Dietrich Helms

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Dietrich Helms (* 13. March 1933 in Osnabrück ) is a German graphic artist , painter , object artist and emeritus professor .

life and work

Dietrich Helms was born in Osnabrück in 1933 and spent his school days in Nordhorn and Osnabrück. From 1952 to 1958 he studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and at the Kassel Academy of Art . After studying German and literature at the University of Hamburg , he passed the state examination. From 1958 Helms first worked as a student trainee and from October 1, 1960 as a study assessor (grammar school teacher) at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover and was appointed professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1965, where he worked until 1998. Between 1965 and 1975 Helms wrote texts on contemporary art and art criticism for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in parallel to his own artistic activity .

In 1968 he was a member of the Documenta Council, the International Art Critics Association and board member of the Art Fund Foundation in Bonn. To this day he is a member of the German Association of Artists . Dietrich Helms was a founding member of the International Artists' Committee and its President from 1978 to 1981. He worked on the conception of important exhibitions. Mention should be made of “The Twenties in Hanover” in 1962, documenta 5 in 1968 and the multi-part exhibition “Typography May Be Art” in Wiesbaden, Hanover and Zurich in 1989 and 1990.

Since 1978, Dietrich Helms has been working on the estate of the Osnabrück artist Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart in collaboration with the Wiesbaden Museum and among other things has written his catalog raisonné.

"In his own art production, Dietrich Helms came to material-bound objects after structural drawings and color tables, later to series of images that resulted from direct consideration of the possibilities of material processes and to character strings that each enabled open results within a conceptual framework."

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Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2014 Dietrich Helms. The inconspicuous radical , room in the art museum Bremerhaven , Bremerhaven
  • 2013 crosswise etc. - structural drawings, color tables, folds , Felix-Nussbaum-Haus , Osnabrück
  • 2013 artist rooms , Museum Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden
  • 1998 underhand. Works since 1960 , Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
  • 1984 Artist reliquary , Municipal Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 1980 Drawing campaign on the trail of Malevich's Black Square , Düsseldorf Art Museum, Düsseldorf
  • 1970 Things , Cabinet for Current Art , Bremerhaven

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Dietrich Helms: Gegenden, Uwe Haupenthal, Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulse, 2011 ISBN 978-3-86530-1-598
  • Dietrich Helms: Underhand. Works from four decades . By Renate Petzinger, Lothar Romain, Antje von Graevenitz, Museum Wiesbaden 1998 ISBN 978-3-89258-0-362

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westfalium Kreuzweis - Homage for Dietrich Helms , accessed on June 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Website Dietrich Helm's biography ( memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.helms-werkuebersicht.de
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members / Dietrich Helms (accessed on August 19, 2015)
  4. ^ Haller Tageblatt Dietrich Helms , accessed on June 5, 2015.
  5. ^ VG-Initiative, Dietrich Helms ( Memento of October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ New OZ artist and Vordemberge expert: Dietrich Helms exhibits in Osnabrück , accessed on June 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ Catalog for documenta 6. Volume 3, p. 332: hand drawings, utopian design, books 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
personal data
SURNAME Helms, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, object artist, author and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück