Ernst Hermanns

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Two hemispheres shifted against each other (1977). Museum square Bottrop

Ernst Hermanns (born December 8, 1914 in Münster , † November 28, 2000 in Bad Aibling ) was a German visual artist . He was an important exponent of Concrete Art after the Second World War .

Life

Ernst Hermanns studied at the Aachen School of Applied Arts with Hein Minkenberg and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Sepp Mages . In 1948 Ernst Hermanns was in Recklinghausen, together with Gustav Deppe , Thomas Grochowiak , Emil Schumacher , Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen , co-founders of the Young West group - the first avant-garde artist group in Germany after the Second World War. His first abstract sculpture was created in 1950 . In 1955 Hermanns became a member of the West German Association of Artists , and in 1957 of the German Association of Artists .

In 1967 Hermanns moved to Munich. In 1971 he received a scholarship from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . From 1976 to 1980 Hermanns was a professor at the Art Academy in Münster . In 1986 Ernst Hermanns was appointed a full member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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While Hermanns' early work still showed the influence of Henry Moore or Alberto Giacometti , in the mid-1960s he increasingly turned to abstract geometric forms. In particular, columns, cylinders and spheres were recurring forms in his work.

The aim of his artistic work in the 1980s was to make space , time and movement tangible in a concrete, i.e. non-illusionistic way. Hermanns called this "spatial constellations".

About a third of Hermanns' entire oeuvre is in the possession of the DKM Museum , Duisburg. In particular, Hermanns designed a space-related work for the DKM Foundation, which was realized posthumously in 2005. With the Ernst Hermanns Archive Foundation, the DKM Foundation has also been involved in the scientific management of the artist's estate since 1999.

Prizes and awards

Plastic I / 67 (1967). Kantpark, Duisburg

Works in museums and collections

Large multiform sculpture (1960), stone sculpture. Wienburgpark in the Westphalian Münster

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Heinz Herzer; Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg (Ed.): Ernst Hermanns. Plastic works with catalog raisonné 1946–1982 . Zirndorf, 1982
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse / Ernest W. Uthemann (eds.): "Ernst Hermanns. Drawings and Sculptures . Exhibition catalog Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, February 17 - April 7, 1985. Hatje, Stuttgart, 1985
  • Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985 . National Gallery. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
  • Stefanie Bielmeier : Plastic experience space - Ernst Hermanns on his 80th birthday . In: Pantheon, Internationale Jahresschrift für Kunst, Volume LII, 1994, pages 172 to 179
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Hermanns, Ernst . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 172, 174-175 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Hermanns  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selected works from the DKM collection (2)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 189 kB) DKM Foundation, Duisburg@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museum-dkm.de  
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951/1957 ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 3, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ^ Ernst Hermanns on the occasion of his 90th birthday , November 26, 2004 - February 20, 2005, DKM Foundation, Duisburg (kunstaspekte)
  4. ↑ Ernst Hermanns: Untitled, 1983 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2010 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. - Art collections of the Ruhr University Bochum (virtual museum of the modern nrw)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrw-museum.de
  5. ↑ Ernst Hermanns. Sculptures - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop square
  6. ↑ Ernst Hermanns - Homage for the 100th birthday. (No longer available online.) City of Recklinghausen - Museums of the City of Recklinghausen, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunst-re.de
personal data
SURNAME Hermanns, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2000
Place of death Bad Aibling