Hans Alvesen
Hans Alvesen ( artist name , actually Michael Anlauf ; born April 3, 1943 in Rützen / Guhrau ) is a contemporary German visual artist.
Life
Alvesen was born in Lower Silesia as the son of a pastor. In 1945 the family fled to Alvesen, a district of Hilgermissen . In 1962 he passed his Abitur in Verden (Aller) .
Alvesen acquired his technical knowledge from the church painter Hermann Oetken, with whom he also undertook study trips to Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo and saw the first early Christian depictions. 1966/1967 he became a student of Franz Nagel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1969/70 he studied with Emil Schumacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . He met the sculptor Wilhelm Loth . This was followed by longer stays abroad in Western European countries. Alvesen traveled for seven months on the trail of pre-Columbian cultures.
In 1975 he continued his studies of fine arts at the Braunschweig University of Art, first with Alfred Winter-Rust, then with Emil Cimiotti . In 1976 he took the stage name Hans Alvesen. In 1978 he became a master student at the HBK Braunschweig.
Awarded various scholarships, he regularly travels, designing his work in the landscape and in sacred spaces.
Alvesen lives and works in Braunschweig .
Hans Alvesen's work was included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".
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Hans Alvesen's artistic concern is the representation in space, on the surface, as movement in architectural space or in the landscape.
His design material is paper, which he kneads and tears into relief images or shapes in actions as a large-format, painted and written surface and, in interaction with the wind, builds up into tent-like triangular shapes. He calls these results resulting from the movement "situational sculpture". One of his projects is "The Paths - The Wind", which he has been pursuing annually since 1995 on the Greek islands and on the Baltic Sea.
In addition, works are created in collaboration with the cellist Ellen Maria Kienhorst, mostly in sacred spaces, which make intervals and rhythms visible and make the written word sound.
In the last few years he developed the "word-color-sound-pictures" in which writing, color and music form a unit.
Prizes and awards
- 1981 Scholarship from the support group of HBK Braunschweig
- 1982 Lower Saxony junior scholarship
- 1983 travel grant from the Alexander Dorner Circle Hanover
- 1986 artist grant from the state of Lower Saxony
- 1988 guest in the printing workshop in the Städtische Galerie Schloß Wolfsburg
Public collections (selection)
- Duke Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig
- Braunschweig Museum Association
- City Gallery Wolfsburg
- Museum of Modern Art Weddel
- Hannover Art Museum with the Sprengel Collection
- Perm City Museum
- National Museum Krakow
- University Library Oldenburg
- Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel
- Collection of the State of Lower Saxony
- Kunsthalle Bremen (Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart)
- Roemer Museum Hildesheim
- Collection of the city of Hanover
- District government of Lüneburg
- Horst Janssen Museum Oldenburg
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Alvesen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Artist's website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alvesen, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anlauf, Michael (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Góra |