Hans Glauber

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Hans Glauber (born September 2, 1933 in San Candido , South Tyrol ; † April 24, 2008 in Bolzano ) was a South Tyrolean ecologist , sociologist and artist . He was co-founder and president of the Eco Institute South Tyrol in Bolzano and initiator of the Toblach Talks .

life and work

Glauber spent his childhood until 1940 in Toblach , a neighboring municipality to Innichen. Then the family moved from German-speaking South Tyrol to the Italian-Swiss border in Como , where he attended elementary and middle school and the academic lyceum . He then studied economics and sociology at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan from 1952 to 1957 . He wrote his dissertation on L'organizzazione sociale ed economica degli Incas , the social and economic structures of the Inca . From 1960 he studied psychology and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno and under the influence of Herbert Marcuse as the most important representatives of the Frankfurt School .

After his studies, from 1963, Glauber dealt with artistic work. "When I opened the hood of an Olivetti adding machine for the first time, in 1963, I had a very decisive experience. It suddenly seemed to me that what was happening in the belly of this machine had something to do with what was inside it City, in Frankfurt, and not only here. It suddenly seemed to me as if the invisible tracks ran along the levers and rods that determine our everyday life, even symbolize an existential situation that increasingly boils down to functioning. I felt a structural similarity between the functional logic of this machine and the logic that determines our work and life context. " He photographed machines and machine parts, converted the photos into black-and-white representations through solarization and processed them using collage and montage. He “[...] pushed the external form into the background or even largely dissolved it. In this way he exposed rigid patterns of functional relationships. ”He reproduced the resulting graphic motifs on matt aluminum plates or had screen prints or lithographs made. He called the sum total of his imagery the “mechanical city”.

Since the 1970s he has dealt with environmental issues. He worked for industry, including Olivetti , as a consulting sociologist and held a lectureship at the University of Giessen . In 1985 he founded the Toblach Talks , which developed into an important environmental forum in German-speaking countries. In 1989 he was co-founder and president of the Eco Institute South Tyrol in Bolzano.

For the last few decades he lived in Frankfurt am Main and in Toblach.

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

  • Museion , Bozen: picture no. 1, man and machine , o. A .; Picture no. 9, conveyor belt , 1964; Picture no. 15, three wheels , 1964; Picture no. 15, three wheels , 1964; Picture no. 31, Kafka , 1963; Picture no. 49, cathedral white , 1964; Picture no. 56, When powdering , 1964; Picture no.65, Spazio Macchina , 1964; Picture No. 77, soldiers condensed , 1964
  • Museum of Design Zurich : picture no.7, Moloch labyrinthine , 1964
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Krefeld: picture no.65, Spazio Macchina , 1964
  • Museum Sztuki, Lodz: picture no.65, Spazio Macchina , 1964
  • Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main: From the mechanical city, number 91, 1972

Artistic works (selection)

  • Hans Glauber, Mark Buchmann: From the mechanical city: photos by Hans Glauber , Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich, catalog for the exhibition February 13 - March 21, 1965
  • From the mechanical city. Pictures and lithographs by Hans Glauber , Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna, catalog for the exhibition November 22 - 30, 1967. In it: Th. W. Adorno: On work by Hans Glauber (also printed in Adorno: Gesammelte Schriften Vol. 20.2 , P. 526)
  • Dalla città meccanica , Galleria de Nieubourg, Milan, catalog for the exhibition March 12 - June 7, 1969
  • From the mechanical city , exhibition and catalog: Wilfried Skreiner, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, February 15 - March 10, 1974

Fonts (selection)

  • Slower, less, better, more beautiful: 15 years of Toblach Conversations: Building blocks for the future , ed. by Hans Glauber in collaboration with Otto Smrekar, Ökom Verlag Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-928244-99-X .
  • Doing business ecologically: experiences, strategies, models , ed. by Hans Glauber and Reinhard Pfriem , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag Frankfurt a. M., 1992, ISBN 3-596-10952-3 .
  • For another tourism: Problems - Perspectives - Advice , ed. by Jost Krippendorf , Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag Frankfurt a. M., 1989, ISBN 3-596-24114-6 .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quotation taken from Peter Iden , Rolf Lauter : Pictures for Frankfurt , inventory catalog, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 50, ill. P. 51. ISBN 9783791307022
  2. ↑ The text was written by Hans Glauber for the catalog.
  3. ↑ Günter Meissner: General artist dictionary : The visual artists of all times and peoples , Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 68, ISBN 978-3598227400
personal data
SURNAME Glauber, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sociologist and environmentalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH San Candido
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2008
Place of death Bolzano