Hans Vincenz

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The painter Hans Vincenz

Hans Vincenz (* 1900 in Cologne , † 1976 in Essen ) was a German expressionist painter who created gouaches , oil paintings and reverse glass paintings .

Life

Hans Vincenz was born in Cologne in 1900 and lived in Essen for more than five decades, including almost forty years in Essen-Werden . Vincenz became acquainted with the art of Expressionism early on and was friends with well-known colleagues such as Erich Heckel , Helmuth Macke , Rolf Lenne, Christian Rohlfs and Werner Gilles .

Like many other painters of his generation, his path began with an examination of nature and the influences of the great painterly movements of the first two decades of the 20th century. The step from figurative painting of the twenties and thirties into abstraction finally led him to informal art , to which he remained stuck until his death.

At the beginning of the 1920s, in the first years of his work, he created pictures in dark, clay colors, resting, dreaming figures, ships and river landscapes again and again, and on the edge of the large industrial city, pictures with the melancholy sound of the suburbs. The Rhine and its landscapes remained impressions that, transformed, can be felt in his later pictures. At the end of the twenties, Hans Vincenz devoted himself almost exclusively to wood sculpture, but many works from this time were lost in the Second World War . At the beginning of the thirties he "discovered" color, until the outbreak of war he created sensual, colorful pictures, often of the character of a wall picture.

The first non-objective pictures were created in the mid-1940s. Paul Vogt, then director of the Folkwang Museum Essen , writes: “Even for those who know his early pictures in their harmony full of warm colors, the step to abstraction may have come as a little surprise - it had long been prepared and therefore less an experiment than logical path of artistic development. We see in these pictures the fruit of the experience of past years, the security and the unbroken strength of the striving who tirelessly continues to form. "

Topics from the objective world and the examination of nature continued to accompany his pictures. In addition to the cycles of abstract works, the landscape remained in the picture. In the mid-1950s, color gained a new meaning in his work: color and light come together to form a new unit that no longer adheres to the object. First and foremost, the colors are blue, which appears dominant in many works.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1928: Museum Mühlheim , Mülheim / Ruhr
  • 1930: Museum Mühlheim, Mülheim / Ruhr
  • 1946: Museum Folkwang , Essen
  • 1947: Modern Art Gallery, Bonn
  • 1951: Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 1960: Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
  • 1960: Museum of Fine Art , Dallas, USA
  • 1960: University Museum of Art, Oklahoma, USA
  • 1961: Goethe House, New York, USA
  • 1962: Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne
  • 1964: Mülheim Museum, Art Cabinet, Mülheim / Ruhr
  • 1970: Kunstverein Ruhr , Forum of Fine Artists, Essen
  • 1978: Marin Gallery, Hagen
  • 2002: Mayor's House, Essen-Werden
  • 2014/2015: Galerie Rudifredlinke, Münster
  • 2016: Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
  • 2020: Vischering Castle, Lüdinghausen "In the rush of colors"

Group exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hugo Vincenz: Hans Vincenz - Abstract Expressionism, Informel or Informal Art - paintings, gouaches and reverse glass pictures. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Editor: Extension: Discovery in the Spotlight • Experience Westphalia. February 4, 2015, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Hans Vincenz. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Painter of bright and happy colors - Hans Vinzenz exhibits old and new pictures in the Folkwang Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ going along with the times exhibition Hans Vincenz in East Wall Museum. Retrieved on February 15, 2017 (German).
  6. ^ Hans Vincenz: An Exhibition of Paintings. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 2011, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ • Pictures Hans Vincenz - The 2 Faces of Hans Vincenz - Art Exhibitions Paintings Pictures Sculptures Münster. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Editor: Extension: Discovery in the Spotlight • Experience Westphalia. February 4, 2015, accessed February 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Vincenz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 1976
Place of death eat