Gernot Huber

Gernot Huber (born July 11, 1929 in Tübingen ) is a German designer , painter and sculptor .

Life

Huber grew up as the third of five children of the doctor Theo Huber and his wife Susanne geb. Ruland in Pfäffingen near Tübingen. In the Kepleroberschule in Tübingen he was selected in 1942 for the National Political Education Institute (Napola) in Reichenau and Rottweil, where his art teacher Ibsch discovered and promoted his artistic talent. After the end of the war, Huber studied painting and lithography with Erich Mönch in Tübingen from 1945 to 1949. With his support, he rebuilt the scouting body in southern Württemberg in 1946 under the scout name Otter, which was initially called the "Tübinger Bund" due to a decree of the French military government. After graduating from high school in Tübingen, he studied graphics and advertising science with Professors Georg Trump and Eduard Ege in Munich from 1949 to 1953 . From 1953 he worked in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg as a graphic, display and industrial designer for large European companies. In Hamburg, the city where his ancestors Rutger Ruland I., II. and III. served as syndici, senators and mayors in the 17th and 18th centuries, he founded his own advertising agency and display production, the "Werbeforum Gernot Huber GmbH" with his wife Gisela , and from 1969 developed corporate identities all over the world. In 1970 he was appointed guest lecturer for industrial design at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel.

In 1990 he turned completely to painting and sculpture and has since worked for his own sculpture parks in Seevetal- Ramelsloh near Hamburg and on Tenerife . His collection includes objects by Michael Hischer , Bernward Frank , Christoph Böllinger, Siegfried Kreitner , Anne Katrin Grotepass, Guillermo Batista, Reinhard Brandner and Yves Rasch.

In 1997 he and his wife Gisela founded the Gernot Huber Foundation, into which the two art parks were incorporated. Since then he has been supporting talented young artists with working grants. As a special feature, the Deutsche Park exclusively contains kinetic works and was expanded in 1989 with a kinetic cabinet in which the images are moved by black light. In addition to the works of the founder, the foundations' parks contain several hundred works by artists from all over the world.

After his wife Gisela died from cancer in 2008, Huber married Ina Huber-Stomberg in 2010, with whom he set up his second foundation in 2013, the Fundación Canaria Gernot Huber on Tenerife . This was honored the following year with the award of the street name Calle Gernot Huber .

literature

• Gernot Huber: Art between pines and cacti. The kinetic and sculpture parks of the Gernot Huber Foundation in Germany and Tenerife. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-89904-000-7 . Extended new edition 2015 under ISBN 3-00-047315-9 .
• Theo Huber, with comments by Gernot Huber: Äskulap im Ammertal. ISBN 978-3-054238 -1.

Web links

• Gernot Huber Foundation
• http://www.knmultimedia.com/Galerie/gernot_huber.htm