Peter Loeding, Workers on Their Lunch Break, 1980-85, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Peter Loeding
1936 Hamburg – 2013 ibid.

‘Workers of Seca GmbH (Hamburg) at Lunch Break’
Oil on canvas, studio frame
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1936 Hamburg – 2013 ibid.

‘Workers of Seca GmbH (Hamburg) at Lunch Break’
Oil on canvas, studio frame
Signed lower right, [circa 1980-85]
Size: 80.5 x 100 cm (unframed) / 81.5 x 101.5 cm (framed)

In the early 1980s, the three artists Brian Fitzgibbon, Osterhold Heiseke, and Peter Loeding were commissioned to go to the Seca GmbH & Co. KG factory in Hamburg to artistically document the processes and, above all, the employees. Loeding conducted his studies and work at the company over a period of about four years, creating both spontaneous drawings and paintings based on them. “with the commission […] to paint the employees at the machine, in shipping, and during their breaks, he found his subject and also his identity” (Seca Vogel & Halke GmbH & Co. (ed.) (1985): Three Artists and a Factory; Hamburg; unpaginated [p. 5]). The present painting depicts just such a scene during the lunch break.

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Peter Loeding

Painter, draftsman, printmaker.

1953–57 Apprenticeship as a photoengraver in Hamburg
1958–60 Lived in Paris and studied etching techniques at Johnny Friedländer's studio
from 1963 Lecturer in printmaking at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design)
In the 1980s, several public commissions in Hamburg
Peter Loeding also worked as a printer for fellow artists such as Horst Janssen and Stephan Balkenhol.


Exhibitions:

1960 First solo exhibitions in Paris and Hamburg

from 1960 onwards, numerous participations in group exhibitions in Germany and abroad

Awards:
1979 Prize winner in the Otto Foundation's competition for the "Year of the Child" See less