Christoph Hessel

Christoph Hessel (born April 20, 1952 in Süßen ) is a German graphic artist .

Life

From 1963 onwards, Christoph Hessel received his first drawing lessons from his own mother. From 1965 to 1967 he worked in Ernst Geitlinger's studio and received private tuition from Peter Collien from 1967 to 1971 . From 1973 to 1979 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professors Mac Zimmermann (free painting and printmaking, until 1978) and Horst Sauerbruch (art education). He worked as an art teacher until his retirement, most recently at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich. He is a long-standing member of the Association for Original Etching , of which he was 2nd Chairman from 1994 to 2017.

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Christoph Hessel is primarily an eraser . In addition to his job as a teacher, he always worked as a freelancer. He is known for his large-format and mostly colored etchings, in which he uses all variants of this printing technique. Often the motifs arise precisely from the technical experiment, even if it always remained objective. His early pictures are indebted to the surrealism of his teacher Mac Zimmermann. Since the 1980s, the motifs have happily turned into barely penetrable conglomerates of figures, shapes and narrative scraps.

Awards

• 1982 Award for Fine Arts of the City of Munich for graphics

Works in public collections

• Albertina , Vienna
• Artothek Munich
• Literature Museum, Hermann Burger Archive, Bern
• Museo Kantonale, Uelli and Richard Seewald Foundation, Ascona
• Annenhalle Lübeck , Donation Rüxleben
• State Graphic Collection Munich
• State Collections Castle Burgk
• Municipal Museum, Bern
• Wienmuseum , Vienna

Illustrations / artist books

• Filemon folds rich (text: Michael Ende). Stuttgart: Thienemanns-Verlag, 1982
• Piatnik yourself. Bern: Bear Press, 1990
• Dagoberto dobradura. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1998
• Nelle, a biography in seven episodes. Bern: Bear Press, 2000
• André Breton: Nadja. Bern: Bear Press, 2006
• The new helpers in need (Text: Jürgen Bulla) Munich: Black Ink 2011
• Hotel Gabi. Bern: Bear Press, 2014

literature

• Christoph Hessel (text: P.Tranek). In: Grafische Kunst Heft 11, Memmingen, 1978
• Erasers are fanatics (workshop report). In: Grafische Kunst Heft 14, 1980
• Christoph Hessel's satirical sex theater (text: Curt Visel). In: Grafische Kunst Heft 38, 1992
• The eraser Christoph Hessel . Memmingen: Edition Curt Visel, 1985 (with catalog raisonné)
• Workshop report by Christoph Hessel . In: Grafische Kunst Heft 61, 2003
• The eraser Christoph Hessel (text: Johanna Kerschner). In: And No. 23, Munich 2005
• For small expenses. Etchings from 1996–2007 (text: Jürgen Bulla). Self-published, Munich 2008
• Bubbles behind the wallpaper. Christoph Hessel - Markus Jaursch. Exhibition catalog Kunstverein Passau in the Kubin-Haus Zwickledt. Passau: Self-published 2016. ISBN 978-3-00-052504-9
• The eraser Christoph Hessel or: The birth of pictures from the etching technique (Text: Andreas Strobl ). In: Graphic Art New Series Issue 1/2017, pp. 3–6

Web links

• Christoph Hessel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the Black Ink publisher's website, accessed 2017-12-31