Dieter Glasmacher

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Dieter Glasmacher (* 1940 in Krefeld ) is a German visual artist .

Life

After training as a patronur and pattern maker, Dieter Glasmacher studied painting from 1963 to 1968 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. While still a student, he took part in the first national exhibitions and was involved in artist communities. In 1965 he founded the group of artists Cruizin 4 (syndicate for the art business) with Gunter Gerlach , Herman Prigann , Werner Nöfer and Dirk Zimmer (Dizi ) . In 1966 he received a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to Zurich . In the following years his work was presented in galleries and museums in almost all major cities in Germany and in other European countries. From the 1980s onwards, there were also exhibitions outside Europe, for example in Africa and Latin America. In addition to painting, Glasmacher also made use of various other artistic media: from art campaigns (“World Championship in Permanent Painting”, “Heintje Research”, “Nothing will come of you”), animated films to early street art , around 1968 wall painting on the Hamburg-based artist Grünspan Music Club , one of the first wall paintings in Germany (together with Werner Nöfer ).

His socio-political commitment was evident early on in Glasmacher's work and actions: Critical contributions to the art world and demonstration acts in the course of the 1968 movement made him known and Glasmacher received numerous honors. For example, in 1973 he and Kurt Rosenthal received an award for the animated film Maria Martinez Lopez at the International Festival of Animated Film in Guadalajara, Mexico, and in 1979 received the renowned Edwin Scharff Prize from the City of Hamburg.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Dieter Glasmacher went on several month-long study trips through West Africa.

From 1980 to 1995, glassmaker was professor at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , department of design . In 1989 he was visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. From 1995 to 2003 Glasmacher taught as a professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , in the design department.

In 2016 Dieter Glasmacher received the art prize of the Heitland Foundation .

Dieter Glasmacher has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 1980 and his work has been shown in over 70 solo exhibitions and more than 140 group exhibitions over the years. Dieter Glasmacher lives and works near Hamburg .

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Influenced by classical modernism, especially Dadaism , and trends in contemporary art such as the work of Jean Dubuffet , Art brut , the expressive painting of the COBRA group and Pop Art , glassmaker has had a very independent position and a lively, original position over many years of creation Imagery developed. Television, cinema, advertising, graffiti and other forms of street art, as well as the "secret traces" of public space, words and doodles, such as those found in urinals, at bus stops or house walls, also have a defining effect on his visual worlds. His main topic is his "Affected by current social oppression and deformation." (W.Brodersen / C. Mewes)

All of his works have a collage-like character: seemingly incoherent, he combines figures, signs, color fields and writings. They form pieces of experience that are put together associatively to form a puzzle and in turn trigger chains of associations in the viewer. "Viewers become visible" is what one of Glasmacher's pictures is called. Glassmaker mostly highlights strong emotions such as anger, sadness or sexual desire, but also brightly colored joie de vivre, wit, humor and the joy of linguistic caprioles, which is mainly dealt with on slogans and headlines, are thematized in pictures.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1966 Nothing comes of you , gallery in the room theater, Tübingen
  • 1968 Gallery Stummer + Hubschmid, Zurich
  • 1980 Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
  • 1981 Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg
  • 1983 An Be No Do: Africa painting , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, together with A. Jankowski
  • 1983 Forum for Cultural Exchange, Stuttgart, together with Adam Jankowski
  • 1984 Hamburg fish auction hall, together with Adam Jankowski
  • 1987 Viewpoints , Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 1989 Goethe-Institut Lima, Peru
  • 1989 Goethe-Institut Abidjan / Ivory Coast
  • 1990 Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
  • 1993 Berliner Kunstverein, Weißensee eV
  • 1998 Agathenburg Castle, Agathenburg
  • 2003 Palais for Current Art, Glückstadt, together with Rolf Zander
  • 2003 Galerie Baviera, Zurich
  • 2009 Galerie Sonntag, Espergaerde, Denmark
  • 2010 Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg
  • 2014 Art Association Eisenturm, Mainz
  • 2015 Galerie Herold, Hamburg
  • 2015 Gallery in the Haesler House, Celle
  • 2018 Kunsthalle, Lüneburg

Films (selection)

  • Heintje Research, NDR III, Albert Krogmann,
  • Talk show, NDR III, January 11, 1980
  • You should have seen that, ZDF, Mainz, November 28, 1991
  • I am a narrator, Dieter Glasmacher, WDR III, April 20, 1997, Lucas Maria Böhmer
  • Conspiratorial Kitchen Concerts, August 28, 2010

literature

  • Art Prize of the Youth , Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1966
  • Paul Nizon: Poetry of the House of Cards , in: Zürcher Woche, May 19, 1967
  • Horst Kalbus: Malen, Malen, Malen , in: Die Zeit, November 18, 1966
  • Beck Pop Collection , Landesmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1970
  • Heintje research , Akzente 3/71, Hanser Verlag, 1971
  • Second British International Print Biennale , City Art Gallery, Bradford, 1972
  • Volker Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg , Hans Christians Verlag Hamburg, 1974
  • Dieter Glasmacher , Galerie Baviera, Zurich, 1978
  • Documentation: Artists and Other Collectors , Kunstforum, Volume 32, February 1979
  • Peter Meyer: Expeditions in a broken culture , in: Magazin Art No. 8, 1981
  • On the spell of Voo-doo ecstasy , in: Die Welt, September 18, 1981
  • Uwe M. Schneede: From the outside to the inside , in: Dieter Glasmacher / Adam Jankowski: AN BE NO DO. Africa painting 1980-82 , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 1983
  • Adam Jankowski: On equality and equivalence - about Dieter Glasmacher's "African Pictures" , in: Dieter Glasmacher / Adam * Jankowski: AN BE NO DO. Africa painting 1980-82 , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 1983
  • Hanna Hohl: artist trips , in: Dieter Glasmacher / Adam Jankowski: AN BE NO DO. Africa painting 1980-82 , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 1983
  • Wolfgang Nagel: Three months high , in: Zeitmagazin, No. 7, February 10, 1984
  • Hanna Hohl: Tageblätter , in: Viewpoints: Dieter Glasmacher , Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1987
  • Hans-Georg Pfeifer: You only see what you know in: Glasmacher. You can see what you have. Works 97 to 89 , Edition Stadt-Bau-Kunst, Berlin, 1990
  • Waltraud Brodersen / Claus Mewes: Dieter Glasmacher's associative painting , in: Glasmacher. You can see what you have. Works 97 to 89 , Edition Stadt-Bau-Kunst, Berlin, 1990
  • Glasmacher, Nachtway, Erlbruch , FH Düsseldorf, 1992
  • Friedrich Gross: Signs of life: jargon from the bottom. Glasmacher's artless art , in: Dieter Glasmacher, Vegetables must shine , Berliner * Kunstverein Weissensee eV, 1993
  • First choice , Kunstverein Hamburg, 1996
  • Art forays , Volume 3 / Part 3 of the series of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation, Dölling and Gallitz Verlag, Hamburg, 1997
  • Eye control station , together with Rolf Zander, Kunstverein Glückstadt, 1999
  • Vita von Wedel: Small dangers lurk behind hazy dunes , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 17, 2004
  • Matthias Harder: Occasionally it giggles from the background of the painting , in: Dieter Glasmacher. Exercises for On the Go , Herold Gallery, 2007
  • Axel Feuß: Current, Older and Circuits , in: Same and Unequal , Kunsthalle Lüneburg, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Glassmaker, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld