Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter (born April 1, 1936 in Hagen ; † November 7, 2002 in Wuppertal ) was a German painter and portraitist.
Life
In his Westphalian homeland he worked as an "all-round artist". He learned his trade at Kurt Krüger's private art school in Hagen . Later he switched to the Wuppertal Werkkunstschule.
Peter Reuter was a musician, dancer, decorator for theater and television, as well as layouter for magazines and fashion magazines. Through his work for the fashion brands Dior and Guerlain and his friendship with advertising specialist Charles Wilp , he came into contact with world stars in Paris, whom he had portrayed. Among them were Maria Schell , Marlene Dietrich , Marcel Marceau , Hildegard Knef , Jean Cocteau , Alfred Hitchcock , Willy Brandt , Klaus Kinski , Geraldine Chaplin . Reuter paid particular attention to the French actress Cécile Aubry , whom he portrayed in numerous works.
The largest exhibition of his works took place in 1968 in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in Hagen. In 1970 the British hard rock band Black Sabbath bought a chalk drawing by Peter Reuter and used it as the cover of a record cover.
In months of detailed work, 19 symbolic images were created using the post-impressionist pointillism technique. As a counterpoint to this highly concentrated work, Peter Reuter created several hundred pigment landscapes on laid paper . The third focus of the painter was portrait painting. The hidden cats and owls are characteristic of some of his works ; especially the cat in the portrait series by Cécile Aubry.
In the middle of 1972 Peter Reuter withdrew from the public. He moved into an attic apartment in Wuppertal- Unterbarmen . He found support from the Hagen art patron Helmut Schuster. The businessman and owner of the first boutique in the Federal Republic of Germany purchased a large part of the works of Peter Reuter and used them to finance the artist's livelihood.
On November 7, 2002, Peter Reuter died of complications from bronchitis. He was buried in Hagen.
literature
- Stefan Seitz: Top Magazin Wuppertal, January 2014, pages 28–30
- Walter Israel: Article about Peter Reuter in: Das Hagen-Buch.
Web links
- Peter Reuter - biography at galeriezaar.de
- Stefan Seitz: He was a bird of paradise. Wuppertaler Rundschau, April 16, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reuter, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and portraitist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2002 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |