Hans Aichinger

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Hans Aichinger (* 1959 in Leipzig ) is a German painter .

biography

Born in Leipzig in 1959, Aichinger studied painting with Bernhard Heisig from 1982–1986 at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . Aichinger taught there himself from 1992–1997. In 1999, he worked at Casa Alejandro de Humboldt in Havana , Cuba and taught at Emory University near Atlanta . Hans Aichinger lives and works in Leipzig, in a studio in the Leipzig cotton spinning mill . Like his classmate Neo Rauch, Aichinger is formally part of the New Leipzig School .

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The artistic work includes various techniques; Painting (oil on canvas), drawing, watercolor, woodcut, etc. a. After very different work phases since the student days, the current work is characterized by a representational style of painting.

In the center of the figure, Aichinger creates still lifes out of people, similar to chamber plays, in which the external action becomes a metaphor for the internal movement. Aichinger's painting is characterized by a hyper-realistic style of painting, which puts the accuracy of the representational formulation of figure and object in the formal foreground - in terms of content, the technical precision of the picture surface is the opposite of the openness of the subject and context. In preparation for the painting, stagings are created in the studio, with the actors and photographer following Aichinger's drawn instructions (gestures, body language, line of sight, incidence of light, camera position). A still image is then selected from the film made in the studio and converted into a painting.

“Aichinger concentrates on freezing movements, projecting the unanswerable into empty centers and stretching the measure of time. This creates parables of slowness and futility, which also illuminate each other. You draw from the fund of large productions. [...] Aichinger shows how fragile the relationship to reality is. Above the prayer, below the lifestyle of our day. The artistic self as a switching point. [...] Pictures that fascinate and at the same time distance, because they are so clear and yet difficult to see through, because Aichinger always goes all out and does not spare himself. Aichinger is anchored on the back of the desolate, successful society, from where he looks all the more closely at the cultural upheavals while he works on his concentration exercises. What should be wrong with this rejection of the flatness of mass culture and an existential, ancient claim to the spiritual, to meaning and understanding the world? "

Exhibitions

  • 2018 "Pictures of Facts" Galerie REITER, Berlin
  • 2014 "The White Beginning" Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
  • 2012 “Truth or Dare” maerzgalerie Berlin
  • 2012 “Memento Mori” culture station Eller. Dusseldorf (G)
  • 2011 "After the Goldrush" Kunstverein Speyer eV Kulturhof Flachsgasse
  • 2010 “Hans Aichinger. A misunderstanding “maerzgalerie. Berlin
  • 2010 "Silent Revolution - Painting and Photography from Leipzig" Kerava Art Museum. Kerava. Finland
  • 2009 “Naturally wrong” maerzgalerie. Leipzig
  • 2007 "Impossible Germany" moti hasson gallery. new York
  • 2006 "Back to the figure - contemporary painting" Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich
  • 2005 “The question about the thing” maerzgalerie. Leipzig "From Cotton to Culture" Bunkier Sztukie. Krakow
  • 2004 "View into the collection" Kunsthalle der Sparkasse. Leipzig
  • 2003 “The Knowing Field” maerzgalerie. Leipzig
  • 2001 "Cry For Love" De Lifters Gallery. Tokyo
  • 2000 “Forms of unsuccessful existence” Galerie Prinz. Madrid
  • 1999 "10 years after revolution" Emory University. Atlanta "Ambos Mundos" Casa Alejandro de Humboldt. Havana. Cuba
  • 1997 “Form and Function of Drawing Today” Frankfurt am Main “The Mistakes of Death” with Hartwig Ebersbach and Walter Dahn. Gallery VOXXX. Chemnitz
  • 1994 “For FN - Nietzsche in the visual arts of the last 30 years” Belvedere Palace. Weimar "Chop and Stitch" Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg
  • 1993 "The Tide" Jesse Jones Building. Goethe Institute. Houston
  • 1992 “Turning Points” Northern Center of Contemporary Art. Sunderland. Great Britain

Public and private collections

Literature / catalogs

  • "Hans Aichinger, Truth or Dare", with texts by Joachim Penzel and Christoph Tannert, ed. by Torsten Reiter, Munich: Hirmer 2013. ISBN 978-377-74208-0-6 .
  • "Back to the figure - contemporary painting" catalog. Art hall of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich 2006.
  • "A look at the collection" inventory catalog. Kunsthalle der Sparkasse. Leipzig.
  • "Ambos Mundos" catalog. Ed .: ARTCO Projektraum and Casa Alejandro de Humboldt. Havana 2000, ISBN 3-9805681-5-6 .
  • "Form and function of drawing today" catalog. Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • “A year full of assembly” catalog. ARTCO gallery. Leipzig 1996.
  • "For FN - Nietzsche in the visual arts of the last 30 years" catalog. Belvedere Palace. Weimar Classic Foundation, Weimar 1994.
  • "Turning Points" catalog. Northern Center of Contemporary Art. Sunderland. UK, 1992.
  • Georg Heym: The Athens exit. Tragedy in an elevator. With 7 two-tone woodcuts by Hans Aichinger. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-92 8660-70-5 .
  • Hans Aichinger: “Better than nothing” Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition “The question about the thing” 2005 Ed .: maerzgalerie.
  • Hans Aichinger: "Scream for Love" catalog of the exhibition "Scream for Love" De Lifters Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Ed. Maerzgalerie Leipzig 2001.
  • "Aichinger. Woodcuts "Ed. Helmut Stephan, ARTCO-Galerie Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-9804173-0-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Tannert “In the beginning there is light, in the end there is nothing” in: “Hans Aichinger. Truth or Dare “Hirmer 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Aichinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig