Raffael Becker

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Raffael Becker (born March 16, 1922 in Cologne ; † October 23, 2013 ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Live and act

Raffael Becker came from a family of artists. His father Rafael Becker (1895–1979) created, among other things, the design of Afri-Cola , and his grandfather Ignatz Becker was already a painter. Becker initially completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, which he supplemented with life drawing and attending an advertising school. He had to interrupt his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1940 after only one year because he was drafted into the war .

Raffael Becker - family grave in Cologne's south cemetery

In the post-war period Becker worked as a commercial artist, mainly for car companies, e.g. B. Borgward, Ford, Daimler-Benz and for photographic products from Agfa. He also documented scenes from destroyed Cologne between 1945 and 1947. 26 of these drawings were donated to the Cologne City Museum . There is also the triptych "Carnival in Cologne" (Colonia Claudia Augusta Agrippinensis, Causa nostrae laetitia) from 1974.

From 1960 Raffael Becker devoted himself entirely to free art. After phases of conflict with the art movements Cubism , Futurism and Informel , Becker found his own visual language that allowed narrative elements to flow in combinations of representational and non-representational representations.

Becker, who called himself "Raffael Becker jun." Until old age, lived in Cologne-Sülz and in the Eifel. He died at the age of 91 and was buried on October 31, 2013 in the family grave at the Südfriedhof in Cologne-Zollstock .

Honors

In 1998, he was the Rhineland dollars awarded

Exhibitions

  • Barn exhibition in the own Eifelhaus: 1966
  • Atelier Hubert Benatzky: 1967
  • Kölnischer Kunstverein, single work: "Demonstration", 1968
  • Barn exhibition in their own Eifelhaus, 1973
  • Regional Council Cologne: "Pictures and Drawings", 1974
  • Galerie Kühling Hamburg: "Oil Paintings and Drawings", 1974
  • Schauspielhaus Cologne: "Cologne Pictures", 1978
  • Historical City Hall Cologne: "Cologne Pictures", 1982
  • Galerie Glockengasse 4711: "Clowns" (drawings), 1984
  • Cologne City Museum: "Bella Colonia", 1988
  • Kölner Bank from 1867: "New Pictures", 1995
  • Puppet shows by the city of Cologne: "Oil painting", 1996
  • Brauweiler Abbey: "Paintings and Drawings", 1997
  • Galerie Malchers, Bensberg: "Drawings", 2001
  • Cologne City Museum: Right in the middle, "Cologne Pictures", 2002
  • Villa Trips, Museum of Racing History: "Car Drawings" (retrospective), 2002
  • Brauweiler Abbey: "Pictures of a Rhinelander" (partly retrospective), 2007
  • Company Turris Cologne: "Signalbilder" by Raffael Becker and "Non-representational" by Raphaele Becker Berglar, 2008
  • Bürgerhaus Galerie Hürth: "Encounters" (drawings), 2009
  • Cologne City Museum: “In the Ruins of Cologne 1945–1947”, 2012. Raffael Becker donated the 26 works shown there to the City Museum

literature

  • Catalog Bella Colonia , on the occasion of the exhibition "Bella Colonia" from February 19 to April 4, 1988 in Cologne. City Museum, with texts by Raffael Becker, Michael Euler-Schmidt , Werner Schäfke . Cologne City Museum, Cologne 1988
  • in the middle. Experienced pictures and stories , Swisstal-Heimerzheim: Edition Walter Mörchen 1993
  • Cologne drawings from 1945-1947 , Dynowski, Cologne 1995

Web links

  • Raffael Becker - Information about the painter of the portrait of the rector Wolf Isselhard of the University of Cologne, online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger June 20, 2012, p. 26
  2. ↑ Raffael Becker - Color-spraying everyday life at 90 , website for the picture of the week 12. – 18. March 2012, online , accessed March 18, 2012
  3. ↑ s. Web links for rector portraits
  4. ↑ Stefan Palm: Gifts from the birthday child. Raffael Becker donates his currently exhibited works to the City Museum. City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, June 6, 2012, accessed on June 22, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Raffael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Raffael jun.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2013