Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes

Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes (born November 16, 1937 in Augsburg ; † August 2008 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

He studied from 1959 to 1961 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden , from 1961 to 1965 at the State University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Thiemann, Mavignier and Wunderlich . In 1966 he went to Paris for a year on a scholarship (“ Cité Internationale des Arts ”).

From the mid-1960s he developed his visual language, which was reduced to landscape fragments and signet-like abstractions. ("... the representation is very objective, but does not lack a surreal-poetic quality ..."). He saw Caspar David Friedrich , René Magritte and Giogio de Chirico as his role models . From 1964 he titled his pictures with the term “New Landscape”, which he determined. At the same time Werner Nöfer and Jens Lausen were working on a similar pictorial program. In 1968 he was a co-founder of the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg , which wanted to switch off the art market with several graphic portfolio editions (members include Bruno Bruni , Dizi, Klaus Geldmacher , Dieter Glasmacher , Ullrich Hohenhaus, Tomislav Laux, Ernst Mitzka, Werner Nöfer, Sigmar Polke , Anna Oppermann , Wolfgang Oppermann , Peter Würtz).

In 1971 he was given a teaching position at the Art Academy in Munich and from 1972 a guest lecturer at the Städel University in Frankfurt. In 1982 he received the “Water Lily Prize for Fine Art” from the city of Munich. From 1970 he realized several "art-in-public-space projects" in Hamburg, Bamberg and Heidelberg. Over the years he has had many solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous themed and group exhibitions. From 1973 to 1975 he had a studio in Eurasberg in the foothills of the Alps, and from 1976 in Munich. He died in Augsburg in 2008

Collections

• Museum of Art - Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh (USA)
• Burda Munich Collection
• Bavarian State Painting Collection Munich
• Municipal Collections of Munich
• Frankfurt Cultural Department
• Collection Schloss Gottdorf Schleswig

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes: Pictures, Konrad Schulz: Sculptures , catalog of the Van de Loo Gallery, Munich 1969.
• Rolf-Gunter Dienst: German art: a new generation , DuMont publishing house, Cologne 1970.
• Hamburg artist monographs on the art of the 20th century ; Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes , by Heinz Spielmann with two contributions by the artist and a list of his prints 1966–1977, publisher: Lichtwark-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 1979.
• Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes, Helga Jahnke, Andreas Bindl. Cityscape Munich Pictures and Drawings , Kunstverein Munich, 1980.