Hannes H. Wagner

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Even as Dionysus, etching 1995 / satirical self-portrait

Hannes H. Wagner (born January 27, 1922 in Schneeberg ; † July 11, 2010 in Halle (Saale) ; actually Johannes Hugo Wagner ) was a German painter and graphic artist and university professor.

Life

Hannes H. Wagner came from a family of miners from Schneeberg. Several artists came from this family in his generation, such as his cousin, the painter Jochen Seidel and his sister Sigrid Kupetz , who worked as a designer at WMF and as a professor of design at the Kassel University . The brother Günter was a member of the Kreuzchor Dresden under Rudolf Mauersberger, from him came the musical side.

After graduating from high school in Schneeberg, Wagner was drafted into the war in 1941; after being a prisoner of war, he began training as a chemical specialist at AGFA Wolfen in 1947. He stayed there until 1949. Wagner studied painting from 1950 to 1955 with Charles Crodel and Kurt Bunge at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle (Saale). After his diploma he received an apprenticeship at the "Burg". During the time of the so-called " formalism dispute " he himself fell victim to this Stalinist approach and in 1958 had to leave the university for several years. The college, which was relatively liberal during the GDR era, later advocated his reappointment; mostly the “Burg” teachers themselves were affected by this formalism dispute. He then worked as a university teacher, first as a lecturer and from 1975 until his retirement in 1987 as a professor at this art school.

He re-founded the Hallescher Kunstverein with colleagues in 1990 and was himself chairman of the Friends and Sponsors' Association of Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle from 1993 to 1996.

Hannes H. Wagner was married to the sculptor Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof . From 1990 to 2000 they lived in Hohen Neuendorf near Berlin, and in 2000 they returned to Halle (Saale). The main reason for his return was the gradual decrease in his eyesight until he went completely blind in 2005. They have a daughter, the opera singer Anja Daniela Wagner .

Act

Wagner often worked on topics from literature, in particular on Elias Canetti , Christoph Martin Wieland and Hermann Kasack . In 1996, 50 oil pastels for Hermann Kasack's “City behind the Stream” were created. At the beginning of his studies, Wagner had already worked for Hermann Kasack 50 years earlier, at which time he made lithographs . For Wieland he created 25 drawings for the novel “ The Abderites ”, these are now in the Wieland Museum in Biberach an der Riss .

A focus of his work since 1970 has been his satirical graphics and time-critical painting. Examples of time-critical painting are the picture King Football (1975, owned by the Moritzburg Art Museum , Halle), the football fan picture (1978, now owned by the state of Saxony-Anhalt), the picture Winter Day , a symbolic representation of environmental pollution and the Being locked in during GDR times (1978, owned by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, currently on loan from the archives of the Burg Giebichenstein Halle art college) and the picture View from my studio window (owned by the Moritzburg Art Museum).

The picture of the sculptor Richard Horn and his wife is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , a tribute to old age and his colleagues who are friends with him.

In the last years of his creative work he devoted himself specifically to the techniques of oil pastel and etching . An etching work of almost 200 etchings was created.

For Elias Canetti he created a group of oil pastels, one of which is in the Gera art collection . From 1996 to 1998 two rows of oil pastels were created, one to Hermann Kasack's city ​​behind the river and the last group the Lost Portraits , of which the state of Saxony-Anhalt owns the self-portrait with a hat .

In 1992 he won the Voltaire competition in Potsdam with the oil pastels Friedrich and Voltaire , this work is now in the Potsdam Museum.

Since 1995 he has also worked as an aphorist , with three publications. First published in 1999 by Edition Ehrt Menschhausen-special . In 2002 a portfolio with aphorisms and original graphics Lose Blätter - Lose Sprüche was published . The third publication, called Leben zum Fressen , appeared in 2007 and 2009 in Edition Menschhausen .

Quotation from art historian Dorit Litt on his work (Kulturreport 2003):

“Hannes H. Wagner is repeatedly characterized as a master of satire and humor. This is undoubtedly true of many of his drawings, etchings, and aphorisms. His visual artistic works from the last years of his career, however, refer less to an ironic and cheerful nature, but rather to a thoughtful and contemplative temperament. This also applies to the series of “Hidden Portraits” that he created from 1995 to 1998 ”.

student

His students included: Angelika Brzoska, Lutz Bolldorf, Henri Deparade , Steffi Deparade-Becker , Rainer Ende, Ludwig Ehrler , Manfred Gabriel , Mathias Grimm, Dieter Gilfert, Ulrich Goette Himmelblau , Volker Henze, Jürgen Hohmuth, Rita Holland, Karl -Heinz Köhler , Heino Koschitzki, Werner Liebmann , Heike Lichtenberg, Klaus Dieter Locke, Herbert Malchow, Max Georg Marcks, Fritz Müller, Rystany Ömersak (Mongolian), Ralf Penz, Peter Preiß, Günther Rechn , Klaus Sängerlaub, Andreas Schmidt, Beate Schotte , Benno Schulz , Christoph Schulz, Gerhard Schwarz, Hans-Joachim Triebsch , Bernd Wilke, Dieter Zimmermann.

Exhibitions

He had 120 solo exhibitions at home and abroad, many participations in group exhibitions.

Selection (K catalog):

  • 1975 Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale) , (K)
  • 1976 Neubrandenburg, cultural center
  • 1977 Romanesque house, Bad Kösen
  • 1978 Bernburg Castle Museum and Erlabrunn (with Eva Mahn )
  • 1980 Gallery ZB, Vienna (K)
  • 1981 Art of Time, Dresden
  • 1982 Leibniz Club Gallery, Leipzig and the Roter Turm Gallery and the Hansering Gallery, Halle (Saale)
  • 1983 Galerie Stula, Hanover (with Christina Brade and Martin Möhwald)
  • 1984 Castle Gallery, Magdeburg (K)
  • 1986 Staudenhofgalerie, Potsdam (K)
  • 1988 Molsdorf Castle near Erfurt
  • 1992 Museum Gallery, Gotha
  • 1992 Marktschlösschen Gallery , Halle (Saale) (catalog / monograph) and Oranienburg Castle
  • 1994 Grauer Hof Aschersleben (with Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof)
  • 1995 Kunstverein Halle (Saale) (K) and MDC Berlin-Buch
  • 1996 BBK Gallery Karlsruhe
  • 1997 gallery in the cathedral, Berlin
  • 1998 State Library Potsdam and Gallery Pankow (with four colleagues) (K)
  • 2001 Art Wing Gallery, Rangsdorf b. Berlin (with Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof)
  • 2002 Art Association "Talstrasse" , Halle and Zeitkunstgalerie, Halle
  • 2003 Kunstverein Halle (K) and Kunstverein Center Bagatelle, Berlin
  • 2004 Braith Mali Museum , Biberach an der Riss
  • 2007 Gallery Dr. Stelzer and Zaglmaier (with Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof), Halle (Saale)
  • 2012 Gallery Zaglmaier (with Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof), Halle (Saale)
  • 2012 Galerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg
  • 2014 Willi-Sitte-Galerie Merseburg, (with Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof)
  • 2015 3 distinctive castle teachers, Hallescher Kunstverein, (with Willi Sitte and Gerhard Voigt)

Working in collections

Works are publicly owned (selection):

  • in many private collections, e.g. B. in the Hennig Collection, Munich

Prices

Literature (selection)

  • Monograph 1992 , published by Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Hallescher Kunstverein eV, conception and editing by Dorit Litt , authors a. a. Dorit Litt, Wolfgang Hütt , Hans-Georg Sehrt a. a. ISBN 3-86019-001-6 .
  • Painter and work 1982 by Eva Mahn , Verlag der Kunst Dresden.
  • Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists 2005 Saur-Verlag Munich, Leipzig, ISBN 3-598-24734-6 .
  • Wagner, Hannes H. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 991/992
  • Ostracized formalists , art from Halle (Saale) from 1945 to 1963, publisher: Dorit Litt, Kunstverein Talstraße, Halle, 1998, ISBN 3-932962-03-6 .
  • Wolfgang Hütt: Funded. Supervised. Reform pressure from visual artists of the GDR. The example of Halle. Verlag Stekovics, 1st edition 2004, ISBN 3-89923-073-6 .
  • Burg Giebichenstein : The Halle Art School from its beginnings to the present , 1992, State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe.
  • The ruins of the Burg Giebichenstein art college wobble, Angela Dolgner and Renate Luckner-Bien, ed .: Peter Gerlach, Hasenverlag Halle 2009.
  • Hannes H. Wagner, drawings and prints on the occasion of the exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein eV, 2003, publisher: Hans-Georg Sehrt.
  • Annotations, homage to Elias Canetti Hannes H. Wagner Oil pastels on texts by Elias Canetti; Publication for the 1995 exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein in Halle, Karlsruhe and Berlin, Ed .: Hans-Georg Sehrt.
  • Dorit Litt : Beach Pictures. Myth Hallesche painting. Kunstforum Halle, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030616-7 .
  • Katharina Heider : From applied arts to industrial design, the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) from 1945 to 1958 , publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89739-672-2 .
  • Hannes H. Wagner: Etchings ; Exhibition 1981 Art d. Zeit, Dresden, Verlag Dresden: Galerie Kunst d. time
  • Graphic from Halle an der Saale , 1990. Association of Visual Artists Halle (ed.),
  • In der Zeit , art from Saxony-Anhalt 2004, Magdeburg 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Hannes H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Johannes Hugo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2010
Place of death Halle (Saale)