Baumgarten-Engel died.

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Engel was a representative of realism . His oeuvre mainly includes paintings (still life of food, portraits) as well as pencil drawings, lithographs, pastels and glass painting . Works by him can be found in the collections of the Museum for Contemporary Glass Painting in Langen and the Historisches Museum Frankfurt .

Works (selection)
  • Roland , oil on chipboard, 1982
  • Tortellini , 174 × 320 cm, casein / oil, nettle on chipboard, 1980/1981, Neu-Isenburg town hall
  • midnightblues , 91 × 123 cm, casein tempera on acid-free cardboard, 2000, City Hall Neu-Isenburg, owned by the City of Neu-Isenburg

Exhibitions with participations (selection)

  • 1971: Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Klaus Lüpke
  • 1973: Frankfurt am Main, Herbert Meyer-Ellinger Gallery
  • 1975: Artistes Francofortois Contemporains, Lyon, Musee des Beaux-Arts; Frankfurt art scene, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 1976: Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Frankfurt am Main, Gallery Volker Huber; Drawings, Frankfurt am Main, gallery by Loe-Parenti-Huber
  • 1977: Cologne, Axiom Gallery; Frankfurt am Main, Herbert Meyer-Ellinger Gallery
  • 1978: Bad Homburg, Dr. Time
  • 1979: Berlin, Galerie Happ; Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Klaus Jäger; Hanau, Schloss Philips Ruh; Rolandseck, Rolandshof Gallery; German Association of Artists, Stuttgart
  • 1980: Vision Reflexion, Frankfurt am Main, Municipal Gallery; Love, documents of our time, Darmstadt, Kunsthalle and Hannover, Kunstverein
  • 1981: Berlin, Galerie Hartwig and Bethke; Stuttgart, Krauss jewelry
  • 1983: Frankfurt am Main, Dresdner Bank; Kronach, art association
  • 1986: Frankfurt am Main, forum-Stadtsparkasse
  • 1987: Friedberg, Kunstverein 1987: Höchst, Castle Museum
  • 1988: Frankfurt am Main, Kunstverein (participation)
  • 1990: Kronberg, Kirschbaum Gallery
  • 1991: Frankfurt am Main, municipal gallery in the canvas house
  • 1992: Brühl, Marienhospital
  • 1996: The Power of Images, Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau
  • 1999: Alsfeld; Darmstadt; Pettensiedel-Forchheim
  • 2000: Museum for contemporary glass painting in Langen ; Johannes Schreiter and contemporaries
  • 2002: Four Centuries of Frankfurt Still Life, Frankfurt am Main, 1822 Forum
  • 2009: Neu-Isenburg, City Gallery 2010: Hanau, Galerie König
  • 2011: Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Schamretta
  • 2013: Hanau, Galerie König; Artists of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft as guests, Steinau an der Straße, Brothers Grimm House
  • 2014: Frankfurt am Main, Das Bilderhaus; Hanau, König Gallery
  • 2018: "Pralle Bilder", Frankfurt am Main, HW Fichter Kunsthandel

literature

  • Peter Engel. Full pictures [catalog for the exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, November 9-15, 2018]. With a detailed art-historical introduction by Dr. Ulrich Pfarr, HW Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main 2018.
  • Michael Böhlitz: Engel, Peter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Böhlitz: Engel, Peter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 15.
  2. ^ Acquisitions from Peter Engel's studio. In: Aura annual edition 16/17. Historical Museum Frankfurt, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Peter Engel. Works in the town hall of Neu-Isenburg neu-isenburg.de. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Birstein
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2014
Place of death Frankfurt am Main