Hansjörg Schneider (artist)

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Hansjörg Schneider (* 1960 in Eckernförde ) is a German visual artist.

Life

Hansjörg Schneider studied fine art at the Muthesius Art Academy in Kiel , philosophy and English philology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel from 1979 to 1988. Since 1989 he has lived in Berlin. He realized various projects in public space. His most important work to date, "Fly Like An Eagle", was created as an indoor and outdoor installation on a new farm building at Diepholz Air Base in Lower Saxony .

Hansjörg Schneider is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Berlin.

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In his installations, Hansjörg Schneider reacted to the spaces he found. In the Berlin work "The Public Space" (1995) he used the vacancy of a former GDR sales room. He subdivided the volume of the room, cut large-format strips of paper into diamond grids, and braced them in the room. The black paper grids - from a distance they resembled massive steel structures - regulated and reorganized the space, creating a system of obstruction and transparency, of inclusion and exclusion.

Hansjörg Schneider has been taking up the structures of modern architecture since 2000. In his paper cuts, he isolates the window arrangements of buildings that have become icons of building history. The paper sheets are presented at a distance in front of the gallery wall. Through the casting of shadows, the wall becomes part of the paper cut. In his exhibition "Measuring the House" (2007), Hansjörg Schneider integrated the colored walls in the Kandinsky / Klee Masters' House in Dessau into the concept of his paper cuts.

The 36-part series "City Of Grids" (2008/2009) expands the possibilities of the paper cut medium by using cut and tear as alternative techniques within a single sheet. A two-dimensional grid runs through all the leaves. It is based on a layout by the designer Willy Fleckhaus . The superposition of geometric and free figures, networks and architectural elements creates complex spatial effects. The magazine format supports the impression of a literary or narrative context, an abstract narrative.

Since 2010, the focus has shifted to the urban structures of the metropolises and the global artificial reshaping and overbuilding of the country. The scenic view leads to a horizontal treatment of the paper. The paper becomes a relief through the contrast of raised and torn surfaces. Pigmentation and coloring reinforce this impression.

Awards

In 1986/87 Hansjörg Schneider received a DAAD annual scholarship for the Central School of Art and Design in London. In 1995 he was awarded the Gottfried Brockmann Prize of the City of Kiel. In 2017 he received a scholarship from the K52 Art Foundation in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Hansjörg Schneider (accessed on January 26, 2016)
  2. ↑ Art Foundation K52, archive, 2017 January 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde