Robert Preyer

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Robert Preyer (born November 26, 1930 in Brussels , † December 29, 2014 in Rettert ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Preyer was born in Belgium in 1930, and in 1944 he moved to Lauterbach in Hesse . In 1951 he began to study painting at the Städel . Preyer was a student of Wilhelm Heise , Georg Meistermann and a master student of Heinz Battke . In 1962 he received a scholarship from Villa Massimo , Rome.

Between 1964 and 1967 Preyer took on a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule Darmstadt, where he also became a member of the New Darmstadt Secession in 1964 . From 1968 to 1988 he was head of the painting class at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden and professor at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences .

He lived and worked in Rettert in Taunus and on the island of Chios in Greece.

In 2017 the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden honored Robert Preyer with the exhibition Homage to Robert Preyer. An exhibition with works by the painter and six of his former students: Heidi Bastian, Michael Post , Eberhard Riedel, Hajo Sternhardt , Birgitta Weiss, Hans Zitko . The exhibition was curated by the artist and curator Michael Post, who also wrote a text in the catalog published for the exhibition.

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Preyer began at the Städel with large-format, abstract color lithographs in gestural-expressive imagery, from which he developed his painting. In the 1970s he worked on a number of geometric compositions. From the 1980s onwards, impressions from the Greek island of Chios increasingly determine his oeuvre. The landscape, the light and the colors of Greece were decisive for his work. Preyer painted richly colored, highly abstract landscapes. He mainly worked with structuring lines and surfaces, which he brought into the still damp paint consisting of several layers by scratching and scraping. Imaging elements are everyday elements in reduced forms in partly ornamental repetitions.

The artist also illustrated books several times, including two artist books with original graphics in 1975 and 1994 in collaboration with the poet Dieter Hoffmann.

Awards

  • 1954: Martin Leißner Prize

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1958: Grenchen Triennial
  • 1958: International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography, Cincinnati Art Museum , Ohio
  • 2017: Homage to Robert Preyer , Kunsthalle Wiesbaden

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Robert Preyer . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 97, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023264-6 , p. 9.
  2. ↑ a b Robert Preyer , Die Darmstädter Sezession, accessed on March 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Michael Post: Homage to Robert Preyer. An exhibition with works by the painter and six of his former students. Ed .: Kulturamt Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 2017.
  4. ^ Vernissage homage to Robert Preyer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2017 ; accessed on October 17, 2017 (photos of the vernissage). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbaden.de
personal data
SURNAME Preyer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2014
Place of death Rescues , Taunus