Gerhard Harvan
Gerhard Harvan (born April 13, 1941 in Vienna ; † May 13, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) was a painter , graphic artist and action artist from Düsseldorf .
life and work
Harvan was born in Vienna in 1941 and grew up in Görlitz until 1960 . After a long stay in London , he came to Düsseldorf at the local art school , where he took drawing lessons from Edith Hultzsch . There he met his future wife Renate Harvan . From 1965 to 1970 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Professors Joseph Faßbender and Rolf Sackenheim and also worked in the area of the Zero Group . He became a master student of Rolf Sackenheim and was a student of Joseph Beuys , who encouraged him to take unconventional actions. Harvan had his first exhibitions in 1967. He combined painting and spraying, screen printing with lithography , etching with wood printing and collages with foam and cotton wool. He wrote poetry , made short films and carried out happenings .
Harvan dealt intensively in his works with time, the time of waiting. To do this, he symbolically used the gearwheel as a mechanical component of linear time and developed time tubes made of Plexiglas. Later he turned to cyclical time and was interested in time cycles in nature, such as the seasons or biological cycles. In 1969 his happening excited Men Loves the Cycle! Ladies do not take him so seriously in front of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf public attention. Harvan was involved in major exhibitions as a student and was making a name for himself in the art world when he was electrocuted on May 13, 1971.
Awards
- 1967 Art Prize "young west" for painting, Recklinghausen
- 1967 Art Prize “Young City sees young art”, Wolfsburg
- 1969 Wilhelm Morgner Prize for Experimental Art, Soest
- 1969 Art Prize "young west" for hand drawing and graphic art, Recklinghausen
Exhibitions and retrospectives
- 1967: Harvan, Galerie Downtown, Düsseldorf, opening August 10, 1967, solo exhibition
- 1967: Ernst Poensgen Foundation (Ernst Poensgen Prize), December 1967
- 1967: 50 x Ringenberg. German-Dutch joint exhibition, Galerie Schloss Ringenberg , Bodo Bratke, 1967
- 1967: Gallery modern art »Intergroup«, Rheinhausen 1967
- 1967: 128th spring exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover 1967
- 1968: Allard & Harvan, Galerie Alfermann, Solingen-Ohligs, opening June 7, 1968
- 1968: Harvan time waiting, October 19 to November 10, 1968, solo exhibition, Hellweg Museum Unna
- 1968: West German Artists Association 1968, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen 1968
- 1968: Düsseldorf artist at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- 1968: Deutscher Künstlerbund , 16th exhibition, Kunsthalle and Künstlerhaus Nuremberg, July 20 to September 15, 1968
- 1969: Industry & Technology in German Painting. From Romanticism to the Present, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, 7 May - 7 July 1969
- 1969: Deutscher Künstlerbund, 17th exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover, June 7 to July 27, 1969
- 1969: Action cycle, spontaneous action Men loves the cycle! Ladies don't take it so seriously in front of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, October 23, 1969, at 12:30
- 1970: Harvan cycle time waiting, K-7 gallery Kö-Center Düsseldorf, opening January 23, 1970, solo exhibition
- 1970: 13 x art, Bergheim town hall, with Christian von Grumbkow, Dorothee Jacobs, Falk Thimel, Otto Günther Altena a. a
- 1970: Industry and technology in German painting. From Romanticism to the Present, Warsaw State Gallery 1970 (exhibition taken over in 1969)
- 1970: 14th exhibition of the West German Artists Association 1970, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 1970
- 1970: Concepts of a New Art, four-part exhibition cycle in the Städtisches Museum Göttingen, 1970
- 1971: 21st winter exhibition of the visual artists NRW, November 28, 1971 to January 1, 1972, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf
- 1971: Düsseldorf - city of artists, tradition and avant-garde (opening of the new exhibition center)
- 1973: Harvan, Galerie 58, Düsseldorf, opening December 5, 1973 (retrospective)
- 2019: Gerhard Harvan - Pictures and Objects, Hermann-Harry-Schmitz-Institut in the historical clock tower, Düsseldorf April 14th - September 2nd 2019 (retrospective)
literature
- The Göttinger Kunstverein shows concepts of a new art in the Städtisches Museum am Ritterplan - exhibition cycle in 4 episodes ; Göttinger Kunstverein, (1970) - with contributions by Josef Beuys, Hans Haacke , Bernhard Höke, Timm Ulrichs , Thomas Bayrle , Bruno Demattio, Gerhard Harvan, Ulrich Herzog, Christoph Müller, HA Schult , Renate Weh, Günter Weseler , Gabor Altorjai, KH Hödicke , Markus Lüpertz , Lutz Monmartz , Dieter Reick , Konrad B. Schäuffelen , Helmut Schweizer , Bruno Spoerri, Herbert Distel , Otto Dressler , Hans-D. Froese, Dieter Glasmacher , Jörg Immendorff , Adolf Luther , Klaus Rinke
- Industry and technology in German painting. From romanticism to the present ; Exhibition catalog Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg, (7 May to 13 July 1969): An exhibition on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of DEMAG Aktiengesellschaft; Duisburg 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Könches: Gerhard Harvan - hour by hour
- ↑ Life between past and future In: RP-Online.de. Retrieved May 26, 2020
- ↑ Gerhard Harvan: Poems In: gerhardharvan.de. Retrieved May 29, 2020
- ↑ Gerhard Harvan: Movies In: gerhardharvan.de. Retrieved May 29, 2020
- ↑ Gerhard Harvan: Happening In: gerhardharvan.de. Retrieved May 29, 2020
- ↑ Barbara Könches: Gerhard Harvan - hour by hour
- ↑ About time and transience In: RP-Online.de. Retrieved May 26, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harvan, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and action artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1971 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |