Adam Jankowski

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Adam Jankowski (* 1948 in Danzig ) is an Austrian painter and former professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main , his studios are in St. Pauli , Hamburg and Berlin .

Life

Adam Jankowski grew up in Gdansk, Poland, in 1955 but moved to Warsaw before, in 1961 with his parents to Vienna moved and Austrian citizenship accepted. After completing school at the Bundesrealgymnasium IV Waltergasse, he studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology from 1966 to 1968 . For his turn to painting, he gave earlier biographical reasons in an interview with Horst Wackenbarth in 1977: When he was 13, he did not understand the language when he moved to a new country and initially only learned the new environment through pictures.

From 1968 to 1970 he studied painting at the Vienna Art Academy with Franz Elsner, followed by studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg with Almir Mavignier and KP Brehmer from 1970 to 1976. He also studied art history at the University of Hamburg , with Klaus Herding and Horst Bredekamp from 1976 to 1980. Jankowski's work first received considerable attention in the late 1970s, when he received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts in 1977 as a student . In 1979 Jankowski was a co-founder of the autonomous cultural-political initiative Free Association of Visual Artists Hamburg and the Working Group of Visual Arts Hamburg .

In 1986 Jankowski founded the artists' cooperative Galerie Vorsetzen (named after the address at Elbkai Vorsetzen 53 ) together with KP Brehmer, Anna Oppermann , Dagmar Fedderke, Constantin Hahm, Herbert Hossmann and Gesine Petersen . As a result of the city's sale of the building, the last major exhibition took place in 1987. This was also accompanied by a great deal of media attention. Die Zeit described the situation as follows: Now the gallery Vorsetzen has been torpedoed [...] The city is also suitable for a winter fairy tale all by itself. The Vorsetzen gallery then moved to Seilerstraße and existed there until 1996.

From 1984 Jankowski taught in the design department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , where he stayed until 1985, before receiving a professorship for painting at the Offenbach am Main University of Design in 1987 , which he held until his retirement in 2013. At the invitation of a mayor, he kept a studio in the Château de Trousse-Barrière in the Loire for a year.

Works etc. are permanently accessible to the public. a. in the Museum Bochum , in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , in the Hessisches Landesmuseum and in the Belvedere Vienna , as well as in semi-public areas of various institutions.

student

His students include numerous successful artists, including a. Emilia Neumann , Oliver Flössel , Parastou Forouhar , Sabine Moritz , Julia Oschatz , Sandip Shah , Henning Straßburger , Markus Weisbeck , Peter Zizka . In 2013 the Wiesbadener Nassauischer Kunstverein showed an exhibition with works by his students.

The painting class in Offenbach was initially housed in the former Heyne factory , later in Isenburg Castle and finally moved to the larger premises of the HfG branch in Geleitstrasse.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1970 "Ten over Ten", Gallery next to St. Stephan, Vienna.
  • 1972 “6 young Austrians”, Secession Vienna.
  • 1974 “Aspects of committed art”, Kunstverein Hamburg.
  • 1978 "Hamburger Kunstwochen", Kunstverein Hamburg.
  • 1980 "Alles Schwindel", Hamburg-Altona.
  • 1982 "Thorn in the eye", Hamburg-Barmbek.
  • 1984 “Orwell and the Present”, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna.
  • 1985 “Six from Hamburg”, Goethe-Institut Cairo, Goethe-Institut Athens; “Tiempo circular”, Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico City; "Biennale of Peace", Kunstverein Hamburg.
  • 1986 "Eva and the Future", Kunsthalle Hamburg; "Vorsatz Eins", Gallery Vorsetzen Hamburg.
  • 1987 "Exotic Worlds", Kunstverein Stuttgart.
  • 1989 “Synthetic Imagery”, Gallery Vorsetzen Hamburg.
  • 1994 "Painting in Frankfurt", Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995 “Water and Wine”, Kunsthalle Krems.
  • 1996 “Alchemy of Contrasts”, Kapfenberg Cultural Center; “Aufgetischt”, Austrian Gallery Schloss Halbturn.
  • 2002 “African Advertising”, Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth.
  • 2003 “African Advertising”, Munich City Museum.
  • 2011 “Out of focus. After Gerhard Richter ”, Kunsthalle Hamburg.
  • 2013 "Free view: Adam Jankowski and artists from his painting class at the HfG Offenbach 1987–2013", Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden

Publications (selection of catalogs and texts)

  • “Interview with Adam Jankowski” , in: “Art and Media: Materials for documenta 6” , Kassel 1977
  • “On the run from fear” , Museum Bochum, Bochum 1979.
  • Dieter Glasmacher / Adam Jankowski, "An Be No Do" , Medusa-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • “What does design still mean today ? ” In: hfg-forum No. 13, Offenbach / M. 1989.
  • Adam Jankowski / Robert Lettner: "Cold radiation" , Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1990.
  • "Techno * Logic" , Gallery Vorsetzen, Hamburg 1994.
  • "There are too few artists in Hessen" in: "Ausflug nach Polen" , HfG Offenbach 1995.
  • “Alpha Explorer” , 1822 forum, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • "Speech about painting" in: "Querverbindungen", HfG Offenbach 1998.
  • “Landscapes and other world dreams” , Hengevoss & Jensen Gallery, Hamburg 2000.
  • “Always the most beautiful painting” , in: Catalog k9 current art , Hannover 2006.
  • "Who wants to change the world all day ...?" , Catalog HfG Offenbach 2010.
  • Adam Jankowski, Robert Lettner, Burghart Schmidt: "Philosophy of Landscape" , jovis Verlag Berlin 2010.
  • AM Freybourg , Hanz Zitko (eds), "Adam Jankowski: Free Sight" , jovis Verlag Berlin 2013.

Quote

“In my teaching it was always important to show that dogmatic constrictions and ideological stipulations in art are not sustainable - they always lead to a clouding of knowledge and paralysis of creativity, and artistically end up in a dead end. The forms of art are as diverse as life - they have to remain independent of trends and fashions, of dictates from dealers and curators, in order to be able to develop independently; the artist must keep his development under his own control and remain ›independent‹ ” (Jankowski on the exhibition of his students, 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.adamjankowski.de/menues/vita/bio/biography.html Adam Jankowski's website, accessed on June 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Anna Oppermann's exhibition "Pathos Geste" - and a farewell: Hamburg, a winter fairy tale. In: Zeit Online. November 21, 2012, accessed June 17, 2013 .
  3. ↑ http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/ausstellungen/ausstellungen-detail/ freie-sicht-adam-jankowski-und-ka14nstler-aus-seiner-malereiklasse-an-der-hfg-offenbach-1987aEUR2013dirk-baumanns- dorothee -diebold-bea-emsbach-goekhan-erdogan-oliver-flassel-parastou-forouhar-sebastian-heinrich-xenia-les.html Website of the Kunstverein, accessed on June 17, 2013
  4. ↑ http://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/ausstellungen/ausstellungen-detail/ freie-sicht-adam-jankowski-und-ka14nstler-aus-seiner-malereiklasse-an-der-hfg-offenbach-1987aEUR2013dirk-baumanns- dorothee -diebold-bea-emsbach-goekhan-erdogan-oliver-flassel-parastou-forouhar-sebastian-heinrich-xenia-les.html Quoted from: kunstverein-wiesbaden.de, accessed on June 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Jankowski, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig