Hans-Peter Hund

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Hans-Peter Hund (born October 26, 1940 in Wurzen ) is a German painter and graphic artist , especially watercolor painter .

Life

Hans-Peter Hund was born as the only child of Curt and Margarete Hund. His father was a grinder, his mother worked as a trained seamstress as a pharmacy assistant. His upbringing in the family was religious. The parents awakened a deep closeness to nature in the boy from an early age. Already in elementary school he was supported by his drawing teacher Rudolf Wiegand, who let him draw primarily in front of nature in his Sunday school together with high school students and other teachers.

After leaving school, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter with a master painter in Wurzen. At the same time, he took courses in figurative drawing and font design at the adult education center. In 1958/59 he worked as a script painter at DEWAG in Wurzen. Although he was denied the necessary approval there, he applied to the technical college for applied arts in Potsdam and was enrolled after passing the entrance exam . Visiting exhibitions in nearby West Berlin gave him an encounter with modern painting. He was particularly impressed by the Brücke artists , Henri Matisse , Marc Chagall , Georges Rouault and Paula Modersohn-Becker . He visited Otto Niemeyer-Holstein on Usedom and made friends with the Dresden painter Hans Jüchser . He decided to work as a freelance artist and settled in his hometown.

His first solo exhibition took place at the Kurt Engewald art dealer in Leipzig . Since 1965 his works have been shown in art exhibitions in the Leipzig district and the rest of the GDR. Despite the close proximity to Leipzig, Hund felt more drawn to the Dresden art scene, where he was able to gain great recognition with several exhibitions. The contemporaneity and the sometimes personal contact with the older Dresden artists Albert Wigand , Otto Griebel , Curt Querner and Theodor Rosenhauer became important to him. He had a close personal friendship with the art historian Diether Schmidt . In Hund's works, government agencies and party officials repeatedly objected to the “dark colors” and assumed a “pessimistic worldview”. Dog exhibitions were closed in 1967 in Berlin and in 1970 in Halle. An exhibition opening in 1981 by Diether Schmidt in the Dresden Gallery North was prevented by the state security with a fake move forward of the event. At the time of the fall of the Wall in 1989 and again from 1997 to 2000 Hund suffered from severe psychological crises. Since then, his works have mainly been created on extensive trips to the south. Hund also speaks publicly about local events in his home region.

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For years he portrayed the Wurzen street sweeper Wilhelm Freimark. There were repeated closings of exhibitions and the removal of pictures because its simple representation did not correspond to the functionaries' idea of ​​a socialist art. At the beginning of his freelance work he organized lectures on cultural topics in Wurzen. After the controversy over his Berlin solo exhibition in 1967, he withdrew more to his artistic activity. From 1979 onwards, he created over a decade of watercolors of the sky over the Leipzig lowland bay , which he made from a construction trailer on the outskirts of the city in bad weather. Watercolor painting became more and more important to him, alongside the very light pencil drawings. The last oil painting was created in 1994.

During an official study trip to Austria, he traveled on to Venice on his own initiative. During long periods of work in Italy and Greece, he has since sharpened his investigation of light and apparitions. He made use of a more and more economical visual language that captures the light between subdued color accents on the paper.

Hund is considered to be one of the most important contemporary watercolors. As early as 1977, the director of the Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Dieter Gleisberg, wrote: "These urban landscapes, deserted and yet pulsating, preciously painted in a fluid transparency, rank Hans-Peter Hund among the few real masters of watercolor." and 2015 "As a watercolorist, too, he is part of the long tradition that began with Albrecht Dürer. ... This style of painting, mastered by Hans-Peter Hund, gives his watercolors, which have been created since the turn of the millennium, a very unique sound and significance. What the certainty encouraged: Without his contribution from all phases of his career, German watercolor art of our day would be one significant voice poorer ... It led Hans-Peter Hund to a level of mastery that allows us to fully appreciate Dürer's eulogy from the "good landscaper" To transfer conviction to him too. "

“All of his landscapes have a touch of the elegiac and still suggest something of his fear of people and melancholy - dog does not paint people, rarely staffage. All alone in a piece of earth that he liked to paint, he shows the calm of the Mediterranean, urban landscape, only now and then a baroque church facade, rarely a harbor or even a bay with industrial plants. "

- Sabine Jung : How to paint calm? Works from southern Italy by Hans-Peter Hund

In March 2020, the Wurzen cultural company, a subsidiary of the city of Wurzen, bought six works by Hans-Peter Hund, honoring the city's son on his upcoming 80th birthday. Four paintings were acquired (portrait “Wilhelm” from 1969, it shows Wurzens street sweeper Wilhelm Freimark; “Portrait of an old man” from 1976; portrait “The old Schubert” from 1968; painting “Wurzener Fabrik im Winter” from 1966) and two watercolors ("View over the roofs" from 1975; "View over the roofs" from 1976) for a total of 27,000 euros.

Trivia

In his story "The First Days" (Edition Toni Pongratz, Hauzenberg, 2007), the Wurzen- born poet Jörg Bernig created two artist friends in a small town, in which, according to the reviewers, the town of Wurzen and consequently the painter Hans-Peter Hund and the peculiar relationship of both to each other are recognizable. “Because he was an artist. This word was pronounced as if it had been fished out of a brew in which one had mixed indulgence, pride, admiration, incomprehension and contempt. Some things were seen after him, some things were conceded to him, even if not always without envy. His friend the painter was no different. Except that he also felt sorry for him, because, unlike the pictures he painted, he himself was not allowed to go to exhibitions in France, Italy or Holland. (...) Sometimes you saw him strolling through the city with his hands behind his back, just a painter, corduroy trousers, a wide black coat, black beret. But if he stands at the window and observes how his tied pictures are packed into a delivery truck to get to the world outside of the country, then one feels sorry for him. "(P. 35 ff)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • Kunsthandlung Kurt Engewald, Leipzig, 1962
  • Bookstore "Buch und Kunst" Wurzen, 1963
  • Leonhardimuseum Dresden, 1965
  • Teacher's House, Berlin, 1967
  • Club of Intelligence Leipzig, 1973
  • Gallery at Sachsenplatz Leipzig, 1975
  • State Lindenau Museum Altenburg , 1975/76
  • Small gallery of the Otto Grotewohl Club Hoyerswerda, 1977
  • Galerie Nord, Dresden, 1981
  • State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, 1983
  • Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 1990/91
  • Municipal Gallery Wurzen, 2002
  • Gallery at Sachsenplatz Leipzig, 2010
  • Kunstverein Panitzsch near Leipzig, 2010
  • Municipal Gallery Wurzen, 2015
  • Akanthus Gallery, Westwerk, Leipzig, 2020

Group exhibitions

  • VII. Art exhibition of the Association of German Visual Artists (VBKD), Leipzig district in 1965
  • State Lindenau Museum Altenburg , 1968
  • VI. German art exhibition, Dresden Albertinum 1967/68
  • Gallery at Sachsenplatz Leipzig, 1976
  • First Quadriennial Drawings in the GDR, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 1989
  • Art Bridge II, Rathausgalerie Grimma, 2006

Literature (selection)

  • Gerd Seidel: Hans-Peter Hund, artist monograph. Diploma thesis, Karl Marx University Leipzig , typed. Leipzig 1977.
  • Carola Stein, Maria Pangitz, Petra Nagel: The importance of childhood and adolescence for the development of one's own design concept for the visual artist using the example of Hans-Peter Hund. Diploma thesis, Karl Marx University Leipzig, typed. Leipzig 182.
  • Magdalena George: The painter and graphic artist Hans-Peter Hund. In: Bildende Kunst , 4/1984, p. 184 f.
  • Dietulf Sander, Diether Schmidt: Hans-Peter Hund. Paintings, drawings, watercolors, pastels, monotypes, woodcuts. Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig 1990.
  • Hans Liesbrock: Warmth and sadness. The painter Hans-Peter Hund in the museum in Leipzig. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 16, 1991.
  • Dieter Gleisberg: Hans-Peter Hund. Watercolors and hand drawings. Old Leipzig catalogs, 1993.
  • Diether Schmidt: Hans-Peter Hund. The paintings. Municipal Gallery, Wurzen 2002.
  • Rainer Behrends : Hans-Peter Hund. Watercolors from 5 decades. Wurzen, no year (2010)
  • Sebastian Hennig : Between Taormina and Thallwitz. Two exhibitions for the 70th birthday of Hans-Peter Hund in Panitzsch and Leipzig. In: Dresdner Latest News , 27./28. November 2010
  • Sabine Jung, Dieter Gleisberg : Italy from a belated perspective. Study visits 1992–2013. The painter Hans-Peter Hund. Hans-Peter Hund on his 75th birthday. City of Wurzen, cultural enterprise, Sax-Verlag, Beucha-Markkleeberg 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Peter Hund . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 495.
  2. Hans-Peter Hund: Between departure and agony. 2009, p. 45 , accessed on May 31, 2020 .
  3. Sigrid Walther (ed.): Between departure and agony. The Dresden Gallery North 1974 to 1991 . In: SLUB series of publications . tape 14 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940319-77-7 .
  4. ^ Painter Hans-Peter Hund criticizes deforestation in Wurzen. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  5. Painter Hund defends museum director. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Rainer Behrends: Hans-Peter Hund. Watercolors from 5 decades .
  7. ^ Dieter Gleisberg: Italy from a belated view . Ed .: Stadt Wurzen, Kulturhistorisches Museum. Sax Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86729-161-3 .
  8. Exhibition catalog, Wurzen 2015
  9. Wurzen acquires six works by the painter Hans-Peter Hund - With the purchase of six works by the well-known painter Hans-Peter Hund, his hometown Wurzen wants to honor the artist's life's work. Dog celebrates its 80th birthday on October 26th. Retrieved March 7, 2020
  10. Tomas Gärtner: Memory and Decay. Jörg Bernig's poetic story "The First Days" . Dresden Latest News, November 24, 2008.
  11. Masterpieces of a color virtuoso: Leipziger Galerie celebrates Hans-Peter Hund - paintings and watercolors from five decades: The Akanthus Galerie in Leipzig's Westwerk is showing a retrospective of the Wurzen painter Hans-Peter Hund. You can see paintings that have never been shown before. Retrieved March 7, 2020