Elke Rehder

Elke Rehder ( born May 4, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator.

Life and artistic creation

Training. Chess Designs

Elke Rehder studied art at the 1979-1980 " Heatherley School of Fine Art " in London. 1984-1987 she was a member of the " Paddington Art Society " and the 1986-1996 "Free Painters and Sculptors " in London. At that time it was mainly active as an object artist. It created objects of iron, steel, copper, granite, marble and bronzes using the lost wax. The symbolism of chess is in its London time a priority theme in her art after the motto of Boris Spassky: "Chess is like life ." Since then, she creates large-scale installations and land art projects on chess.

In 1992 she was awarded the highly doped first prize of Bernard Kaufmann Society in Worpswede. From this prize money you could be in Barsbuettel in Hamburg set up his own studio with hand presses for etching and woodcut. In 1991 Elke Rehder the international project " Culture Society Europe ", accompanied by statements of important personalities from the fields of culture, economy and politics. During the years 1991-1993 she deepened her knowledge of painting in the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel, including in a Masterclass with Prof. Ulrich Teske. their knowledge in the field of graphic arts, she expanded in 1992-1993 at the " College of Art and Design " in Hamburg. since a working scholarship in 1993 at the Künstlerhaus in Cuxhaven, painting is the focus of her work. since caused large-scale paintings in oil and acrylic on canvas, mixed media on paper and paper type (objects of handmade paper ).

Topics focus literature and bibliophile books

Besides the topic of chess comes since 1993, the study of literature and poetry in their art added. For the love of book art, she founded in 1993 Elke Rehder press in which up to now 21 artist's books, letterpress prints and portfolios are published in small editions. In cooperation with the bookbinding Christian compulsion in Hamburg bibliophile treasures appeared with original artwork. In this context, their memberships in the Society of Bibliophiles, in the Maximilian Society and in the Pirckheimer society in which she collaborated on the board in 1998 to explain. Typography, letterpress and woodcut determine at this time her artistic work.

Elke Rehder participated several times at the Leipzig Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair, at Mainz Minipressen Fair and at the " Quod Libet " in Hamburg with their bibliophile works until 2003. In addition to the counted printing Elke Rehder press and the broadsheets, with woodcuts and etchings also many painters books, book objects and Paper appeared kind objects to the Process of Franz Kafka, the Chess by Stefan Zweig, further to Bertolt Brecht, Hugo Ball, Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Hölderlin among other things,

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group Exhibitions (selection)

Works in the public domain (selection)

  • University Library of Basel, Switzerland
  • Dutch Royal Library in The Hague
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg
  • British Library in London, United Kingdom
  • Gutenberg Museum in Mainz
  • German Literature Archive in Marbach
  • Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
  • Klingspor Museum in Offenbach
  • Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar
  • Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel
  • Library of Congress in Washington, USA
  • Austrian National Library in Vienna, Austria

Literature (selection )

  • John Spallek: Elke Rehder - pictures, graphic, bronzes. Stormarn, Bad Oldesloe 1994.
  • Friedrich Wolf Enter: Chess art at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Encounter with the artist Elke Rehder. Castling Europe, March 1998 valley.
  • Hans -Georg Sehrt: Elke Rehder press. In: marginalia. Journal of Arts. H. 156 (4/ 1999). Harrassowitz. Wiesbaden. ISSN 0025-2948
  • Eduard Isphording: page views. Book Art since 1945 from the collection of the Germanic National Museum. Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-932545-43-5.
  • Egisto Bragaglia: Elke Rehder. In: Encyclopedia of contemporary illustrators. Volume 1 documentation center for contemporary illustration, Branzoll 2001, ISBN 88-900665-0-4.
  • Günther Nicolin: Elke Rehder Press - a decade. In: Illustration 63 Curt Visel, Memmingen 2003, ISSN 0019-2457.
  • Werner Arnold: The painter book of the 20th century. The artist's book collection of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004. ISBN 3-447-05051-9.
  • Harry Schaack: board game in color. The Passion of the artist Elke Rehder. In: Karl, 3/2004, ISSN 1438-9673.
  • Elke Rehder. In: Handbook of furrier visual artists. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-24734-6.
  • Gerhard Stübner: artist's books and graphic art by Elke Rehder in the existence of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover. Barsbuettel 2006.
  • Gerhard Stübner: Chess - mirror of life. Woodcuts and etchings by Elke Rehder. In: Graphic Art. Issue 2/2008, Memmingen 2008, pp. 20ff, ISSN 0342-3158.
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