Hans Kutschke
Hans-Gerd Kutschke (born May 21, 1945 in Leitmeritz ) is a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Hans-Gerd Kutschke grew up in Bautzen . He learned the profession of quality controller at the Robur plant in Bautzen. His first application to study painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was successful. However, he was not allowed to start the course for political reasons. In addition to his continued professional activity, he attended evening classes at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. He was still denied access to free art through university studies. He was admitted to study restoration in 1974, but broke it off to work as a freelancer from 1975. He had been using a studio in the Bautzner suburb of Seidau since 1971.
Legal practice in the GDR required a tax number that was only assigned to members of the VBK . Those who could not prove this or any other occupation, at least formally, had to expect sanctions for tax evasion or strolling around work. With the guarantee of the artist friends Horst Bachmann and Harald Metzkes , he was accepted as a candidate for the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in 1978 and acquired its membership in 1981. From 1980 to 1990 he was a lecturer at the Dresden University of Fine Arts at the Bautzen branch of the evening studies department in Nadelwitz and became its head in 1984. During this time he gave nationally known artists such as Frank Nitsche , Steffen Bachmann, Heike Dittrich, Markus Draper , Thoralf Knobloch , Jana Böhme, Annedore Dietze , Iris Brankatschk , Hanif Lehmann, Almut Zielonka and others important suggestions and paved the way for them to study Dresden. In 1987 Kutschke moved to Dresden. After the border was opened in the autumn of 1989, he went on study trips to Italy almost every year, the impressions of which are reflected in his work. Kutschke is active in the Bautzner Kunstverein e. V. and one of the initiators of the Bautzner Herbstsalon, which took place between 1996 and 2011.
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Kutschke's pictures are based on perception, both of nature and of art. This occasion marks the beginning of a long-lasting artistic form-finding. In addition to the painting, which is prepared with sketches and color studies, he creates prints, primarily etchings.
The naturalistic beginning of his painting was followed in 1980 by a "black period", the pictures of which exude a melancholy mood. A clay painting is framed by black contours. Towards the end of the eighties he painted a series of wild paintings in a violent style and bright colors, which he called "Sudelbilder". As a result of his stays in Italy, his palette brightened up again and the image designs are determined by concrete observations in which he subtly resonates echoes from mythology and art history.
Kutschke deliberately keeps a distance from the art market, which he ascribes a negative influence on the development of the work. Exhibitions of his works in commercial art dealers are therefore rare. Nonetheless, a circle of collectors and lovers of his art has formed and many of his pictures are in private hands. A larger inventory is in the art collections of the Bautzen City Museum and in the Dresden State Art Collections.
What the art historian Ophelia Rehor stated on the occasion of the retrospective on his 50th birthday in the Bautzner Stadtmuseum still applies to the perception of Kutschke's work: “Hans Kutschke, born in 1945, is one of those personalities who primarily conflict with the system of the former GDR and therefore could not develop any particular public weight as an artist. ”His painting based on the point of view withdraws from the socio-political discourse today, as it did in the period before 1989, and offers little point of reference for the theory-based view of art.
"The extent of this life's work, which here in the only seemingly external calm, in agony of conscience, existential anxiety, threatening fears, but also in friendly encounters that can be called happy, in togetherness as the source of happiness and suffering, in the pendulum between outcry and meekness, in The seclusion that arose is overwhelming. "
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1976: Galerie Straussberg
- 1981: Humboldt University , Berlin
- 1983: Kulturbundgalerie Bautzen
- 1986: Villa Weigang , Bautzen
- 1991: Budissin Gallery, Bautzen
- 1992: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
- 1993: Hoser law firm, Munich
- 1994: Design and Art Languillat, Munich
- 1995: Budissin Gallery, Bautzen
- 1996: Bautzen City Museum
- 1997: Gallery of the Pirna Art Association
- 2000: Budissin Gallery, Bautzen
- 2001: Kunstbahnhof, Herrnhut
- 2002: Neschwitz Castle
- 2002: Pirna Old Town Association
- 2003: Palais in the Great Garden , Dresden
- 2013: Heart Center Dresden
- 2014: Koenitz art dealer, Dresden
- 2015: Museum Bautzen
- 2017: Sky Gallery
- 2019: Lingnerschloss , Dresden
Participation in exhibitions
- 1969: City Museum Bautzen (with Hilmar Laszczewski)
- 1976: Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
- 1977: Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder
- 1978: Künstlerhaus Nadelwitz
- 1979: Xth art exhibition in the Dresden district
- 1980: Small Gallery Hainichen (with Horst Weisse)
- 1982/83: IX. Art exhibition of the GDR , Albertinum Dresden
- 1983: Bautzen City Museum
- 1989: XI. Art exhibition of the Dresden district
- 1991: Exhibition of Bautzen Artists, Heidelberg
- 1992: Exhibition of Bautzen artists, Dreux / France
- 1993: Gallery of the Bautzen Art Association
- 2006: State Medical Association Dresden (with Peter Graf and Almut Zielonka)
- 2010: Palazzo Albrizzi , Venice (with Gabi Keil)
literature
- NN: Hans Kutschke, painting. Leonhardi Museum, 1993.
- Ophelia Rehor, Bärbel Stephan, Andreas Hennig: Hans Kutschke, retrospective painting, hand drawing, printmaking, sculpture. City Museum Bautzen Regional museum of the Saxon Upper Lusatia, 1996.
- Gert Claußnitzer: Color as an expression of strong feeling. In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 16, 1996.
- Uwe Salzbrenner: A woman as a shooting star. In: Sächsische Zeitung, November 20, 2000.
- Jürgen Vollbrecht, Ophelia Rehor, Ingrid Koch: Hans Kutschke, painting. Museum Bautzen 2015.
- Sebastian Hennig : I have imposed a strict teaching on myself. In: Junge Freiheit , May 22, 2015.
- Miriam Schönbach: Painting is like taking a breath. In: Sächsische Zeitung, May 23, 2015.
- Sebastian Hennig, the painter Hans Kutschke. In: tumult. Quarterly journal for disrupted consensus , summer 2018, p. 61f. (with 16 mostly full-page reproductions after paintings by the artist)
Web links
- Review of the retrospective in the Museum Bautzen Sächsische Zeitung
- Artist's website on Hans Kutschke at Galerie Himmel Dresden
- Hans Kutsche in the GDR art atlas
Individual evidence
- ^ Sebastian Hennig: The painter Hans Kutschke . In: Tumult - Quarterly for Consensus Disruption . Summer 2018. Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-946730-07-1 .
- ↑ Ophelia Rehor: "Making art is my participation in life and in the world" The painter Hans Kutschke . In: Museum Bautzen (Ed.): Artwork . tape 2 . Bautzen 2015, ISBN 978-3-9812476-4-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kutschke, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kutschke, Hans-Gerd (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leitmeritz |