Peter Engl

Peter Engl (born September 14, 1949 in Nuremberg ) is a German freelance artist (painting, objects, comics, illustrations) and musician.

After an apprenticeship as a cook, he studied at the Nuremberg Art Academy from 1974 to 1980. During this time he was the initiator and operator of the Institute for Aesthetic Limits . Engl has lived in Berlin since 1986.

His art is influenced by pop art and comics , kitsch and advertising. He developed his own style, extensively reducing, figures and direct. In 1987 he received the advancement award of the city of Nuremberg . In the same year, Engl had an illegal exhibition in East Berlin in the Mauerstein gallery and then other exhibitions in well-known galleries and museums in Germany and Switzerland. In the 1980s and 1990s, Engl headed the punk band Vacuum Cleaner and released four LPs and two CDs. He is listed in the AKL Fuhrmann . In 2005 Engl took part in the Blue Night (Nuremberg) with a video installation.

Works

• Comics: from 1986 a. a. Claus-Peter, father-mother, East-West-Dialogue Vol. 1 to III, the German, Rammler-Express (German Czech porn parody Nuremberg 2001) u. a.
• Ceramics: u. a. Contraceptive doses (in the Erotic Museum Berlin)
• Wooden sculptures: (gates, picture frames, lamps)
• Graphics, t-shirts, car seat covers, postcards, murals, jewelry designers,
• In 2003, Engl designed a locomotive for Siemens that now drives his art through Germany.
• Musicians: Founder and leader of the vacuum cleaner group - 4 LPs, 1992 CD Give the East back to the Ossis, (Scandal about publication - on the anti-censorship sampler), CD Snow from Yesterday (2001)

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Engl in the catalog of the German National Library