Robert Rehfeldt

Robert Rehfeldt (5 January 1931 – 28 September 1993) was a German graphic artist.

Life Robert Rehfeldt was born in Pomerania in Northern Germany. His father died when he was two. He grew up in Pomerania and then in Berlin. He was one of Germany's 2 million war-time child evacuees between 1940 and 1945, being moved to Bad Ischl He quickly succeeded in building up an international network across East and West Europe that also took in the United States and Latin America, becoming n the process a contact point for members of the East German artistic community interested in finding what was going on in the wider world. In 1978 he inspired and supported the Art Exhibition in East Berlin's "Arcade Gallery" and that of 1979 in Jürgen Schweinebraden's alternative "EP Gallery". Later, in 1986, Rehfeldt organised that year's first ever meeting of the "Discrete International Mail-Art Congress".

Rehfeldt produced a large body of graphic artistry and of photography as well as Super 8 format films. Two years later, on 28 September 1993, he died shortly after undergoing a medical operation in Berlin. Since then his work has featured posthumously in several major exhibitions. In 2008 the "Parterre Gallery" in Berlin celebrated him with another "Retrospective".