Stefan Plenkers

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Stefan Plenkers (born April 28, 1945 in Ebern ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Stefan Plenkers grew up in Görlitz . At high school he received a variety of creative ideas from his drawing teacher Werner Panitz, who had been a master student of Otto Mueller .

Plenkers completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter from 1963 to 1965. He then worked part-time in the typography department at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . After his military service, in 1967 he gave up the desired and already received study place at the university in question and instead began a five-year course in graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Professors Gerhard Kettner and Günter Horlbeck taught him . The later artist friendships with the same age Rainer Zille , Joachim Böttcher and Veit Hofmann began here.

He took up his freelance work in 1973 in Bad Muskau , went to Cottbus in 1974 (lively artistic exchange with Hans Scheuerecker and Dieter Ladewig ), before settling again and permanently at his place of study in Dresden the following year. From 1980 to 1982 he was a master student at Kettner .

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Plenkers, who was impressed by Dresden artistic personalities of the older generation such as Wilhelm Rudolph and Bernhard Kretzschmar , practiced graphic techniques in the first phase of his work. Oil painting was added in 1969. At first, his subjects included broken empty interiors, abandoned tables, mirrors over mirrors, tents, sails, circus performers, people in pubs. The later works broke away from the traditional Dresden point of view and became more colorful, lighter, more lively. Plenkers, who had long since ceased to be a bohemian, also received suggestions on numerous trips. They took him to Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, the USA, Lapland, China and again and again to places by the sea.

Plenkers tries to avoid any narrative style in his painting. When praising the simple, everlasting things of the human environment, he relies on the means of the painterly, accentuated by graphic basic structures as well as characters and codes. The depth dimension of the pictures is often realized solely through the so-called color perspective.

Stefan Plenkers suffered a serious car accident in the autumn of 1989, which forced him to take a long break from work. He successfully fought to regain his motor and cognitive skills. As a result, the artistic handwriting was further differentiated and productivity reached a new level.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Cottbus, Forum K, 1974
  • Dresden, Galerie Nord, 1975
  • Greifswald, Greifen-Galerie, 1978
  • Neubrandenburg, House of Culture, 1980
  • Berlin, Galerie Mitte, 1982
  • Erfurt, Angermuseum , 1983
  • Görlitz, Galerie am Schönhof, 1984
  • Dresden, Leonhardi Museum , 1986
  • Cortina d'Ampezzo, Galleria d'arte Piccinini, 1986
  • Bordeaux, Galerie Présidence, 1989
  • Frankfurt am Main, Art Cabinet Hanna Bekker vom Rath, 1990
  • Mannheim, Galerie Fahlbusch, 1991
  • Nuremberg, Galerie Nickel-Zadow, 1993
  • Görlitz, Galerie Klinger, 1995
  • Berlin, Galerie Contemporary Fine Arts, 2003
  • Frankfurt am Main, Art Cabinet Hanna Bekker vom Rath, 2005
  • Dresden, Municipal Gallery , 2011
  • Shanghai, 2015

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • Hamburg, Dresden Graphics , 1981
  • Poznań, Interart 84 , 1984
  • Cortina d'Ampezzo, Ten GDR Artists , 1985
  • Frankfurt am Main, Art from Dresden after 1945 , 1986
  • Leipzig, Dresden artist - works on paper , 1989
  • Cologne, Art Cologne , 1991
  • Karlsruhe, Art in the Regional Court - Artists from Dresden , 1992
  • Frankfurt am Main, Art Frankfurt , 1993
  • Strasbourg, ten painters from Dresden , 1995
  • Hamburg, Crossover , 1999
  • Frankfurt (Oder), Landscapes of the GDR , 2004
  • Chemnitz, change of collection , 2005
  • Dresden, “Without us!” , 2009
  • Dresden, Saxony by the Sea , 2010
  • Dresden, For Prof. Dr. Diether Schmidt on his 80th birthday , 2010

Pictures in galleries (selection)

  • Altenburg, Lindenau Museum
  • Chemnitz, municipal art collections
  • Cottbus, Brandenburg Art Collections
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
  • Dresden, Kupferstichkabinett
  • Dresden, Museum of City History
  • Erfurt, Angermuseum
  • Görlitz, cultural history museum
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
  • London, British Museum
  • Neubrandenburg, art collections
  • Oberhausen, Ludwig Collection
  • Oslo, art museum
  • Rome, Vatican
  • Schweinfurt, art gallery
  • Sofia, Museum of Fine Arts
  • Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
  • Szczecin, Polish National Museum

Publications (selection)

  • Kristian Pech : The imperfect skin . Illustrations by Stefan Plenkers. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1983
  • Stefan Plenkers: Sea mark . Refugium, Neustrelitz 1995
  • Stefan Plenkers: Travel to Spain . Conrad printing company, Berlin 2002
  • Stefan Plenkers: Space and Signs . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2011 ISBN 978-3-86678-532-8

literature

  • Joachim Neidhardt: Dresden as painters saw it . Edition Leipzig 1983
  • Gert Claussnitzer: Artist in Dresden . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1984
  • Art in the GDR. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990
  • Plenkers. Pictures . Edition Refugium, Neustrelitz 1995
  • Jörg Sperling: The early years of the painter Stefan Plenkers in Bad Muskau and Cottbus. In: Cottbuser Heimatkalender 2014 , published by the city administration and the Historisches Heimatverein Cottbus, pages 49 to 54.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lisa Werner-Art: Galerie Klinger shows works by Rainer Zille and Stefan Plenkers , accessed on June 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Plenkers, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Boars