Detlef Willand

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Detlef Willand (born April 14, 1935 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German wood cutter , local historian and amateur archaeologist .

Life

Detlef Willand was born in Heidenheim in 1935 and grew up in Kleinwalsertal . In 1951 he began a wood carving apprenticeship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and from 1955 attended the Partenkirchen technical school for wood carving . He then worked as a restorer in the reconstruction of the Munich residence . In 1960 he returned to Kleinwalsertal and opened his own sculptor's studio, which he lost to a fire in 1962.

Detlef Willand has been working intensively with the graphic art form of the woodcut since 1967 , choosing his subjects primarily from the areas of mysticism, natural science, philosophy and religion.

In 1972 he became a member of the artist group of the Hans Thoma Society and had his first solo exhibition in 1977 in the Städtische Galerie Albstadt , which was followed by numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1981 and 2014 he had a solo exhibition in the gallery in Untere Tor in Bietigheim-Bissingen .

Detlef Willand is the owner of the Oberallgäu Art Prize (1985), prize winner of the Bible and Culture Foundation (2000) and holder of the certificate of honor of the 6th Mondiale D'Estampes Triennial . In 2005 he received the Johann Georg Grimm Prize of the Kultur-Förderkreis Allgäu and in 2012 the Federal Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria for services to Walser folk culture.

Act

The versatile Detlef Willand uses the woodcut, which, as the original form of modern letterpress printing, has long been an important means of popularizing ideas, for his part also to present and disseminate his findings and statements on current topics. He is one of the woodcut artists who pick up on the rediscovery of woodcuts by the Expressionists and develop it further as an independent medium. Its elements (clear cuts, sharp contours, strong abstractions, exaggerated coloring) give Willand's works and cycles the desired expressiveness. One example of this is the cycle A Dance of Death in the Mountains , in which Willand expresses his criticism of commercial, anti-cultural and anti-natural efforts in the Alpine region.

In his text passages on the human situation, Willand combines his own insights with those of prominent thinkers from different centuries. The results prompt other authors to mention Detlef Willand as a contemporary witness or to dedicate their own contributions to him. Also noteworthy is Willand's underpinning of the thesis that the strange Old Testament story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise describes the timely and decisive transition from the nomadic, non-possessing and therefore warless (paradisiacal) hunter culture to the sedentary, landed farming culture.

Detlef Willand also made an outstanding contribution to the documentation of Walser folk culture (Walser history, world of legends, Walser peasant culture, old routes). In 2003 he participated in the design of the Bergschau Walserhaus Hirschegg and in 2010 he created the "Steinmänner-Brunnen" at the summit station of the Walmendingerhornbahn in Kleinwalsertal.

In 1998 Willand found traces of the presence of Mesolithic hunters under an overhanging rock on the Schneiderkürenalpe in the Ifen area . Although science initially gave the “dreamy artist” the cold shoulder ( “Vorarlberg was unproductive in the Stone Age” ), he finally succeeded in getting Walter Leitner from the University of Innsbruck interested in a self-financed experiment. On a long path full of resistance and setbacks, a scientifically high-ranking site of Stone Age life developed on the Schneiderkürenalpe, whose importance was even surpassed by the discovery (also by Detlef Willand and his Archaeological Circle of Friends ) a Stone Age mine on the Feuerstein - the oldest in the Alpine region has been. Since then, Detlef Willand has been the engine of Austrian paleontological-archaeological activities in the Kleiner Walsertal.

Publications

  • Old proverbs - Allgäu, Bregenzerwald, Walsertal
  • Journey to the Delian Apollo
  • The Way: [a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela] , 1996, ISBN 3-924099-49-9
  • Wood cutting 1970 - 2005, illustrated book and catalog raisonné. 2005
  • A short story of the Walsers in the Kleiner Walsertal . 2006
  • with Anton Amann: Wort ond Bildr . 2008
  • with Dorothee and Rudolf Schnellbach (photographers): Wönsch Glück em Schtall (out of print; no year of publication)
  • The raven woman's answers. Encounters with hunters and shepherds of ancient times. Allgäu - Kleinwalsertal - Vorarlberg. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-572-1
  • with Anton Amann: The Buoch should have strength and power. Alpine books in Kleinwalsertal 1541–1914, Walserdruck, Riezlern 2013.
  • Old ways in the Walsertal and the Rodordnung from 1573

Exhibition catalogs and edited volumes

  • Willand: [drawing, woodcut. 1970 - 1980], Murnau: Verlag Das Werkstattbuch, 1980, ISBN 3-921773-01-6
  • Detlef Willand, woodcuts, etchings: [on the exhibition “Detlef Willand” in November 1981 in the gallery in Unteren Tor Bietigheim] / [Ed. Gallery in the Lower Gate of Bietigheim]
  • Detlef Willand: woodcuts and drawings; Städtische Galerie Albstadt, July 16 - September 3, 1995 / [exhibition and catalog: Detlef Willand and Adolf Smitmans], ISBN 3-923644-64-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Book presentation The Raven Woman's Answers
  2. ↑ a b c Detlef Willand, the wood cutter in the Walser Alps project
  3. ^ New edition: Galerie im Unteren Tor shows works by the artist Detlef Willand. In: swp.de. May 20, 2014, accessed January 6, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Article in the Allgäuer Anzeiger about the award of the Honorary Sign of the Republic of Austria 2012 Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt of December 14, 2012
  5. ^ Exhibition and reading on December 15, 2010 in the Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf
  6. ↑ A dance of death in the mountains cycle
  7. ↑ Bernd Schorb, Anja Hartung, Wolfgang Reissmann: Media and older age: theory-research-practice. P. 203 limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ↑ Martin Walser : About Willands Welt (PDF file)
  9. ↑ Klaus Schmidt: about the book presentation The Raven Woman's Answers in Oberallgäu Kultur from October 28, 2009
  10. ↑ Rosemarie Schwesinger: on Detlev Willands reading When stones astonish archaeologists in Oberallgäu Kultur from November 4, 2009
  11. ↑ Brief description of the book wood cutting 1970-2005
  12. ↑ Presentation ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 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. at vorarlberger-walservereinigung.at  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberger-walservereinigung.at
personal data
SURNAME Willand, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter, local researcher, amateur archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz