Walter Stöhrer

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Walter Stöhrer, Sinalunga, 1982

Walter Stöhrer (born January 15, 1937 in Stuttgart , † April 10, 2000 in Taarstedt ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Due to the war, Stöhrer grew up in various parts of the Black Forest until the family settled in Karlsruhe . It was clear to Stöhrer early on: “I want to be a painter”. Since he was still too young for the academy, he did an apprenticeship as a commercial artist at the Werbe-Blum company in Karlsruhe from 1952 to 1954. He then studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy between 1956 and 1959 . After two semesters in the commercial graphics class with Hans Gaensslen , he switched to the free art class at HAP Grieshaber . He belonged to a group of painters with independent, individual profiles, such as Hans Baschang , Dieter Krieg , Horst Antes and Heinz Schanz . Stöhrer lived in Berlin from 1959 . He became a member of the German Association of Artists , in whose annual exhibitions he took part in 1964 (in Berlin) and 1971 (in Stuttgart). After a four-semester visiting professorship at the University of the Arts in Berlin, he was offered a full professorship in 1986. During the lecture-free periods he lived in Scholderup near Schleswig. From 1984 on he was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. The Walter Stöhrer Foundation with archive and collection was established in Scholderup in 1999 while the artist was still alive.

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Even during his studies he was one of the formative artists of the New Figuration in Germany. In the period that followed, he continued to develop his mostly large-format paintings, unaffected by Pop Art , Minimal or Conceptual Art , dealing with the free painterly gesture of abstract expressionism . There is a closeness to the German Informel , but Stöhrer's painting lacks its poetry. If the primary colors red, yellow and blue dominate his pictures almost regularly (with often large areas of the white painting ground) and set pieces from the real world keep appearing, there are parallels to the scribbling drawings and figuration of the COBRA artists, the coded symbols the Art brut and the artistic techniques of Surrealism .

In addition, his work, which was often created in thematic groups, reflects the examination of visually charged literature, among others by Antonin Artaud , André Breton , Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Unica Zürn . Stöhrer's prints, especially those of etchings , are on a par with his paintings . Stöhrer's work is unique in the art of the 20th century and has not remained without influence on its development.

Works, exemplary selection

  • 1964: Caspar I , (Wkvz. 64.8), Deutsche Bank art collection
  • 1976: The Magic of the Prophetic (Wkvz. 76.11) Hessisches Landesmuseum , Darmstadt
  • 1977: Black Man , (Wkvz. 77.14) Museum Wiesbaden
  • 1979 porcelain skin, 1979, (Wkvz. 79.15) private collection Düsseldorf
  • 1982: Because from them (the elements) everything is fit together - Empedocles , (Wkvz 82.5) Saarland-Museum , Saarbrücken
  • 1988: Nadja I to Nadja XI (11 paintings as homage à Breton ) (Wkvz. 88.1 to 88.11, 88.13, 89.1) including Kunstmuseum Stuttgart , Museum Morsbroich , Berlinische Galerie
  • 1991: Caspar , (Wkvz.91.11) Walter Stöhrer Foundation, Scholderup
  • 1999: Words filled with mud, words decorated with contractions , (Wkvz. 99.26) Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Gottorf Castle
  • 1999: Not yet (Hommage à Hopkins), (Wkvz. 99.29) Walter Stöhrer Foundation, Scholderup

Exhibitions

Prices

literature

  • Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945-1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , (National Gallery, State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
  • Martin Czechne: Walter Stöhrer. A tremor of passion and grace, in: art - the art magazine No. 1, January 1996, pp. 36–47
  • Walter Stöhrer. Etching , ed. by Erich Brinkmann / Hanne Forstbauer, with articles by Walter Aue, Ottmar Bergmann, Christine Hoffmann, Annette Meyer zu Eissen, Karsten Müller, Karl Ruhrberg , Peter Winter and others, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-940048-01-1
  • Walter Stöhrer, Catalog raisonné of painting 1957-1999 , ed. from the Walter Stöhrer Foundation, edited by Hanne Forstbauer / Ilka Merkert u. a., Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, 2008 ISBN 978-3-940048-00-4
  • Michael Semff, Andreas Strobl (eds.): The presence of the line: A selection of recent acquisitions of the 20th and 21st centuries from the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich , Pinakothek der Moderne March 19 to June 21, 2009, Munich 2009, ISBN 978 3-927803-46-6
  • Gerd Presler: Walter Stöhrer. Catalog raisonné of the sketchbooks. Berlin / Scholderup 2012
  • Roman Zieglgänsberger: Who's Afraid of Black Men? Life Figures, Dynamics in the abstract work of Walter Stöhrer , in: Exh. Cat. Black Man - The year 1977 in the work of Walter Stöhrer , Museum Wiesbaden , Cologne 2016, pp. 14–39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Stöhrer, Catalog raisonné of painting 1957-1999 , Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin, 2008, p. 534
  2. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Exhibitions since 1951 (accessed on May 20, 2019)
  3. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 105
  4. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 107
personal data
SURNAME Stöhrer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2000
Place of death Taarstedt