Tom Reichelt (painter)

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Tom Reichelt (born September 16, 1920 in Dresden as Karl Ottomar Reichelt, † March 25, 2004 in Celle ) was a German painter . Since 1967 he signed with the artist name Tom Reichelt. He is the grandson of the Dresden architect Ottomar Reichelt (1853–1911) and father of the painter and musician Moritz Reichelt (* 1955), who now lives in Berlin .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1938, Tom Reichelt was drafted into the armed forces and at the beginning of the Second World War in 1940 he was posted to Leipzig to study medicine . After the state examination and doctorate in 1945, he was an assistant doctor in Blankenburg , Merseburg and Halle . Inspired by the painter Georg Paul in Merseburg, Tom Reichelt began to occupy himself with the visual arts. He attended courses at the Burg Giebichenstein art school and did life drawing with Gustav Weidanz . In 1949 he met the two painters Hermann Bachmann and Herbert Kitzel , in whose studios he was able to gain his first artistic experience. Through her he got access to the gallery of Eduard Henning in Halle and belonged to the circle of artists of the Halle School . In 1957, Tom Reichelt and his family left the GDR and worked in the general hospital in Celle, where he soon took over the management of the X-ray department and radiation therapy. He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists , the Celle Art Association and the Society for Electronic Art.

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During his time in Halle in the 1950s, Tom Reichelt initially oriented himself towards works of Expressionism , Classical Modernism and the works that were created in the studios of his painter friends Bachmann and Kitzel. Reichelt's early works are determined by a “subdued, uniform color mood” (D. Litt). In the following years he created a wealth of watercolors, oil paintings and graphics. In 1962 he exhibited his “Fleckenbilder”, experimental color variations that create “atmospheric pictorial spaces” with lively brushwork (D. Litt). Together with Karl-Heinz Lingner , he triggers a violent polemic against the “gentlemen non-objective ” and the “wilderness” of their pictures (Cellesche Zeitung Nov. 1962). He also worked with printmaking in the 1960s . He regularly took part in the exhibitions of the Kunstverein Hannover. In 1966/67 he created "X-ray women", which show the radiologist and artist's double view of beauty and decay. Photography was added in the 1970s . In the 1980s, Tom Reichelt was one of the first to deal with computer graphics and computer painting. In 1990 , Steintor Verlag published the “Master Suite of European Graphics - Computer Pictures: My House, My Table, My Bed”. After his retirement in 1984, Tom Reichelt concentrated entirely on painting again.

The mythological figure of " Icarus " becomes a life theme , whereby it is not the flight to the sun that is of interest, but the crash. “For him, painting was a state of intense but effortless concentration, of heightened and expanded attention, of 'presence of mind'. The painting process, the brushstroke as »here and now«, as moment and eternity in one, that fascinated him ” (Wiltrud Stoffregen-Reichelt). Painting is also a retreat in the interior of your dreams. Groups of images such as “Almost like landscape” and “Herzgewächse” kept him occupied until his death. In 2006, as part of a memorial exhibition in the Gothic Hall of Celle Castle, the book "Tom Reichelt in retrospect: Painting and graphics 1952 to 2004" was published.

His widow Wiltrud Stoffregen-Reichelt donated a selection from his artistic estate to the Bomann Museum in Celle from 2007 to 2009 (49 paintings in oil or acrylic on canvas or cardboard as well as 46 watercolors. The work area "Print graphics" including the erasure plates is complete contain).

Solo exhibitions

  • 1962 Celle, Gothic hall in the castle (together with Karl-Heinz Ligner)
  • 1964 Hanover, Künstlerhaus
  • 1964 Braunschweig, gallery on Bohlweg
  • 1965 Göttingen, almanac of the gallery in the center
  • 1966 Gütersloh, room gallery
  • 1967 Walsrode, Gallery »P«
  • 1967 Berlin, gallery in the evening by Vera Ziegler
  • 1974 Burgdorf, Gallery of the Steintor Verlag (Jüdes)
  • 1975 Dortmund, Ostentor Gallery
  • 1975 Dortmund, culture house of the Hoesch company
  • 1976 Hanover, photo gallery »Z«
  • 1988 Hanover, gallery in the Künstlerhaus (together with H. Brede)
  • 1989 Meiborssen, Gallery of the Steintor Verlag (Jüdes)
  • 1990 Celle, Clemens-Cassel-Haus
  • 1991 Meiborssen, gallery of the Steintor Verlag (together with Christin Becker)
  • 1991 Burgdorf, Kramski Gallery
  • 1995 Celle, Gothic hall in the castle
  • 1996 Hameln, »arche« gallery
  • 1999 Eschede, Musenmöhl
  • 2000 Celle, Gothic hall in the castle
  • 2001 Bomlitz, gallery in the forum
  • 2002 Hanover, Ministry of Culture
  • 2006 Celle, Gothic Hall in the Castle, »Looking back: 1952 - 2004«
  • 2007 Halle, Hallescher Kunstverein, opera foyer
  • 2010 Celle, Bomann Museum

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1950 Merseburg, Redoute
  • 1960 Celle, Gothic hall in the castle: »without object«
  • 1960 Hannover, Kunstverein, 48th autumn exhibition
  • 1960 Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein
  • 1961 Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein
  • 1961 Hannover, Kunstverein, 49th autumn exhibition
  • 1963 Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein
  • 1963 Celle, Gothic hall in the castle
  • 1964 Hamburg, Boskamp Gallery
  • 1964 Hanover, Kunstverein, 52nd autumn exhibition
  • 1964 Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein
  • 1965 Worpswede, Galerie R. Steinmüller
  • 1965 Öflingen, Protestant parish
  • 1965 Hanover, Kunstverein, 53rd autumn exhibition
  • 1966 Loccum, Evangelical Academy
  • 1966 Hannover, Kunstverein, 54th autumn exhibition
  • 1966 Frankfurt, Gallery Patio
  • 1966 Dorum, secondary school
  • 1967 Hannover, Kunstverein, 128th spring exhibition
  • 1969 Göhrde, Art Forum
  • 1969 Dortmund, Ostentor Gallery
  • 1969 Hanover, Kunstverein, 57th autumn exhibition
  • 1969 Hamburg, Hamburg film show '69
  • 1970 Göhrde, Art Forum
  • 1972 Bonn, Lower Saxony State Representation
  • 1973 Novi Sad, World Exhibition of Photography
  • 1974 Hamburg, "The Island"
  • 1975 Hamburg, 7th Hamburg Photo Days
  • 1976 Plön, International Photo Circle
  • 1976 Frankfurt Book Fair, Steintor Verlag
  • 1978 Springe, City Hall
  • 1979 Plön, International Photo Circle
  • 1984 Braunschweig, Gallery for Photography
  • 1985 Meiborssen, Gallery of the Steintor Verlag (Jüdes)
  • 1987 Hanover, national exhibition of the BBK
  • 1988 Hanover, Kunstverein, 75th autumn exhibition
  • 1988 Meiborssen, gallery of the Steintor Verlag (Jüdes)
  • 1988 Schloss Holdenstedt, "I, artist in Lower Saxony"
  • 1989 Tavistock and Plymouth, BBK exhibition
  • 1989 Meiborssen, gallery of the Steintor Verlag, autumn exhibition
  • 1990 Holbæk, Denmark
  • 1990 Meiborssen, gallery of the Steintor Verlag, autumn exhibition
  • 1991 Meiborssen, gallery of the Steintor Verlag, Whitsun exhibition
  • 1991 Hildesheim, 12th national exhibition of the BBK
  • 1991 Celle, "700 years of Celle"
  • 1994 Gladbeck, Computer Art '94
  • 2007 Halle, Kunstverein Halle, "Herbert Kitzel and Friends"
  • 2007 Halle, Kunstverein »Talstraße«, »A Halle cosmos in a standard format«

Publications

  • 1965 »Centaur-Almanach« from the gallery in the center

published by Heinz Raumschüssel, Göttingen

  • 1990 "Master Suite European Graphics", edition by Steintor Verlag

Three computer images Mein Haus, Mein Tisch, Mein Bett, all 1990, 32-color, signed, dated; Edition: 50 each

  • 2006 Catalog "Tom Reichelt in Review: Painting and Graphics 1952 - 2004", 200 pages, 275 illustrations, self-published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorit Litt: Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition: Tom Reichelt in retrospect - painting and graphics 1952 - 2004 from June 11 to July 30, 2006 in the Gothic Hall of the Celle Castle, p. 15; also http://www.tomreichelt.de/doritlitt.html
  2. ^ Dorit Litt: Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition: Tom Reichelt in retrospect - painting and graphics 1952 - 2004 from June 11 to July 30, 2006 in the Gothic Hall of Celle Castle, p. 16; also http://www.tomreichelt.de/doritlitt.html
  3. ↑ Cellesche Zeitung of November 10, 1962: Confession to artistic chaos - The picture exhibition in the Gothic Hall of the Celle Palace; also Dorit Litt: Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition: Tom Reichelt in retrospect - painting and graphics 1952 - 2004 from June 11 to July 30, 2006 in the Gothic Hall of the Celle Castle, p. 17; also http://www.tomreichelt.de/doritlitt.html
  4. ↑ Wiltrud Stoffregen-Reichelt: Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition: Tom Reichelt in retrospect - painting and graphics 1952 - 2004 from June 11 to July 30, 2006 in the Gothic Hall of the Celle Castle, p. 12; also http://www.tomreichelt.de/vita.html
  5. ^ Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition: Tom Reichelt in retrospect - painting and graphics 1952 - 2004 from June 11 to July 30, 2006 in the Gothic Hall of the Celle Castle; also http://www.tomreichelt.de/
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichelt, Karl Ottomar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2004
Place of death Celle