Peter Redeker - Etching, Landscape 1B - Sold

Peter Redeker (born October 4, 1942 in Spital am Semmering; died December 3, 2022) was an Austrian-German painter, printmaker, and university professor. He lived and worked in Germany, Italy, and Morocco. Redeker was born in Styria, came to Germany in 1943, and grew up in Barntrup. After obtaining his secondary school diploma in Lemgo in 1963, he studied pedagogy at the University of Hamburg and under Kai Sudeck at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts (HFBK). In 1967, he obtained his teaching qualification and continued his studies in visual arts at the HFBK. In 1968/69, he received a scholarship from the Reemtsma Foundation for the Promotion of Talented Students, and in 1970, he stayed at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Dutch government. Subsequently, until 1975, he worked as a research assistant in visual arts at the Vechta branch of the University of Osnabrück. From 1975, he taught at the Hannover University of Applied Sciences as a professor of free graphic arts until the closure of the Visual Arts department in 2008. He lived in Hannover and Volterra (Italy). Redeker has shown his work in numerous exhibitions since 1969, including in 1975 in the Overbeck Society pavilion of the Museum of Art and Cultural History in Lübeck and the Kunsthalle Bremen, in 1988 in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, in 1991/1992 in the Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia, as well as in galleries and exhibitions of art associations in Germany, Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, and the USA. My first landscape drawing originated in 1967, or rather, it came into being then. That same conceptual work process continues to me continue to fascinate to this day. The not entirely problem-free combination of color and printing technique has become a defining characteristic of my later work. The conscious use of color enables me to create transitions between structures and spatial differentiation. At the same time, color becomes an important means of making atmospheric values ​​visible.