Peter Voigt (painter)

Peter Voigt (born February 19, 1925 in Braunschweig ; † September 13, 1990 there ) was a German painter and university professor . From 1967 to 1972 he was the rector of the Braunschweig University of Art .

Peter Voigt in the studio, 1990

Life

Peter Voigt spent his childhood and youth in the time from the Weimar Republic to National Socialism in Braunschweig and Helmstedt as the son of the later Lower Saxony Minister of Education Richard Voigt and his wife Hertha in a family that was socially democratic, politically committed and culturally open. Voigt and his twin brother were drafted as soldiers during World War II . His brother fell in the last days of the war.

Voigt returned from American captivity in 1945 and first attended the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig. In Hamburg he studied graphic design from 1946 to 1948 with Erwin Krubeck (1893–1976) and Alfred Mahlau , in Berlin from 1948 to 1953 painting with Heinz Fuchs (1886–1961) and Heinrich Graf Luckner , whose master class he was. In 1953 he married Brigitte Liebold. The marriage had two daughters. From 1953 to 1956 Voigt worked as a freelancer. He undertook several study trips through Italy, France and Sweden, from their impressions u. a. numerous urban landscapes emerged. His work was shown in first exhibitions at home and abroad.

From 1956 Voigt taught at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig. This was restructured in 1963 to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) and Voigt was appointed professor for free painting. From 1967 to 1971 he was rector of the HBK, then for several years its prorector. In 1957 Voigt was awarded the Rudolf Wilke Prize of the city of Braunschweig, in 1980 he received a guest grant from the Villa Massimo in Rome, and in 1989 the Lower Saxony artist grant. Voigt held his professorship at HBK Braunschweig until his death in 1990.

Peter Voigt's work was included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".

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The personal and collective horrors of the war, the Holocaust and their aftermath remained artistically in many facets a consistent theme in Peter Voigt's work. Voigt's pictures were always figurative, his painting never non-representational. Speechlessness among each other, the difficulty of communication, the longing for the missed chance to be together, the question of one's own identity in the mirror of the opposite, preoccupied him thematically.

In addition, he created many sensitive portraits of various personalities from Voigt's family environment such as public life, including Alfred Kubel , Walther Buchler , Ernst Böhme , Martha Fuchs and Richard Moderhack .

In addition to private collections, works by Peter Voigt are represented in various museums ( Städtisches Museum Braunschweig , Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum , Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg ), owned by the State of Lower Saxony and public institutions as well as in art in construction projects (Crematorium Braunschweig , Clausthal University , Kurhaus Bad Harzburg and others).

Afterlife

In 1990 the book was published by Peter Voigt. Works from four decades. Pictures, drawings, prints published by Niemeyer Verlag with a text by Lothar Romain. In January 1991, the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schröder, opened a retrospective exhibition of works by Peter Voigt in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig. In 1994/95 the Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel showed the Peter Voigt exhibition . Hand drawings from the years 1953 - 1989 , for which a catalog with a text by Rainer Mügel was published. In 1997 the Peter Voigt travel grant from the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation was awarded for the first time . In 2000 the exhibition Peter Voigt took place in the gallery of NORD / LB Braunschweig on the occasion of the 75th birthday and 10th anniversary of death . Mainly: painting. Pictures from the period 1955-1990 , for which a catalog with a text by Hermann Albert was published. In 2015, on the occasion of the 90th birthday and 25th anniversary of his death, the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig presented an exhibition with works by Peter Voigt, which was followed by a publication with texts by Gerd Winner and Andreas Büttner.

literature

• Hermann Albert : Speech to Peter Voigt . In: Peter Voigt. Mainly: painting. Pictures from the period 1955 - 1990 . NORD / LB Braunschweig (ed.), Braunschweig 2000, o. Sz.
• Andreas Büttner: Peter Voigt (1925-1990). Painting and Graphics - An Introduction to the Exhibition . In: Peter Voigt. Painting and graphics . Cecilie Hollberg for the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (ed.), Braunschweig 2015, pp. 19–24.
• Gudrun Hirschmann: Voigt, Peter . In: Braunschweiger Personalitäten des 20. Jahrhundert , Arbeitskreis Other Geschichte (Ed.), 2nd revised edition, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-925268-42-7 , pp. 277-279.
• Peter Lufft : Voigt, Peter . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 632 .
• Peter Lufft: Voigt, Peter . In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 237.
• Rainer Mügel: Metamorphoses. Notes on the drawings by Peter Voigt . In: Peter Voigt. Hand drawings from the years 1953 - 1989 . Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, 1994, o. Sz.
• Lothar Romain : The depth on the surface . In: Peter Voigt. Works from four decades. Pictures, drawings, prints . Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1990, ISBN 3-87585-182-X , pp. 7-15.
• Peter Voigt: Thoughts on the teaching of painting , SHfBK Braunschweig (Ed.), Braunschweig 1967, o. Sz.
• Gerd Winner : laudation for Peter Voigt . In: Peter Voigt. Painting and graphics . Cecilie Hollberg for the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (ed.), Braunschweig 2015, pp. 9-14.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former presidents on the website of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
2. ↑ Lothar Romain , The Depth on the Surface . In: Peter Voigt. Works from four decades , Hameln 1990, p. 8ff.
3. ^ Hermann Albert , speech to Peter Voigt . In: Peter Voigt. Mainly painting , Braunschweig 2000, o. Sz.
4. ↑ Peter Voigt: Thoughts on the teaching of painting , Braunschweig 1967, o. Sz.