Rolf Meyn (graphic designer)

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Rolf Meyn (born November 18, 1930 in Lüneburg ; † August 11, 2013 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After finishing school, he passed his Abitur at the Johanneum Lüneburg in 1951 . Meyn experienced the war years as an air raid detector and in the German young people . He did not take an active part in the war.

1951 to 1955 he studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (former State Art School Hamburg ) with Alfred Mahlau together with Peter Neugebauer , Horst Janssen , Christoph Drescher , Vicco von Bülow , alias Loriot , Gero Flurschütz , Herbert Grunwaldt , Hanns Jatzlau , Albert Christoph Reck , u. a. In Hamburg from 1953 he worked on the art of furnishing the passenger ships of the shipping companies HAPAG and Ernst Russ on behalf of Edgar Horstmann . From 1954, he and his future wife, Marion Kindler , developed key creative designs and furnishings for the LiLaLe artist festival under the direction of Kurt Kranz .

As a freelance artist, he worked since 1956, mainly in Hamburg, and undertook study trips through Europe and Canada . In 1959 he stayed in the Orient for a long time (Turkey, Persia). After his return he worked from 1960 as a lecturer at a community college . In 1966 he received a teaching post at the former master school for fashion, the University of Applied Sciences for Design Department in Hamburg.

Since 1981 he has worked in studios in Hamburg and in the Vaucluse department in Provence, France .

In 1957 he married his colleague Marion Kindler, with whom he had a son, Boris Meyn .

Rolf Meyn 1978 at the printing press in his studio in Hamburg

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Meyn mainly made hand drawings in pencil and colored pencil, as well as with the quill pen (Scriptol). After early attempts in tempera (60s) and partly large-format oil chalks ( Jaxon ), he worked primarily with watercolors , gouaches (mixed techniques) and pastels from the mid-80s . He also used techniques such as woodcut , linocut, later line etching and drypoint in zinc and copper, aquatint , open surface etchings, color mono, mezzotint and vernis mou . In contrast to many artists, Meyn's entire etching was printed himself, since 1963 on his own press.

Meyn's works can be found in private property as well as in public collections.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960 Club home of the German BP
  • 1964 Gallery House Sol, Georgetown, Canada
  • 1967 Kunsthaus, Hamburg
  • 1968 New Etchings, Gallery House Sol, Canada
  • Evangelical Academy, Bad Segeberg
  • 1974 Hotel Bremen, Berlin
  • 1975 Dresdner Bank Flensburg
  • Dresdner Bank Ahrensburg
  • 1976 Sen Gupta Gallery, Hamburg
  • Marstall, Neuburg / Danube
  • 1977 City Library, Bremen
  • 1978 1x6 Kunsthaus, Hamburg
  • 1979 Mohr Gallery, Ahrensburg
  • 1980 Schenefeld Art Circle
  • 1981 Gallery at the cathedral, Bardowick
  • 1982 Emslandmuseum Schloß Clemenswerth, Sögel
  • 1983 Die Insel artist club, Hamburg
  • 1985 Small orangery in Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
  • 1988 Galerie Riemenschneider / AMSA, Hamburg
  • 1990 Emslandmuseum Schloß Clemenswerth, Sögel
  • 1991 Oberpostdirektion, Hamburg
  • 1992 Reepschlägerhaus, Wedel
  • 1993 Palace for Contemporary Art
  • 1999 Institut Francais, Rostock
  • 2001 Evangelical Academy, Bad Segeberg
  • 2002 Emslandmuseum Schloß Clemenswerth, Sögel
  • 2003 City Museum Göttingen
  • 2009 Möllner Museum, Historic Town Hall, Mölln
  • 2010 Art Association Elmshorn
  • 2011 Galerie Kohlstedt, Deutsch-Evern
  • 2012 Segeberger Kunstverein, Bad Segeberg

bibliography

Work catalogs (selection)

  • 1954 Konrad Tegtmeier, This is Hamburg, Hamburg.
  • 1955 History of the State University of Fine Arts, Hamburg
  • 1969 Hans Platte, On the Drawings, Rolf Meyn, Christians, Hamburg
  • 1971 Heinz Spielmann, Hamburg painter see Hamburg, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-76720-187-3
  • 1974 Volker Detlef Heydorn, painter in Hamburg II, 1945–66, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-76720-277-1
  • Volker Detlef Heydorn, painter in Hamburg III, 1966–74, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-76720-290-0
  • 1977 Volker Detlef Heydorn, painter in Hamburg IV, prints, ISBN 978-3-76720-480-5
  • 1980 Dieter Joachim Jessel, Rolf Meyn, etchings 1952-1980, Hamburg
  • Ernst Rump; Erich Könnecke, Lexicon of Visual Artists Hamburg, Altonas, and the surrounding area, Hamburg 1912, ext. reprint
  • 1982 artist in Hamburg, Christians, Hamburg
  • Peter Reindl, Alfred Mahlau and his students, Christians, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-76720-797-4
  • 1990 Eckard Wagner, Rolf Meyn, hand drawings and etchings 1981-1989 (complete directory of etching works), Hower, Hamburg
  • 1991 Complete catalog of Schleswig-Holstein artists, Kiel
  • 2002 Eckhard Michael, Rolf Meyn, watercolors, hand drawings and etchings (continuation of the catalog raisonné from 1981) Oltmanns, Hamburg
  • 2003 Jens Uwe Brinkmann; Eckard Wagner, Rolf Meyn, Landscape and Still Life, Goltze, Göttingen

Illustrations (selection)

200th birthday of Friedrich Silcher: special postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost from 1989
  • 1958 Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , and build a house for the bees, Hamburg
  • 1961 Peter Gording, pilot on board, Baken Verlag, Hamburg
  • 1964 The red ladder (school primer), Herrmann Schroedel Verlag
  • Peter Gording, trawler off Greenland, beacons, Hamburg
  • University guides, Die ZEIT-BOOKS, Nannen, Hamburg
  • Rudolf Braunburg , Atlantic flight , beacons, Hamburg
  • 1966 Herbert Plate , But the best is the water, Hamburg
  • 1967 Barbara Bartos-Höppner , From a handful of clay, Baken, Hamburg
  • Elaine Dundy , An evening for two, Krüger, Hamburg
  • 1968 Davis Grubb , my brother's shadow, Krüger, Hamburg
  • 1989 postage stamp, Friedrich Silcher 80 Pfennig, Deutsche Bundespost

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Möllner Museum | Special exhibition Rolf Meyn" . Website Möllner Museum. Retrieved November 9, 2012
  2. ↑ KVE - Kunstverein Elmshorn eV . Website of the KVE - Kunstverein Elmshorn e. V. Accessed November 7, 2012
  3. ^ Exhibitions - Segeberger Kunstverein e. V. . Website of the Segeberger Kunstverein. Retrieved November 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Meyn, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2013
Place of death Hamburg