Peter Engel (painter)
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.
plant
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
- biography
- Current exhibition in Frankfurt am Main
- The man with the tortellini. Article by Katrin Stassig on op-online.de (April 27, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Acquisitions from Peter Engel's studio. In: Aura annual edition 16/17. Historical Museum Frankfurt, p. 44.
- ↑ Peter Engel. Works in the town hall of Neu-Isenburg neu-isenburg.de. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
personal data | |
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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 |