Hann Trier

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Hann Trier (* 1. August 1915 in Kaiserswerth in Dusseldorf , † 14. June 1999 in Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany in Italy ) was a German painter of the informal , watercolorist and graphic artists . He was married to the sociologist Renate Mayntz . He was the older brother of the art historian Eduard Trier (1920–2009).

life and work

The Trier brothers spent their childhood and youth in Cologne . Hann Trier was an exchange student in France in 1933 . From 1934 to 1938 he studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and graduated in 1939 with the state examination in Berlin . From 1939 to 1941 he was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht and worked as a technical draftsman in Berlin from 1941 to 1944 until he was called up for military service again from 1944 to 1945.

After the Second World War , he worked as a set designer in Nordhausen until 1946 . In 1946 Trier moved into an apartment and a studio at Bornheim Castle near Bonn until 1952 . In 1947 he was a founding member of the Thursday Society in Alfter near Bonn, a group of artists who set themselves the task of “making up for the lost years of the war through [...] intensive intellectual exchange.” The events of the anthroposophically oriented group, consisting of Readings, lectures, discussions, concerts and exhibitions took place at Alfter Castle between 1947 and 1950 . In 1949 he was accepted as a member of the Bonn artist group. As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Hann Trier took part in a total of 38 annual DKB exhibitions between 1951 and 1993 (some of them also abroad); from 1964 to 1966 he was the first chairman of the board, until 1969 he continued to be a board member of the Künstlerbund. From 1952 to 1955 he stayed in Medellín , Colombia . He worked as a commercial artist and further extensive study trips to Mexico , South America and New York followed .

Trier family grave in Cologne's north cemetery

From 1955 to 1956, Hann Trier was a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . In 1955, 1959 and 1964 he took part in documenta 1 , documenta II and documenta III in Kassel . From 1957 to 1980 Trier was a professor and later director of the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin . From 1967 he had a studio in Tuscany. In 1966 he received the Berlin Art Prize and in 1967 art prizes from the cities of Darmstadt and Cologne and the Great Art Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1972 and 1974 he made the ceiling paintings in Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin . In 1973 Hann Trier moved into a studio in the Eifel .

In 1975 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for his artistic work . In 1996 the Hann Trier Art Foundation was established. In 1999 Hann Trier died at the age of 83 in his house in Tuscany. He was buried in the family grave in Cologne's North Cemetery (Hall 32 No. 39/40). His works are characterized by images with a differentiated play of lines and a net-like structure in front of moving color backgrounds, some of which were created with both hands.

In an interview, when asked about his favorite painters, the sociologist Niklas Luhmann named Hann Trier as one of two names.

Works

In situ

Hann Trier, Baldachin (1980), called "Cloud", piazzetta of the Cologne City Hall

Collections

Exhibitions

Exhibitions for the 100th birthday of the artist

student

Illustrations

Fonts

  • Hann Trier: About the back of the moon . Broecking Verlag , Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938763-06-3 .
  • Hann Trier: Ut poesis pictura? : A reflection on the painting of ancient Greece. Edition Rothe, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-920651-06-5 . (With preferential editions).
  • Hann Trier: Art between Bismarckism and Konstrakt. In: Bonn - Years of Awakening. General-Anzeiger, Bonn 1986.

literature

  • Heinz Ohff : Hann Trier and the Trier students. Galerie Scheffel, Homburg vdH 1985.
  • Eberhard Roters : Hann Trier - The ceiling paintings in Berlin, Heidelberg and Cologne. With detailed documentation. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-7861-1310-6 .
  • Maxi Sickert, Carsta Zellermayer (ed.): Hann Trier - Aquarelle 1947–1994. Broecking, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-938763-11-7 .
  • Christoph Wagner: The accelerated look. Hann Trier and the procedural image. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7861-2331-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland, Van der Grinten Collection, Joseph Beuys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Joseph Beuys, Ewald Mataré and eight Cologne artists . Boss Druck und Medien, Bedburg-Hau 2001, p. 25
  2. ↑ s. Chronicle 1945–1984. Artist group Bonn , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1984 (list of members, p. 101)
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 May 8, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ 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 May 8, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ^ Marion Ackermann: Trier, Hann. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2001, CD
  6. ↑ Hans M. Schmidt , The Last Signature - Graves of German Artists of the 20th Century , Verlag Dr Kovač, Hamburg 2015, p. 290
  7. ↑ in: Difficulties with quitting (interview with Georg Stanitzek), Dirk Baecker , Georg Stanitzek (ed.) Niklas Luhmann: Archimedes and we: Interviews , Merve-Verlag Berlin 1987, page 98, Luhmann names Nicolas de Staël as the second painter . The interview was an original post for this volume.
  8. ^ Art Würth: Hann Trier - Works in the Würth Collection from six decades (accessed on May 8, 2016)
  9. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950. First exhibition in Berlin 1951, in the rooms of the Bild University. Arts, Hardenbergstr. 33 , complete production: Brüder Hartmann, Berlin 1951. (without page numbers; Hann Trier with three works from the same year, egg tempera: cycling (75 × 145), plowing (50.5 × 90), decision (55 × 90). 207-209)
personal data
SURNAME Trier, Hann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, including the Informel, and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswerth
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1999
Place of death Castiglione della Pescaia