Eberhard Havekost

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Eberhard Havekost (born October 12, 1967 in Dresden ; † July 5, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Career and appreciation

Eberhard Havekost was born in Dresden in 1967, attended the Kreuzschule and was a choirboy in the Dresden Kreuzchor . After graduating from high school, he trained as a stonemason . In 1989 he fled to the West via Budapest and then lived in Frankfurt am Main.

From 1991 to 1996 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1997 he became a master student under Ralf Kerbach . In 1999 he received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant . The Düsseldorf Art Academy appointed him professor of painting with effect from the 2010 summer semester. Havekost lived and worked in Berlin, where he died unexpectedly in July 2019 at the age of 52.

From the tradition of realistic painting and partially photorealism of the 1970s, Havekost developed a painting style that is both truthful and deceptive. In addition to the purely representational images, his work also includes abstractions, with Havekost always pursuing the same goal with both modes of representation: to explore the mechanisms of our visual perception . He deliberately broke with the viewing habits of the viewer by means of distortions.

Havekost's works can be found in the holdings of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection , the Tate Modern London, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt a. M. and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

painting

Solitary objects, facades, human nudes, means of transport, plants, landscapes and, more rarely, figure constellations are the recognizable motifs in Havekost's paintings. The actual theme that is realized on the basis of the selected motifs is the materiality of reality, which is fleetingly perceived and often overlooked.

Eberhard Havekost used his own or found photographs as templates for his pictures . They were digitally processed and for example chiaroscuro values ​​and colors were changed, details blurred or distorted. The objects captured in the recordings often lose their recognizability and relativise the view of reality.

The works by Eberhard Havekost deal with the process of seeing and perceiving and often question viewing habits. The subjectivity of seeing plays a major role , the randomness of which is revealed through pictorial means in Havekost's paintings. The fact that people do not see directly, but only identify the things of the outside world within the empirical structures, prompted Havekost to suggest a way out of this determination through the visual changes of the ordinary objects and to encourage them to look independently. For Havekost, it was about “asking which filters we use to perceive” and “deciphering” these filters.

The world of things

Havekost concentrated on the representation of the objects - the world of things. Often objects are shown alone, without context or human intervention. In this way, an object is freed from the meanings assigned to it in the process of functionalization by people. His paintings suggest "that things have an irreducibility, a liveliness and density that is independent of our perception."

In Havekost's pictures, mainly sections of objects are shown. In this way, he sharpens the view of details that make up the entirety of reality. Often one and the same motif is treated in series of several works. A constant change is associated with the change of perspective: the slightest displacement leads to a slightly different part of the object becoming visible and the viewer having a different object in front of his eyes each time. By constantly changing the point of view, Havekost shows the complexity of reality.

surface

Another important feature is the emphasized close view of the objects shown. Havekost works with the surface, which is an actual visible part of the objects. This theming is often understood in a digital context and compared with the phenomenon of the user interface . This term describes the visible part of a computer program that is suitable for interaction with the user. It is important that the actual digital system remains hidden behind this surface and remains invisible to the ordinary user. Following this analogy, Havekost presents visible reality through its surface in his pictures. In order to get behind the outer facade, increased concentration is required. Havekost does not paint the objects that can be seen on the surface, he paints the user interface himself.

Distance and cold

In order to activate the view of the objects in this way, Havekost worked with opposites such as distance and closeness, warmth and cold. Extreme close-up views and sober detail realism are characteristic of his painting. In this way an impenetrable style of painting developed that corresponds to a fleeting glimpse of the outside world - this is precisely the theme in Havekost's pictures. In his painting this gaze is subject to a process of slowing down.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Collections

literature

  • Eberhard Havekost, logic ; Editor: Galerie Rudolfinum; Text: Petr Nedoma, Petr Vanous, Invar-Torre Hollaus; Prague 2017.
  • Eberhard Havekost, content , publisher: Sternberg Press; Editor: Andreas Fiedler; Berlin 2016.
  • Eberhard Havekost, title , publisher: Walter Smerling; Text: Walter Smerling, Katy Siegel, Robert Fleck; Cologne 2013.
  • Eberhard Havekost, In India , Publisher: Fern Verlag; Text: Tasneem Mehta; Conversations between Bose Krishnamachari and Eberhard Havekost; Berlin 2012.
  • Eberhard Havekost, exhibition , publisher: Distance Verlag; Text: Ulrich Loock, Barry Schwabsky, Jean-Charles Vergne; Berlin 2010.
  • Eberhard Havekost, Guest , Publisher: White Cube; Text: Craig Burnett; London 2010.
  • Eberhard Havekost, Retina , Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König; Text: Max Hollein, Jean-Charles Vergne; Cologne 2010.
  • Eberhard Havekost, Entrée , Publisher: Schirmer / Mosel; Text: Jean-Charles Vergne; Munich 2007.
  • Eberhard Havekost, user interface , publisher: Schirmer / Mosel; Text: Heiner Bastian, Eberhard Havekost; Munich 2007.
  • Eberhard Havekost, Harmonie , Publisher: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag; Text: Th. Köhler, Susanne Köhler, Annelie Lütgens, Ludwig Seyfahrt; Wolfsburg 2005.
  • Eberhard Havekost, graphics 1999–2004 , publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König; Text: Wolfgang Holler, Raimar Stange, Tobias Burg, Hans-Ulrich Lehmann; Cologne 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Havekost died. Dresden Latest News , July 5, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Character in portrait Eberhard Havekost. (PDF) Bethmann Bank, September 2014, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dresden painter Eberhard Havekost died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on July 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Thobias Burg: Oscillations between art and reality . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Eberhard Havekost. Graphics 1999-2004 . Cologne 2004.
  5. ^ Tate homepage, accessed July 5, 2019
  6. ^ A b Susanne Köhler: Destiny - On the new group of works by Eberhard Havekost . In: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ed.): Eberhard Havekost: Harmonie. Pictures 1998 - 2005 . Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1651-2 .
  7. ↑ Barry Schwabsky: Phantom Images . In: Distance Verlag (Ed.): Eberhard Havekost: Exhibition . Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942405-14-0 .
  8. ↑ a b c Katy Siegel: And the moon came closer . In: Walter Smerling (Ed.): Eberhard Havekost: TITEL . Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-942405-72-0 .
  9. ↑ Eberhard Havekost: I paint what I don't see . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, No. 12 . March 23, 2003.
  10. ^ Ludwig Seyfarth: User interfaces . In: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ed.): Eberhard Havekost: Harmonie. Pictures 1998–2005 Location = Ostfildern-Ruit . 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1651-2 .
  11. ↑ In Berlin-Neukölln, the Kindl brewery is now opening completely as a center for contemporary art. It should be about the present. BY BIRGIT RIEGER
  12. ^ Celebrated painter Eberhard Havekost in Duisburg - dpa via Focus, July 11, 2013
  13. ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, exhibition November 13, 2010 to February 6, 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skd.museum
  14. ↑ The Collection | MoMA. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  15. ^ Tate: Eberhard Havekost born 1967. Retrieved February 6, 2019 (British English).
  16. ↑ Eberhard Havekost. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ SKD | Online Collection. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Eberhard Havekost. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Havekost, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2019
Place of death Berlin