Hans Jörg Glattfelder

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Hans Jörg Glattfelder (born July 10, 1939 in Zurich ) is a Swiss constructive artist .

Life

Hans Jörg Glattfelder first studied law , art history and archeology at the University of Zurich before going abroad in 1961. After studying in Rome, he settled in Florence, where his first strictly structured works were created. In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Numero in Milan, shortly afterwards he was already involved in various group exhibitions. In 1970 he moved to Milan, where he was in close, friendly contact with Gianni Colombo and Antonio Calderara . At the end of the 1970s began the series of “non-Euclidean metaphors” that would determine his work for many years. In 1986 he was represented at the Venice Biennale . In 1990 he moved into a studio in New York, in 1998 he moved to Paris.

In 2015, Hans Jörg Glattfelder was accepted into the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design.

On November 8, 2016 Glattfelder received the Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe , endowed with 15,000 euros.

Artistic work

Hans Jörg Glattfelder's artistic work, which works with strict, geometric elements, at first glance stands in the tradition of the Zurich Concretists , although he goes beyond this in his turn to the phenomenon of space. In this context, the art theorist Hans Heinz Holz speaks of the fact that with Glattfelder “constructivist art entered a visibly new phase”, since he was one of the first to attempt to transfer the complex spatial concepts of modern physics to constructive art. The right angle, which was always of the greatest importance in the constructive tradition, is given up in favor of new structures - what Glattfelder calls "non-Euclidean". In order to distinguish the resulting artistic spatial visualizations from scientific-mathematical models, Glattfelder likes to refer to his works as "metaphors".

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1966: Galleria Numero, Milan
  • 1968: Goethe Institute, Turin
  • 1970: Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
  • 1972: Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich
  • 1982: Galerie Konstruktiv tendens, Stockholm
  • 1984: Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf (with Imre Koscis)
  • 1987: Foundation for Concrete and Constructive Art, Zurich
  • 1992: Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
  • 1993: Museum of Modern Art, Otterndorf
  • 1998: Saner Foundation, Studen
  • 1999: Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
  • 2004: Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
  • 2009: artopoi gallery, Freiburg i. Br.
  • 2011: Geiger Gallery, Constance
  • 2012: Galerie Lindner, Vienna
  • 2013: Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich: What is the case.
  • 2014: Vasarely Museum, Budapest
  • 2014: Museum Chasa Jaura , Valchava
  • 2016: Galerie Geiger, Constance
  • 2017: Galerie Wenger, Zurich
  • 2019: Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1968: ways and experiments. Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1970: Second Triennial. New Delhi
  • 1971: The Swiss Avantgarde. The New York Cultural Center, New York
  • 1973: Swiss Concrete. Biel Art Association
  • 1977: Rational Concepts. Badhuis Art Center, Gorinchem
  • 1980: reliefs. Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1982: Schaffhausen collections. Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen
  • 1983: Younger Swiss artists. Gimpel Hanover & Emmerich Galleries, Zurich
  • 1984: The Language of Geometry. Art Museum Bern
  • 1986: Arte e Scienza - Colore. Venice Biennale
  • 1986: Constructivism. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , Humlebæk
  • 1987: Mathematics in Art for the Last 30 Years. Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
  • 1997: Rule and deviation, Switzerland constructive 1960–1997. haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
  • 1999: positions of concrete and constructive art. Bauhaus, Dessau
  • 2005: experiment concrete '. Homage to Eugen Gomringer. Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
  • 2008: New presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter collection. Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch
  • 2009: Specifically - The Teufel Collection. Stuttgart Art Museum

literature

  • Hans Jörg Glattfelder. Reliefs overview of works 1965–1996. Exhibition catalog. Galerie am See, Zug 1996.
  • Hans Heinz Holz: Being-Shapes. About strict constructivism in art. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-89528-253-7 .
  • Stephan Geiger : Hans Jörg Glattfelder. Through Time and Space - Highlights from 50 years. Exhibition catalog Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2016, ISBN 978-3-946060-01-7 .
  • Hans Jörg Glattfelder. From the particular to the general . Edited by Barbara Willert. With contributions by Stephan Geiger, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Marli Hoppe-Ritter and Serge Lemoine. Exhibition catalog Museum Ritter, Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-88423-621-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt, accessed on December 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Peter Ruppert Prize for Hans Jörg Glattfelder. In: Main-Echo . July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hans Heinz Holz: Being-forms. About the strict constructivism in art. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2001, p. 219.
personal data
SURNAME Glattfelder, Hans Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich