Wolfgang Petrick

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Wolfgang Petrick (1975)
Wolfgang Petrick (2015)

Wolfgang Petrick (born January 12, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

From 1958 to 1965 Wolfgang Petrick completed a degree in biology at the Free University of Berlin and an art degree at the Berlin University of the Arts (HdK) as a master student with Werner Volkert . In 1964 he married Helma Hartmann . A year later, their daughter Nina emerged from the marriage. Wolfgang Petrick was a member of the German Association of Artists . From 1975 to 2007 he was a professor at the HdK and has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1993 . He lives and works in Berlin and since 1994 also in New York.

Together with Karl Horst Hödicke , Bernd Koberling , Markus Lüpertz , Peter Sorge and others, Petrick founded the exhibition group “ Großgörschen 35 ” in Berlin in 1964 , the first self-help gallery (producer gallery in today's sense) in Germany. From 1972 he was part of the Aspect group as a “Critical Realist” . While his work initially focused primarily on painting, drawing, sculpture and graphic art, he has also been producing photographs since the beginning of the 21st century. Petrick has also been designing books since 2003 and has so far worked with the authors Hans Christoph Buch (Monrovia, Mon Amour) and Bora Ćosić (Alaska) - both of which are book editions in the Mariannenpresse edition .

Work documentation

  • Works 1962–1979, drawings, pictures, objects, prints . Exhibition catalog, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1979.
  • 1962–1989: Jump through the sun . Exhibition catalog, Esslingen ( Villa Merkel ), Hamburg ( Hamburger Kunsthalle ), 1989, ISBN 3-923717-54-7 .
  • Narcissus . Exhibition catalog, Raab-Galerie, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-926639-30-X .
  • Painting and material . Exhibition catalog, Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin 1999.
  • Battery - glass construction - space - object - drawing . Exhibition catalog, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2000.
  • Deep action. Wolfgang Petrick and master student . Exhibition catalog, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin 2005.
  • Folk dance . film portrait of Walter Lenertz, Asperger Gallery Berlin 2005.
  • Good slave - bad master . Exhibition catalog, Galerie Michael Schultz Berlin 2006.
  • Mutatio . Exhibition catalog, Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin 2008.
  • P (R) UNK . Exhibition catalog, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg 2010

literature

  • Wolfgang Petrick: hand drawings, catalog raisonné 1962–1974 created by Werner Nitzsche with the collaboration of Wolfgang Petrick and Lothar C. Poll. Berlin 1974.
  • Peter Sager: New Forms of Realism - Art between Illusion and Reality . DuMont, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0656-3 .
  • Wolfgang Petrick: painting, drawing. 1979–1982 (catalog book compiled by the artist on the occasion of the exhibition of pictures and gouaches). POLLeditions, Volume 2, Berlin 1982.
  • Eckhart J. Gillen (Ed.): Großgörschen 35 . Departure for the art city Berlin 1964 . Exhibition catalog with texts by Barbara Esch Marowski, Lothar C. Poll , Eckhard J. Gillen. Haus am Kleistpark in cooperation with the Poll Art Foundation , Berlin 2014.

Portraits

Movie:

  • Visit of the studio of Bernd Koberling, Wolfgang Petrick and Hans Scheib (Germany 2010). Director: Norbert Wartig (* 1973). Production: LNW FILM
  • Studio sketches Wolfgang Petrick (Germany 2009). Director: Norbert Wartig (* 1973). Production: LNW FILM

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Petrick, Wolfgang ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 7, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Petrick, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin