Peter Kalkhof

Peter Kalkhof (born December 20, 1933 in Leopoldshall , † February 24, 2014 in London ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist of concrete art .

Life

Kalkhof spent his childhood in Braunsberg (East Prussia) from 1938 to 1944 . From 1944 to 1946 the family fled via Berlin - the father was killed in the " Battle for Berlin " - to Neundorf (Anhalt) and in 1946 came to the British occupation zone in Braunschweig and finally to Herrhausen am Harz .

From 1952 to 1955 Kalkhof completed an apprenticeship as a color chemigrapher in Braunschweig and studied painting at the Werkkunstschule there under Bruno Müller-Linow, among others . From 1956 to 1960 he studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Hermann Sohn and Manfred Henninger , and he learned lithography with Erich Mönch . A scholarship enabled him to continue studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London ( England ) from 1960 to 1961 . In 1961 he received a travel grant from the Slade School and toured the British Isles . After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1962, he moved to London in 1963. After working at Curwen Press (lithography) in London, he received a lectureship in lithography and etching at the University of Reading in Reading in 1964 . From 1970 to 1999 he was a lecturer in painting at the Department of Fine Art there.

After completing his studies, but especially after moving to London, where he lived and worked for half a century, Peter Kalkhof went on numerous study trips: In 1969 (and several times in later years), he traveled to California and Arizona (Grand Canyon) in addition to European countries ); 1973 (as well as 1979 and 1992) Indonesia; 1974 (and 1986) Mexico and Yucatán; 1975 India and Nepal; 1976 Japan; 1977 (again 2006) China and Thailand; 1978 South America, especially Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and northern Chile; 1980 the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands (where he worked with natives), Hawaii; 1982 Egypt, Alexandria to Abu Simbel; 1985 the Soviet Union (Moscow, Novgorod, Leningrad), South Africa; In 1990 he visited the tri-border region Burma, Thailand, Laos and the island of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand; 2004 Santiago de Chile and Easter Island in the South Pacific.

Kalkhof was married to the Indonesian jewelry designer Jeanne Thé, whom he had met while studying at the Stuttgart Academy. In the spring of 1959 he received first prize in the academy competition of the Stuttgart Art Academy for a picture from a series of portraits he had painted of Jeanne Thé. In 1997, a year after his wife's death, Peter Kalkhof published a book in London about her jewelry designs. There is a son from the marriage.

Peter Kalkhof died on February 24, 2014 in London after a serious illness.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1970 Oxford Gallery, Oxford; Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 1973 Wellmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 1974 HS Gallery, Erkelenz; Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 1975 Royal Shakespeare Theater, Stratford upon Avon
• 1976 Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin
• 1977 Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Museum of Cultural History, Osnabrück
• 1978 Hertfordshire College of Art & Design, St. Albans
• 1979 Art Association, Marburg; Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 1981 Goethe Institute, London
• 1983 Juda Rowan Gallery, London
• 1987 Old Town Hall Gallery, Wörth am Rhein
• 1988 State Museum Oldenburg
• 1989 Camden Arts Center, London; East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg
• 1990 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 1993 Rösch Gallery, Neubrunn / Würzburg; Schröder and Dörr Gallery, Bergisch Gladbach
• 1994 Rösch Gallery, Karlsruhe
• 1995 City Hall Gallery Balingen
• 1996 Prignitz Museum , Havelberg; City Museum Gallery, Schieder-Schwalenberg
• 1997 Annley Juda Fine Art, London
• 1998 Galerie Planie 22, Reutlingen; St. Hugh's College, Oxford
• 2000 Rösch Gallery, Houston
• 2002 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 2004 T1 + 2 artspace, London
• 2007 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 2011 Merston Gallery, Chichester
• 2012 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 2012 Expo Chicago (with Roger Ackling at Annely Juda Fine Art, London)
• 2014 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (commemorative exhibition)
• 2018 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (50 years, 50 artists)
• 2018 Bakerhouse Gallery, Graz, exhibition Time, Space and Texture with Christopher Wool and Tom Lohner
• 2018 Art Basel , Basel, with Christo and David Hockney at Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 2019 Arte Wiesbaden, at Bakerhouse Gallery, Graz
• 2019 Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, at Bakerhouse Gallery, Graz

Works in public collections

• North West Ireland Trust, Belfast
• Eastern Arts Association, Cambridge
• Leicester Education Committee, Leicester
• Arts Council of Great Britain, London
• Belgian Embassy, ​​London
• Contemporary Art Society, London
• Department for Environment, London
• Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London
• Nuffield Foundation, London
• East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg
• State Museum Oldenburg
• Reading Museum and Art Gallery, Reading
• University of Reading
• European Parliament, Strasbourg
• Salvador Allende and Museum of Solidarity, Santiago
• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• County Hall, Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection
• Imperial War Museum
• Arts Council Collection

Literature (selection)

• London Artists from Germany . Exhibition cat. Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London, October 1978 [Text: Werner Kilian]
• Peter Kalkhof: Color and Space. Color and Space. 25 years of painting and drawing by a German artist in London . Exhibition cat. Oldenburg, Landesmuseum, September 18 to October 30, 1988; London, Camden Arts Center, January 11 to February 5, 1989 [Editing and editing: Peter Reindl. Texts: Peter Reindl; Roger Cook; Paul Kopecek]
• Peter Kalkhof: Paintings and Installations . Exhibition cat. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, April 4-26 , 1997 ISBN 1-870280-61-X
• Rudolf Greiner: Peter Kalkhof: Color-Space-Texture . Reutlingen: Galerie Planie 22, 1998 [Texts: Rudolf Greiner; Mirabel Bausinger]
• Peter Kalkhof: Center to Periphery . Exhibition cat. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, January 17 to February 24, 2007 [Text: Peter Suchin] ISBN 1-904621-15-5
• Peter Kalkhof: Color and Space . Exhibition cat. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, March 15 to April 28, 2012 [Texts: David Juda; Peter Kalkhof] ISBN 1-904621-46-5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/artists/peter-kalkhof
2. ↑ Jeanne Thé: jewelery designer and maker . London: P. Kalkhof, 1997.
3. ^ Alan Plummer: Peter Kalkhof obituary. In: The Guardian, March 18, 2014
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