As of 1952 Albert Chr. Reck was a freelance artist residing in
Hamburg Germany.
Hire numerous prints , often involving animal motives, were created.
Animals will again and again fascinate him , and in many of his later
landscapes animals feature prominently. Reck believes that animals are
closer to nature as your average human.
In 1958 Albert Reck builds his house in Hensted Rehn at the spring of
the river Alster to cater for his ever growing family.
In this house north of Hamburg plenty of painting were created by Reck
while bicycling and roaming around the countryside. These landscapes
already contain many of the characteristics of Recks work. Animal melt
into the landscape and light fills them through the colour and
sometimes also through the sun. At that time "Recks Kleine Naturkunde"
and "Recks Radfahrwege auf dem Rhen", which pay testimony to his
intensive observation of nature where created. These landscapes
"Kirche Henstedt Dorf" and "Alstermoor", are good examples of
his work of that time. Crayon and became the preferred medium for
Reck, since he developed an allergy to oil paint. At that time Reck
was being awarded numerous scholarships, amongst them the " Stipendiat
des Kulturkreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie 1952," and
the "Lichtwark-stipendiat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg."
During that time Recks preference for everything to do with water
became more intense.
Dr. Joachim Kruse who at that time was the responsible for contemporary
art at the museum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig Germany
refereed to Recks style as "Recks Dialektic" and later counted him
as the father of the "new wild ones"
(1) A.Chr.Reck : Die kleine Naturkunde des Albert Christoph Reck Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 196l
(2) Jonchim Kruse Schleswig Holsteinische Landschaften" des Malers A Chr. Reck. "Schleswig-Holstein" 1964. Monatshefte für Heimat und Volkstum seit 1949. 5 147 149
