Wolfgang Petrick

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

Life

From 1958 to 1965 Wolfgang Petrick graduated in Biology at the University of Berlin and studied art at the University of the Arts Berlin ( Hochschule der Künste ) as a master student of Werner Volkert. From 1975 to 2007 he was a professor at the Hochschule der Künste and is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1993. He lives and works in Berlin and since 1994 also in New York.

Along with Karl Horst Hödicke, Bernd Koberling, Markus Liipertz, Peter Sorge and others founded Petrick 1964, the exhibition community " Großgörschen 35" in Berlin, the first cooperative gallery ( Produzentengalerie in the modern sense ) in Germany. Years later, he was a "critical realist " to the group " aspect ". Focused his work initially mainly on painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking, since the beginning of the decade also arise photographs. Since 2003, Petrick has also done books and has been with the authors Hans Christoph Buch ( Monrovia, Mon Amour ) and Bora Cosic (Alaska) worked.

Plant documentation

  • Work 1962-1979, drawings, paintings, objects, printmaking. Exhibition catalog, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1979.
  • 1962-1989: Jump by 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 stuff. Exhibition catalog, house Lützowplatz, Berlin 1999.
  • Battery - Glass Construction - Space - Object - drawing. Exhibition catalog, Academy of Arts, Berlin 2000.
  • Deep - Action. Wolfgang Petrick and protégés. Exhibition catalog, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, 2005.
  • Folk dance. cinematic portrait of Walter Lenertz, Asperger Gallery Berlin 2005.
  • Good slave - master bath. Exhibition catalog, Galerie Michael Schultz Berlin, 2006.
  • Mutations. Exhibition catalog, Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin 2008.
  • P ( R) UNK. Exhibition catalog, collection Falkenberg, Hamburg 2010
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