Hans-Martin Küsters

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Hans-Martin Küsters (2012)

Hans-Martin Küsters (born December 22, 1946 in Aachen ; † June 6, 2014 in Salem ) was a German photographer and educator .

Küsters was one of the author photographers who contributed to the breakthrough of photography as an art form in Germany in the 1970s . The collective work “DEUTSCHLAND IM FOTOBUCH” (Ed. Th. Wiegand / M. Heiting, Steidl Göttingen 2011, 492 pages) includes the catalog “Hans-Martin Küsters - Ordinance-Eintracht-Frohsinn” (1980) and the catalog for the exhibition “ In Germany ”(1979, both by Rheinland Verlag Cologne, ed. Kaus Honnef) to the 273 most important photo books since 1914 that have“ Germany ”as their topic.

The artistic bundle has been in the archive of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn since September 2014 .

Life

After graduating from the Couven-Gymnasium, Hans-Martin Küsters studied pedagogy from 1966 to 1969 at the Pädagogische Hochschule Rheinland , Aachen department, and completed his legal clerkship in Geilenkirchen in 1969/70 , which was followed by postgraduate studies in curative education in Cologne from 1970 to 1972 .

From 1972 to 2007 he worked as a special school teacher in the Aachen district , and from 1990 as a cooperation teacher for the integration of disabled children in primary schools. In 2007 he retired and moved to Salem on Lake Constance and married the concert singer Dorothea Bartels.

In 1974 he started as an autodidact with artistic photography and in 1975 he set up a black and white photo laboratory. At the end of 1975 he took part in a group exhibition in Aachen and Bilzen (Belgium). From 1976 to 1978 he was a lecturer in contemporary photography at the Volkshochschule Aachen, and from 1980 to 1987 he taught contemporary photography at the RWTH Aachen . During this time he was a registered student, during which he studied the work of Jacques Lacan and the post-structuralists intensively and took part in dissertation colloquia in the educational, art history and German faculties.

From 1983 to 1985 he led discussion groups for the exhibitions of the "Small Photo Gallery" in Heinsberg and 1985/86 of the Kunstverein Region Heinsberg, which he was instrumental in setting up. In 1986 he was a founding member of the New Aachen Art Association , where the discussion groups with the exhibiting artists continued from 1988 to 1991. In 1988/89 he was the 2nd chairman of the “Kulturprojekt Düsseldorf e. V. "

Awards

Public collections

Solo exhibitions

  • 1978 Gallery Medium a, Aachen
  • 1979 New Gallery / Collection Ludwig, Aachen
  • 1979 Galerie Lange-Irschl, Munich
  • 1980 Xanten Regional Museum
  • 1981 Städt. Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
  • 1982 Oktogon Gallery, Hanover
  • 1982 New Gallery / Collection Ludwig, Aachen (with Walter Seitter )
  • 1983
    • Small photo gallery Heinsberg
    • Institut Français de Vienne, Palais Clam-Gallas, Vienna
    • Goethe Institute, Paris
  • 1988 delta gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1988 Avantgarde Gallery, Antwerp
  • 1989 Castle Gallery of the City of Stolberg (Rhld.) (With Reiner Nachtwey)
  • 1993 Kunstverein Region Heinsberg
  • 2000 Kahlen / Titz / Gallery, Aachen
  • 2002 Room for Art, Aachen
  • 2015 Friedrichshafen Art Association

Exhibition participation (excerpt)

since 1975 in 14 countries

  • 1977/78 "Work and Leisure"
    • Art associations in Hamburg and Göttingen
    • Munich City Museum, Munich
    • Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 1979 “In Germany”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1979 “Photography 1839 - 1979”, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne
  • 1979/80 "To be a Child"
    • University of York (GB)
    • Congress Center Lima (Peru)
    • Congress Center Miami Beach (USA)
  • 1980 “XI. Biennale de Paris ”, Musée d`Art Moderne, Paris
  • 1980/81 "European photo collections present themselves"
    • Kunsthaus, Zurich
    • Folkwang Museum, Essen
    • Royal Library, Copenhagen
    • Munich City Museum, Munich
    • Museum Ludwig, Cologne
    • Künstlerhaus, Vienna
    • Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1982 "Lichtbildnisse" (catalog), Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1982 "1. May 1981 - Photographs “, Haus Industrieform, Essen
  • 1982 "Photography in Allemagne 1920 - 1982" (catalog), Center Culturel Pierre Bayle, Besançon (F)
  • 1982/83 "Pictures from the Federal Republic", Art Museum, Hanover
  • 1983 "Photography in Germany - Today"
    • Koningklijke Akademie voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
    • Photo gallery - Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt
    • Galerie du Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
    • Het coat of arms shield, Antwerp
  • 1983 "Museum Folkwang - The Photographic Collection", Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1983 “Artists in Aachen today”, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen
  • 1984 “Nuove tendenze della ricerca fotografica europea” (catalog), Centro Studi Posillipo Napoli, Naples, Italy
  • 1985/86 "Nuove tendenze della fotografia europea" (catalog)
    • Centro d'arte Labirint, Montorio al Vomano, Italy
    • Galleria Il Labrinto, Teramo, Italy
    • Instituto italiano di Cultura, Porto, Portugal
  • 1986 “Permanent exhibition”, Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp
  • 1987 “Grants for Contemporary German Photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation 1984/1986” (catalog), Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1989 "German Photography in the 20th Century", Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1995 charity art exhibition / auction for the victims of the earthquake in the Kobe region, Japan, Matsuzakaya Gallery, Osaka; then in Kokura, Tokuyama, Himeji (in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut)
  • 2003/4 “Contemporary German Photography”, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation scholarship holders
    • Folkwang Museum, Essen
    • National Lithuanian Picture Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Arsenal Art Hall, Riga, Latvia
  • 2003/04 "European cities of wool"
    • Belgian Broadcasting Gallery, Eupen Belgium
    • Textile museums in Lille, Sedan u. Roubaix, France
  • 2005 "20x20" exhibition for the 20th Establishment of the Heinsberg Region Art Association
  • 2013 Performer at the “Sinthome-Score” by Dora Garcia, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
  • 2014 "frei <> raum", Kunstverein Friedrichshafen
  • 2014 “Schöne neue BRD?”, Author photography from the 1980s, Museum for Photography Braunschweig
  • 2016/17 "Interior x Exterior", Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2019 "Presented - Collected by Wolfgang Becker", Stadtbad am Blücherplatz, Aachen
  • 2020 “Gift”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 2020 "PHOTOGRAPHY - Wolfgang Schulz and the photo scene around 1980", Museum for Photography, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin

Book contributions

  • "Photo-Métro", Contrejour Paris 1978 - ISBN 2-859-49-016-7 .
  • "Das Deutsche Lichtbild 1979", Verlag Dr. Stache Stuttgart 1979 - ISBN 37956-0158-4 .
  • "... To Be A Child", Published by the International Psychology Committee, Columbus, Ohio, USA 1979 - ISBN 0-917668-03-0 .
  • “10 Years New Gallery - Ludwig Collection”, Aachen 1980.
  • "Dumont foto 2", DuMont Buchverlag Cologne 1980 - ISBN 3-7701-1153-2 .
  • "A local lore - German after 1945", Schirmer / Mosel 1981 - ISBN 3-921375-76-2 .
  • "Lichtbildnisse", Rheinland-Verlag Cologne 1982 - ISBN 3-7927-0661-X .
  • "TUMULT 4", Beltz Weinheim 1982 - ISSN  0172-858X
  • "Museum Folkwang The Photographic Collection", Museum Folkwang Essen 1983.
  • "The extinct soul", Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin 1988 ISBN 3-496-00946-2 .
  • "70s - once the future and back", DuMont Buchverlag Cologne 1997 ISBN 3-7701-4011-7 .
  • "Contemporary German Photography", Steidl Verlag Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-88243-880-0 .
  • “Germany in a Photo Book”, Steidl Verlag Göttingen 2011 - ISBN 978-3-86930-249-2 .

Books / catalogs

  • “Photographers in Aachen”, 1979, published by City of Aachen, Neue Galerie - Ludwig Collection
  • "Order - harmony - happiness", Rhineland-Verlag Cologne 1980 ISBN 3-7927-0590-7 .
  • "Panta Rhei", 2002.
  • "Night light - day dark"
  • "Per aspera ad astra", The Imagoartist als Stadtfotograf 1989 Ed. Stadt Stolberg Rhld.

Catalog articles

  • "In Germany", Rheinlandverlag Cologne 1979 - ISBN 3-7927-0486-2 .
  • “XIe Biennale de Paris”, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.
  • “Grants for Contemporary German Photography”, Museum Folkwang Essen 1987.
  • "WARE KUNST", Museum of the City of Ratingen 2002 - ISBN 3-926538-46-5 .
  • "20 × 20", Kunstverein Region Heinsberg 2005.
  • “Another collection”, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen 2006 - ISBN 3-929203-59-6 .
  • "Frei <> raum", Kunstverein Friedrichshafen 2013.
  • "Beautiful New Germany?", Museum for Photography Braunschweig 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data on aachen-gedenken.de
  2. ↑ photography | LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  3. ^ Exhibition program Kunstverein Friedrichshafen ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 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 / www.kunstverein-friedrichshafen.de
  4. ↑ Interior x Exterior, Works from the Ludwig Collection  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Ludwig Forum for international art. Retrieved January 5, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ludwigforum.de  
  5. ^ Exhibition "Gift - Collected" by Wolfgang Becker. In: Stadtbad Aachen. September 20, 2019, accessed on July 4, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Free! | LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ National Museums in Berlin: PHOTOGRAPHY. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Küsters, Hans-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2014
Place of death Salem (Baden)