Peter Winter (journalist)
Peter Winter (pseudonym: Harry Mink) (born September 30, 1935 in Troppau / Moravia ; † December 15, 2011 in Hanover ) was a German cartoonist and art critic .
Live and act
Winter moved to the Mark Brandenburg in summer 1945 . Before graduating from high school, he drew caricatures for the Märkische Volksstimme . From 1953 to 1957 he studied art education at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1957 to 1958 he was a drawing teacher in Rheinsberg and then moved to Lower Saxony. After completing his legal clerkship in Hanover, he became a teacher at the Walsrode grammar school, succeeding Raimund Girke .
Cartoonist
Under the pseudonym Harry Mink, Winter drew caricatures for Stern magazine , the satirical magazines Simplicissismus and Pardon , the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit and the magazines Theater heute and Kunst und Studium since the mid-1960s . As early as the 1960s he had his first cartoon exhibition in the Göttingen theater. “Viewed from an ironic point of view and finally put down on paper and cardboard, however, there is a fundamental glimpse of everyday life, be it human weaknesses or social conditions. “( Renate Puvogel ) As a cartoonist, he did not draw any sequence of pictures, but instead focused on freely invented everyday situations in individual motifs. In later years Mink used watercolors in his cartoons and enriched them with collage elements.
Art critic
From 1969 he reported regularly as Peter Winter for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on cultural events in northern Germany. In addition, he contributed to German and international art magazines. Peter Winter gave the exhibition reviews in the FAZ about the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg , the Wolfsburg Art Museum , the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, the Bremen Art Hall and the Kiel Art Association, as well as reports on exhibitions by his artist colleagues Saul Steinberg and Tomi Ungerer in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover. His last exhibition review appeared under the title Auf Farbbahnen - KH Hödicke in October 2004. “ Not many critics were able to develop such an artistic and sensual language as Peter Winter ... ” wrote the FAZ on his 70th birthday.
Winter, who lived and worked in Hanover, was divorced and had four children. He had been married for a second time since the mid-1980s.
Exhibitions
- 1999: sometimes up, sometimes across , the Museum of the City of Ratingen
- 2002: cats, owls, small disasters . State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg
- 2002: Women, freaks and cheeky sayings, cartoons and collages by Harry Mink . Wilhelm Busch Society, Hanover
- 2005: Cooks, cats, courtesans , Villa Ichon on Goetheplatz, Bremen
- 2011: Being for everyone , Art Association Imago, Walsrode
Fonts
- Protocols from a possible reality. Seven key points on the painter's work. Franz Radziwill , Reutlingen 1975
- Cats, owls, small catastrophes , Merlin, Berlin 2002 ISBN 978-3875362343
- Intraphychical Realist - Walter Stöhrer . In: Kunstforum international, Volume 55
Web links
- Harry Mink's website
- Website of the art association imago
- Bernd Küster: Cats, owls, small disasters (PDF; 62 kB) Article on the exhibition in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thesis: Cézanne and the end of impressionism
- ^ About the opening of the exhibition on January 30th, 2011 at Imago, Kunstverein Wedemark
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 30, 2005, No. 228, p. 36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winter, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mink, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist, art critic and cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troppau |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 2011 |
| Place of death | Hanover |