Hans Werner Berretz
Hans Werner Berretz (artist name: Ha Webe , HaWeBe ; born July 26, 1951 in Würselen ) is a contemporary painter and sculptor .
Life and artistic creation
biography
Hans Werner Berretz was born in Würselen in 1951. He studied textile design and business administration in Aachen and Cologne . In 1986 he founded the international artist group AVANTIERE . He held several guest lectures at the University of Cologne .
Berretz is married and lives in Simmerath near Aachen in the Eifel.
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Hans Werner Berretz's works are poetic, picturesque and predominantly abstract. They appear in expressive colors and color gradients. Objective objects are often integrated like a collage in the form of a certain symbolism. Similar to musical compositions, the works defy a clear, logical definition. In his painting, Hans Werner Berretz is influenced by artists like Paul Klee and Emil Schumacher, especially Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan . Celan's poems Huhediblu , Die Todesfuge , etc. have been running through his work since 1992. Language and drawing - sound and color; Musical allusions lead to a system of pictorial designs, which often lead to a multilayered, polyphonic surface design.
He, himself also a musician ( double bass ), merges musical sensations and the building blocks of musical creations (sketches, scores, etc.) with painting. This is how titles such as the picture cycle Faded Noise and Sound of Pictures are created .
Conversely, artists from other genres dedicate their own compositions to him. For example, the musical compositions by Bernd Hänschke , titled analogously with fading noise , and Violeta Dinescu's string quartet for Berretz's series Die Todesfuge based on the poem of the same name by Paul Celan.
There were regular collaborations with contemporary classical musicians and composers such as Kurt Masur , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Violeta Dinescu, Bernd Hänschke, Michael Denhoff .
Another focus of Ha WeBe's artistic work is dealing with the Holocaust .
Quote
The composer Michael Denhoff on the pictures by Hans Werner Berretz:
“They don't depict the music, they are music themselves in a very sensual way. The image space vibrates through the fine vibrations that the triggering music set in motion. The pictures shine from within. "
Exhibitions
- 1987 - Eschweiler municipal art collection
- 1988 - Aula Carolina , Aachen - Galerie Signature, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 1989 - Eastern European cultural center IGNIS, Cologne
- 1990 - Wattrelos Municipal Gallery, Lille, France
- 1990 - Kunstring Gallery, Sankt Vith ; Château d'Aigremont , Awirs (both Belgium)
- 1990 - Exhibition hall alpha, Alsdorf
- 1991 - Gewandhaus in collaboration with Kurt Masur, Leipzig
- 1991 - Accompanying exhibition to the International Festival for New Music, Heidelberg
- 1992 - German-Japanese Center, Berlin; Tsubaki Gallery, Tokyo; Toto Superspace Gallery, Tokyo
- 1992 - Galerie Fettweis, Spa, Belgium; Gallery Villa Rolandseck, Remagen
- 1993 - Strathclyde Arts Center, Stevenson Hall, Glasgow, Scotland - Exhibition accompanying the Musica Rara Festival Erfurt
- 1994 - Steingraeber Gallery, Bayreuth
- 1994 - Maulberger Gallery, Rottach-Egern
- 1995 - City Museum Munich - Museum Altes Kurhaus Aachen
- 1996 - Galerie im Haus Dacheröden, Erfurt - Galerie Nilius, Cologne
- 1997 - New Synagogue, Aachen; Espace de Nesle, Paris
- 1998 - Tonhalle Düsseldorf
- 1999 - Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen; Maulberger Gallery, Munich; Small Synagogue Exhibition Hall, Erfurt
- 2000 - Landshut Town Hall - Arithmeum Bonn (Beethoven Festival)
- 2000 - Velbert Castle (with the chamber ensemble Portrais by Bernd Hänschke and Michael Denhoff)
- 2002 - Galerie Aphold, Basel, Switzerland
- 2003 - Art Selection Gallery, Zurich
- 2004 - University of Zurich: Colored light music in the 20th and 21st centuries
- 2004 - studio exhibition - “in dialogue - Dieter Call u. Hans Werner Berretz "
- 2005 - Galerie Aphold, Basel, Switzerland
- 2006 and 2007 - Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen
- 2009 - Galerie Perplies, Aachen
- 2013 - Gallery once, Roetgen b. Aachen
- 2017 - Whispering World , group exhibition in the Galerie Skulpturale, Lindau
- 2019 - Colleagues , group exhibition in the Galerie Skulpturale, Lindau
Literature / articles about Hans Werner Berretz
- Music and Fine Arts Encyclopedia , Vol. 6, Kassel [u. a.] 1997
- The Grove , Dictionary of Music, London
- Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Arts . 2004
- Portrait in the current hour, WDR television 2001
- Colored light music in the 20th and 21st centuries, Zurich University of Music and Dance HMT
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Werner Berretz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- The musician Michael Denhoff on "Sounding Pictures"
- Berretz, a painter living in Konzen, celebrated his 60th birthday , in: Aachener Nachrichten of October 6, 2011
- Top-class art: Werner Berretz shows his gallery , in: Aachener Zeitung from February 21, 2013
- Entry in the German 'Who's Who', 2011 edition
- Brief portrait on obst-music.com
- Mentions on skulpturale.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ The AVANTIERE on the occasion of the 10th anniversary , catalog on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Avantière Aachen in the Alten Kurhaus, 1996, Aachen
- ↑ Tatsuhiko Yokoo : Music and Meditation . Karlsruhe 1990
- ↑ Yaacov Dorchin : HaWeBe. Sound and poetry . Exhibition November 17 - December 17, 1990
- ↑ see the accompanying catalog La Sombra del Caminante - Image scores. The Artwork by Hans-Werner Berretz (HaWeBe) . 45 p.m. numerous Fig.
- ↑ Homepage Dieter Call
- ^ Exhibition catalog: Sounding Pictures . 48 p., Bound (with texts by Michael Denhoff and Günter Perplies)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berretz, Hans Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ha WeBe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Würselen |