Gerd Hanebeck
Gerd Hanebeck (born January 3, 1939 in Remscheid ; † October 27, 2017 in Wuppertal ) was a German painter, graphic artist and object artist who lived and worked in Wuppertal.
life and work
Hanebeck studied at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal . He set up his home and studio on the Wuppertal Mount of Olives. He collected African sculptures and cult objects, but did not travel to Africa, which earned him the name "painting Karl May ".
His art was influenced by the knowledge and skills of archaic cultures, especially those of Africa. This knowledge was reflected in various art forms: paintings, drawings, terracottas, objects and book cases.
Hanebeck was not a traditional painter. Amorphous figurations break out of his pictures and objects. Symbols of African cultures such as snakes, zigzag lines, triangular signs are mixed in colored areas and form relief-like picture elements. Characters and ciphers are given new image functions, are torn out of their original context and transported into the present.
Wooden boards are tied up with leather belts. Iron chains, bone parts, hooks, nails and ropes come together to form material images. Natural colors such as sepia, ocher, brown, blue and red nuances determine his pictures and sculptures.
Hanebeck found inspiration in the work of Antoni Tàpies and Joseph Beuys .
In particular, his book objects or book cases found their way into the art world. Leaded, tied up, nested, the painter made himself an author, doing without writing and telling of a "distant archaic culture" with symbols and signs.
The artist Hanebeck also taught for several years as an art teacher at the municipal secondary school in Wuppertal Barmen.
Hanebeck died in October 2017.
Awards
- 1960: 3rd Rubinstein Prize, Munich
- 1962: Scholarship holder of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
- 1963/65/67: Travel grants from the city and the IHK Wuppertal
- 1966: Study visit to Rome
- 1971: Promotion Prize of the Eduard von der Heydt Prize , Wuppertal, together with Peter Brötzmann
- 1972: Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize, Hagen
- 1973: Invitation to the 3rd International Painting Weeks, Eisenstadt / Austria
Works in public and private collections
- from the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
- Märkisches Museum (Witten)
- Darmstadt Municipal Art Collection
- Wiesbaden Museum
- State Art Collection Kassel
- Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg
- Burgenland State Gallery, Eisenstadt / Austria
- Regional d'art contemporain de Haute-Normandie Fund
- State Museum Schwerin
- Lenningen Paper Museum
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd Hanebeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerd Hanebeck. Painter, graphic artist, object artist. In: Art portal of the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal
Individual evidence
- ^ The "Malende Karl May" vom Ölberg , Westdeutsche Zeitung, November 3, 2017, accessed on December 31, 2017.
- ^ Artist Gerd Hanebeck: In the head a traveler , Remscheider Generalanzeiger, December 30, 2014, accessed on December 31, 2017.
- ↑ Online obituary , accessed December 31, 2017.
- ↑ Wuppertal.de , accessed on December 31, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hanebeck, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and object artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 2017 |
| Place of death | Wuppertal |