Gerhard Hoehme

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Gerhard Hoehme (born February 5, 1920 in Greppin near Dessau ; † June 29, 1989 in Neuss ) was a German painter and graphic artist who is considered an important representative of abstract art after the Second World War and German Informel .

Life

From 1936 to 1938 he did an apprenticeship as a banker and then from 1939 to 1945 he trained as a pilot. Gerhard Hoehme had numerous flight missions as a fighter pilot a. a. in Africa, Russia and Greece. He was wounded twice in the process. During the convalescence period, Gerhard Hoehme took courses in painting and graphics. 1945 to 1946 Hoehme was an American prisoner of war. In 1948 he began briefly studying with the font designer Herbert Post at the Burg Giebichenstein Art School near Halle an der Saale . In 1948 he married Margarete Schulze. In 1951 he went to Düsseldorf with the help of the translator and Hoehmes later gallery owner Jean-Pierre Wilhelm and moved into a house in Düsseldorf- Kaiserswerth . From 1951 to 1953 he studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Otto Coester . During his student days, he oriented his art to French tachism . In the same year he met Jean-Pierre Wilhelm again, who in turn introduced him to Jean Fautrier and Jean Dubuffet . He also had contacts with the French informal artist from Paris as well as writers, art critics and musicians such as Juilen Alvard , Pierre Restany , Paul Celan , and Pierre Boulez . Since then, Gerhard Hoehmes has increasingly occupied himself with informal painting. In 1954 his son Pitt Simon was born and he was also awarded the Cornelius Prize of the city of Düsseldorf. From 1954 to 1957, Gerhard Hoehme was chairman of the group 53 artists' association . In 1960 he received a scholarship at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. In Rome he met Alberto Burri , Cy Twombly , Robert Motherwell , Mark Rothko , Enrico Crispolti and Giulio Carlo Argan and made friends with the artists Piero Dorazio , Pino Pascali and the writer Paul Nizon . 1962 began a long-term relationship with the painter Christine Bange. Their son Michael Simon was born in 1970 (architect in Berlin). In 1959 Hoehme was a participant in documenta II in Kassel in the painting department. In 1960 he received an appointment at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf as a teacher of the preparatory and basic course classes and in 1965 was appointed professor for free painting at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1960 he was awarded the Villa Massimo Prize in Rome. In 1962 his texts were published: Wegzeichen im Unknown. From 1963 Gerhard Hoehme had a second residence in Nemi near Rome. In 1967 he published his manifesto Relations. At the time of the student unrest in 1968 and the revolutionary teaching approaches of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Gerhard Hoehme reflected on the situation of the academy in numerous texts and developed ideas on reforms. In 1974 he moved from Düsseldorf to Neuss-Selikum. In 1984 he was elected to the academy in Berlin. He ended his teaching activities in 1984. In 1984 Gerhard Hoehme received the Paul Klee Professorship for Fine Arts at the University of Giessen .

His students included Sigmar Polke , Michael Bette and Chris Reinecke .

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In 1957 Hoehme received the sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was awarded for the first time that year . In the same year, together with Jean-Pierre Wilhelm, he founded Galerie 22 , which existed until 1960 and was a center of Art Informel for artists, musicians and writers. Hoehme became a member of the Düsseldorfer Künstlervereinigung Gruppe 53 . After 1955 he also painted in the style of lyrical abstraction .

Hoehme's own, special style of painting followed the tradition of shaped canvas . He mixed the color material and created spatial structures with his paintings and combined spatial elements with painted surfaces. He dealt with Combine Painting , created calligraphic typefaces, structural images and object images. From the 1970s he created his so-called "damask pictures". He wanted to create “open images” that no longer only worked on the canvas, but should be present in the viewer.

In 1959 Hoehme was a participant in documenta II in Kassel in the painting department. In 1960 he was awarded the Villa Massimo Prize in Rome. In 1962 his texts were published: Wegzeichen im Unknown . In 1967 he wrote his manifesto Relations .

Gerhard Hoehme was a member of the German Association of Artists , he was a member of its board from 1961 to 1963.

Art portfolios

  • Das Merke and other texts from "Traces" by Ernst Bloch with seven original etchings by Gerhard Hoehme. Heidelberg 1985

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959: documenta II , Kassel
  • 1977: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 1980: Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 1982: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 1986: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 1990: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 1997: Affinites Electives Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • 1980: Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 1985: Kunst Stoff Kunst , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn / Kunsthalle Mannheim / Sprengel Museum Hannover / Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 1998: Gerhard Hoehme , Galerie Marianne Hennemann, Bonn / Material and Collage Galerie Boisserée, Cologne / 1998 Kunstmuseum Bonn / Galerie Zimmer, Düsseldorf
  • 2001: Group exhibition Rothe Gallery, Frankfurt / Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken / Neher Gallery, Essen / Stefan Röpke Gallery, Cologne / Marianne Hennemann Gallery, Bonn / Zimmer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Tan cerca, tan lejos , Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz / Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 2003: So near, so far , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg / Group 53 , friends and supporters in the Museum of the City of Ratingen / Informel Gallery Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim
  • 2003/2004: Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2004: SOMMERLUST - KUNST-STÜCKE , Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt / On paper Galerie Neher, Essen / Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000 Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow / Beyond the picture , art from North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2005: Informal Tendencies Gallery Maulberger, Munich / Script. Character. Gesture. Art collections Chemnitz / Gerhard Hoehme, art association “Talstrasse” , Halle / glocal / 01 , Artforum Palma de Mallorca / FARBE FLÄCHE FORM , Galerie Neher, Essen / EXIT_EXIT FROM THE IMAGE ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2006: 9th Art Summer , Galerie Maulberger, Munich / Impulse - Informel und Zero , Museum der Stadt Ratingen / Full House , Kunsthalle Mannheim / Gerhard Hoehme - Yoshihisa Sankawa , Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim / Gerhard Hoehme , Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
  • 2006/2007: Informel - a world language , Galerie Schlichtenmaier - Grafenau / What is plastic? 100 years - 100 heads , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
  • 2009: Gerhard Hoehme. The unrest grows. Works 1955-1989 , MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum Foundation, Duisburg, and museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2018: Gerhard Hoehme - Epiphany of Informel. Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen

Works in museums and collections

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 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. (accessed on August 27, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

literature

  • Hans Peter Thun: Gerhard Hoehme 1948-1983. Notes on work, time and person. With a foreword by Giulio Carlo Argan, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-7630-1722-4 .
  • Karl Ruhrberg (Ed.): Zeitzeichen. Stations in fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2314-X
  • Encounter with Gerhard Hoehme , exhibition Düsseldorf, April 2 to May 5, 1992, catalog with contributions by Gerhard-W. Költzsch, Ingrid Bachér, Gabriele Lueg, Willi Kemp, Leverkusen 1992, ISBN 3-927448-07-9
  • Ingo Bartsch, Tayfun Belgin (ed.): Gerhard Hoehme. We have the cosmos in us , exhibition Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, catalog with contributions by Dieter Ronte and Tayfun Belgin, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-87909-316-4
  • Margarethe Hoehme, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Dieter Ronte, Christoph Schreier (eds.): Gerhard Hoehme. Catalog Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0690-9 .
  • Susanne Rennert, Gerhard and Margarete Hoehme Foundation (ed.): Gerhard Hoehme. The unrest grows. Works 1955-1989 , exhibition MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kust, Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum Foundation, museum kunst palast, catalog with contributions by Susanne Rennert, Thomas Wagner, Barbara John, Gottlieb Leinz, Beat Wismer, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321 -9250-1
  • Ulrich Schumacher and Rouven Lotz (eds.): Gerhard Hoehme - Epiphany des Informel. Exhibition Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-719-0

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personal data
SURNAME Hoehme, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Greppin near Dessau
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1989
Place of death Neuss