Volker Meier

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Volker Meier (born August 8, 1932 in Hamburg ; † January 15, 1993 in front of Aberdeen ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Born in Hamburg, Meier first completed a pottery apprenticeship with Monja Maetzel , which he completed with a journeyman's examination. He also took his first painting lessons from Emil Maetzel . From 1955 he studied painting with Willem Grimm at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . Here he got to know the egg tempera technique, which was important for his later work. Cityscapes of narrow backyards, firewalls and factory chimneys are created that are reminiscent of the pictures of the painter Werner Heldt , who was admired by Meier .

In 1956 Meier moved into his studio in a backyard in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, where he lived and worked until his death. In 1960 Meier acquired his first sailing boat, with which he undertook extensive tours on the Elbe and the Baltic Sea. The islands and coasts of Denmark and later Sweden and Norway have a decisive influence on Meier's work.

At the end of the 60s he often sails and paints with artist friends on his "Wakonda" an old lifeboat that he has converted into a ketch. a. with Werner Nöfer . With him u. a. the joint work "Storyboard", based on a picture idea by Nöfer, which will be published in an edition on the first Hamburg Art Cathedral. The artist friends Ullrich Hohenhaus and Rolf Zander also participate in the joint work. The storyboard idea will subsequently inspire Meier to produce numerous pictures and graphics.

When Meier discovered old bunkers from the Second World War on the Kattegat island of Hirsholm during a summer cruise in 1976, he found one of his main subjects. His painting "Deutsche Hinterlassenschaft" from 1983, "whose anti-militaristic conception is almost imposing on every viewer", is one of many bunker variations by the pacifist Meier.

Meier declined the invitation to a dinner in Hamburg City Hall in honor of the then Federal President Karl Carstens in 1980 with reference to his teacher Willem Grimm , who had been banned from work and persecuted by the National Socialists.

Volker Meier died of a heart attack on January 15, 1993 on board a research ship off Aberdeen on the Scottish coast.

Awards

  • 1973: Edwin Scharff Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • 1973: Member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Hamburg - Galerie Zwo 4
  • 1963: Hamburg - Galerie Hans Neuendorf
  • 1974: Hamburg - Kunsthaus
  • 1984: Hamburg - Museum for Hamburg History
  • 1986: Svendborg - Art Association
  • 1987: Hamburg - Free Academy of the Arts

literature

  • Maike Bruhns : Volker Meier - A painter in Hamburg, works 1955–1987. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-88920-009-5 .
  • Maike Bruhns: Volker Meier - catalog raisonné of graphics. Hamburg 1996.
  • Jörgen Bracker : Between the archipelago and the fjords - escape routes to the north. Catalog. Museum of Hamburg History, 1984.
  • Jörgen Bracker, Gerd Mettjes (ed.): Nöfer: "The change of the republic or a theory of architecture". Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum for Hamburg History 1998 and Museum Schwedenspeicher. Stade 1999, ISBN 3-00-002497-2 , pp. 39-40.

Web links

http://www.volker-meier-galerie.de/

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maike Bruhns: Volker Meier - A painter in Hamburg. Hamburg 1989.
  2. ^ Maike Bruhns: Volker Meier - A painter in Hamburg. Hamburg 1989, p. 146.
  3. ^ Exhibition Volker Meier. ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt. No. 122, 27. Main 1957, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1993
Place of death Aberdeen