Peter Schmiedel
Peter Schmiedel (born September 24, 1929 in Dresden , † May 3, 1997 in Admont , Styria) was a German painter .
Life
Schmiedel attended the Waldorf School in Dresden until it was banned. He had to witness the bombing of the city as a youth at Neustädter Bahnhof, which shaped his life. In 1949 he graduated from high school and shortly thereafter resigned from the FDJ for political reasons, so that he was no longer allowed to study in the GDR. That is why he went to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin in 1950 , where he studied painting with Alexander Camaro and Hans Uhlmann and in 1955 he became a master student of Uhlmann .
In 1971 he received a professorship in the visual communication department at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, which merged with other institutes to form the Berlin University of the Arts, where he taught painting and graphics. He lived secluded as a freelance artist in Berlin, after his retirement in Upper Styria, where he also died in 1997.
plant
As a painter of Art Informel, Peter Schmiedel mainly dealt with the three basic colors blue, yellow and red, which he used - coming from Goethe's theory of colors - in almost all of his works, especially in watercolors, paintings and woodcuts. The more muted colors of the fifties were replaced by brighter ones, and after that black no longer appeared in his colored works.
Later figurative elements such as landscapes, clouds or figures appeared. As a master's student of a sculptor, he also realized the latter in wood. In his numerous black-and-white works, he tried to continue to implement “the energies that create image space in the form gained from color”, as in his colored works.
Exhibitions
Works in public collections
- Artothek Berlin - graphics, woodcuts (to borrow)
- Bildungshaus Salzburg St. Virgil - ten large-format watercolors in the dining room
- Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
- Brooklyn Museum of Arts , New York
- House Kley , Dortmund
- Youth home Berlin-Charlottenburg, Halemweg (wall sculpture made of wood, probably destroyed)
- Märkisches Museum , Witten / Ruhr
- State Art Collections Kassel
Solo exhibitions
- 1979 Siemens telegraph factory, Berlin
- 1980 New Berlin Art Association , Berlin
- 1987 Art History Museum of the Admont Benedictine Abbey , Styria
- 2014 Irene Lehr Gallery, Berlin
- 2017 Galerie Kopriva, Krems
Group exhibitions and participation in exhibitions
- 1964 1st International of Drawing , Darmstadt
- 1966 Young Berlin artists , Basel
- 1972 Modernism in Germany , Kunstverein Kassel
- 1979 Two Berliners (with Harold Fridley), Denton, Texas
- 1989 Eberhard Roters in honor , Berlin
- 1990 Expatriated , Dresden
Books
- Peter Schmiedel: Colors. Fonts from the Silk Gallery ; Silk Gallery, Hanover 1960
- Peter Schmiedel: works from 1953–1980 ; Berlin contemporary artists, 39; New Berlin Art Association, Berlin 1980
- Peter Schmiedel: watercolors. Works from four decades ; Berlin 1994
literature
- Will Grohmann: Art in Our Time ; Cologne 1966
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Schmiedel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Hardorp: The German Waldorf School Movement in the Time of National Socialism ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in: Inge Hansen-Schaberg , Bruno Schonig (ed.): Waldorf pedagogy ; Basic knowledge of pedagogy. Reform pedagogical school concepts, 6; Baltmannsweiler: Schneider (Hohengehren), 2002; ISBN 3-89676-504-3 ; Pp. 132-141.
- ↑ Eberhard Roters; in: Peter Schmiedel: Work from 1953–1980 ; Berlin contemporary artists, 39; Berlin: New Berlin Art Association, 1980.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmiedel, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1997 |
| Place of death | Admont , Styria |