Hans-Gerhard Templin

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Hans-Gerhard Templin (born October 29, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hans-Gerhard Templin's ancestors come from Königsberg in East Prussia . His father Ernst, the son of the accountant Hermann Templin, had been married to Ruth Kohlwage, daughter of the architect Karl Kohlwage, since 1932. The family had moved from Memel to Berlin in 1935 after their father lost his position as managing director of the East Prussian teacher training association. Because of a new job for the father, the family moved to Poznan during the war . In January 1945 the family was evacuated to Lutherstadt Wittenberg . Two of his four siblings had died of malnutrition, and his mother and grandparents were seriously ill. The father did not return from the war and was pronounced dead in 1951. Hans-Gerhard Templin has been married since 1965.

Professional development

After finishing school, Hans-Gerhard Templin completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith at VEB Brown Coal Bitterfeld from 1951 to 1953. As a top worker, he received a place at the Workers and Farmers Faculty (ABF) of the Freiberg Mining Academy in 1953 , where he passed his Abitur . His further path to becoming a visual artist was connected with detours.

From 1956 Templin studied art education at the Humboldt University Berlin at the pedagogical faculty. He narrowly missed admission to painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art in 1958 . He finished his art studies at the Humboldt University prematurely and from then on worked as a poster painter and advertising designer in Wittenberg in order to prepare for another entrance examination. In 1959 he received a place to study painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts , where he studied with Rudolf Bergander . For his diploma thesis , which he completed in 1964, Templin had chosen the subject of "health care" and conducted on-site studies at the Medical Academy. Before finishing his studies, Templin resigned in 1962 from the SED , of which he had been a member since 1955.

From 1964 Templin worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Wittenberg, learned lithographic techniques and worked intensively on wood stain painting for building-related projects . After a three-year candidate period for the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR, he was accepted as a member. In addition to his own artistic activity, he headed a painting and drawing circle at the Kreiskulturhaus Wittenberg for several years. The five-year collaboration with the Elbe-Elster-Theater Wittenberg, for which he created the stage sets and costumes for the Gypsy Baron and Cosi fan tutte , was new artistic territory for him .

He developed a special affinity for Bulgaria , where he has been traveling as an artist since 1972, taking part in plenary sessions and exhibitions and taking a language test in 1975, so that he has repeatedly worked as a translator for artists.

In May 1977 Templin moved to Neubrandenburg and worked as a painter, graphic artist and lecturer in artistic theory and practice. He also led a painting and drawing circle in Waren (Müritz) and taught young people and adults there.

From 1990 Templin lived and worked in the cultural history museum Burg Falkenstein and received orders from the district office of Hettstedt to design the castle museum Falkenstein. In 1995 he moved to his hometown Berlin and, in addition to his freelance artistic work, worked as a course instructor at the youth art school in Köpenick until 2008 , where he prepared interested parties for artistic studies. He also gives private lessons as a graphic artist and painter.

Artistic creation

The artistic work of Hans-Gerhard Templin includes painting, graphics and drawing. His subjects are rich in genre diversity such as landscape, nudes, historical pictures, but also cityscapes, still lifes , portraits, building-related art as well as illustration, costume and stage design. Templin's artistic work thrives on meeting people on site, in their work or living environment, outside the studio.

The dominant theme of his art is the "representation of people in their diverse relationships to the environment", documented in cycles or series, such as Im Braunkohlenwerk (1958), Health Care (1963) or Underground (1979). The traumatic experiences as a war child and refugee child can also be found in drawings, graphics and pictures such as People in Need (1966/1967).

Another topic that he deals with again and again is the portrayal of women in their self-image as equitable and self-confident workers, like a “song to women that begins again and again”.

His artistic love led him almost every year between 1972 and 1985 to study stays of several months in Bulgaria, his “adopted home”. This resulted in a graphic and painterly group of works Bulgaria with landscapes, urban architecture, portraits, folklore studies of the Kapanzi ethnic group, as well as illustrations for poems by Christo Botew . This group of works comprises around a third of his artistic work.

Influenced by his Dresden university professor Rudolf Bergander, he has worked intensively and artistically. a. dealt with Karl Hofer , Oskar Schlemmer and Käthe Kollwitz . He was also interested in painting of the Italian High Renaissance , in particular Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci . Artistic models declined Templin with the reference to epigonism from, writes the art historian Ingrid Ehlert.

On the occasion of his work exhibition in 1987, the literary scholar and author Sigrid Damm wrote : “The work we encounter here, sheet by sheet, picture by picture, room by room, is a fraction of the extensive oeuvre of the painter and graphic artist Hans-Gerhard Templin Decades were created in excruciatingly creative, self-doubting, searching work. Unyielding, sober, thorough, meticulous in the demands placed on his work ... Hans-Gerhard Templin is a thoughtful painter and wants to provoke thought. Access to his pictures is not always easy ... because with this painter there are no effective signals, no daring formal consequences ... Tradition, behavior, soft tones characterize the pictures. "

Works by Hans-Gerhard Templin are owned by companies and public institutions. a. in the State Museum Schwerin , in the Razgrad Art Gallery, in the Center for Fine Art in Neubrandenburg, in the Mansfeld Gallery Eisleben, in the Beeskow Art Archive .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1966: Town hall, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
  • 1975: Institute for Technical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences , Leipzig
  • 1975: Painting - Graphics - Art on site , State Gallery Dessau Georgium Palace
  • 1975: Art of Time , Halle (Saale)
  • 1976: State Gallery Moritzburg, Marktschlösschen , Halle (Saale)
  • 1985: Graphics and watercolors , VEB Reifenwerk Neubrandenburg
  • 1987: Exhibition of works on the occasion of the 50th birthday, House of Culture and Education, Neubrandenburg
  • 1987: Chamber exhibition, Kunsthoken Gallery, Quedlinburg
  • 1987: Artistic Techniques , Koszalin Art Gallery , Poland
  • 1991: Watercolors and etchings , Hypobank, Leipzig
  • 1996: Berlin watercolor series , Franke von Oppen office, Berlin
  • 2003: Berlin one, my city , Franke von Oppen office, Berlin
  • 2003: Tafelbilder Berlin , Pro Seniors Residence Hackesche Höfe, Berlin
  • 2004: Panel paintings from the 2000s, Rehabilitation Clinic, Templin
  • 2009: Berliner Fenster , Lavendel senior citizens' residence, Teltow

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1965: District art exhibition, Moritzburg Gallery , Halle (Saale)
  • 1967: VI. German art exhibition , Albertinum Dresden
  • 1967: Traveling exhibition, Moscow , Irkutsk , Bratsk , Komsomolsk a . a., Soviet Union
  • 1969: Architecture and fine arts , Halle (Saale)
  • 1969: Graphic cycles on world literature , Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin
  • 1970: Dessau artists exhibit , State Gallery, Dessau
  • 1974: Art in the Halle district , Moritzburg State Gallery, Halle (Saale)
  • 1979: 6th district art exhibition , House of Culture and Education , Neubrandenburg
  • 1984: 7th district art exhibition , House of Culture and Education, Neubrandenburg
  • 1989: 8th district art exhibition , House of Culture and Education, Neubrandenburg
  • 1995: Artists from the Mansfeld region exhibit , Mansfeld Gallery, Eisleben
  • 1999: Artists see Neubrandenburg , art collection, Neubrandenburg
  • 2006: Open Playing Field Berlin , Art Mile, 7th Art Cross Berlin
  • 2007: Poor, but sexy , 8th KunstKreuz, Berlin
  • 2009: Visionen , Altes Urban-Krankenhaus, 10th KunstKreuz, Berlin

Stage and costume design

  • 1970: The Gypsy Baron , Elbe-Elster-Theater Wittenberg
  • 1971: Cosi fan tutte , Elbe-Elster-Theater Wittenberg

Publications

  • with Ute Karen Walter: Falkenstein Castle: Monument on the Romanesque Road in Saxony-Anhalt. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1993.
  • Hans-Gerhard Templin: Lorbass. Artist biography. Steffen Media, Friedland, Berlin, Usedom 2020, ISBN 978-3-941681-63-7 .

literature

  • Ingrid Ehlert: The painter and graphic artist Hans-Gerhard Templin. Artist monograph and catalog raisonné. University of Leipzig, thesis July 31, 1977.
  • Hans-Gerhard Templin (1987). In: Sigrid Damm: “I only look back once.” Information. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-458-35343-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ingrid Ehlert: The painter and graphic artist Hans-Gerhard Templin. Artist monograph and catalog raisonné. Ed .: Karl Marx University Leipzig. Diploma thesis, July 31, 1977.
  2. ↑ a b Ingrid Ehlert: A game of shapes and colors . Ed .: Freedom. Hall January 9, 1976.
  3. ↑ a b c Siegfried Ways: Faithfulness to Tradition and Opposition. For the exhibition of works by Hans-Gerhard Templin . Ed .: Free Earth. Neubrandenburg January 22, 1987.
  4. ^ Art collection Neubrandenburg (Ed.): Catalog of the paintings . Neubrandenburg 2002.
  5. ^ A b c Regine Schneider: Great closeness and warmth . Ed .: For you. No. 9/1987 . Berlin 1987.
  6. ^ Sigrid Damm: Exhibition of works by Hans-Gerhard Templin . Ed .: Center for Fine Art Neubrandenburg. Neubrandenburg 1987.
  7. ^ A b Association of Visual Artists Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): State Art Catalog Saxony-Anhalt . Halle / Saale 1994, p. 532 .
  8. ^ Hans-Gerhard Templin - Art in the GDR / artist. Beeskow Art Archive, accessed on November 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Painting - Graphics - Art in architecture . In: Staatliche Galerie Dessau, Schloss Georgium (Hrsg.): Exhibition catalog . Dessau 1975.
  10. ↑ Work exhibition . In: Zentrum Bildende Kunst Neubrandenburg (Hrsg.): Exhibition catalog . 1987.
  11. ↑ VI. German art exhibition Dresden 1967 . In: Committee of the VI. German Art Exhibition (Hrsg.): Exhibition catalog . Dresden 1967.
  12. ↑ visions. 10. KunstKreuz Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . In: Kulturring in Berlin eV (Ed.): Exhibition catalog . Berlin 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Templin, Hans-Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin