Lichter Alfred

Alfred Lichter was a German artist, born in Köningshutte/Oberschlesien/Poland in 1917 and died in Alaró in Mallorca/Spain in 2012. He was a sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator. In 1933 he became a student of lithography in Ratibor/Poland. From 1935 to 1937 he studied at the graphic vocational school in Berlin. From 1937 to 1939 he attended the Berlin Art Academy, where he studied painting with Max Kaus. There he was influenced by the expressionists Nolde, Macke, Kandinsky, van Gogh, Gauguin and Kirchner. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner of war. This had an influence on his later work. After the war he started an advertising agency and founded the Ursula Lichter gallery in Frankfurt am Main/Germany. From 1961 to 1980 he made several study trips to Asia, America, Africa and Europe. In 1982 he moved permanently to Mallorca/Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. According to Alfred Lichter, in earthly reality duality was fundamentally linked to struggle, destruction, pain, drama, war and chaos. From this, according to him, followed man's desire for redemption from this inescapable fate. (Paradise) The duality that results from this could only be united in art. (BT)