Wilfried Reckewitz

Wilfried Reckewitz (born August 29, 1925 in Barmen ; † February 13, 1991 in Wuppertal - Barmen ) was a German painter , graphic artist and glass artist.

Fountain in Wuppertal, designed by Wilfried Reckewitz in 1986

In 1942, Reckewitz attended the master's school for the craftsmanship in Wuppertal-Barmen and in 1945 studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Professors Werner Heuser , Ewald Mataré , Otto Pankok and Otto Coester . His first exhibition with the name “Young Harvest” took place in 1946 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .

On November 15, 1949 he joined the Ring Bergischer Künstler (RBK) founded in 1946 . In 1951 he received the Dr. Ludwig Lindner Prize for painting from the RBK group, he married in 1957. From the end of the 1950s, he mainly devoted his work to glass art; his glass sculptures were acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass in New York , among others .

In 1958 Reckewitz co-initiated the Poland-Germany exhibition . In 1964, he and the literary scholar Gertrud Höhler received the Von der Heydt Prize . His work shows a great diversity, so he designed murals, door and window systems, fountains and sculptures. For the Wuppertal theaters he designed stage sets and costumes as well as posters for series and film productions of the West German Broadcasting Corporation . He designed the glass and parts of the interior design of the cruise ships MS Sunward II , MS Starward Norwegian and SS Norway (formerly MS France ).

On his 60th birthday, a retrospective of his work was held in the Schaumann Gallery.

His son is the author and editor Marcus Reckewitz (* 1958).

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Reckewitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website about the artist
Literature by and about Wilfried Reckewitz in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

Kah Jagals: Wilfried Reckewitz 1925–1991. Art paths and engagement after 1945, Kassel 1994.
Rathaus Galerie, Euskirchen: Wilfried Reckewitz [catalog for the exhibition in September 1995], Euskirchen 1995.

Individual evidence

^ Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Reckewitz, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barmen
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 1991
Place of death	Wuppertal - Barmen

[1] Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 .