Günter Haese

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Optimus II ( Viersen Sculpture Collection )

Günter Haese (born February 18, 1924 in Kiel ; † November 30, 2016 near Hanover ) was a German sculptor specializing in kinetic art and an art professor.

Life and work

Training and development

After his war, Günter Haese began to draw and paint as an autodidact in 1945. In 1949 he first attended a private art school in Plön and began studying with his wife at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1950 , where he studied with Bruno Goller and Ewald Mataré . In 1956 he became a master student in the sculpture class of Ewald Mataré, in whose work on Cologne Cathedral he was involved. From 1958 he worked as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf. In 1962 he discovered brass wire and components of dismantled clocks such as spiral springs and wheels as components for spatial objects and in 1964 he had his first solo exhibition of these metal objects in the Ulm Museum . Günter Haese was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg . In 1994 he was awarded the honorary professorship of the State of Schleswig-Holstein “in recognition and in appreciation of the artistic life's work created over the decades” .

Artistic creation and meaning

The Ulm exhibition was so well received that Haese had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that same year . In 1967 he took part in the German pavilion at the world exhibition in Montreal , Expo 67 . Haese quickly became known and received many prominent visitors in his Düsseldorf studio, e. B. Henry Moore (1965) and the Dutch Crown Princess Beatrix (later Queen of the Netherlands) with her husband Klaus von Amberg (1975).

Haeses art objects are small transparent bodies made of brass and phosphor bronze . Balls, spirals or other filigree parts are lined up in a soldered wire mesh and thus form kinetic works of art of unique physicality. In contrast to representatives of the ZERO group such as Heinz Mack or Günther Uecker , Haese does not use electricity for his kinetic sculptures. Just a slight breeze is enough to set their delicate structures vibrating.

In 2006 the artist decided to build a monumental sculpture for the first time: Optimus II was completed in 2007 and placed in the Viersen sculpture collection .

Günter Haese was a member of the German Association of Artists . The artist's estate is administered by Galerie Thomas , Munich.

Prizes and awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Works in collections (selection)

Literature / sources

  • Isa Bickmann: Moving silence . In: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art . Edition 61. Munich 2003.
  • Ursula Binder-Hagelstange: Chamber play with cosmic dimensions . In: FAZ . November 2nd 1978.
  • Herwig Guratzsch (Ed.): Günter Haese. List of sculptures. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1249-6 .
  • Thomas Hengstenberg (Ed.): Günter Haese. Cosms of silence. Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86206-033-7 .
  • 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 .
  • Joachim Peter Kastner: Günter Haese. Viersen sculpture collection . Viersen 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808779-6-1 .
  • Eri Krippner: Günter Haese. Kinetics without a socket. Personal considerations ... Prestel, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3536-7 .
  • Karl Ruhrberg: Poetry of the pure form. Notes on the work of the sculptor Günter Haese . In: The artwork XXII. Vol. 1-2. 1968.
  • Axel von Saldern : Günter Haese. Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg , 1972
  • Werner Schulze-Reimpell : Outsider of the art scene . In: Frankfurter Hefte . December 1977.
  • Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Hans van der Grinten (org.): "Matare and his students Beuys, Haese, Heerich, Meistermann." Kestner Society Hannover, 1979, ISBN 3-88331-907-4 .
  • documenta III. International exhibition; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary title "Professor" . In: schleswig-holstein.de . Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Haese, Günter ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2015 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. (accessed on August 10, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Günter Haese: Sculptures from 1973 to 2007 - exhibition at Galerie Reckermann, April 13 to July 16, 2011, Cologne (with numerous photos of the works)

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personal data
SURNAME Haese, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and art professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2016
Place of death near Hanover