Rainer Herold

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Rainer Herold (born June 11, 1940 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

After primary school, Rainer Herold completed an apprenticeship as a cartographic draftsman from 1955 and worked in this profession until 1961. 1961 to 1966 he studied at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig , especially with Bernhard Heisig . From 1971 to 1974 he was an aspirant there . From 1975 to 1977 Herold was a master student with Werner Klemke at the Academy of Arts of the GDR . Since 1985 he has been working freelance in Berlin and then in Pütte near Stralsund. In addition to painting, drawing, book illustration and printmaking, Herold also deals with plastic, object art and ceramics. He had a teaching position at the University of Greifswald . Herold went on study trips to what was then the Soviet Union, India, Tanzania and the Alps. His hobby is flying the paramotor over the lagoon landscape .

reception

“At the end of the 1960s, Rainer Herold was the first artist in the GDR who experimented with screen printing , a technique that was considered 'Western' if not 'American' at the time. There were delicately translucent shades ... "

“Over the decades, a working method has emerged that avoids everything that is glossy and smooth, that radically seeks the most precise possible expression in day-to-day work and repeated attempts, as long as the magnetism of a picture idea demands further variations - the results of such work, free from the screeching Behavior, contained because they are only obliged to their own intention without a license , that psychogram that is designed exclusively with color and shape ... "

Works (selection)

Sculptures

  • 1999: End of the night , oak
  • 2000: grand piano , wood, colored
  • 2000: Nosedive , blackened oak
  • 2000: Poor dog , wood, painted in color
  • 2000: Queen , wood, painted in color

Artist books

  • Isaak Babel : Five stories from Budjonny's cavalry army. Diploma thesis, with 10 color illustrations. University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig, 1966.
  • Louis Aragon : Descartes 1649. The Birth of Peace. Aragon 1946. (With 11 color woodcuts). University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig, 1967.
  • The burnt pigeon. With 14 partly colored original etchings . University of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig, 1968.
  • Diversity. Russian poems from the Soviet Union. Leporello with 20 color original screen prints. University of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig, 1971.

Book illustrations

  • Heinz Glade : Travel Sketches from the Harz Mountains. (Map drawings) Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1973.
  • Max Walter Schulz : The soldier and the woman. Novella. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle Leipzig 1978.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1982: Berlin, Galerie Unter den Linden
  • 1986: Stralsund , gallery roof hall
  • 2000: Stralsund, Gallery “D” in the Stralsund hallway
  • 2001: Stargard Szczecinski (Stargard), Museum Pyritzer Tor
  • 2005:  Neustrelitz , gallery for contemporary art
  • 2019: Ribnitz-Damgarten , gallery in the monastery

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in the GDR. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig 1983, pp. 136, 280, 299.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Herold's website
  2. ↑ http://www.rainer-herold.de/ausstellung/mauerfall.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.rainer-herold.de/ausstellung/walther_petri.htm
  4. ↑ Pirckheimer Blog May 25, 2019
  5. ↑ archiv.adk.de/objekt/2770723
  6. ↑ a b picture index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Herold, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig