Hans-Otto Schmidt

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Hans-Otto Schmidt, 2009

Hans-Otto Schmidt (born May 15, 1945 in Bützow ) is a German painter .

Life

Hans-Otto Schmidt was born in 1945 as the youngest of six children of a pastor's family in Bützow in Mecklenburg . In 1948 the family moved to Kladrum near Parchim and in 1958 to Ludwigslust . In 1961 Hans-Otto Schmidt was expelled from the extended secondary school and began an apprenticeship as a carpenter . In 1963 he entered the Church Proseminar in Naumburg. After military service and working as a cabinet maker, he was a stage craftsman at the Landestheater Halle and after moving to Berlin from 1965 a carpenter at various Berlin theaters. In that year he began his artistic activity as an autodidact.

In 1972 she was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . His mentors included Konrad Knebel , Harald Metzkes and Otto Niemeyer-Holstein .

Despite hindrances from the GDR , he worked as a freelance painter from 1975. In 2001 Hans-Otto Schmidt left Berlin. Since then he has lived and worked in Luisenhof ( Uckermark ).

reception

“The painter made a name for himself in the GDR era and is considered a master of silence and space. His pictures have a contemplative and magical aura. His warm, mostly muted colors show landscapes in brilliant light. In addition to still lifes and interiors, urban landscapes are a theme in his work. "

“Schmidt's motifs are the houses in his city district and the landscape of the Uuckmarket. In contrast to Konrad Knebel , Hans-Otto Schmidt hardly uses any linearly differentiated internal structures, and neither does deep perspectives. The sober and mostly deserted streets flee into the open, there are no accessories, the houses have no advertisements. Her nudity points to the art of Werner Heldt . Schmidt's compositions stretch through clear, but not plastically protruding or graphically edged surfaces to a firmness of the construction, from which the cool tenderness of the color reduced to a few tones comes. This is what makes Hans-Otto Schmidt's poetic image of Berlin so specific. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections and museums (selection)

  • Nationalgalerie Berlin (including "Urban Landscape in Winter", oil on canvas, 1978)
  • German Bundestag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NORTH-EAST. Hans-Otto Schmidt in the Tucholsky Literature Museum; In: Brandenburg as a place of culture. The e-magazine for cultural journeys of discovery, December 10, 2015
  2. ↑ NORTH-EAST. Hans-Otto Schmidt in the Tucholsky Literature Museum; In: Brandenburg as a place of culture. The e-magazine for cultural journeys of discovery, December 10, 2015
  3. ^ Lothar Lang: Berlin Montmartre. Artists from Prenzlauer Berg , Rütten & Loening Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3352004412 , page 117 ff.
  4. ↑ Image index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bützow