Reichelt, Tom, 1920-2004

LC control no.	no2016112267
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Reichelt, Tom, 1920-2004 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Reichelt, Karl Ottomar, 1920-2004
Other standard no.	216481065
Birth date	1920-09-16
Death date	2004-03-25
Place of birth	Dresden (Germany)
Place of death	Celle (Germany)
Field of activity	Painting Graphic arts Photography Medical radiology Radiotherapy;
Affiliation	Bund Bildender Künstler für Niedersachsen Kunstverein Celle Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle Gesellschaft für elektronische Kunst
Profession or occupation	Painters Graphic artists Photographers Physicians Radiologists
Found in	Centaur, 1965/66, 1966: contents (74: Tom Reichelt, etching, signed) leaf 74 (etching, signed Tom Reichelt) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, August 22, 2016 (Reichelt, Tom; gender: male; other names: Reichelt, Karl Ottomar (real name); life dates: 1920-2004; born Dresden, died Celle; artist, painter; grandson of Reichelt, Karl Ottomar, brother of Reichelt, Moritz) <http://d-nb.info/gnd/173883052> Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, August 22, 2016 (Reichelt, Tom; born 1920.09.16, Dresden) Tom Reichelt website, August 22, 2016 (Tom Reichelt, born as Karl Ottomar Reichelt in Dresden, 16 September 1920; studied medicine in Leipzig, then in a student company of the Wehrmacht in Halle; assistant physician in Halle, Blankenburg, Merseburg, and again in Halle, then internist and in 1956 specialist for radiology and radiotherapy; began to paint while in Merseberg; defected to West Germany in 1957 and became a physician in the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Celle, working in the department of radiology and radiotherapy; afterwards head physician there; exhibited paintings in many cities; around 1963, began signing his works "Tom Reichelt"; in the 1970s, turned to photography and exhibited his work in galleries and group exhibitions; wrote computer programs for medicine in the 1980s and was briefly fascinated by computer graphics; returned to painting after his retirement in 1984; died March 25, 2004) <http://www.tomreichelt.de/> German Wikipedia, August 22, 2016 Tom Reichelt (born 16 September 1920 in Dresden as Karl Ottomar Reichelt; died 25 March 2004 in Celle), German painter; signed "Tom Reichelt" since 1967; grandson of the Dresden architect Ottomar Reichelt and father of the Berlin painter and musician Moritz Reichelt; member of the Bund Bildender Künstler, Kunstverein Celle and Gesellschaft für elektronische Kunst)