Peter Robert Wedge

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Peter Robert Keil with self-painted majolica 2012.

Peter Robert Keil (born August 6, 1942 in Züllichau , Brandenburg ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

The son of a blacksmith lost his father in early childhood during the Second World War. His artistically gifted mother managed to get through to West Berlin with her son at the end of the war, where the two settled after the war. There, Keil grew up in the working-class district of Berlin-Wedding and soon discovered his interest in painting - especially in Expressionist artists and in the works of Pablo Picasso . The painter Otto Nagel , who originally came from East Berlin, became his mentor from around 1954 and taught him his first manual skills and painting techniques. In 1956, Keil began an apprenticeship as an art fitter , which between 1959 and 1961 studied at the Berlin University of the Arts . With the construction of the Berlin Wall , contact with Keil's mentor Nagel largely broke off and from the early 1960s onwards, Keil increasingly relocated abroad.

With the beginning of his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Keil came into contact with numerous other artists who were to shape his generation. B. Georg Baselitz , Eugen Schönebeck , Markus Lüpertz and Joachim Schmettau . During his time on Mallorca, he also met Joan Miró several times in his studio. From the early 1960s, Keil moved into studios in Paris, London, Berlin and the USA. Today he lives and works for the most part in Zimmerau (Bavaria), Berlin and Los Angeles.

Working method and work

In the early stages of his artistic career, Peter Keil orientated himself stylistically on German Expressionism . In terms of topics, he was initially interested in the works of the early Berlin years primarily in typical urban milieus and marginal figures in society. At the same time as his stay in Paris and the associated immersion into the nightlife there at the beginning of the 1960s, however, a great change in his style can be observed. Keil increasingly developed away from a realistic conception and towards a new, much more spontaneous and dynamic painting style, which he further developed during his London years and finally as part of the Berlin Neue Wilden at the beginning of the 80s. The use of intense to bright colors, as well as the renunciation of realistic representationalism, have been the typical characteristics of his painting style since then. The color of his pictures is applied with quick and quick brushstrokes as well as occasionally in a pastose manner and the motifs of his pictures are repeatedly alienated by graffiti elements. Thematically, Keil prefers human figures, portraits, big city scenes, landscapes and flower still lifes. Keil's emotional painting is primarily driven by a desire for liberation from social constraints and conventions.

In the past 50 years, in addition to numerous large and small format paintings in oil and mixed media on canvas, a number of sculptures in wood and steel as well as a significant number of majolica have been created .

Exhibitions

  • 1962: First solo exhibition at the Art Gallery, London
  • 1964: Galerie Rotebro, Sweden
  • 1965: Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1966: Great Berlin art exhibition
  • 1980: Dr. Friedmann, Israel
  • 1985: Galerie Wewerka, Berlin
  • 1986–1990: Free Berlin Art Exhibition , Exhibition Halls, Berlin
  • 1993: Carousel Gallery, Dania, Florida, USA
  • 1998: Aventura Art Gallery, Aventura, Florida, USA
  • 1999: Galerie Höckner, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2000: Exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, London
  • 2001–2005: Intercontinental Hotel Berlin
  • 2002: International Art Fair, Frankfurt
  • 2003: Sixty years of Peter Robert Keil, Galerie Kunstsinn, Nuremberg
  • 2005: Boxsler Gallery, Lichtenfels
  • 2006: Public Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
  • 2007: Villa Meixner, collection of the KulturForum Europa, Brühl / Baden
  • 2007: Kessler Corporation, Orlando Florida, Savannah, Georgia, USA
  • 2008: The Hurn Museum, Savannah, USA
  • 2010: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of the Museums, Heidelberg
  • 2010: Edna Hibel Fine Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
  • 2011: Keil-Collection Heidelberg, Long Night of Museums, Heidelberg
  • 2012: Retrospective “Leben im Farbrausch”, Schwetzingen Castle, Orangery
  • 2012: Keil ArtCollection Marburg, Night of Art, Marburg
  • 2012: "Ladies Night at Paris Bar", Keil ArtCollection Marburg, City Festival Marburg
  • 2012: "Teufelswerk", State Majolica Manufactory Karlsruhe
  • 2013: Awakening - the latest works from the Heidelberg phase , Alte Feuerwache Heidelberg
  • 2014: Current Works, Berlin, Temporary Gallery Potsdamer Strasse
  • 2014: New Keil Works, Keil Collection Heidelberg, Heidelberg
  • 2014/2015: Peter Robert Keil as guest in the Heidelberg City Hall, Heidelberg City Hall
  • 2015: "Verleden, heden, toekomst", Waaggebouw Arnheim
  • 2015: Peter Robert Keil visits the Romanisches Keller, Romanischer Keller Heidelberg
  • 2015: Peter Robert Keil visits the old indoor swimming pool, old indoor swimming pool Heidelberg
  • 2015: "PR Wedge - the newest brand", Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe
  • 2015: Exhibition in the museum room in Wolfsbrunnen, Wolfsbrunnen Heidelberg
  • 2016: art Karlsruhe 2016, Karlsruhe
  • 2016: ART.FAIR, Cologne
  • 2016: Affordable Art Fair 2016, Hamburg
  • 2016: Peter Robert Keil as guest in the gallery P13, Heidelberg
  • 2017: art Karlsruhe 2017 - one artist show, Karlsruhe
  • 2017: Solo exhibition in New Jersey, USA
  • 2017: Red Art Salon, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden
  • 2017: Affordable Art Fair 2017, Hamburg
  • 2017: Atelier exhibition Banyalbufar, Mallorca
  • 2017: Solo exhibition "Leben im Farbrausch 2", Heidelberg Castle
  • 2018: art Karlsruhe 2018 - one artist show, Karlsruhe

literature

  • General Artist Lexicon, Volume 79, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2012
  • Art Profil - magazine for current art, issue 2, 13th year 2007
  • Art Profil - magazine for current art, issue no. 90-2011, 16th year
  • Art Profil - magazine for current art, issue no. 93-2012, 18th year
  • Art Profil - magazine for current art, issue no. 96-2013, 19th year
  • Art Profil - magazine for current art issue No. 105-2014 20th year
  • Edition Majolika - Series of publications of the Majolika Foundation for Art and Culture Promotion Karlsruhe, Volume 3
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon Artists of the GDR Verlag neue Leben Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9
  • Lust and passion / death and the devil. An exhibition concept , Art In Flow Verlag für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938457-11-5
  • Hartmut Pätzke: Register "Ausgebürgert" , in: Hannelore Offner and Klaus Schroeder: bounded - excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961–1989 , Akademie Verlag GmbH Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-05-003348-7
  • Valerie Sottile, Audrey E. Dillon and Michael Sottile: Peter Keil: Neo-Expressionist Artist , in: The Dial. A Philosophic Art Journal, Volume LXXXV, Number 2, Winter 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Artist Lexicon , p. 519
  2. ↑ Limited - marginalized, p. 615
  3. ↑ General Artists Dictionary , p. 520
  4. ^ Lexicon Artists of the GDR, p. 425
  5. ↑ a b ArtProfil 90-2011, p. 16
  6. ↑ a b ArtProfile Heft 2 2007, p. 47
  7. ↑ ArtProfil 96-2013, p. 44
  8. ↑ ArtProfil 93-2012, p. 33
  9. ↑ General Artists Dictionary , p. 520

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personal data
SURNAME Wedge, Peter Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Züllichau , Pomerania