Peter Gray

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Peter Grau (born November 14, 1928 in Breslau ; † July 22, 2016 in Leinfelden-Echterdingen ) was a German graphic artist and painter . From 1968 to 1994 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

Life

Peter Grau was a student of Johann Drobek in Breslau from 1939 to 1944 . In 1945/1946 he received decisive artistic inspiration from Julius Bissier in Hagnau on Lake Constance. From 1946 to 1953 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Willi Baumeister . From 1950 to 1955 he studied violin at the State University of Music in Stuttgart . In 1965 and 1966 he received a scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

From 1968 to 1994 Grau taught as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. With the graphic sequences Kuriosa 70 and Die Höfe der Akademie , he reflected on local conditions at the time of the student movement , whereby - according to his own words - he was less interested in “the 'loud', so to speak superficial events” than “in the background events that fill a new image Reveal the fantastic that one believes to recognize and that one can hardly grasp in its complexity ”. In 1974 he was honored with the first honorary gift of the Lovis Corinth Prize . Peter Grau was a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg.

Peter Grau lived and worked in Leinfelden. He was buried in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart.

honors and awards

Exhibitions

“Small house with medallions” from a cycle on the subject of “The Moorish Garden” in Wilhelma, privately owned by the management of Wilhelma Stuttgart
Exuvien, layer watercolor by Peter Grau, 1977, Leinfelden, privately owned

Peter Grau has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

A large number of works by the artist can be found in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, the Galerie Albstadt , the Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg , the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen (donated by Wolfgang Kermer) , the Wilhelma Directorate Stuttgart, im Schiller National Museum Marbach and in private ownership.

In 1998, an exhibition of Peter Grau's life's work took place in the Filderhalle , the Reutlingen Art Association and the Tübingen nursing home.

The Kunstmuseum Albstadt has Peter Grau's large drypoint cycle Apocalypse from 1962/65 in the exhibition The Dark Side of the Moon. Shadows from art and literature (2019/20) shown.

Literature (selection)

  • Peter Grau, drawings 1933–1998, etchings, recent work
  • Drawings: Hans Thoma Society - Art Association Reutlingen, Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen, 20.09. - October 25, 1998
  • Etchings: Galerie am Pflegehof, Tübingen, 04.10. - November 8, 1998
  • Recent work: Städtische Galerie Filderhalle, Leinfelden, November 11th - November 1st, 1998, ISBN 3-927228-90-7
  • Peter Grau, My Teachers, 1998, designed and published by Bernhard Salzer, with the kind support of Lelia Gayler-Doflein and Archiv Baumeister, Erica Loos.
  • Gray class at Wilhelma, 1993, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
  • Peter Grau, Der einsame Hof, 1980, pen drawings, Kunstverein Ulm, October - November 1980
  • Peter Grau, Newer Drawings, 1995, in the gallery in the printing house and newspaper publisher Waiblingen, October - December 1995
  • Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog. Ed. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 60–61
  • Kai Hohenfeld: Peter Grau (1928-2016) - Apocalypse , in: The dark side of the moon. Shadows from art and literature (publications by the Art Museum Albstadt, No. 181/2019), text by Kai Hohenfeld, exhib.-cat. Kunstmuseum Albstadt 2019/20, pp. 38–41

Web links

Commons : Peter Grau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Stuttgarter Zeitung / Stuttgarter Nachrichten of July 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : "1968" and the reform of the academy: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart Academy in the 1970s. Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9), ISBN 3-89322-446-7 , p. 237, figs. 44–50.
  3. ↑ Donation by Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog. Edited by Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 60–61 m. Fig.
  4. ^ Lovis Corinth Prize Winner kunstforum.net, accessed on December 22, 2013.
  5. ↑ Katja Weiger: Light and shadow in an exciting dialogue. In: Black Forest Messenger . November 5, 2019, accessed December 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2016
Place of death Stuttgart