Gerhard Wind

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Gerhard Wind (born January 22, 1928 in Hamburg , Germany , † 1992 in Jávea near Alicante , Spain ), was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Gerhard Wind did an apprenticeship as a bookseller , which he successfully completed in 1952. From 1952 to 1954, Wind studied at the State Art School in Hamburg with Karl Kluth , Fritz Winter and Ernst Wilhelm Nay . From 1954 to 1958 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Otto Coester . Since then he has lived and worked in Düsseldorf. In addition, he had another residence and a studio in Jávea near Alicante in Spain .

In 1957, Wind received the Cornelius Prize from the city of Düsseldorf. In 1958 he was awarded a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome . Gerhard Wind participated in documenta II (1959) and documenta III in 1964 in Kassel . As a full member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in a total of fifteen annual DKB exhibitions between 1957 (7th exhibition at the Berlin University of the Arts ) and 1990 (38th exhibition at the Berlin Academy of the Arts ).

Gerhard Wind was a representative of abstract painting and graphics in the Informel style . He also called himself a neo-constructivist . After painting and drawing in "free form" for over twenty years , he began to design with strict geometric shapes in 1977. His oeuvre includes drawings, murals, room paintings, reliefs, glass windows, floor designs and sculptures, e.g. B. Working in the Solingen municipal clinics, Auditorium maximum PH Bonn, Hürth district building, Königsallee branch of Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Kerpen-Horrem vocational school center, Bad Oeynhausen children's diabetes clinic, St. Ansgar Hospital Höxter, St. Antonius Church in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel .

1981 Wind received a visiting professorship at the Art College of the University of Arizona in Tucson . Gerhard Wind has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad and more than 120 completed projects.

He died in his Spanish studio in Jávea near Alicante in 1992 . His legacy is the future of the archive for artists discounts the Art Fund Foundation in Pulheim in Cologne taken care of and recycled.

Honors

literature

  • Gilles, Francke (ed.): Gerhard Wind: Wall pictures II - work in the space of architecture 1973–1978 . Duisburg 1979, ISBN 3-921104-52-1
  • Gilles, Francke (Ed.): Gerhard Wind: Wall Pictures III - Work in the Space of Architecture 1979–1989 . Duisburg 1990, ISBN 3-925348-19-0
  • Gerhard Wind: Schattenlicht: 1989–90 / Gerhard Wind . Duisburg 1991, ISBN 3-925348-24-7
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel : documenta III. International exhibition . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participation Wind, Gerhard accessed on February 25, 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.bilderbuch-duesseldorf.de/Fotos/oberkassel_st_antoniuskirche_kirche_vvv_173369
  3. ↑ http://www.bilderbuch-duesseldorf.de/Fotos/oberkassel_st_antoniuskirche_kirche_vvv_173368
  4. ^ Archive for artists' bequests from the Art Fund Foundation
  5. ↑ Ars Viva
personal data
SURNAME Wind, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death Jávea near Alicante, Spain