Peter Graf (painter)
Peter Graf ( b. 1937 in Crimmitschau ) is a German painter.
Life
Born in 1937 in Crimmitschau, 1952, moved to his father's death, with her mother and brother to Dresden, where he met his friends Christian Hempel, Peter Herrmann, Jürgen Böttcher ( Strawalde ) Aghate Böttcher, Ralf Winkler ( AR Penck ), Peter Makolies, and Winfried Dierske learns. 1956 Count was taken to the Art Academy Berlin -Weissensee, but was expelled (as well as his friend Baselitz, who continued his studies in West Berlin) already after one year.
From 1957 Peter Graf again lived in Dresden, where he secured his livelihood by working as transport workers, truck drivers, warehouse clerk and forklift operator and painted after work. This he succeeded artistically to remain independent of the nannying by the East German regime. Peter Graf was a secret spot in artistic and intellectual circles of the GDR. Jürgen Böttcher portrayed him in his 1961 short documentary banned three of many. In 1976, he was with his friends in Dresden to the signatories of the open letter, with numerous artists, writers and actors in the GDR were protesting against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann.
Peter Graf has lived and worked since 1985 as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Dresden. From 1996 his studio in Radebeul, he lives with his wife, the painter Karen Graf, and the two sons in Radebeul since 2002.