Hans Eick

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Hans Eick (c) Benedict Fr.-C. Hellwig
Color study
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Fotohaus Eick (1963–65), Emsdetten
Highway in the USA
Industrial landscape
Gangway in the airport

Hans Eick (born July 23, 1932 in Emsdetten ; † October 10, 2009 there ) was a German, internationally active photographer and member of the professional association of independent photographers and film designers (BFF).

life and work

Hans Eick studied graphic and painting at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Münster, completed his master's degree as a photographer and graduated with a diploma from the University of Applied Sciences for Photo Engineering in Cologne.

After further study stays in the USA and Paris, Hans Eick received numerous orders as a freelance industrial and advertising photographer for medium and large-scale industries over the decades. He created photo documentation of entire industrial landscapes around the world. In own studios in Emsdetten, Hamburg and Berlin, productions for advertising and fashion photography orders were created.

In addition to international projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Eick also accompanied the change in various cities and landscapes in Germany for decades. He documented developments in the Ruhr area, Westphalia and the new federal states in an impressive way. His interest was in the structures of a changing cultural landscape with the parameters nature, architecture and infrastructure, which he examined both artistically and critically.

He was friends with the architects of the team of architects ( Harald Deilmann , Max von Hausen , Ortwin Rave , Werner Ruhnau ) in Münster and documented their works. According to plans by Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave, Hans Eick had his own residential and commercial building (Fotohaus Eick) built in his home town of Emsdetten as a modern statement from 1963–1965.

The Society for Photography and Steel Association presented him with the Designer Award in 1989. Selected photographs were added to the Prof. FC Gundlach (Hamburg) collection in 2007.

While black and white photography dominated his free work in the earlier years, in recent years he has increasingly devoted himself to the color digitization of photos. From 1990 he developed a kind of digital painting, whereby he incorporated motifs from commissioned work into the digital processing.

In over 40 years of work, Eick has seen himself as a socially critical photographer. He not only portrayed the supposed progress as a high level of technology, but also environmental degradation and the human misery that he encountered around the world, etc. a. in the favelas of South American metropolises.

Hans Eick's photographic work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1977: Art-Hotel Mauritzhof, Münster
  • 1978: Galerie Steinbeck, Cologne
  • 1979: University Clinic, Münster
  • 1983: Noran Gallery, Lüdinghausen
  • 1989: Steel Center, Düsseldorf
  • 1990: Oevermann, Münster
  • 1994: Art Association Emsdetten
  • 1998: Atrium Rethmann, Lünen
  • 1998: Zehnder International, Munich
  • 2000: Galerie Wienhausen, Münster: Hans Eick: Subdue the earth .
  • 2002: Inga Kondeyne Gallery, Berlin: Hans Eick - Industrial Worlds .
  • 2002: Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Münster
  • 2003: Erdgas, Münster
  • 2004: Chamber of Crafts, Münster
  • 2004: VerbundSparkasse Emsdetten-Ochtrup
  • 2008: Galerie König, Münster: Hans Eick - Sarah Eick .

Group exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bächer, Erwin Heinle: Building in exposed concrete. Shown on 80 buildings at home and abroad. Stuttgart 1966, pp. 90-91.
  2. ↑ Gretl Hoffmann: Travel Guide to Modern Architecture. Stuttgart 1968, p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Eick, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Emsdetten
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2009
Place of death Emsdetten