Friedemann Hahn

Friedemann Hahn at the Bernd Zimmer exhibition at Deutsche Bank, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1986

Friedemann Hahn (* 1949 in Singen am Hohentwiel ) is a German painter.

life and work

Friedemann Hahn is the son of Hans Hahn (1916–1989), who was also a painter. In 1956 he moved to Hinterzarten . After graduating from the local boarding school Birklehof 1969 Hahn in Frankfurt Ballet was an apprentice and learned in the Städel -Abendschule at Walter Hergenhahn life drawing. From 1970 Hahn studied with Peter Dreher at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Freiburg . In 1974 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , with which he continued his studies at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf as a master student of Karl Otto Götz . In 1976 Hahn worked in the printing workshop at Schlossstrasse in Wolfsburg; then the Kunstverein Wolfsburg made it possible for him to hold his first solo exhibition at Wolfsburg Castle .

Friedemann Hahn was a member of the German Association of Artists . Since 1991 he has been teaching as a professor of painting at the Mainz Art Academy (formerly the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz).

In 2018 Hahn made his debut as a writer with the detective novel Foresta Nera.

Prizes and awards

• 1977: Young West Art Prize of the City of Recklinghausen
• 1977: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant
• 1979: Villa Romana Prize , one year stay in Florence
• 1980: ars viva award of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry
• 1981: Villa Massimo grant
• 1982: Art Prize for Painting from the Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen
• 1984: Sponsorship award of the International Prize for Fine Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 1994: Max Lütze Medal
• 1995: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)

Fonts

• Foresta Nera , Polar Verlag Hamburg, 2018. ISBN 978-3-945133-61-3

Individual evidence

1. ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on kuenstlerbund.de, accessed on August 13, 2015.
2. ↑ Visual arts committee: projects and award winners since 1953  ( 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. on kulturkreis.eu, accessed on August 13, 2015.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedemann Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Friedemann Hahn