Peter Gabrian

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The painter (2007) in front of a self-portrait

Peter Gabrian , also Peter K. (= Karl) Gabrian (born May 1, 1922 in Offenbach ; † December 24, 2015 in Bad Bodendorf ) was a German artist . His field of work was mainly painting , his preferred genres were landscape and portrait .

Life

After returning and being severely wounded in the winter war in Finnish Lapland, Gabrian acquired the foundations for an existence as a freelance artist from 1949 to 1951 at the Advertising School of the University of Bonn. From the 1950s to the 1970s, his creative center was the atelier in Holzlar- Heidebergen.

Peter Gabrian had been with the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) since 1960 . As part of this artist organization, he organized international artist meeting seminars in Kuopio in Finland from 1980 to 1984 as head of the delegation , such as the Juho Rissanen summer of visual art. Further international artist workshops followed until 1993, with the focus on German-Finnish cultural exchange and encounters between artists from different European countries.

Gabrian was the father of four children. Most recently he lived and worked in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . In old age he received an “artist pension” from the Federal President for his services to cultural exchange between Germany and Finland .

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Because of his artistic passion for Lapland , which Gabrian realized in countless, partly large-format landscape paintings, Frank Günter Zehnder , the former director of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , called him the painter of the midnight sun .

On May 28, 1993, on the occasion of his exhibition in the Spittelkolonnaden in Berlin, the Ambassador of the Republic of Finland Kai Helenius presented the "Knight's Cross of the Order of the Finnish White Rose" to the Finnish Prime Minister .

In recent years, Gabrian has increasingly devoted himself to the watercolor technique . In his native region, the Eifel, a larger series of pictures was created showing the flowering gorse in spring. He gave it the name "Eifelgold".

Peter Gabrian was also active as a portrait painter . So he painted the politicians Kurt Beck and Andrea Nahles .

Exhibitions (selection)

By 2003, Gabrian had 85 solo exhibitions in Germany, Finland and Poland. He was also involved in around 120 group exhibitions with works.

  • 1978 Helsinki, "Kuvia Lapista - Lapland in Pictures"
  • 1985 Castrop-Rauxel, City Hall Gallery "Lappland"
  • 1986 Varkaus, "4 artists from Bonn"
  • 1990 Alvar Aalto Library, Rovaniemi
  • 1991 Kreishaus Siegburg , "Beyond the Arctic Circle"
  • 1991 Cultural Center Former Synagogue Ahrweiler "Lapland"
  • 1993 Spittelkolonnaden, Berlin, "Midnight Sun"
  • 2002 Höllturm-Galerie, Radolfzell, "A painter sees Lapland"
  • 2003 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, "Contrasts: Eifelgold - Lapland"
  • 2004 Brohlahl association, "Eifelgold - Aquarelle"

Works (selection)

Paintings by Gabrian can be found in many public collections, including the art collection of the German Bundestag in Berlin, the Art Museum Kuopio, the Art Museum Gdansk / Poland, the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG) Düsseldorf and the Volks- und Raiffeisenbank Bonn.

  • Dark cloud, oil, 100 × 120 cm
  • Edge of the forest in winter, oil, 100 × 120 cm
  • Midnight sun, oil, 80 × 100 cm
  • Self-portrait, 1982, oil, 80 × 60 cm
  • Kuusamo, forest landscape, oil, 80 × 100 cm
  • Rapids, oil, 80 × 100 cm
  • Moonlit night - silence, oil, 80 × 100 cm
  • At Kemijoki, reed pen, 29 × 40 cm
  • Eifelgold, watercolor, 32 × 42 cm

Catalogs

  • Peter K. Gabrian - 1922 to 1992 . Sankt Augustin 1992
  • 80 years - and not a bit quiet . Radolfzell 2002
  • Contrasts: Lapland - Eifelgold . Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The painter of the midnight sun is dead
  2. ^ Siegfried Löffler in: Deutsch-Finnische Rundschau, September 2002
  3. ↑ Peter Michel, "The color rush of northern midsummer", in: Stadtzeitung Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, October 6, 1993, page 20
  4. ^ German-Finnish Society eV (DFG), Landesnachrichten Berlin, 4/93
  5. ↑ “Dissipate and find yourself. Peter K. Gabrian discovers what is his own in the foreign. ”In: Rhein-Zeitung, Koblenz, September 30, 2003, page 19
  6. ↑ Finnish Cultural News, January 1998
personal data
SURNAME Gabrian, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabrian, Peter K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2015
Place of death Bad Bodendorf