Hans-Joachim Uthke

Hans-Joachim Uthke (born May 23, 1941 in Malbork ([ˈmalbɔrk], German: Marienburg), West Prussia ) is a German graphic artist .

Life

Hans-Joachim Uthke grew up in Northern Germany and studied at the Famous Artist's School with Ben Nicholson . He took drawing lessons from Klaus Spitzer in Düsseldorf and studied etching with Jan Boomers in Solingen , lithography with Vladimír Suchánek in Prague and aluminum graphics with Hans Liess in Haan .

Uthke works as a draftsman and illustrator and creates etchings and lithographs . He writes and illustrates aphorisms . Hans-Joachim Uthke has lived in Hilden in the Mettmann district since 1970 . His studio is in Haan.

Hans-Joachim Uthke is a member of the following clubs and associations: “Our Hilden”, Bergischer Künstlerbund, Slovenian Cultural Association Maribor (Hilden) and Europa-Union Germany (City Association Haan).

From 1987 to 1990 he taught as a guest artist at North Cheshire College , Warrington (UK), workshop “ Etching - Etching Techniques” and from 1994 to 2004 in the international artists' colony “Poaart”, Slovenia .

Works

Sketch Bled in Slovenia, 2018, gouache, watercolor, ink

Drunk bar stool, 2018, watercolor, ink

In the Laboratory of Time, 2018, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

The world 2050 AD, 2018, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Write again, 2018, collage, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Penholder of a critic, 2018, collage, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Alternative living-1, 2018, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Alternative living-2, 2018, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Weighted, 2018, watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Hans-Joachim Uthke takes up aphoristic thoughts and translates them into drawings and etchings with irony and a pinch of motherhood. In his pen drawings he depicts everyday impressions, literary influences, humorous features and splinters of thought as a caricature .

Prizes and awards

Five art prizes and three awards for his artistic commitment.

Art awards

1978: Art Prize “Industrial Symbol”, announcement by Mannesmann-Demag AG and the Lehmbruck Museum ; Exhibited in the House of Constructors and Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and at the Hanover Fair
1988: 2nd prize, 42nd Bergische Kunstausstellung, German Blade Museum Solingen
2004: Art award within the framework of the international exhibition on Slovenia's accession to the EU, Rogatec , Slovenia
2004: Art prize as part of the aphoristic days in the Hattingen City Museum , Blankenstein
2005: Art Prize, international exhibition in Ljubljana , Slovenia

Awards

1991: Fabry medal of the city of Hilden in bronze for the artistic collaboration with the partner cities of the city of Hilden
2000: Badge of honor in gold “Poaart for Peace”, Maribor , Slovenia, for artistic achievement and attitude to the idea of peace
2006: Medal of Honor of the City of Dobrodzien , Poland

Exhibitions

Since 1982 Hans-Joachim Uthke has exhibited in more than 340 solo exhibitions and participations in exhibitions at home and abroad, including 165 solo exhibitions. Most of the solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions took place in the vicinity of his work in the Mettmann district, in the region around Düsseldorf and in the large Berg cities of Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid.

Thanks to his international contacts, Hans-Joachim Uthke has presented solo exhibitions abroad as well as participated in many group exhibitions in: France (Ville d 'Eu (1994, 2005, 2007)); Italy ( Bruneck (1991, 1993, 1996, 1998), Trieste (1996, 1997, 2001), Trento (1996, 2000), Zenso di Cassola (2000)); Luxembourg ( Dippach (2001)); Austria ( Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (2004), Velden am Wörther See (2006)); Slovenia ( Ljubljana (1994, 1997, 2001), Maribor (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012), Radlje ob Dravi (2006), Rogaška Slatina (1996, 2001, 2004) , Seinica (2001)); Czech Republic ( Nové Město nad Metují (1991, 2012, 2014)); England ( Manchester , Warrington (1987, 1988)); Poland ( Wroclaw (2014), Dobrodzień (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013), Lubliniec (2011, 2012)); Japan ( Kyoto (1997)); USA ( Chicago , (1988)).

Most solo exhibitions are themed exhibitions.
The themes of his solo exhibitions were:
“Children's etchings” (1985); "The Little Prince" (1987, 1988, 2008); "Environment" (1987, 1990, 1992, 1993); "Duality" (1987); "Leaves" (1989); “Impressions of the Vogelsang grain distillery” (1989); "Aphorisms" (1991, 1992, 2002, 2007); “Flowers and Other Weeds” (1995); "Heine" (1997, 2006); "Impressions Japan trip" (1998); “Carneval in Venice” (2001); "Artist Friendships" (2002); “25 Years of Printmaking” (2003); "Through-Sight" (2004); "Jazz" (2004); “Money, money and more money” (2005, 2006, 2007); “Aphorisms of Lec” (2006); "Meditation Knjiznico" (2006); Hilden "Cross Section" (2006); "Dissected Medicine" (2007, 2008); “Hanging lower, for wheelchair users” (2007); "Wilhelm Busch" (2007, 2008); "Germany - a winter fairy tale" (2008); “Right and Wrong” (2008); "Dissected Medicine" (2008); "Time" (2008); “The Language of Things” (2009); “News from Radiology” (2009); “Cross Section” (2009); "Animal Human" (2009); "Ripped off" (2010); "Druckgraphik" (2010); “Lived, loved, smoked, drunk” (2010); “Die Pillendreher” (2011); “Retrospective” (2011); “Aphorisms in the context of the World Capital of Culture” (2012); "Marriage - Whom Marriage Is Due" (2012); "Already honked today?" (2012); "Death, the believer, the rain always come inconvenient" (2013); "Edith Stein" (2013, 2014); “Art Intensive” (2013); "Plus minus 50" (2013); “Caution caustic” (2014); “Jazz Improvisations” (2015); "Printed matter" (2016); "Alaaf and Helau" (2019).

His works are represented in public and private collections at home and abroad.

Publicly owned works

In Germany, the cities of Hilden, Haan, Mettmann and Solingen have collected his work. He is represented in the collection "Man and Death" of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

The city of Hilden bought the “Zeit” cycle and is constantly exhibiting it in the new town hall.

The Sparkasse Hilden-Ratingen-Velbert acquires the “Money” cycle

Uthke published various editions and art portfolios on behalf of cities and companies.

Works in England in the museums of the cities Warrington and Uthke are Salford represented
The museum in Bruneck, Italy, exhibits works by Uthke
Works by Hans-Joachim Uthke are exhibited in Slovenia in the city of Maribor in the art collection “Poaart” and in Poland in the city of Lubliniec in the Edith Stein Museum.
Donation of the complete exhibition on the life of Edith Stein to the city of Lubliniec in Poland.

Workshops and actions

Several workshops with children, "etching techniques", organized by the Hilden-Haan adult education center and the city of Hilden as a holiday project for the city of Hilden in the Wilhelm Fabry Museum
Workshop with Japanese artist Tetsuji in the Wilhelm Fabry Museum Hilden

bibliography

1980: Catalog: 34th Bergische Kunstausstellung

1984: Catalog: 38th Bergische Kunstausstellung

1985: Own lyric book: "Only the song over the country"

1985: Catalog: group "haancreativ"

1985: Catalog: 39th Bergische Kunstausstellung

1987: Illustrations for the volume of poems by Jürgen Wilbert: "Zweiheit"

1987: Calendar: "Hilden / Warrington" with SJ Barker, motifs (drawings) from Hilden and Warrington, Hans-Joachim Uthke, Sydney J. Barker

1988: Brochure: "Impressions of the grain distillery", The old grain distillery, Bergische Dampf-Kornbrennerei-Brennerei Vogelsang & Co. formerly JP Vogelsang, Hans-Joachim Uthke, Museum and Heimatverein Hilden

1988: Catalog: 42nd Bergische Kunstausstellung

1990: Catalog: of the Bergischer Künstlerbund

1990: Catalog: group "haancreativ"

1990: Catalog: District Art Exhibition Mettmann

1990: Catalog: 19th annual exhibition, Benrather Kulturkreis, Düsseldorf

1991: Own catalog: "Thoughts on Time"

1991, illustrations for the volume of poetry "Aphorisms", Dr. Jürgen Wilbert

1992: “Memory” cultural magazine, Cologne

1992: Culture magazine “Fine Addresses”, Düsseldorf

1993: Catalog: District Art Exhibition Mettmann

1996: Catalog: District Art Exhibition Mettmann

1998: Catalog: Mostra internazionale d'arte contemporanea "Un mondo senza confini", Udine, Italy

1999: Own catalog: "Masquarade"

1999: Own catalog: "Dreamed Windows"

1999: Own catalog: "Drawings"

1999: Own catalog: "Cross Section"

2000: Own catalog: "Time is out of joint, Shakespeare"

2000: Catalog: Mostra Internazionale D'Arte Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy

2001: Catalog: “Poaart” collection, Maribor Slovenia

2001: Catalog: “101 hearts”, UNICEF, Deutsche Bank

2001: Own catalog: "Drawings, Etchings, Alugraphs"

2002: Own catalog, "Overview"

2003: Own catalog: "The Company"

2003: Represented in the book: "Flying Thoughts - 1. Aphoristikertage Hattingen"

2003: Represented in the book: "Mind game - 2nd aphoristic days Hattingen"

2007: Book: “Leitkultur? Kultur Light “, aphoristic dictionary for cultural criticism., Author / s: Rolf Potthoff, Anselm Vogt, Reiner Klüting, Hans J Uthke; Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-8196-0691-5 .

2007: Catalog: “Dissected Medicine”, exhibition June 3 - July 15, 2007, Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden, Wolfgang Antweiler; Hans-Joachim Uthke; Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden, Publisher: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808326-7-0 .

2008: Represented in the book: 3rd Aphoristikertage Hattingen “Witz, Bild, Sinn Facets of contemporary aphorism”, contributions to the aphorism competition in Hattingen, Zygmunt Januszewski; Petra Kamburg; German Aphorism Archive Hattingen, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2008 , ISBN 978-3-8196-0710-3 .

2009: Catalog: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum “News from radiology harmless findings by Hans-Joachim Uthke”, exhibition October 3 - December 30, 2009, Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden, Hans-Joachim Uthke; Wolfgang Antweiler; Bernd Morgner; Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Publisher: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Hilden 2009.

2009: Book: "Gedanke, Bild und Witz", aphorisms - technical articles - illustrations, documentation for the 3rd aphoristic meeting from November 6th to 8th in Hattingen / Ruhr, Hans-Joachim Uthke, Januszewski, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2009, ISBN 978 -3-8196-0735-6 .

2010: 8 drawings anthology for the 2010 aphorism competition, DAphA, aphorisms and drawings, "thought transmission"

2010: Muse sheets “Lived, loved, smoked, drank and then hoped for everything from the doctor!”, Hans-Joachim Uthke's illustrations for Eugen Roth's “The Wonder Doctor” in the Wilhelm Fabry Museum Hilden,

2010: Catalog: "Lived, loved, smoked, drunk - and then hope for everything from the doctor!", Eugen Roth "The miracle doctor" interpreted figuratively by Hans-Joachim Uthke, Hans-Joachim Uthke; Frank Becker; Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Hilden, exhibition, October 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011, publisher: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Hilden 2010.

2011: 2 drawings in the 2012 aphorism calendar, DAphA, aphorisms and drawings, 15 of which are four-colored: “Time turns the day.”, Jürgen Wilbert & Friedemann Spicker, Publisher: Deutsches Aphorismus-Archiv, Hattingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8196 -0817-9 .

2011: “Notes of an uncomfortable contemporary”, “Driven to the extreme with a pen, image-language and language-image in the interplay”, Hans-Joachim Uthke, Hilden 2011.

2011: 1 drawing in book: "Pharmacy with a pointed pen", "Pharmacist and pharmacy in caricature", Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke, Govi-Verlag, Eschborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7741-1174-5 .

2011: "Menetekel with pen and ink" Portrait of Hans-Joachim Uthke in the magazine "Die Beste Zeit - Das Magazin für Lebensart", pp. 33–36.

2012: 8 drawings anthology for the 2012 aphorism competition, DAphA, “Importance of Values”, etching “Hattinger Igel”, Hans-Joachim Uthke

2012: Catalog: "Edith Stein", Edith Stein Museum, Lubliniec Poland

2012: Presented in the catalog: Synagogue Maribor, Slovenia

2012: Book: Principle riders do not change, "Aphorisms in the Change of Values" is the subject of the 5th aphoristic meeting in Hattingen from November 1st to 3rd, 2012, Hans-Joachim Uthke, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum, ISBN 3-8196-0859 -1 .

2012: 3 drawings in the 2013 aphorism calendar, DAphA, aphorisms and drawings, "In winter the words come together", Jürgen Wilbert and Friedemann Spicker, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum with 14 four-color drawings , 2012, ISBN 978-3-8196-0851-3 .

2013: 3 drawings in the aphorism calendar 2014, DAphA, aphorisms and drawings, "The course of things has no start and no goal", Friedemann Spicker and Jürgen Wilbert, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum with 13 four-color drawings , Bochum 2013, ISBN 978-3- 8196-0915-2 .

2013: Hilden, Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, catalog: “Death, the believer, the rain, they always come inconveniently”, drawings and etchings by Hans-Joachim Uthke, exhibition February 22 to April 7, 2013, Wilhelm-Fabry -Museum, publisher: Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, Hilden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940710-16-1 .

2013: Book: Der Aphorismus in Westfalen, anthology with aphorisms by current authors from Westphalia, Gölzenleuchter, Bochum, Zygmunt Januszewski (Warsaw), Thomas Koch (Sprockhövel), Carmen Meiswinkel (Hattingen), Andreas Nossmann (Brühl), Reinhard Schwarze (Bobenheim am Berg), Hans Joachim Uthke, Brockmeyer University Press (DAphA-Drucke 5), Bochum 2013, ISBN 978-3-8196-0937-4 .

2014: Book: The grain of sand becomes power in the gears, anthology for the 2014 aphorism competition "Big things in small things". Aphorism, Petra Kamburg, Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert. Drawings by Hans-Joachim Uthke, Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2014, ISBN 978-3-8196-0958-9 (WG 119)

2014: Book: Anthology for the Aphorism Competition 2014, Petra Kamburg, Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert, Illustrations: Hans-Joachim Uthke, Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer, Bochum, ISBN 978-3-8196-0958-9

2015: Book: Greatness in the Small - The Aphorism and Its Neighbors, Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert, Illustrations: Hans-Joachim Uthke, Zygmunt Januszewski, Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer, Bochum, ISBN 978-3-8196-0987-9

2016: Book: Anthology for the Aphorism Competition 2016, Petra Kamburg, Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert, Illustrations: Hans-Joachim Uthke, Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer, Bochum, ISBN 978-3-8196-1028-8

2016: Book: The Last Stroke - Caricatures on Death and Funeral, Oliver Wirthmann, Eva Schmidt, 30 caricatures by Hans-Joachim Uthke, among others, Fachverlag des Deutschen Bestattungsgewerbes GmbH, ISBN 978-3-936057-53-9

2018: Represented in the “Placebo - Nocebo” catalog The power of thoughts over our health. Illustrations and texts by Hans-Joachim Uthke, City of Hilden, Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum, ISBN 978-3-940710-43-7

2018: Book: The aphorism in the Rhineland. Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert, illustrations and texts by Hans-Joachim Uthke, Edition Virgnes, ISBN 978-3-944011-87-5 .

2019: Book: The Aphorism in Dialog . Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert, Zygmunt Januszewski, illustrations and texts by Hans-Joachim Uthke, Edition Virgines, ISBN 978-3-948229-00-9 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Muse leaves

personal data
SURNAME	Uthke, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malbork , West Prussia

[1] Muse leaves