Hans Georg Anniès

Hans Georg Anniès (born May 25, 1930 in Mehlauken / East Prussia ; † June 7, 2006 in Moritzburg / Saxony ) was a German printmaker and sculptor . After he was denied academic art training in the German Democratic Republic because of his non-conformist attitudes, he developed gravure printing from 1973 to 1978 after a mainly self-taught study .

Life

Hans Georg Anniès grew up in East Prussia, where, in addition to his early love for artistic work, he soon discovered the consideration of nature as an important element of his artistic vocation. The experience of the war had a lasting impact on Anniès. From 1945 to 1952 he worked as a farm worker, which further intensified his relationship with nature - the seasonal rhythms of growth and decay. In 1952 he was excluded from studying art at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts for ideological reasons (because of his non- membership of the FDJ and his membership of the church ) . In the following years he gained his artistic training mainly through private studies. Since 1963 Anniès lived as a freelance artist and sculptor in Moritzburg and initially also worked as a commercial artist and art teacher for the church. In 1970 a studio fire caused a change in life and creativity. His work became increasingly "abstract". In 1979 he joined the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , but was again marginalized, triggered by the refusal to sign on the 30th anniversary of the GDR. After he further developed his material aesthetic approach after the political change in the 1990s , his work was partially rehabilitated through exhibitions and prizes. In 2001 he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his life's work. In 2006 the artist died after a long illness.

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Works by Hans Georg Anniès can be found in the Leipzig Bach Archive , the Saxon State Library in Dresden , the Majdanek Museum (Poland), the Görlitz City Art Collection , the Rostock Art Gallery and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Berlin State Museums / Prussian Cultural Heritage the Buchenwald memorial and memorial , in the Museum Ludwig Cologne, in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel , in the graphic collection of the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , in the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen , in the Carré Estampes Luxembourg, in the Kochi Ino-Cho Japan as well as in numerous private collections.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (a selection):

• 1976 Gallery of Art Dresden
• 1978 Academy of Sciences of the GDR Dresden
• 1980 Wood print - sign - sculpture. Moritzburg Castle Baroque Museum
• 1980 Kreuzkirche Dresden
• 1982 galleries of the VEB environmental design and fine arts, Potsdam
• 1983 State art trade of the GDR, gallery in the Jena town hall
• 1986 Gallery in the Cranach House in Weimar
• 1987 Drawing - printmaking - sculpture, Galerie am Schönhof Görlitz
• 1988 graphics - plastic. Word and work, art exhibitions in Leipzig
• 1990 Printmaking and wood sculpture, Central Institute for Nuclear Research, Rossendorf near Dresden
• 1992 Drawings and frottage, Reutlingen telecommunications office
• 1994 Rotogravure prints, Carré Estampe Luxembourg
• 1995 Wood intaglio prints, Styrian State Exhibition Holzzeit, Murau (Austria)
• 1995 Exhibition in the Saxon State Parliament in Dresden
• 2015 Special exhibition House of the Church - Dreikönigskirche Dresden

Distribution participation (in selection)

• 1978 GDR wood graphics in Dresden
• 1980 International graphics for the Year of the Child in Majdanek (Poland)
• 1989 With XYLON X in Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Austria
• 1991 Baden-Württemberg State Art Weeks in Reutlingen
• 1993 exhibitions of the Dresden Artists Association

literature

• Barbara Melchert, assignment and concern. 13 Künstlerwege hier und heute, vol. 2. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1981, pp. 2–23.
• Klaus Hammer, natural densities. On the work of the graphic artist and sculptor Hans Georg Anniès. In: Sonntag (Berlin) 48/1986, p. 4.
• Anniès, Hans Georg. In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Leipzig: Seemann 1990, 1st edition, Vol. 3, pp. 353f.
• Hans Georg Anniès, characters. Gravure prints and sculptures. New Sächsischer Kunstverein e. V. in the Saxon Landtag Dresden 1995.
• Klaus Hammer: On the 75th birthday of the Moritzburg graphic artist and sculptor Hans Georg Anniès . In: Preview & Review ; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . June 2005, p. 6-8 ( online ).
• Wolfgang Zimmermann: In memory of the Moritzburg artist Hans-Georg Annies . In: Preview & Review ; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . September 2006 ( online ).
• "See, I am with you". Graphics for the Bible by Hans Georg Anniès, interpreted by Hermann Mahnke. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2014.

Web links

• Entry on the website of the Künstlerbund Dresden
• Entry in the Artothek of the Central and State Library Berlin
• Image meditation on four wood gravure prints by Hans Georg Anniès by Dr. Udo Hofmann (PDF file; 153 kB)
• Image meditation on a sculpture by Hans Georg Anniès by Dr. Udo Hofmann (PDF file; 187 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liebenfelde district (Ostpr.)
2. ↑ Labiau district (Russian Polessk)
3. ↑ Zalesje - Mehlauken / Liebenfelde
4. ↑ http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/medien/news/152937
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.