HD Schrader

HD Schrader (2010)

HD Schrader (* 1945 in Bad Klosterlausnitz ), actually Hans-Dieter Schrader, is a German visual artist . He is particularly known for his so-called cube cracks , which can be attributed to concrete art .

Life

Schrader was born in Bad Klosterlausnitz, Thuringia, in 1945. From 1965 to 1969 he studied constructive design with Max Hermann Mahlmann at the then Werkkunstschule Hamburg . Schrader had his first solo exhibition in 1969 in the gallery of the Ministry of Urban Development, Bonn, with his first group of works, Square Series : Drawings and relief pictures made of Plexiglas. In the following year, so-called cube rows with objects, acrylic paintings, drawings and screen prints followed. In 1972 Schrader was one of the co-founders of the international working group for constructive design (IAFKG) in Antwerp, which included the artists Ewerdt Hilgemann , Richard Paul Lohse , Marcello Morandini and François Morellet . Until 1986 he took part in six symposia of the IAFKG working group in various European countries. Schrader attracted greater attention in 1973 with the work Kugel im Kubus , for which Schrader was commissioned by the City of Hamburg - following an open competition for Hamburg artists - and which was located in front of the Hamburger Kunstverein. In 1974 Schrader took part in the 10th Biennale Internationale d'Art Menton, France.

Schrader has held a professorship for typography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, department of design, since 1986. Schrader has been awarded several prizes, for example in 1990 the Kultur Aktuell prize in Schleswig-Holstein for the citizens' initiative to preserve the sculpture Kubus-Balance, or in 1991 the Schleswig-Holstein State Show Prize . On behalf of the state government in Kiel, Schrader installed the Kubuskoog installation in the German pavilion at EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In 2005 Schrader was invited to the Sino-German painters' symposium in Wuyishan, China. The following year he was a member of the international jury for the Olympic Landscape Sculpture Contest in Beijing, China.

Schrader lives and works in Hamburg and Osterhever.

Viereck and Viereck (1986). Gottorf Castle , Schleswig

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K".

• 1969 Gallery in the Ministry of Urban Development, Bad Godesberg
• 1974 Galerij Vecu, Antwerp [with Pierre de Poortere]
• 1975 Szepan Gallery, Gelsenkirchen [with Pierre de Poortere]; Beckmann Gallery, Hamburg; Galleria Beniamino, San Remo [with Pierre de Poortere]
• 1976 Galleria Dei Mille, Bergamo [with Pierre de Poortere]
• 1979 Galleria de la Plaza, Varese [with Pierre de Poortere]
• 1983 points of view . Hamburger Kunsthalle ^K
• 1992 Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund; Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen ^K
• 1994 Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld ^K
• 1995/1996 Cubecracks . Municipal gallery of the Emschertal Museum , Herne , Flottmann-Hallen, Herne and large steel sculptures "Cubecracks" in the urban area of ​​Herne / Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt / Museum for Art and Cultural History (Katharinenkirche) of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and Burgkloster, Lübeck ^K
• 1998/1999/2000 Kunstraum Kubus . Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll / City Gallery Brunsbüttel / City Gallery Kiel / City Museum, Gelsenkirchen / Museums in the Cultural Center, Rendsburg ^K
• 2000 Cubes and Trees . Agathenburg Castle , Agathenburg; German Pavilion, EXPO 2000, Hanover (inner courtyard)
• 2002 Kunstverein Schloss Plön
• 2003 Mönchehaus Museum Goslar ^K
• 2006 Contemporanea, Oberbillig / Trier ^K,
• 2010 HD Schrader - Woodwatchers and others . Ludwig Museum Koblenz , in cooperation with the Today Art Museum in Peking ^K,
• 2014 Cubes and Cracks . Bayreuth Art Museum . Exhibition in the New Town Hall Bayreuth.

Elastic Cube (2000) at the Art Museum Gelsenkirchen

Cubecrack No. 1 (1996). Herne

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One of Schrader's Cubecracks with its unusual, angular to pointed shapes is initially perceived as a foreign body - be it in urban areas, be it in the countryside. The signal color red underlines this effect. “You can see how things are made, but not what they are derived from,” writes Bernhard Holeczek. Just as a cubecrack can be read as an autonomous sculptural symbol on the one hand, the viewer encounters it on the other hand as an ambassador of a strange world, as a symbol whose meaning only becomes apparent when one is aware of Schrader’s work. In fact, Schrader's Cubecracks refer to a rational system: the cube or the parallelepiped. Since 1974 he has been involved in drawings, pictures, objects, installations, animated films and sculptures with the topic of "cube art space". However, while sculptures, e.g. B. from clay, grow under the shaping hand of the artist or sculptures, z. B. made of marble, shrink under the blows of a hammer and chisel until a final state is reached, Schrader's Cubecracks are created fundamentally differently: he cuts a cuboid, i.e. H. a hollow steel body shaped in this way, in individual parts. The cuboid that Schrader used for his first Cubecracks, which he exhibited in the cities of Herne, Ingolstadt and Lübeck in 1995/1996, can be imagined as if three 2.50 m cubes had been stacked on top of each other. Schrader cut this cuboid into twelve parts: Schrader distributed six bright red cube cracks across the city, the six others were exhibited in the museum. They presented themselves to the viewer in their diversity and each with their own dynamic and direct symbolic presence. But the viewer soon realized that this must be a part of a whole that - although no longer physically existent - is present in every part: “Of course, what is left out determines every piece,” says Schrader.

In constructive-concrete art, in the thought of which Schrader's work is based, the artist submits himself to a given system of rules when designing a work of art - with Schrader's Cubecracks this corresponds, for example, to the requirement that the individual works emerge from the systematic process of cutting up a cuboid surface. The Cubecracks group of works vividly illustrates that the resulting formal language is rationally justified, but cannot be developed through mere deduction. Because the individual cube cracks do not come about by chance: rather, the artist sets his cuts in such a way that shapes that are interesting for him arise; they are the result of subjective decisions or artistic instinct. The steel bodies therefore not only remain partial forms of a whole, but each develop their own aesthetic weight and their own symbolism.

Schrader's art can hardly be defined by a single element or work. In fact, for the work group Viereck and Viereck , for example, series of drawings, each varying two falling cubes - represented by two squares - were the starting point. "The dynamic is therefore not the expression of the form, but a process of transformation." (Andrzej Turowski) Remarkably, the variants of this series were already shown as part of the exhibition Kunststraße Rhön. 1986 placed in different locations (Hünfeld, Hofbieber and Hilders in East Hesse).

The elastic cubes group of works was created in 1999 . They are all composed of eight square steel elements, which are enough to create the framework of a cube in front of the beholder's eyes. At each of the eight cube corners, two square steel bars are connected to one another by means of an axis - like joints in a skeleton. Due to the fact that four of the actually twelve edges of a cube are missing, the edge framework can now be warped, i.e. H. be twisted. Every single Elastic Cube develops its own, individual physiognomy, indeed its own gesture. "As a" figure ", they almost let their construction be forgotten, or at least take a back seat." (Knut Nievers) Klaus Reeh describes the effect of the Elastic Cubes as follows: “Ultimately, atmosphere is HD Schrader's style and he creates it, not unlike an architect, with sculptures that radiate far into the surrounding space. And with its Elastic Cubes, HD Schrader has succeeded in creating a particularly aesthetic atmosphere with means that can hardly be undercut in terms of their minimalism and in the course of a process that is surprising due to its simplicity. "

In 2000 the group of works Cubes and Trees was created , which was first installed in the park of Agathenburg Castle depending on the season. The cubes and cuboids are designed as simple edge frames made of wood or aluminum. This allows a view through the form and reduces the materiality. The bright red cubes transform places in nature that were previously of no particular concern into scenes of an exciting, even poetic encounter between natural forms here and geometrically distant purity and clarity there.

Cube Wedding (2007). Völklingen

Works in public collections (selection)

• Collection of Agathenburg Castle, Agathenburg
• Stadtgalerie Brunsbüttel, Brunsbüttel
• Art Association Exact Tendencies, Buchberg Castle, Austria
• Okregowe Museum, Chelm, Poland
• Musee des Arts, Cholet, France
• Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
• Municipal art collection, Gelsenkirchen
• Mönchehausmuseum for modern art, Goslar
• Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Sprengel Museum Hannover
• Collection of the Emschertal Museum, Herne
• Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld
• Museum of Concrete Art, Vitt Collection, Ingolstadt
• Kemi Minicipal Taidemuseio, Finland
• Kunsthalle Kiel
• Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
• Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
• Museo Umbro Apollonio , S. Martino, Padova
• Eugen Gomringer Collection, Kunsthaus Rehau
• Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam
• Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig
• Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Tianjin, China
• MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art - Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
• Collection of the City of Zagreb, Croatia

Works in public space (selection)

• 1973 sphere in a cube . Steel, initially on the forecourt of the Hamburger Kunstverein , Kunsthaus, Hamburg (until 1990), since 1994 in front of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg (former Chamber of Crafts), Hamburg-Harburg
• 1977 Cube in cube , stainless steel, Hamburg
• 1978–80 Design of a way to school , white, red and black paving stones, a cube skeleton made of black and red painted steel, Kurt Tucholsky School, Hamburg
• 1981 stone spiral , granite, high school Osdorf, Hamburg
• 1985 Square and Square , Hünfeld City Park .
• 1986 Viereck und Viereck , Kleinsassen Art Station ; Square and square , steel, sculpture park in front of the State Museum in Gottorf Castle , Schleswig
• 1987 Square and Square , Nortorf Sculpture Park
• 1990 Kubus Balance . Initially Plön Castle, installed on the roof of the Bunker-D culture and communication center on the Kiel University of Applied Sciences campus since 2015 .
• 1994 square and square . Stahl, Ingolstadt
• 1996 Kubuskoog , wood, old port in the area of ​​the Vorderdeich, Brunsbüttel ; Cubecrack No. 1-6 , Stahl, Herne ; Cubecrack No. 4 + 5 , Stahl, Lübeck
• 2000 Elastic Cube . Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
• 2003 cube wedding . Stahl, Hof University of Applied Sciences ; Currents , stainless steel, shipping office, Rostock ; Cubecrack 2 . Steel, donation from the Schenning Foundation, Rammelsberg Mining Museum, Goslar ("Goslar sculpture" from 2003)
• 2005 cube wedding . Stahl, Stormarner district administration, Bad Oldesloe
• 2006 Cubecrack No. 8 . Stahl, Contemporanea, Oberbillig / Trier
• 2007 cube wedding . Stahl, Völklingen
• 2013 Cube + Tree . Aluminum, City Hall, Hamburg-Harburg
• 2013 Cube Spiral . research center Julich
• 2014 Three Woodwatchers . Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch
• 2014 Cube + Tree . Bayreuth. Purchased in 2015 by the Sculpture Mile Bayreuth eV association.

Bibliography

• HD Schrader - Woodwatchers And Others . Catalog for the exhibition in the Ludwig Museum Koblenz , December 12 to February 6, 2011
• HD Schrader: Cubecracks . Catalog for the exhibition in the Lichtwark Forum in the DG Hyp, Hamburg. Edited by Deutsche Genossenschaft-Hypothekenbank AG, 2003. (With texts by Lothar Romain and Doris von Drathen)
• HD Schrader - Kunstraum Kubus . Catalog for the exhibition in the Richard-Haizmann-Museum, Niebüll, 1998, in the Stadtgalerie Brunsbüttel, 1999, the Stadtgalerie Kiel, 1999, in the Städtisches Museum, Gelsenkirchen, 1999, as well as in the museums in the Kulturzentrum, Rendsburg, 2000. Ed. Richard- Haizmann Museum, Niebüll 1998.
• HD Schrader - Cubecracks . Catalog for the exhibition in the Municipal Gallery of the Emschertal Museum, Herne, 1995, at the Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, 1996, and at the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 1996. Ed. Emschertalmuseum, Herne, 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ international working group for constructive design
2. ↑ Exhibition HD Schrader  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Large-scale retrospective in the Galerie Contemporanea, Oberbillig (2006).  
3. ↑ HD SCHRADER - Woodwatchers and others . Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, December 12, 2010 to February 6, 2011.
4. ↑ Bernhard Holeczek. In: HD Schrader - Images from the Cube Room. Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, 1992, p. 7.
5. ↑ See Jörg Hemker, Hans D. Schrader: Kunstraum Kubus (1998).
6. ^ HD Schrader, unpublished conversation, September 28, 1997. Quoted from Doris von Drathen: When the invisible becomes tangible. In: HD Schrader: Cubecracks . DG Hyp, Hamburg, 2003.
7. ↑ Lothar Romain: The whole is not its parts and its parts are not the whole. In: HD Schrader: Cubecracks . DG Hyp, Hamburg, 2003.
8. ↑ Doris von Drathen: When the invisible becomes tangible. In: HD Schrader: Cubecracks . DG Hyp, Hamburg, 2003.
9. ↑ Lothar Romain: The whole is not its parts and its parts are not the whole. In: HD Schrader: Cubecracks . DG Hyp, Hamburg, 2003.
10. ^ Andrzej Turowski: HD Schrader. In: Kunststrasse Rhön. Catalog for the exhibition Kunstsommer Kleinsassen 1986 in the Kunststation Kleinsassen in cooperation with the working group for systematic constructive art and the adult education center of the district of Fulda, publisher Volkshochschule des Landkreises Fulda, p. 11.
11. ↑ Knut Nievers: On elasticity as a category of the plastic, especially with constructive-concrete sculpture and plastic. In: Jörg Hemker, Hans D. Schrader: Kunstraum Kubus. P. 73.
12. ↑ Klaus Reeh: Considerations on the Elastic Cube from HD Schrader. In: HD SCHRADER - CONTEMPORANEUM. Catalog for the exhibition in the Contemporanea Gallery for Modern Art, Oberbillig, 2006, Ed. Hildegard Reeh
13. ^ HD Schrader, Elastic Cube, 2000 ( memento from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen

Web links

Commons : HD Schrader  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the artist
• HD SCHRADER - CONTEMPORANEUM (PDF; 6.4 MB) - Catalog for the exhibition in the Contemporanea Gallery for Modern Art, Oberbillig, 2006, Ed. Hildegard Reeh
• Portrait HD Schrader ( memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - China-Magazin, Goethe-Institut in China, January 2011 (with an interview)
• KUNST @ SH: HD Schrader art in the public space of Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg