Hans-Albert Walter (artist)

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Hans-Albert Walter (born July 3, 1925 in Kolberg , Pomerania , † February 11, 2005 in Diepholz ) was a German artist.

Walter lived and worked as an artist in Düsseldorf and Diepholz (Lower Saxony) since 1983 . Since 1956 he participated in exhibitions. His works are in private and public ownership. Walter is best known for his large-format number pictures. Rainer Bessling, who published a monograph on the artist in the series Art of the Present from Lower Saxony in 1999 , wrote about him: “Since the early 1970s, he has dealt exclusively with the numbers 0 to 9, the use of which as a subject in images creates the greatest variety of artistic fantasy wins. "

Life

In 1940, at the age of 15, Walter lost his hearing. Nevertheless, he studied in Stettin until 1952 , at the Munich Academy and at the University of Bremen. In 1952 he married Dorothea, b. Mack; In 1954 they moved from Lower Saxony to Düsseldorf, where he worked as an industrial graphic artist. From 1962 he then worked as a freelance artist who had close ties to the Düsseldorf avant-garde and participated in exhibitions by the ZERO group . From 1983 he lived and worked in Diepholz / Lower Saxony and in Düsseldorf.

Awards

Exhibitions and collections

Since 1956 Hans-Albert Walter has participated in "countless art events and solo exhibitions in important museums and collections" (self-statement by H.-A. Walter). In 1967 his works were exhibited together with works by Franz Pauli in the Wirth Gallery in Berlin.

Solo exhibitions from 1990:

  • 1990 Hanover, Sprengel-Museum: "Sequence of Silence", catalog
  • 1992 Bremen, Weserburg, Society for Contemporary Art (GAK): "sequence of silence"
  • 1995 Osnabrück, Kulturhistorisches Museum: “my planetary space of freedom”, catalog
  • 2000 Diepholz, Kreissparkasse: "a celebration for the number"
  • 2001 Greifswald, Max Planck Institute / Pomeranian State Museum: "interplanetary spaces"
  • 2010 Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art: "Hans-Albert Walter - An insight into the collection of the Syker Vorwerk"
  • 2011 Düsseldorf, Gallery COSAR HMT: "Hans-Albert Walter"
  • 2014 Syke, Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art: "White One on a Red Background - Work by Hans-Albert Walter"

The non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke owns the largest coherent collection of works by Hans-Albert Walter in its art collection in the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art with 60 pictures from the years 1954 to 2003.
The work "Pyramid" can be borrowed free of charge from the Artothek in Vechta.

literature

  • Hans-Albert Walter: my planet space of freedom - for the award of the culture prize of the district of Diepholz 1995. With an introduction by Thorsten Rodiek . Bramsche 1995, ISBN 3-930595-18-4 .
  • Rainer Beßling : Hans-Albert Walter (= contemporary art from Lower Saxony. Volume 51). Schäfer, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-88746-407-9 .
  • Susanne Hinrichs (Red.): Hans-Albert Walter - Life's work of painting. In: Culture Prize Winners of the District of Diepholz 1989 to 2006. Non-profit foundation Kreissparkasse Syke, Diepholz 2007, pp. 54–59.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Albert Walter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 2 works by Hans-Albert Walter ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the gallery of the Lower Saxony Lotto Foundation
  2. ↑ Gallery of the Artothek der Stadt Vechta ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vechta.de
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Hans-Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2005
Place of death Diepholz