Blalla W. Hallmann

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Blalla W. Hallmann (actually: Wolfgang Ewald Hallmann; born March 23, 1941 in Quirl , Riesengebirge , Lower Silesia ; † July 2, 1997 in Windsbach , Middle Franconia ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Hallmann studied from 1957 to 1958 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1958 to 1960 he completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Emsdetten , and from 1960 to 1965 continued his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Fritz Griebel . In Nuremberg he was a member of the artist trio around Herbert Haberl and Bernd Wangerin. In 1965 he was a founding member of a traveling theater, the later " Hoffmanns Comic Teater ". Members of this group later became the rock band Ton Steine ​​Scherben . From 1967 to 1969 Hallmann stayed in the USA . In 1968 he taught at the University of California in San Francisco . After a stay in a psychiatric institution in 1969, he destroyed all of his own work available to him in 1970. From 1992 to 1995 Hallmann was a professor at the Braunschweig University of Art . Since 1994 he lived in Windsbach.

Blalla W. Hallmann: Evening meeting in the clearing - Harry's farewell (1997) Künstler-Nkropole, Kassel

Blalla W. Hallmann's work deals in a drastic, blasphemous as well as obscene way with basic existential questions ( religion , sexuality , ...). Formally, it ranges between surrealism , outsider art ( Art Brut ), folk art and numerous references to art history . In the 1980s the cycle of "horror pictures" was created, which, among other things, thematize the Inquisition and the Holocaust . In addition to other techniques, reverse glass painting , known from folk art, is characteristic for him . In 1995/1996 a woodcut series of 149 sheets was created in which Hallmann recapitulated his own career under the title “The Path, Truth and Life”.

Blalla W. Hallmann died in 1997 of complications from cancer. He was no longer able to complete his tomb for the artist necropolis in Kassel , which he had promised in 1996 . Instead, a picture with the title Evening Meeting at the Glade - Harry's Farewell was installed there in 1998 , which Hallmann had sent to his widow in Kassel in 1997 after the death of the necropolis initiator Harry Kramer .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984: “Deep Views - Art of the 1980s from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Austria and Switzerland”, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
  • 1986: Art in the FRG 1945–1985, Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin (West)
  • 1990: "Finally - Post-Revolutionary Art in the IV. Reich" with 32 other artists, NGBK, Berlin (West)
  • 1992 friends and relatives , curated by Peter Angermann , Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 1994: House of World Cultures , Berlin
  • 1996: Deep Inside. The Art of Porno, Musée d'Art contemporain Pornographique Lausanne
  • 2005: Eerie Places. Heaven and Hell, Museum of the City of Ratingen
  • 2007: The art of collecting, museum kunst palast Düsseldorf

literature

  • Blalla W. Hallmann: The way, the truth and the life. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne 1995. ISBN 3-88375-229-0
  • Blalla W. Hallmann: reference to creation. Prometh Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-922009-75-1
  • Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (ed.): Deep views - art of the eighties. DuMont, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1740-9
  • Dorothee Kruse, Tom Jacobi: Art from Germany. STERN No. 32/1984
  • Matthias Reichelt (Ed.): Blalla W. Hallmann. Lost the language - The visual power of Blalla W. Hallmann . Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936711-91-2
  • Michael Zepter: Escape the horror with a billowing sail. Foreword to the Blalla W. Hallmann catalog. Producer Gallery Hamburg 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Angela Landgrebe: Artists Necropolis Kassel . euregioverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-933617-18-9 , p. 28 .
  2. ↑ Always on a knife's edge in Hessisch Niedersächsische Allgemeine from February 23, 2013, page NO-KU2
personal data
SURNAME Hallmann, Blalla W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallmann, Wolfgang Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Quirl , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1997
Place of death Windsbach