Hans-Hendrik Grimmling

Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (l.)

Hans-Hendrik Grimmling (born July 13, 1947 in Zwenkau , Leipzig district , Saxony ) is a German painter . From 2006 to 2017 he taught as a professor at the Berlin Technical Art Academy .

Life

After graduating from high school and serving in the army, Grimmling initially worked as a transport worker, stage worker and assistant set designer. From 1969 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , a year later he switched to the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig . There he was a student with Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer . After graduating in 1974 Sprite was three years long master class at Gerhard Kettner at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Then he worked as a freelance painter in Leipzig.

Grimmling was one of the co-initiators of the legendary 1st Leipzig Autumn Salon , a semi-legal exhibition in the Messehaus on Leipziger Markt in 1984, which was classified as “counterrevolutionary” by the GDR authorities. The consequence and consequence was that three painters from the “Herbstsalon” left the GDR: Günter Firit , H.-H. Grimmling and Lutz Dammbeck .

Grimmling left for West Berlin in 1986 , where he has lived and worked ever since. From 2001 he taught as a lecturer at the Berlin Technical Art Academy, from 2006 to 2017 as a professor.

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Timeless metaphors determine his painting . Grimmling describes memory as well as the present with symbols from “bird”, “knot”, “cross” and “sail”. Characterized by a strong rhythm, with a clear dominance of the color black, his work is one of the great positions of the European avant-garde . While his early pictures, taken in Leipzig , showed people who have fallen , locked up , tormented , stumbled , people with black wings and black birds , today it is still dramatically knotted forms, human body parts that are fatally entangled in cross and sails.

Exhibitions (a selection since 2000)

• Marburg, Galerie Schmalfuß
• Chemnitz, Galerie Weise
• Brandenburg, Brennabor art gallery
• Potsdam, Galerie Sperl / Galerie Kunstraum
• Jena, art collection in the city museum
• Berlin, Saarland Gallery on the fortress moat
• Berlin, Guardini Gallery
• Bonn, German Research Foundation and Science Center
• Chemnitz, Galerie Weise
• Celle, gallery in the Haesler house
• Concepción / Chile, Pinacoteca
• Lübeck, St. Petri Church
• Berlin, church on Hohenzollernplatz
• Berlin, State Representation of Thuringia
• Potsdam, Sperl Gallery
• Dresden, Utz Gallery
• Luckenwalde, Vierseithof art gallery
• Röderhof, art association
• Leipzig, Galerie Barthels Hof
• Schwerin, Schwerin Cathedral
• Berlin, Giesler Gallery
• Potsdam, gallery in the wash house
• Burgk, Burgk Castle
• Bodenburg, Foundation Art Building Schlosshof Bodenburg
• Chemnitz, Chemnitz Art Collections

Works in public collections (selection)

• Altenburg, Lindenau Museum
• Berlin, Berlinische Galerie
• Berlin-Dahlem, Kupferstichkabinett
• Berlin, Willy Brandt House Collection
• Concepcíon, Pinacoteca
• Cottbus, art collection
• Dresden, Kupferstichkabinett
• Frankfurt (Oder) , Museum of Young Art
• Halle, Moritzburg Graphic Collection
• Halle, Landesmuseum collection
• Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
• Marburg, University Museum for Fine Arts
• Schwerin, graphic collection

Fonts

• with Doris Liebermann : The reeducation of birds. A painter's life , Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89812-543-7 ; also as audio book, 2 CDs, Halle, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2010
• The power of the pictures , ed. by Lutz Fiebig and Andreas Hüneke, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0673-9 (exhibition catalog)
• Thinking about Leipzig . In: Thomas Mayer: Thinking about Leipzig. Essays . Leipzig 2004
• Zwischenhalt 2014 , ed. by Hans-Werner Kalkmann, Bodenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-922805-08-3 (exhibition catalog)

Reviews

literature

• Doris Liebermann : Patience, tolerate, impatience…. The " 1st Leipzig Autumn Salon " 1984 . In: Germany Archive , 4/2005, pp. 614–625
• Doris Liebermann : Argonaut. Icarus. Gordian knot . In: Germany Archive , 3/2007, pp. 502–510.
• Doris Liebermann : Grimmling Wall Pictures . In: Horch and Guck , 19th year, issue 69 (3/2010), pp. 46–49

In the movie

• Michael Brandt: The master and his disobedient student. Wolfgang Mattheuer and Hans-Hendrik Grimmling . MDR, April 7, 2002

On the radio

• Doris Liebermann : The painter of the lost green. A portrait of the artist H.-H. Grim. Deutschlandfunk, December 10, 2004, 45 min.
• Doris Liebermann: The reeducation of birds. Portrait of the painter Hans-Hendrik Grimmling . MDR, July 7, 2007, 25 min.

literature

• Short biography for:  Grimmling, Hans-Hendrik . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• The ghostly course of things . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 27, 2007
• Michael Zajonz: A life in black . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 1, 2008
• Hannelore Offner: The black painter . In: Rheinischer Merkur , November 13, 2008
• Doris Liebermann: "I only understand the person who falls", Eastern European influences in Hans-Hendrik Grimmling's work . In: Osteuropa , 59 (2009), 2-3, pp. 271–282

Web links

• www.hh-grimmling.de Website of the artist
• Literature by and about Hans-Hendrik Grimmling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Berlin Technical College of Art
• "1. Leipzig Autumn Salon 1984 ": PDF
• Bernd Heimberger : Statements by an autonomous man . literaturmarkt.info
• Conversation with Marion Brasch , Radio Eins, May 18, 2008
• The non-conformist . In: Art Kunstmagazin , 7/2008
• Nuances. Music and questions about the person. Deutschlandfunk (DLF) Cologne, Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1.30pm-3pm
• Hans Hendrik Grimmling Collection in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• Installations in Potsdam's Nikolaikirche 1985, Märkische Allgemeine January 3, 2018 [1]

Individual evidence

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