Hanns pastor

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Hanns Pastor (born March 21, 1917 in Jülich ; † November 19, 2009 in Aachen ) was a German avant-garde painter and art teacher .

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After attending the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne , the pastor studied medicine and at the same time did high-performance sports . In 1940 he was a marathon runner in the German Olympic national team, but due to the Second World War , the planned Olympics were canceled and Pastor was forced to do his military service as a field doctor. Shortly before the end of the war in 1945, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “decomposing military strength and anti-National Socialist activities”, but was released a few months later after the American invasion.

Pastor, who already from a young age a passion for painting had formed after the war in this area initially self-taught away, leaving as a freelance artist in Cologne down. Around 1947 he moved to his partner in Stolberg and became a neighbor of Karl Fred Dahmen . From 1952 to 1954 he undertook a three-year study visit to Paris , where he trained in various painting techniques in the studios of Fernand Léger and Raoul Ubac and with the artist group of the Nouvelle École de Paris . Pastor spent his liveliest years in Paris and was particularly influenced by contacts with, among others, Georges Bissière, Serge Poliakoff , Georges Braque and Louis Nallard.

During this time, Pastor joined the “New Aachener Group” founded by Karl Fred Dahmen in 1952 and the “Aachener Künstlerbund” and organized his first major and trend-setting exhibition with these artist colleagues in 1953 under the motto: “Painting from today - a German - French exhibition ”, in the Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , in which 22 artists were involved. In the period that followed, this group, which also included Karl Otto Götz , Ludwig Schaffrath and Hubert Werden , developed into a center of informal painting for the Aachen region . From 1954, Pastor settled permanently in Aachen and was represented at other exhibitions in the Dutch province of Limburg , in Düsseldorf and in the Ruhr area .

Together with Peter Lacroix , Jupp Kuckartz and Fritz Martin, Pastor finally founded “Gruppe 65” in Aachen in 1965, which provided strong accents in subsequent annual exhibitions in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum. However, when abstract art gradually replaced in Aachen at the end of the 1960s by the marketing of Pop Art , primarily by Peter Ludwig , and Aachen also became a center of the Fluxus movement through initiatives by RWTH Aachen University , Pastor himself withdrew from the active art business and worked again as a freelance artist. Until 1990 he refrained from any public exhibitions. In addition, he worked as an art teacher at the Aachen Viktoriaschule and the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium until 1980 .

It was not until 1990 that the Neue Aachener Kunstverein organized an exhibition under the motto “Art of the 1950s” that Pastor exhibited again regularly. In 2006, the Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, in cooperation with the ARTCO gallery, honored Pastors' works in the large museum show “Awakening in the West”. Three years later, on November 19, 2009, Pastor died at the age of 92 as a result of a car accident.

Hanns Pastor was always considered to be very eager to experiment and used a wide variety of techniques. He was one of the most important Aachen representatives of post-war painting. His handwriting was shaped by objects from the everyday world as well as ciphers from writing, numbers and cracks. He stood out above all with sculptural images that he deliberately exposed to a process of destruction. His later works are also vaguely reminiscent of scarred landscapes and crumbling walls.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1953 Painting of Today - a Franco-German exhibition , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • 1954 Six abstract painters , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • 1955 Center d'études Françaises, Düsseldorf
  • 1956 Galerie Le Roue, Paris, together with Hubert Werden
  • 1965 Widmann Gallery, Bremen
  • 1990 Art of the 50s , New Aachen Art Association
  • 1990 Galerie Nawrocki, Cologne
  • 1994 Kunstraum Posselt, Bonn
  • 1997 Galerie Boisserée, Bonn, retrospective on the occasion of the 80th birthday
  • 2006 departure in the west Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • 2010 (posthumous) Galerie Perplies, Aachen
  • 2010 (posthumous) Galerie Hennart, Maastricht , as part of TEFAF
  • 2015 (posthumous) Eurode-Bahnhof, Herzogenrath
  • 2017 (posthumous) Kulturwerk Aachen, 100 years Hanns Pastor

literature

  • On the 100th birthday of the artist Hanns Pastor , Günter Perplies, Jahrbuch des Kreis Düren 2018, pp. 131–134, ISBN 978-3-942513-41-8

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personal data
SURNAME Pastor, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German avant-garde painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Jülich
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2009
Place of death Aachen