In 1947/48 Albert Reck became a student of the German artist and author
Hans Holtorf in Bockholmwik north Germany. The then 25 year old Reck learned
a lot during that time from Holtorf, Who loved landscapes and color,
while being a author full of poetry. Expressive and romantic, old and
new, met in Holtorfs art. However Holtorf romanticism was not based on '
verklaerung'. His art was marked by the Danish influence, he painted very
real landscapes and introduced feeling into the landscape. Reck himself
never became a romantic, but Holtorfs realism fascinated him at that time,
that is how a lot of paintings of the "Flensburger Forde"came to be.
Also in the painting from the Flensburg harbor, created in 1955,
this experience is still visible. Reck has in an even more detailed
way captured the typical aspects of the harbor, small boats, low houses,
churches, and doves. The actual motive condensed by the expressive use of
the paint brush completes the picture.
Hans Holtorf was however only one of Reck's teachers.
Taken from:
Dr. Birte Gaethke, Kiel im Katalog zur Ausstellung Hamburgische Landesbank 9 Juli 1997
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