Ulrich Baehr

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Ulrich Baehr (1975)
Ulrich Baehr (2013)

Ulrich Baehr (born March 31, 1938 in Bad Kösen ) is a German painter.

Life

In 1958 Baehr graduated from high school Carolinum in Osnabrück. From 1958 to 1965 he studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin and German at the Free University of Berlin . From 1962 to 1963 he received a scholarship from the Gustav Stresemann Foundation for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1964 he became a master student with Werner Volkert. Baehr was a founding member of the Großgörschen 35 gallery . In 1966 he married the painter Bettina von Arnim . The marriage resulted in two daughters. From 1968 to 1970 he was a lecturer at the State University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Baehr has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1970 . In 1972, alongside Peter Sorge , Wolfgang Petrick , Klaus Vogelgesang and Maina-Miriam Munsky, he was a founding member of the Aspect group , which existed until 1978. In 1975 he had a studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 1986 he was a visiting professor at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1987 Baehr held a professorship for painting and art in public space at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences in the field of fine arts.

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As early as the 1960s, Baehr was dealing with subjects with political or contemporary historical references in his paintings. So-called "history pictures" were created which use American Pop Art to depict events and people from the recent past in an ironic and critical way. This was followed by painted sculptures, the "German Torsi", which showed the body language of rulers like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin , but also of film heroes like Gary Cooper or John Wayne , in detail and enlarged. As a contemporary witness, Baehr observes and works on the rapid changes in the city in his studio at Checkpoint Charlie, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in large-format watercolors and oil paintings such as “Good -Bye Charlie”, 1991, Galerie Poll , Berlin; or “KranZeit”, 1998, Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen .

"At the beginning of the new millennium, Baehr started again a great cycle that has both painting and history as its subject." The series “The 20th Century” shows large-format canvases that use ship disasters as the theme of the failure of ideologies and power systems of the past epoch. The contemporary historical background also appears in the seemingly idyllic paintings of the Brandenburg landscape such as “War in the Undergrowth” from 2015, each 120 × 150 cm, for example in the now overgrown relics of the Soviet army bases in the former GDR.

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1964: Großgörschen 35 , Berlin
  • 1966: Großgörschen 35, Berlin
  • 1966: Tobies & Silex Gallery, Cologne
  • 1968: Municipal Museum, Osnabrück
  • 1971: Gallery Werkstatt, Bremen
  • 1975: Gallery at Savignyplatz, Berlin
  • 1977: Where to put your hands? , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstverein in Hamburg , Kunstschau Böttcherstraße, Bremen
  • 1982: Haus am Waldsee , Berlin
  • 1982: Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1986: Göttingen Municipal Museum
  • 1988: State Art Gallery, Berlin
  • 1990: Goethe Institute , Algiers
  • 1991: Good-Bye, Charlie , Galerie Poll , Berlin
  • 1992: Kunstverein, Lüneburg
  • 1998: KranZeit , Ludwigshafen City Museum
  • 1999: Palms instead of cranes , Schering-Kunstverein, Berlin
  • 2006: The 20th Century , Kunstverein Emsdetten
  • 2010: Landscape , Museum Romanisches Haus Bad Kösen / Naumburg
  • 2013: Ulrich Baehr painting , Kunstverein Osterholz
  • 2014: The history paintings , Art Foundation Poll , Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

Working in public collections

Monographs

  • Ulrich Baehr. History pictures. Portraits and Idols . With texts by Thomas Kempas, Heinz Ohff , Wieland Schmied . Haus am Waldsee , Berlin 1982.
  • Ulrich Baehr. Pictures and watercolors 1980-1986 . With a text by Bernhard Schulz. Catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie Apex Göttingen and the Städtisches Museum Göttingen from June 15. until July 20, 1986, Göttingen 1986.
  • Ulrich Baehr 1964–1988 . With texts by Eckhart Gillen , Eberhard Roters , Wieland Schmied , Bernd Weyergraf. Catalog for the exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin from October 17 to November 16, 1988, Berlin 1988.
  • Ulrich Baehr. Lenin's sleep / wreath time . With a text by Eckhart Gillen . Catalog for the exhibition from February 20 until April 5th, 1995 in the Poll gallery . POLLeditions, Volume 43, Berlin 1995.
  • Ulrich Baehr . With a text by Lothar Romain . Lower Saxony Lotto Foundation , Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-00-010649-9 .
  • Ulrich Baehr. KranZeit. Watercolors . NordLB , Hanover 2003.
  • Ulrich Baehr. The 20th century . With a text by Eckhart Gillen . St. Matthäus Foundation, Berlin 2005.
  • Ulrich Baehr. Landscape - on the move in light and shadow . With a text by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger. Catalog for the exhibition in the Center for Environmental Communication of the DBU, Osnabrück 2010.

Literature (selection)

  • Heinz Ohff , in: Pop and the consequences , Düsseldorf 1969.
  • Hans Dieter Zimmermann, in: World from Language , Berlin 1972.
  • Principle of realism. Painting-plastic-graphics . With texts by Heinz Ohff and Eberhard Roters . DAAD , Goethe-Institut , Munich and Galerie Poll , Berlin 1972.
  • Juliane Roh , in: German Art of the 60s , Munich 1974.
  • Wieland Schmied, in: Painting since 45 , Berlin 1974.
  • Big city aspect . With texts by Eberhard Roters and Katrin Sello . Künstlerhaus Bethanien / aspect group, Berlin 1977.
  • Michael Haerdter, Werner Rhode, Eberhard Roters, Bernd Weyergraf, in: Where to put your hands? , Berlin 1977.
  • Hortense von Heppe, Bernd Weyergraf, Andreas Kaps u. a., in: Berlin – a critical view , London 1978.
  • Lucie Schauer , in Sigrid Estrada: One Month Berlin , Mainz 1979.
  • Benno Meyer-Wehlag, Pierre Lieutaghi, Andreas Reidemeister, in: St. Maime – Landscape in Change , Berlin 1980.
  • Mathias Eberle, in: Arte come Arte , Venice 1982.
  • Stephanie Endlich, in: Imitationen , Zurich 1991.
  • Klaus Hartung , in: Good Bye Charlie , Berlin 1991.
  • Klaus Hartung, Hans Stimmann , in: KranZeit , Berlin 1996.
  • Tilman Fichter, in: Deutschlandbilder , Berlin 1998.
  • Klaus Kufeld, Burghardt Schmidt, Jörg Zimmermann, in: Ulrich Baehr, KranZeit , Ludwigshafen 1998.
  • Eckhart Gillen , in: Feindliche Brüder , Berlin 2009.
  • Eckart Gillen, in: Art of the two Germanys , Los Angeles 2009.
  • Volkmar Braunbehrens , Götz Schmidt, in: Landscape , Berlin 2010.
  • Antje Kuhrmann, in: The Berlin Wall in Art , Berlin 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Eckhart Gillen , Politische Negative . In: Ulrich Baehr 1964–1988, Staatliche Kunsthalle , Berlin.
  2. ↑ See: Where to put your hands? , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1978.
  3. ↑ See: Lothar Romain , Ulrich Baehr 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Baehr, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kosen