Manfred Kohrs
Manfred Kohrs ( born January 24, 1957 in Hannover ) is a German artist and tattoo artist and is considered one of the pioneers of modern Tätowiererszene. Kohrs was a student of the Frankfurt tattoo artists Horst Heinrich route Bach (" Tattoo Samy " ), with whom he jointly developed a Rotationstätowiermaschine and the first Piercing Barbells anfertigte. In addition Kohrs forced the use of autoclaves in Germany during tattooing. In 1977 he founded the first German Tätowierervereinigung, the National Tattoo Club.
Biography
Manfred Kohrs grew up in Hannover -Linden. From 1963, he attended elementary school in Letterkenny and from 1972 to 1975 he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter at the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in Hannover. In the 1970s, played rugby Kohrs, in the position of the outer three-quarter lengths, with SC Germania List. Opened in 1977, Kohrs the first tattoo studio in Hannover. This was followed from 1977 to 1981, a period of service as the SAZ Reconnaissance Wing 52 of the Air Force. As of 1983, Kohrs several corporations, including a Fuhrunternehmen.Die Tätowiererei gave Manfred Kohrs in 1990 in favor of an economic science and is now working in the business and tax consulting; he lives in Resse since 1996.
Work as a tattoo artist
The first tattoo Manfred Kohrs stabbed himself during his schooling at the age of twelve years on the arm and began at the age of 13 years "by hand", so-called " Peiken ," even with the Tätowiererei. In January 1975, he was tattooed by Herbert Hoffmann and learned the basics of working with a tattoo machine. On January 26, 1975 met Kohrs, during a live broadcast of ZDF, the Kunstverein Hannover Timm Ulrichs and Horst Heinrich route Bach, who was, according to the writer Marcel Feige one of the tattoo artist, " without which the story is not the tattoo in Germany would be conceivable ". Ulrichs, who was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster at the time, had some " Old- Skool " Tätowiermotive issued on canvas and stretch Bach tattooed Kohrs in the course of the program.
In the aftermath Kohrs learned at distance Bach tattooing and opened the first tattoo studio in Hannover in 1977. Kohrs made his machines and accessories in itself; the route of Bach from 1970 -built tattoo machine he constantly developed this weiter.Im 1983 joined a Brunswick Department of Plastic Surgery approached Kohrs to tattoo the areola for breast reconstruction.
Association's work
In 1977 Kohrs invited all commercially registered in Germany tattoo artists - including route Bach, " Tattoo Eddy " ( † 23 January 1993 Fürth ), Herbert Hoffmann ( 1919-2010 ) and Theodor Vetter, " Tattoo Theo " ( 1932-2004 ) - a into an information meeting in Hanover. "At that time there were in the whole of Germany, only 14 self-employed tattoo artist. " Purpose of this meeting was the establishment of a national association to then introduce technical and hygienic standards. Route Bach and Kohrs were at that time the only German tattoo artist who used an autoclave to sterilize the equipment. The meeting in Hanover was largely inconclusive, so Manfred Kohrs only founded the first Interest Grouping German tattoo artist with eight participants. Kohrs took then contact with the U.S. tattooist " Philadelphia Eddie" Funk and first became involved in the National Tattoo Club of the World. Between 1976 and 1984 Kohrs traveled several times to the United States, attended tattoo conventions and published in association magazines and journals. On the first " convention " of the National Tattoo Club of the World, from 24 to 25 January 1976 in Houston (Texas ) and at the convention from 23 to 25 March 1979 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Denver (Colorado), he met uA David Yurkew, Don Ed Hardy and Terry Wrigley, who received him as the 25th member of the European Tattoo Artist Association ( ETAA ).
Art
As part of the exhibition "Timm Ulrichs: tattoo images " ( 12 January to 9 March 1975) at the Kunstverein Hannover, a tattoo action took place on 26 January 1975 by the wayside brook his later pupils Manfred Kohrs in front of the camera ZDF tätowierte.Kohrs is still a member of the Kunstverein Hannover
From 1981, Manfred Kohrs realized, as a member of the Kunstverein Hannover, some artistic projects and devoted more time to his painting and conceptual art. He drew cartoons and towards the end of the eighties he designed for Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions various motifs, from which in 1987 the work " future music " entstand.Seit April 4, 2011, Manfred Kohrs CEO of the Kunstverein in 2000 Wedemark eV
Reviews
" Manfred Kohrs, a student of Tattoo Samy, we owe to the first German Tattoo Artist Association. He called several exhibitions around the tattooing to life which should enlighten and inspire the public "
" A self-made artist, whose works are not hanging in the museum, but eat, sleep, smoke and take the tram. "
Papers
Membership card of the European Tattoo Artist Association, issued by Terry Wrigley 1977
Certificate of Membership of the European Tattoo Artist Association, issued by Terry Wrigley 1977
Membership card of the Kunstverein Hannover 1981, signed by Manfred Kohrs.
Admission ticket for visitors to the tattoo meetings in 1980 in Frankfurt am Main.