Gerhard Wendland (painter)

Gerhard Wendland (born October 29, 1910 in Hanover ; † July 23, 1986 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was an important representative of abstract art after the Second World War , but always opened up to new styles and directions.

Life

Gerhard Wendland studied at the art college in Hanover. He went on numerous study trips to Holland , Switzerland , Italy , Hungary and Yugoslavia . After his military service in World War II , he was taken prisoner by the British in Egypt .

In 1953, Wendland received a scholarship from the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft in the Federation of German Industries . In 1955 he became a member of the German Association of Artists , in whose annual exhibitions he took part a total of sixteen times between 1952 (in the Cologne State House on Rheinpark ) and 1985 (in the Sprengel Museum , Hanover). In 1959, Gerhard Wendland was a participant in documenta II in Kassel .

In 1956 he took over the management of the free painting department at the Werkkunstschule Hannover . In 1960 he was appointed professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg (where he worked until 1978) and as a lecturer at the Department of Humanities in Nuremberg.

Wendland was a co-founder of Group N and a member of the Albrecht Dürer Society .

In 1981 the Kunsthalle Nürnberg organized a large retrospective of his art. The Kunsthaus Nürnberg celebrated his 80th birthday in 1990 with a solo exhibition, and in 2010, on his 100th birthday, the art villa in the KunstKulturQuartier (in close cooperation with the New Museum Nürnberg ) presented works from the estate and from municipal property.

His abstract painting and graphic work were strongly influenced by the work of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky . His work was characterized by frequent (?) Changes of style. He experimented (?) U. a. with informal and Op Art elements as well as with lyrical and expressive abstraction.

student

Honors

1953: ars viva

Individual evidence

↑ s. Art report: nineteen hundred three | nineteen ninety-five. An overview of the German Artists Association , special edition Winter 1994/95, Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 (p. 134f)
↑ Ars Viva

literature

Exhibition catalog: II. Documenta '59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Ed.): Gerhard Wendland: Retrospective; Pictures, graphics, objects . Nuremberg 1981
Gerhard Wendland: Das Druckgrafische Werk.- Edited by Matthias Strobel and Andrea Dippel. Modern Art Publishing House Nuremberg 2010

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personal data
SURNAME	Wendland, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1986
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] s. Art report: nineteen hundred three | nineteen ninety-five. An overview of the German Artists Association , special edition Winter 1994/95, Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 (p. 134f)

[2] Ars Viva