Hannes Möller

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Hannes Möller (* 1954 in Dinklage ) is a German artist .

life and work

Möller studied painting, drawing and illustration at the Westend Art School in Frankfurt am Main from 1975 to 1980 . Since 1980 he has been working as a freelance artist. From its founding in 1980 until its dissolution in 1982, he was a member of the "Group Triptych". From 1983 figural works, still lifes, interiors and mixed media on paper were created. From 1989 he turned to large-format watercolors on primed jute . Work stays took him to southern France, Tuscany, Elba and, in the mid-1990s, to Paris and the Canary Islands. Between 1991 and 1993 he created the cycle polluted willows and pastel drawings .

In 1994 the graphic cycle House of the Dead was created based on drawings from a house of the dead by Dostojewskij and the opera by Leoš Janáček From a House of the Dead . This cycle of graphics was shown in 1996 in the Oldenburg State Museum, and in 1997 for a new production of the Janáček Opera in Münster. Individual sheets were shown at the graphics triennial in Majdanek . Since 1997 Möller has increasingly turned to painted assemblages towards jute. The twelve-part postcard for Frankfurt was created in 2001, followed by the Refugium watercolor series of over 100 parts by 2003 .

After a break of several years, Möller began developing his library project in mid-2007 . Möller visited historical libraries and archives. In advance of the visits, he researched the history of the libraries and their books and held discussions with library managers, researchers and restorers. Möller then collected photographic impressions of characteristic book walls, book series and individual books as well as library architecture. This resulted in large and small format works in watercolor / gouache technique in the studio . These showed sections of book groups or disproportionately enlarged details of book spines or book cuts.

Hannes Möller - Solitaire - Library Leuven 1914 , University Library Leuven

The library project has several components. Solitaire is a series of extremely oversized individual representations of books from various libraries in Switzerland, France, England, Belgium and Germany. Brandbücher is the title of a series of mixed media works started in 2010 with books from the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar , which were badly damaged or completely destroyed by the fire in 2004 from heat and water damage. The Lost Library is a series of mixed media works that began in 2009 and is based on 100 individual images. Individual spines or cuts of manuscripts and incunabula (early prints) are shown. These come from the library of the former Cistercian monastery Eberbach in the Rheingau, which was dissolved in 1803, and are now in various libraries in Germany as well as for the most part in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the British Library in London. The project was completed in January 2012 and presented to the public for the first time in autumn 2013 in a large exhibition in the monks' dormitory of Eberbach Monastery .

Hannes Möller - The Lost Library

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Germany

Belgium

Web links

Books

personal data
SURNAME Möller, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinklage