Wolfgang Peuker

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Memorial plaque for Peuker on the landscape cemetery in Berlin-Gatow

Wolfgang Peuker (born May 27, 1945 in Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia ; † May 9, 2001 in Groß Glienicke , Potsdam-Mittelmark district ) was a German painter and graphic artist from the Leipzig School .

Life

In 1945 Peuker's family moved to Halle (Saale) in the course of the expulsion of the German residents of Bohemia . From 1952 to 1962 he attended school there. In 1957 his father died. After completing his school career, Wolfgang Peuker began training as an offset printer , but at the same time attended the evening academy at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art (HGB). After completing his skilled worker training, he devoted himself fully to his artistic studies; he studied with Harry Blume , Werner Tübke , Bernhard Heisig and Wolfgang Mattheuer , among others .

In 1971 he married Annette Krisper , a fellow student.

From 1970 to 1977 he worked as a freelance artist in Leipzig and Zwickau . In 1983 he took up a teaching position at the HGB Leipzig, after having taught there since 1977. From 1978 he was on the board of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . In the same year he received the order for a large-format mural in the Gewandhaus, which is currently under construction . After a study trip to Spain in 1979 and his mother's death in 1980, he began with the work, which, however, was painted over and boarded up before it was finished. Today there is a painting by Sighard Gille , Song of Life , in the place originally intended for Peuker. In 1983 he was awarded the Leipzig City Art Prize. 1984 took Peuker at the Biennale in Venice in part and still received the Art Prize of the GDR . Peuker belongs to the Leipzig School , especially to the factual trend represented by Tübke, Mattheuer, Arno Rink and others.

In 1985 he separated from his first wife and married Annette Lunow , née Meyer, who painted herself under the pseudonym Paula Kress .

After several commissioned works in Leipzig and a long trip to Austria, he was appointed professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1993 . Here he taught and was active as an artist until his untimely death.

After a serious illness, his second wife died in 1996. In 1997 he met Erika Donner , who accompanied him until his death.

His academic students include Matthias Steier , Luise Wagener and his last master student Sandra Rienäcker .

literature

Magazines and catalogs

  • Eduard Beaucamp: Wall violence. On the death of the painter Wolfgang Peuker. In: FAZ. May 16, 2001, p. 49.
  • Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Kurt Masur (Ed.): Forte-Piano. Pictures from the Gewandhaus Leipzig (catalog). Oberhausen no year
  • Ina Gille: Notes on a missing mural. In: Central German Latest News. December 31, 1989, p. 3.
  • Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (Ed.): Wolfgang Peuker. Painting and drawing. Catalog. Leipzig 1985.
  • Meinhard Michael: Gelatinized and nailed up. Or: double is better? In: Gewandhausmagazin. No. 33, 2001/02, pp. 19-24.
  • Meinhard Michael: The fear of the caller. In: Gewandhausmagazin. No. 33, 2001/02, pp. 25-26.
  • Wolfgang Peuker: As for me. In: Leipziger Blätter. 6/1985, pp. 42-43.
  • Guenter Roese (ed.): Wolfgang Peuker. Painting and drawing. The picture as a world theater. Catalog. MCM ART, Berlin 2004.
  • Tobias Thuge: Res Severa - On the disappearance of an image. Wolfgang Peuker's picture “Welttheater” in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig as an example of state commissioned art in the GDR. Grin, Munich / Ravensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-52857-8 .
  • Without statement of responsibility: Nailed up with boards. In: Der Spiegel . No. 52, 1994, pp. 136-138.

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personal data
SURNAME Peuker, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2001
Place of death Groß Glienicke , Potsdam-Mittelmark district