Peter Graf (painter)

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Peter Graf (* 1937 in Crimmitschau ) is a German painter .

Life

Born in Crimmitschau in 1937, in 1952, after the death of his father, he moved with his mother and brother to Dresden , where he met his friends Christian Hempel, Peter Herrmann , Jürgen Böttcher (Strawalde), Aghate Böttcher, Ralf Winkler (AR Penck), Peter Makolies , and Winfried Dierske . Graf was a member of the artist group Erste Phalanx Nedserd . In 1956 Graf was admitted to the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art , but was de-registered after just one year (as was his friend Georg Baselitz , who continued his studies in West Berlin).

From 1957 Peter Graf lived again in Dresden , where he made a living by working as a transport worker, truck driver, warehouse clerk and forklift driver and where he painted after work. This made it possible for him to remain artistically independent of the harassment of the GDR regime. Peter Graf became an insider tip among artists and intellectuals in the GDR. Jürgen Böttcher portrayed him in his banned short documentary Three of Many in 1961 . In 1976 he and his Dresden friends were among the signatories of the open letter with which numerous artists, writers and actors in the GDR protested against Wolf Biermann's expatriation .

Peter Graf lived and worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Dresden since 1985. Since 1996 with his studio in Radebeul ( old Radebeuler Schuhfabrik ), he has lived in Radebeul since 2002 with his wife, the painter Karen Graf, and their two sons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2007 art award ceremony of the great district town of Radebeul
personal data
SURNAME Count, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Crimmitschau