Arno Backhaus (painter)

Arno Backhaus

Arno Backhaus (born September 29, 1952 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German painter .

life and work

From 1970 to 1974 Arno Backhaus attended the State Drawing Academy in Hanau , where he trained as a goldsmith . In 1978 he graduated from the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences in design. As a painter he is self-taught and has been working as a freelancer since 1981.

Backhaus received the Prinzregent Luitpold scholarship and the Mathias Pschorr Hackerbräu Foundation scholarship . Numerous solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad. Works by Arno Backhaus can be found in public and private collections, including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , the Museum of the City of Aschaffenburg and the Museum of the City of Wiesbaden.

Backhaus became known for “assemblages and objects on people's existential problems”. Armin Kratzert , head of the art and literature editorial team at Bavarian TV , characterized him in 2012:

[Backhaus] does not paint a picture of me or your company or of yourself. It goes back to the beginnings of painting. He makes an icon. An image of a saint - but from this world. Backhaus doesn't paint a person, but a guy. The girl. The Craftsman. The dancer. With that all questions have been asked anew. I am no longer me. The picture of a man […] asks: Who am I? What am I doing here? Where do I go? What will we become? And: how did it even start? So Arno Backhaus is researching possibilities. Who could i be For him, identity is something preliminary, a sketch, a proposal, maybe a concept, sometimes just a coincidence.

Arno Backhaus lives and works in Stephanskirchen and Munich .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions 1983 Gallery of Artists , Munich 1985 Gallery Klaus Lea, Munich 1988 artist workshop Lothringerstraße , Munich 1990 Galerie Ressel, Wiesbaden 1989 Bernd Dürr Gallery, Munich 1993 Association for Original Etching , Munich 1996 Artothek Munich 2002 Art Association Landshut 2003 Galerie Anais, Munich 2006 Artothek Munich 2009 Galerie Anais, Munich 2009 Art Association Rastatt 2012 Gallery Pia Arce, Rosenheim

Group exhibitions 1982 Large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst , Munich 1983 Large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst , Munich 1984 Künstlerhaus Vienna 1985 Kunsthaus Hamburg 1986 Munich Art Association 1990 German Association of Artists , Berlin 1994 International Graphic Biennial , Udine 1995 9th National Drawing, Augsburg 1998 Large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2004 Art for the museum, selection from acquisitions, Aschaffenburg 2005 Art Karlsruhe 2006 Deggendorf City Museum 2010 Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden 2011 Municipal Gallery, Rosenheim 2012 Municipal Gallery, Traunstein

literature

• Jürgen Tiede: Backhaus, Arno. In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 6. KG Saur, 1992, p. 173.
• Roger M. Gorenflo: Directory of visual artists from 1880 to the present day. Volume 1, 1988, DNB 880800526 .
• Guide to Exhibited Artists. Volume 1: European Painters. Clio, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-903440-94-1 , p. 22.

Web links

• Homepage of Arno Backhaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collection | Arno Backhaus. Retrieved May 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Tiede: Backhaus, Arno In: General artist dictionary . Volume 6. KG Saur, 1992, p. 173.
3. ^ Armin Kratzert: on the exhibition Arno Backhaus, Galerie Pia Arce, January 18, 2012
4. ↑ Exhibition opening
5. ^ Exhibition catalog: Great Art Exhibition Munich 1982, Haus der Kunst, June 17 to September 26, 1982, No. 378
6. ↑ [ort = 12 & tx_degvak_pi3 [id] = 392 City Gallery in the City Museum, 01/26/2006 - 03/12/2006, eight so ... - eight artists from five nations]