Peter Laube

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Peter Laube

Peter Laube (born February 20, 1942 in Petershagen near Berlin , † October 28, 1988 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and training as a skilled worker for arable and crop production, Peter Laube carried out various activities, including in the book trade. From 1965 to 1968 he studied at the technical college for booksellers in Leipzig (today part of the college for technology, economy and culture ). Although he then held a secure position in the wholesale book trade , he studied at the University of Graphic and Book Art (HGB) in Leipzig from 1969 to 1974 , with Werner Tübke and Rolf Kuhrt , among others . From 1975 to 1978 he was a master student with the book designer Albert Kapr . In the period that followed, Peter Laube worked as a freelance member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , primarily as an illustrator in Leipzig.

In 1967 he married Dagmar Hilse in Friedersdorf near Berlin.

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The result of his all too short creative period includes numerous oil paintings , watercolors , woodcuts , pen drawings and etchings .

In 1978, Wolfgang U. Schütte wrote about Laube's graphic:

“ The superficial, striking, screaming is not for Laube anyway, he prefers the ironic, the subtle. In his mostly small-format drawings and etchings - these are the most welcome techniques for him - he can let his love of detail run free, if not unbridled. The advantage of his work is a quiet, unobtrusive humor ... "

  • Sash on the Window (1978)

  • Early self-portrait

  • The Flea Bite (1974)

  • By the river (1978)

  • The Trumpeter (1978)

  • Sleigh Ride (1980)

Peter Laube's great love was the book. He created the illustrations for more than 50 books . For him, illustrating was "writing on". In his thesis you can already find:

“ For me, writing on in the pictorial sense is of great importance because it does not seal or wall up literature, but leaves room for imagination, for productive reading and viewing. "

Rita Jorek referred to him in this context as a "picture writer". Among other things, he illustrated:

  • Jean Paul : Dr. Katzenberger's bathing trip . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, 1977
  • Jonas Lie : The three-master future . New Life Publishing House, Berlin, 1979
  • Victor Auburtin : It stands modest by the roadside ... , Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, 1979
  • Mynona : The nightgown on the signpost and other very strange stories of Dr. Solomon Friedlaender . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, 1980
  • André Müller : About the misfortune of being witty, anecdotes . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, 1984
  • Stephan Reimund Senge : The birch rises into the sky . St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig, 1985
  • Adalbert Stifter : The forest fountain: stories . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt, 1987
  • Matthias Biskupek : Living with a Jacket: Stories . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin, 1988
  • Lene Voigt : It was a time . Zentralhaus publication, Leipzig, 1988
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer : The wedding of the monk: short stories . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt, 1989

Exhibitions (selection)

Varia

Peter Laube was a childhood friend of Bernd-Lutz Lange and plays an essential role in his memory book Wall, Jeans and Prager Frühling as "Pepe".

literature

  • Wolfgang U. Schütte: Sensitive pen drawings and etchings: Peter Laube . In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel No. 41, 1978
  • Lothar Lang : Painting and graphics in the GDR . Verlag Edition Leipzig, 1980, p. 114 ff.
  • Anneliese Hübscher: Peter Laube - an illustrator 1942–1988 who died much too early . In: illustration 63 , magazine for book illustration, volume 34, issue 1, April 1997
  • Rita Jorek: Peter Laube. 1942–1988 , Markkleeberg 1995, on the exhibition from November 11, 1995 to January 26, 1996 in Westphalschen Haus Markkleeberg

Web links

Commons : Peter Laube  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang U. Schütte: Sensible pen drawings and etchings: Peter Laube . In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel No. 41, 1978
  2. ↑ a b Rita Jorek: Peter Laube. 1942–1988 , p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Arbor, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1988
Place of death Leipzig