Robert Rehfeldt
Robert Rehfeldt (born January 5, 1931 in Stargard in Pomerania , † September 28, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German artist.
Life and work
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Robert Rehfeldt grew up in Pomerania and Berlin . In 1940 he came up with the Kinderlandverschickung to Bad Ischl , Austria, to a foster family. His mother brought him back to Berlin in 1946.
He worked here as a stonemason and transport worker and applied for a degree. In East Berlin he was rejected by the newly founded art college , which is why Rehfeldt enrolled at the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin in 1948 . After graduating in 1953, he worked as a graphic artist, press illustrator and photo journalist. From 1963 he was freelance in the eastern part of the city and was one of the experimental artists. As a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , Rehfeldt received many building-related commissions . In the early 1970s he came into contact with the international mail art scene through Polish artists and Klaus Groh . He succeeded in building up an extensive network of contacts between Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and Latin America. He was also in a postal art exchange with Nam June Paik , Wolf Vostell , Robert Filliou , Horst Tress and Dick Higgins . In 1975 Rehfeldt asked artists from all over the world to design a postcard and turned it into the GDR's first Mail Art exhibition - on the occasion of a separate exhibition in the Galeria Teatru Studio in Warsaw . He inspired and supported the Mail Art exhibitions in the East Berlin gallery Arkade and in the EP gallery of Jürgen Schweinbraden . In 1986 Rehfeldt organized the East Berlin meeting of the 1st Decentralized International Mail Art Congress. He created an extensive graphic work and also dealt with photography and Super 8 film. In 1991, in addition to his own work, he also exhibited his Mail Art project from 1975 in his retrospective at the Ephraim-Palais in Berlin. Robert Rehfeldt died on September 28, 1993 after an operation in Berlin. He was posthumously represented in a number of important group exhibitions. The Galerie Parterre Berlin set up a retrospective for him in 2008.
Works (selection)
- 1974/75: Six chairs in Berlin-Neu-Hohenschönhausen in the park at Barther Pfuhl, together with Hanfried Schulz and Hartmut Henning .
- 1982: Murals in Berlin-Marzahn on the gable of the (today's) elementary school in the Bürgerpark: colors, shapes, letters and numbers freely and abstractly combined.
- 1984: Plastic bodies - large flowers in Berlin-Marzahn, open space in Springpfuhlpark. Together with Horst Göhler and Wolfgang Weber .
- 1987: Heathland , assemblage of natural materials, fabric and synthetic resin for the interior of the “An der Brannenheide” restaurant. No longer received.
Exhibitions
The following list is arranged by year, title and location (s) of the exhibition.
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Literature (selection)
- RR : In: From collage to assemblage. Studio 18 , National Museums in Berlin 1978
- Karin Thomas: In: Painting in the GDR , DuMOnt Verlag Cologne 1980
- Jürgen Weichardt : In: Art in Socialist States , Verlag Idensee Oldenburg 1980
- Eugen Blume: In: RR Leonhardi-Museum , Dresden, 1987
- Eugen Blume: In: Word Image, Visual Poetry in the GDR , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1990
- Hans-Jörg Schirmbeck: In: Music in the fine arts of the GDR , Berlin 1984, 1986
- Robert Rehfeldt: Causes and Effects of Art in Communication - Communicating Progressive Ideas by Post .
In: Friedrich Winnes and Lutz Wohlrab (eds.): Mail Art Szene DDR 1975–1990 , p. 15. - Robert Rehfeldt: Art for free . In: Friedrich Winnes and Lutz Wohlrab (eds.): Mail Art Szene DDR 1975–1990 , p. 17.
- Eugen Blume: Robert Rehfeldt: Artist moves you otherwise you will be kicked away - Fluxus in the GDR? , In: Fluxus - A long story with many knots (ifa catalog text volume), Stuttgart 1995, pp. 32–37.
- Bettina Schanzke: From collage to mail art . In: Art in the GDR , Nationalgalerie Berlin retrospective 2003, pp. 170–179.
- Lutz Wohlrab (ed.): Robert Rehfeldt - Art in Contact , Berlin 2009.
- Anke Scharnhorst: Rehfeldt, Robert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Robert Rehfeldt on kunstaspekte.de
- Mail Artists Index
- From the dream? Attempt at approximation in 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Schweinbraden: In: Catalog RR , Gallery Arkade SKH, Berlin 1975
- ↑ Photo and short text for 6 chairs on Flickr.com
- ↑ 6 chairs on platten-art-en.blogspot.de
- ^ Art in the large housing estate , works of art in public space in Marzahn and Hellersdorf, Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, around 2010; Page 165
- ^ Art in the large housing estate , works of art in public space in Marzahn and Hellersdorf, Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, around 2010; Page 85
- ^ Art in the large housing estate , works of art in public space in Marzahn and Hellersdorf, Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office, around 2010; Page 209
- ↑ Eugen Blume: Robert Rehfeldt catalog Ephraim-Palais Berlin 199 , pp. 3–13.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rehfeldt, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stargard in Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1993 |
| Place of death | Berlin |