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Hans Kinder (born August 6, 1900 in Dresden ; † January 20, 1986 there ) was a German painter. He was an important representative of Dresden's late cubism. His complete oeuvre includes around 1500 mostly abstract oil paintings, tempera works , gouaches and drawings. Kinder also created building-related work, mostly wall paintings.

Life

Kinder was born in Dresden and attended the Dreikönigsgymnasium . In 1916 he began studying at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . Drawings from this period have not been preserved. From 1917 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He was wounded and had to stay in a hospital until 1920 . In 1921 he married Gertrud Rühle in Dresden and they had two children. Children made a living by making paper cuttings for emergency money series .

Kinder went to Weimar in 1924 , where he studied as a guest student at the Bauhaus for a year . No pictures have survived from this period either. Back in Dresden he studied at the Academy of Arts from 1925 . From 1926 he was a master student of Max Feldbauer and moved into his own studio. During this time he also became acquainted with Erich Fraaß and Ludwig Haller , which developed into a friendship. In 1928 and 1931, Kinder was awarded the Great Saxon State Prize for outstanding artistic work, which was accompanied by a financial contribution. It enabled him to continue his studies, which he finally completed in 1932 in the subject of wall painting.

In 1932 Kinder became a member of the Dresden Secession and worked freelance until 1939. Mainly murals and a few portraits were created. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . During a war vacation in Paris , he met the painter Pablo Picasso through the mediation of Ernst Jünger . Looking back in 1976, Kinder noted that Picasso's work had always had a strong influence on his work. A few works from this period deal with the experiences of war, "showing exhausted soldiers, hopeless prisoners of war and destroyed houses". Children themselves fell into British captivity , from which he returned to Dresden in October 1945.

From 1945 on, Kinder worked freelance in Dresden, creating building-related works and again murals. Kinder became a member of the artist group “ Das Ufer ” in 1947 and worked from 1952 to 1953 as the director of the “1. Socialist Artists Brigade Schloss Rammenau ”. He dealt intensively with the formalism dispute and subsequently distanced himself from state-controlled art. In 1953 he published his work Findings in My Studies on the Objective Laws of Action of Form and Color .

The pantomime abstraction by Marcel Marceau (here 1977) had a major impact on Kind's work

In 1954, Kinder attended a performance by the pantomime Marcel Marceau , which deeply impressed him and which "was of outstanding importance for the work of Hans Kinder". Marceau's pantomime abstraction led children through intensive occupation with movement sequences and their abstraction to a reduction and increasing abstraction in their own work. The first works on Marceau were created in 1963. Kinder did not meet Marceau personally until 1968 and at that time began systematic work on the so-called “Marceau cycle”, various gouaches . Around 40 works on Marceau from the period between 1969 and 1984 have been preserved.

From 1957 onwards, children regularly stayed in Ahrenshoop in the summer and moved into a small studio in a cottage on Grenzweg. His Dresden studio was at Münzmeisterstraße 40 in Kleinpestitz . Larger commissioned works followed, including the interior design of the Leipzig Opera House from 1958 to 1960. In 1964 he met Horst Zickelbein , with whom he was friends until his death.

Children dealt with the death of his wife in 1981 in the Orpheus cycle of 23 pages. A total of four cycles were created after the wife's death; around a quarter of all of Kind's surviving works date from 1981 to 1986. Around 30 sheets are assigned to the A cycle that began in 1985; it remained unfinished. Kinder died in Dresden in 1986 and first found his final resting place in the cemetery in Leubnitz-Neuostra ; he was later reburied in Ahrenshoop. A memorial for children is planned in Ahrenshoop, where Hans-Kinder-Straße is named after him.

Before his death, Kinder had handed over his theoretical writings, notes and diaries to the Saxon State Library . A systematic appraisal of the approximately 1500 surviving works of Kind is still pending.

In 2010, a 45-minute film essay on Hans Kinder was published under the title "... I always felt like a catalyst!"

Act

Kinder created the artistic interior design of the Leipzig Opera

Children's art is described as "embedded in the traditions of the Bauhaus and the diverse Dresden School". He saw himself as a "catalyst of his time" throughout his life. His works show not only aesthetic aspects of the Bauhaus and the Dresden School - "occasionally Struktivität early is bell-ringer striped, and the practical space education Birnstengels sounds to" - also influences of Cubism and the works of Picasso.

The preoccupation with movement and simultaneity is characteristic of all of Kind's work. Objective movement and subjective approach are mixed up, "the simultaneous representation of several overlapping objects should allow the viewer an objectified, all-round view", be it figurative or abstract.

Especially after taking a position on the formalism dispute, children's work became increasingly experimental. The formal language of his pictures is often strict and rational, always based on the color: "The Dresden late cubism, also present at Heuer , Echo auf Braque and de Stael above all, was shaped as a shortage of colored basic accords". For example, the Ahrenshoop years are characterized by compositions in the basic tones of gray, ocher, pink and white. In Ahrenshoop and Dresden "a work developed that, in its basic substance and density, is one of the most remarkable creations of the idiosyncratic, late generation of Dresden artists."

Shortly after graduating in the 1930s and during the GDR era, Kinder also created building-related works that gave him distance from his artistic work and served to earn a living. The murals created in this context have not been preserved. Since his time in the “1. Socialist Artist Brigade Schloss Rammenau ”at a distance and also evaded undesirable influence by temporarily stopping his work.

His works are in the possession of the Kupferstichkabinett and the Neue Meister gallery in Dresden, the Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Kunsthalle Rostock and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig .

Works

Painting (selection)

  • 1950: Still life with bust and guitar (painting oil / canvas, 86.5 cm × 101.5 cm, privately owned)
  • 1964: piano player (tempera on hardboard, privately owned)
  • 1981: My dearest (tempera on chipboard, owned by the Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister)
  • 1982–83: Orpheus cycle (23 sheets)
  • 1983: Eros cycle (12 sheets)
  • 1984: Spectrum cycle (16 sheets)
  • 1985–86: A cycle (around 30 sheets, unfinished)

Construction-related work

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1932: Exhibition of the Dresden Secession
  • 1934: Galerie Neue Kunst Fides , Dresden
  • 1950: Art exhibition Kühl , Dresden (first solo exhibition)
  • 1972: Kunstkaten Ahrenshhop
  • 1980: Pavilion in the Zwinger, Dresden
  • 1983: Galerie Mitte, Berlin
  • 1987: Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
  • 1995: Galerie am Blauen Wunder, Dresden
  • 2000: galerie refugium, Berlin
  • 2001: State Gallery Moritzburg Halle , State Art Museum Saxony-Anhalt
  • 2013: Galerie Bischoff, Berlin

literature

  • Association of visual artists of the GDR (ed.): Dresden artist: Hans children . Nowa Doba, Bautzen 1980.
  • Hans Kinder, Dresden 1900–1986 . Galerie M, Berlin 1986.
  • Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-9804945-5-1 .
  • State Gallery Moritzburg Halle (Ed.): Hans children. Figurations from the A cycle . Thomasdruck, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-86105-077-3 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 188-189, 372-373.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Baerthold: To work on the catalog of works . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 19.
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Baerthold: To work on the catalog of works . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 21.
  3. ↑ Barbara Baerthold: To work on the catalog of works . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Barbara Baerthold: To work on the catalog of works . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 24.
  5. ↑ a b Guenter Roese: Visually understand what you have in front of your eyes . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 5.
  6. ↑ a b cf. Gabriele Muschter: Hans Kinder - the pictures are ahead of us . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 7.
  7. ^ A b Association of visual artists of the GDR (ed.): Dresden artist: Hans children . Nowa Doba, Bautzen 1980, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Gabriele Muschter: Hans children - the pictures are ahead of us . In: Hans children. Painting and drawing . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Information on the Hans Kinder exhibition . Painting and drawings at gräfe art.concept.
personal data
SURNAME Children, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1986
Place of death Dresden