Hans Peter Adamski

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Hans Peter Adamski, 2013
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Hans Peter Adamski (born May 7, 1947 in Kloster Oesede , Lower Saxony ) is a German painter and graphic artist . He became known in the early 1980s as a member of the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit .

life and work

After an apprenticeship in an architecture office, which he completed in 1973, he studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Visual Communication in Münster and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Joseph Beuys, among others . From 1974 to 1979 he traveled to India, Afghanistan and Indonesia and worked temporarily in Italy, France and the USA.

From 1998 to 2013 he was professor and dean at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Adamski lives and works in Berlin and Dresden. He is represented by Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne.

In 2001 Adamski realized the mural “The Gordian Knot” in the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin. It consists of 3 painted paper cuts, each 12 m wide and 4 m high.

2013 won Adamski the first place a tender for the design of the lobby for state guests of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin-Schönefeld . A two-part work is planned on a wall 80 m long and 9 m high. The design for the "thought clouds" provides for two motifs of 3.5 m × 17.5 m and 5 m × 14 m. The project is expected to be implemented in early 2015.

Adamski is one of the most important representatives of the New Wilds of the 1980s, a number of young artists who rehabilitated painting as a medium and caused a sensation in Italy, Germany and the USA around the same time. In Germany, the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit is one of the protagonists, to which, in addition to Peter Adamski, the artists Peter Bömmels , Gerhard Naschberger , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil and Gerard Kever belonged. The name for the group founded in 1979, which saw itself as a loose grouping without a fixed program, was the backyard studio in the house "Mülheimer Freiheit Nr. 110" in Cologne-Mülheim , where the artist's studio was located.

After the dissolution of Mülheimer Freiheit in 1984, Adamski continuously developed his oeuvre and has already created numerous groups of works in which he plays through various conceptual and aesthetic positions. While painting is still the main focus, he also works in genres such as graphics, sculpture, plastic, etc. and experiments with different materials, including fabric , plaster , or flokati . Paper cuttings have been a characteristic medium of his work since the 1980s.

The groups of works are often characterized by themes such as erotic scenes, floral motifs, religious symbols, inserted text fragments, etc., but also by repeated formal parameters, as in the "black and blue pictures" or the "squares". The works transcend the categories “abstract” and “figurative” and look for a visual language that defies clear definitions.

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, the personally told biography When the Guinea Fowl weeps softly was published in 2007 . Bonjour Adamski with over a hundred illustrations, a cross-section through the complete works of Adamski.

In 2010 the curator of the Swiss Art Institution, Rolf Lauter , realized an extensive exhibition in the Forsthaus Villa Karlsruhe with 25 large-format pictures by Adamski under the title "Sehnsuchtsquadrate". For this exhibition and the foyer of the villa, Adamski painted a 4 × 6 m ceiling painting entitled “Fischer's Night Song”.

Quotes from Hans Peter Adamski:
“In my pictures I want to become alien to myself. I am immensely drawn to contradicting sensations. I want to paint pictures that I don't understand. "

"It appeals to me to use my identity and to give her a slap in the face."

Hans Peter Adamski's works are represented in the following collections, among others: Collections Kunstmuseum Bern ; City Museum Cologne ; Kunstmuseum Basel ; State Museum Darmstadt; Collection Saturday New York; Lenbachhaus Munich; Folkwang Museum Essen; Art Museum Bonn ; Museum Wesertorburg Bremen; Collection Alfred Neven DuMont Cologne; Burda Collection, Munich; Collection Fondation Corboud Cologne Montreux; Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde, Denmark; Museum Villa Haiss , Zell aH; Sachs Collection, London; Hoor Qasimi Collection, Sharjah Arab Emirate.

In addition to art, Hans Peter Adamski also has a great affinity for fashion. In 1984 the star organized a series of pictures on the subject of fine arts and fashion. 10 artists such as Roy Lichtenstein , Salomé and George Condo were commissioned to design a dress in the border area between fashion and art. Hans Peter Adamski created a dress for this from raw fillet meat. In the same year Adamski designed a baroque dress for the art magazine Art , for which he put together hundreds of frozen sardines.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
  • Bonnefantenmuseum , Maastricht, NL
  • Municipal Art Museum, Bonn, D
  • European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, USA
  • Horsens Art Museum, Lunden, DK
  • Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, NL
  • National Gallery of Dakar, Senegal
  • Mannheim Art Association , D
  • Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz, A
  • Museo di Arte Sacra San Francesco, Greve in Chianti, IT
  • Swiss Art Institution, Karlsruhe D.

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Leo Castelli Graphics, New York, USA
  • Galerie Maeght, Paris, F
  • Mülheimer Freiheit, “Nieuwe duitse Kunst”, Groninger Museum, NL
  • “De la Photographie”, Goethe Institute, Paris, F
  • “Bildwechsel”, New Painting from Germany, Academy of the Arts, Berlin, D
  • “The secret freedom”, Kunstverein Freiburg, D
  • Mülheimer Freiheit. "Seafaring and Death". Wolfsburg Art Association , D
  • "Finger for Germany", Atelier Immendorff, Düsseldorf, D
  • “10 young artists from Germany” Museum Folkwang, Essen, D
  • Mülheimer Freiheit, “The Seafaring and Death”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, D
  • “12 artists from Germany”, Kunsthalle Basel, CH, Museum Boymanns-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
  • "Expressionists - Neue Wilde", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, D
  • The FER collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, D
  • "Jump", Kunsthalle Hamburg, Federation of German Industry, D
  • Metzger Collection, Budapest Art Gallery, U
  • “Interim balance sheet” New German Painting, New Gallery at the Joanneum, Graz, A
  • Villa Stuck, Munich, D
  • Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, D
  • "1000 Years of Mülheim Freedom", City Museum Cologne, D
  • 20th Century Art, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, D
  • Biennale di Venezia, Venice, I
  • First Street Forum, St Louis, USA
  • Toni Gerber Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, CH
  • Mülheimer Freiheit Group, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
  • Museum van Bommel van Dam , Venlo, NL
  • “Artists from Cologne”, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • “The memory opens its doors”, contemporary art in the Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • “Don't give up before the earth is square”, Kunstverein Mannheim, Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection
  • "Obsessive Painting", A Review of the "New Wilders", ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • “Strangeness, Identity, Encounters”, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne
  • “Where are you standing”, Paul Maenz Collection, Kupferstich Kabinett Berlin
  • "The Invention of the New Wild - Painting and Subculture around 1980", Ludwig Forum , Aachen
  • "POSTCARD RELOADED", European art association in the art space Potsdam c / o Waschhaus

Movies

Literature about Hans Peter Adamski, selection

  • Wilfried Dickhoff (ed.), Rolf Lauter: Hans Peter Adamski - Sehnsuchtsquadrate / Squares of Longing, AK Forsthaus Villa Karlsruhe 2010. Wilfried Dickhoff Publishing House , Berlin 2010.
  • Michéle Victor: When the guinea fowl is crying softly - Bonjour Adamski. DuMont , Cologne 2007.
  • Gallery Brigitte Schenk (Ed.): Hans Peter Adamski - New Pictures. AK Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne 2003.
  • Rainer Behrends (Ed.): Adamski. AK Universität Leipzig, Leipzig 1995.
  • Arte Contemporanea Hirmer (Ed.): Adamski - Vortrice delle rose. AK Arte Contemporanea Hirmer, Greve in Chianti 1992.
  • Donald Kuspit (Ed.): Adamski - Catalog for the exhibitions in Mannheim and Graz. Prestel , Munich 1991
  • Reinhard Onnasch Gallery (Ed.): Hans Peter Adamski. AK Reinhard Onnasch Gallery, Munich 1985.
  • Wilfried W. Dickhoff (Ed.): Hans Peter Adamski - Work 1980–1984. AK Kunstmuseum Bonn 1984, Verlag Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Krampitz: The young wild man has become gentler. In: Welt am Sonntag. May 27, 2007 (PDF file)
  2. ↑ Andreas Kaernbach, Manfred Schneckenburger, Evelyn Weiss (ed.): Art in the German Bundestag The Jakob Kaiser House. Prestel 2014.
  3. ↑ Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Ed.): Art-in-building competition for the reception building in the protocol area at the BER airport, Wandelgang location. Berlin 2013.
  4. ↑ ka-news: Forsthaus Villa. December 4, 2007, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  5. ^ Wilfried Dickhoff, Rolf Lauter: Hans Peter Adamski Sehnsuchtsquadrate; in association with the Exhibition Hans Peter Adamski - Sehnsuchtsquadrate, Swiss Art Institution, Karlsruhe, September 18 - November 21, 2010 . Dickhoff, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810613-2-1 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  6. ↑ A catalog about the ceiling picture was produced by the Maison Victor in small numbers. http://www.maison-victor.com/michele-victor
  7. ↑ Donald Kuspit (Ed.): Adamski. Prestel, Munich 1991, p. 97.
  8. ↑ Donald Kuspit (Ed.): Adamski. Prestel, Munich 1991, p. 97.
  9. ↑ I'm frying myself a hat - HP Adamski in an interview with MO Escher. In: Caroline Hechenberger (Ed.): Berlin, The Showroom Days. No. 6, July 2014, p. 60.
  10. ^ Wilfried Dickhoff, Rolf Lauter, Hans Peter Adamski '. In: WorldCat.org. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Adamski, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oesede Monastery , Lower Saxony