Rolf Sackenheim (September 26, 1921 – January 9, 2006) was a German artist and a
graphic designer.
Life and work
In 1940 Sackenheim studied arts at Meisterschule für Deutsches Handwerk (Masterschool of German craft) in
Trier
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. The following year, he was drafted for military service, but in 1942 was retired due to a serious wound he had received. In 1943 he began to study art at
Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe () is an art school located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
History
The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as ...
. After a two-year-break in the years 1947–1950 he continued his studies under the instruction of
Karl Hubbuch. In 1950 he moved to
Eifel, where he painted in watercolors, did drawings and worked out his theoretical statements on painting. Two years later he went to
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
, where he was awarded "Master scholar" (Meisterschüler) of
Otto Coester in the same year.
From 1960 on he became guest lecturer at the
Werkkunstschule in
Krefeld
Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...
(School of arts and crafts). In 1963, he became regular lecturer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, later received the title of professor and became head of the Class of Printmaking. From 1969 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1976 he also was the vice director of the academy. In 1984, he was awarded honorary member of the
Academy of Fine Arts, Münster. He retired in 1984 in
Düsseldorf
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and kept on painting. His art works, pictures, etchings and
graphic art
A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface. were shown in multiple exhibitions as well as many personal shows.
Bibliography
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : graphische Arbeiten 1950 – 1985.'' Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Der Kleine Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985. .
* Paul Good, ''Die nervöse Hand : zur Semantik der Linien von Rolf Sackenheim.'' DuMont, Köln 1991. .
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Mappenwerke.'' Aus dem Besitz des Clemens-Sels-Museums. Museum, Neuss 1992.
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : Zeichnungen 1946 – 1987.'' Förderverein Museum Schloss Moyland e.V., Bedburg-Hau 1991.
* Brigitte Schmidt, Manfred Schmidt (eds.), ''Rolf Sackenheim : Photographien.'' Galerie Art 204, Düsseldorf 1994.
* Arbeitsgemeinschaft 28 Düsseldorfer Galerien (ed.): ''Düsseldorfer Avantgarden. Persönlichkeiten, Bewegungen, Orte.'' Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, .
* Paul Good (ed.), ''Organon & Harfe : der Künstler Rolf Sackenheim.'' Parerga, Düsseldorf, Bonn 1996. .
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : Werke im
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg.'' Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 1996. . (October 6 – November 17, 1996).
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : kreuz und quer.'' Galerie Art 204, Düsseldorf 2001.
* ''Rolf Sackenheim – Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Lithographien.''
Museum Wiesbaden
The Museum Wiesbaden is a two-branch museum of art and natural history in the Hessian capital of Wiesbaden, Germany. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Darmstadt.
History
The foundation o ...
, Wiesbaden 2003. . (Museum Wiesbaden, March 23 – June 1, 2003)
* ''Rolf Sackenheim : frühe Sprünge – weite Schwünge.'' Galerie Art 204, Düsseldorf 2004.
* ''Sackenheim, Franta, Hofschen, González Bravo.'' Galerie Art 204, Düsseldorf 2005.
External links
*
Rolf Sackenheimat kunstaspekte.de
Attribution
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20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
21st-century German painters
21st-century German male artists
German modern painters
German contemporary artists
Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1921 births
2006 deaths
20th-century German printmakers
German military personnel of World War II