Boris Kleint

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Boris Herbert Kleint (born April 11, 1903 in Masmünster , † 1996 in Völklingen ) was a German artist and art professor .

Life

Boris Kleint, Abstract Composition (1939), MT Abraham Foundation

He was born in 1903 in Masmünster , Alsace . After graduating from high school in Baden-Baden (1921), he studied psychology , philosophy , medicine , languages ​​and art studies at the universities in Heidelberg , Leipzig , Berlin and Würzburg from 1921 to 1925 . In 1925 he received his doctorate in psychology in Frankfurt , where he became an assistant to Max Wertheimer , the founder of Gestalt theory, at the Psychological Institute . From 1933 he studied painting in Berlin with the Swiss painter and art teacher Johannes Itten , whose assistant he became in 1933. In 1936 Kleint emigrated to Luxembourg .

Between 1936 and 1942 he traveled from there to Walter Gropius in London and to Kandinsky and Picasso in Paris , later a second trip to Kandinsky followed. After the liberation of the Grand Duchy by Allied troops (1944) he was interned in the Luxembourg state prison "Im Grund" for four weeks.

In 1946 Kleint was appointed to the State School for Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken, where he took over the master class for painting and at the same time set up a "basic teaching" based on the Itten preliminary course ( Bauhaus ), which he passed on to his assistant Oskar Holweck after a few years passed on. In 1953 he took over the chairmanship of the Saarland Artists Association. In 1954 he was appointed professor and four years later a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Aachen . In 1957, Kleint and like-minded people founded the artists' association “ neue gruppe saar ”. In 1969 his main work "Bildlehre" was published, which became relevant for later generations of students and was translated into several languages, including Japanese .

Kleint's oeuvre covers a broad spectrum and is stylistically diverse. There are constructive - concrete elements as well as informal tendencies in the work. According to his own statement, his artistic goal was a "visual universality" to which he subordinated the finding of a personal style.

Boris Herbert Kleint was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Teaching

Boris Kleint headed both the painting class and the "basic teaching" in Saarbrücken from 1947, an area that he left to his then assistant Oskar Holweck in the mid-1950s. Kleint's twenty years of work as a teacher, which recorded an exhibition in the Saarbrücken Congress Hall in 1967 with works by over 80 former students, can be regarded as particularly remarkable. Like Willi Baumeister , Hannes Neuner and Fritz Winter, he was one of the few high-profile artist teachers who authentically developed and imparted Bauhaus teaching in Germany after the Second World War, without restricting the individual disposition of the respective student. Not only painters or graphic artists, but also sculptors, textile designers and art teachers emerged from his class. Some of his graduates in turn worked as university teachers.

His well-known students include Paul Antonius , Peter Barrois , Karl Bohrmann , Barbara Bredow , Hans Dahlem , Jo Enzweiler , Leo Erb , Volkmar Gross , Ludwig Grub , Albert Haberer , Oskar Holweck , Horst Linn , Wilfried Maret , Galli , Franz Mörscher , Aloys Ohlmann , Margarete Palz-Heisler , Diether Ritzert , Eugen Roth , Hans E. Schwender , Hans Willi Scherf , Ferdinand Selgrad , Dieter Trost , Herbert Volz , Günter Wilkes, Dorothea Zech .

Awards / prizes

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1937 Galerie Le Nouveau (Paris): First exhibition (participation)
  • 1946 Galerie d'art moderne (Basel): Participation (with Picasso, Kandinsky, Braque, among others)
  • 1948 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken): first solo exhibition
  • 1949 Louvre (Paris), Marsan Pavilion: participation
  • 1950 Galerie Les deux iles (Paris): solo exhibition, Galerie Günther (Mannheim)
  • 1951 Autumn exhibition New Darmstadt Secession : Participation
  • 1952 Kunsthalle Mannheim Non-objective painting in Germany : participation
  • 1954 Vienna Secession (Vienna)
  • 1955 State Art Gallery (Baden-Baden): German Association of Artists: Participation
  • 1956 Academy of Fine Arts (Karlsruhe): participation
  • 1958 Kulturhaus (Ludwigshafen): Participation in the new group saar
  • 1961 Galerie Franck (Frankfurt / M.): Plastic pictures (solo exhibition)
  • 1963 Galerie du Damier (Paris): solo exhibition
  • 1971 Galerie Loehr (Frankfurt and Düsseldorf): each individual exhibition
  • 1973 Saarlandmuseum (Saarbrücken): retrospective (solo exhibition)
  • 1977 Städtische Kunsthalle (Gelsenkirchen): 100 works from 40 years (solo exhibition)
  • 1982 Gallery in the Erbprinzenpalais (Saarbrücken): Solo exhibition
  • 1985 Stadtgalerie (Saarbrücken): solo exhibition
  • 1991 Stadtmuseum (St. Wendel): Works on paper from the 50s and 70s (solo exhibition)
  • 1993 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken): retrospective
  • 1994 Josef Albers Museum (Bottrop): retrospective
  • 1998 Saarland Museum (Saarbrücken): Drawings 1950-1953
  • 2002 Städel Museum (Frankfurt / M.): Unleashed Form - Frankfurter Quadriga (participation)
  • 2006 Kunstmuseum Bonn and Staatliches Museum Schwerin: From Kandinsky to Tatlin - Constructivism in Europe (participation)
  • 2011 Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, and 2012 National Gallery Namoc, Beijing: “L'abstraction en Europe” (participation)
  • 2011 Saarländische Galerie, Berlin: Solo exhibition
  • 2012 Weick Gallery, Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

  1. Title of the dissertation: "On the influence of attitudes on perception"
  2. kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kleint, Boris Herbert ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 11, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. Exhibition of 20 Years of Painting at the State Art School in Saarbrücken, class of Prof. Dr. Boris Kleint , Congress Hall Saarbrücken, November 23 to December 7, 1967 (exhibition cat.)
  4. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 35 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken July 13, 1989, p. 995 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 206 kB ; accessed on June 2, 2017]).

Literature (selection)

  • Sankt Mauritius Saarbrücken - the image of a church. Compiled by Boris Kleint, with contributions by Albert Dietz, Edmund Schäfer and Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth, Woldemar Klein Verlag, Baden-Baden 1959, 52 p., Partly with color illus.
  • Boris Kleint: Bildlehre - the seeing human. 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Verlag Schwabe, Basel 1980, 369 p., Numer. Fig., ISBN 3-7965-0758-1
  • Lorenz Dittmann: Boris Kleint. Verlag Bongers, Recklinghausen 1984, 130 p., 166 col. U. b / w-fig. on plate u. some text illustrations, ISBN 3-7647-0363-6
  • Boris Kleint - retrospective. [Catalog for the exhibition in the Saarland Museum Saarbrücken], with contributions by Lorenz Dittmann and Margarita C. Lahusen, Verlag Hatje, Stuttgart 1993, 173 p., Numerous. Fig., ISBN 3-7757-0463-9
  • Boris Kleint - drawings, watercolors, gouaches, color cuts 1919–1984 . With contributions by Lorenz Dittmann, Michael Jähne, Reinhard Zimmermann, editors: Jo Enzweiler, Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, editors: Helga Kleint, Claudia Maas, Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2003, 215 pp., 815 ills. (S / w), ISBN 3-928596-75-6

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