Hans Vent
Hans Vent (born February 13, 1934 in Weimar ; † January 31, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
During his school days, Hans Vent received painting and drawing lessons from his father Rudolf Vent , a landscape painter . After his death in 1948 he began an apprenticeship as a construction and decorative painter in Weimar and attended evening courses, among others with Otto Paetz . In preparation for a planned university course, Hans Vent completed a one-year course at the technical college for extension technology in 1951/52 and graduated as an industrial master , then he worked as a restorer volunteer at the Gotha Castle Museum .
In 1953 he began studying painting at the Berlin-Weißensee College of Fine and Applied Arts . There he was tutored by Toni Mau , Kurt Robbel , Bert Heller and Gabriele Mucchi until 1958 . From 1958 he was a member of the Association of German Visual Artists (VBKD) . Since his pictures are partly abstract, they were often attacked as formalistic during this period . After several murals, Hans Vent devoted himself exclusively to painting, graphics and ceramics from the 1970s onwards. From 1975 he was teaching painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. During a trip to India in 1977, he collected numerous ideas and suggestions.
In 1980 his work was exhibited as part of the touring exhibition Zeitvergleich , which was organized by the art magazine ART , the Brusberg gallery and the East German Ministry of Culture in West Germany. A trip Vents to Munich as part of the exhibition series was canceled at short notice after Günter Grass had thought about the division of Germany in his foreword to the exhibition catalog.
In 1989 a catalog raisonné of his prints was published, edited by Peter Röske . Since 1990 Hans Vent has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . He last lived in Berlin, where he died at the end of January 2018 at the age of 83.
Vent's blue mosaic picture “Berlin Life” on a wall of the Berlin Rathauspassagen and the concrete glass window in the former restaurant “Gastmahl des Meeres” in Berlin's Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse were removed after 1990. Hans Vent left an extensive artistic work behind. In order to secure its preservation and development, in accordance with the will of the artist, Prof. Dr. Peter-Alexis Albrecht founded the Hans Vent Foundation under the umbrella of the Cajewitz Foundation.
Works (selection)
Building related art
- 1959 mural work and recreation on the social building of STERN-Radio (together with Ronald Paris and Rolf Schubert )
- 1960 Mural from the history of transport and traffic in the car repair plant in Berlin-Pankow (together with Ronald Paris)
- 1967 mural poetic version of the cosmos in a Berlin restaurant (together with Horst Zickelbein , since the beginning of the 80s in an auditorium in Berlin-Karlshorst )
- 1973/74 concrete glass window (178.55 m²) in the Berlin restaurant Gastmahl des Meeres (corner Liebknecht / Spandauer Straße ), together with Rolf Lindemann and Dieter Gantz , not destroyed in 1992 but dismantled, now owned by a private collector, stored in the Priegnitz, waiting for reconstruction in the public space of Berlin.
- 2008 Mural Zeitstrom in the Senior Citizens' Center V of the Dr. Walter and Margarete Cajewitz Foundation in Berlin-Pankow
painting
- 1969 Profiles (watercolor, tempera)
- 1971 Family portrait (oil on canvas)
- 1979 The Sick (oil on canvas)
- 1981 Three women (oil on canvas)
- 1986 couple (expectation), (oil)
- 2000 levels (oil on canvas)
- 2007 heads (oil on canvas)
Portfolio editions
- 1984: 1st print by the Berlin graphic press (portfolio with ten etchings)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1964 Berlin, Institute for Teacher Training
- 1965 Schwerin , State Museums
- 1967 Berlin, gallery in the tower
- 1978 Berlin, Gallery Berlin
- 1979 Karl-Marx-Stadt , Spectrum Gallery
- 1981 Schwerin, gallery on the market
- 1983 Karl-Marx-Stadt, Schmidt-Rottluff Gallery
- 1984 Bonn , Linneborn Gallery
- 1986 Lübeck , Meta Linde Gallery
- 1989 Dresden , Gallery West
- 1992 Berlin, gallery of the Berlin graphic press
- 1994 Berlin, gallery ground floor
- 2000 Apolda , Kunsthaus
- 2003 Participation in the exhibition "Art in the GDR" of the State Museums, National Gallery, with the painting "People on the Beach - Encounters" acquired by the National Gallery in 1988
- 2007 Heringsdorf , Museum Villa Irmgard
- 2009, 2011 Berlin, Galerie Pankow
- 2014 Berlin, Gallery Forum Amalienpark
- 2014 Berlin, gallery of the Berlin graphic press
- 2014 Berlin, gallery ground floor
- 2016 Berlin, »VENT. The painter «, Galerie Parterre Berlin
- 2017/18 Potsdam, »People on the Beach« (1974–1975), participation in an exhibition at the Museum Barberini
- 2019 Berlin, "In Memoriam Hans Vent", gallery of the Berlin graphic press
- 2019 Berlin, »Hans Vent - The Other Look. Painting, drawing, sculpture «, Galerie Forum Amalienpark
Quotes
"I always stopped painting when I noticed [that] by doing more, the picture becomes too precise, too naturalistic and thus loses its artistic meaning."
"For me, the purely pictorial representation of work processes or the illustration of history makes little sense. In contrast, the being, the elementary of the human being has always played a role. "
“Ugliness is not a program for me. I am far from that. In contrast, I have always had an idea of harmony that I pursue. "
“The artist expands the simple reality of a beach scene into a poetic picture of life. Its keynote is the affirmation of human harmony with nature through the affirmation of sensual beauty. A fragrant, sensitive and energetic application of bright colors keeps the large surface in lively motion. But the whole thing is not an idyll. In the center we find the proud beauty and fertility of female figures, whose physical posture is the form for spiritual attitude. There are still people in their neighborhood who seem to be petty-bourgeois encapsulated in their beach castle. In the tension arc of the composition, the vision of a 'Venus rising from the sea' surrounded by light is confronted with the sorrowful figure of a lonely, aging woman. The picture is a great success. "
Awards
literature
- Angelika Förster: Hans Vent (= painter and work series). Verlag der Kunst VEB, Dresden, 1976, DNB 770199143
- Matthias Flügge : Hans Vent - painting . Reison Verlag, Berlin, 1994, ISBN 3-929473-08-9
- Anke Scharnhorst: Vent, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Berlin-Information (Ed.), Dietmar Kuntzsch (Red.): Art for Berlin: Contributions from the Berlin Art School (1947–1987) . Berlin-Information, Berlin / Kunsthochschule, Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-7442-0019-1 , pp. 76-77
- Samson Dietrich Sauerbier: Beach life: About the work of Hans Vent (= artist: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, Edition 88, Issue 28). Zeit-Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISSN 0934-1730
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Vent in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Vent . Joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
- Ingeborg Ruthe: Sparse and sensual . Article on the 75th birthday in the Berliner Zeitung , February 10, 2009
- Hans Vent (* 1934): People on the Beach . "Information on the Palace of the Republic" of the German Historical Museum (DHM)
- Klaus Hammer: Hans Vent - he played through a traditional topic anew . In: Das Blättchen , Volume 21, No. 5 from February 25, 2018
- Hans Vent Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Artist Hans Vent died at the age of 83 . dpa message on Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 1, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 . .
- ↑ Peter Michel: Arrival in Freedom. Essays against the loss of value in time , Berlin 2011, p. 175.
- ↑ Hans Vent Foundation
- ↑ http://www.galerie-berliner-graphikpresse.de/berliner-graphikpresse/mappenwerke
- ↑ Angelika Förster: Hans Vent . P. 28 ff
- ^ Peter H. Feist: Painting in the foyer . In: Neues Deutschland , April 24, 1976, p. 9.
- ^ Art prizes of the GDR 1979 were awarded . In: Neues Deutschland, May 18, 1979, p. 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vent, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2018 |
| Place of death | Berlin |