Hans Wesely

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Hans Wesely (born May 25, 1930 in Kandel , † May 15, 1987 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He was a representative of the young German post-war avant-garde, stylistically located between the Informel and constructive tendencies .

Life

Hans Wesely was born on May 25, 1930 in Kandel (Palatinate) as the second oldest of five children.

From 1951 to 1952 he attended the master school for handicrafts in Kaiserslautern, where he learned commercial graphics techniques from Carl Maria Kiesel . He was accepted at the Mathildenhöhe Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt , where he studied with Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer . After two semesters, according to his teacher's assessment, he developed “graphically but also in terms of color so excellent” that Hoffmann-Lederer suggested him for Willi Baumeister's painting class at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . From the summer semester 1953 to the winter semester 1954/55, Hans Wesely was enrolled at Baumeister, most recently as a master class student .

From 1955 onwards, Hans Wesely worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Bisingen until his death in May 1987. The Middle Rhine State Museum bought works from him from his contributions to exhibitions in what is now the State Museum in Mainz .

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Beginnings

In the early years he concentrated on art-in-building orders and made mosaics and glass windows - both in his new Swabian homeland and in his old home, the Palatinate. At the same time he tried out different techniques and created relief-like material images made of cement and sawdust, prints, drawings, and oil paintings.

He later created still lifes and pictures with text fragments that deal with Baudelaire's poetry . Around 1964, loose, rounded conglomerates of shapes appeared, which stand in sharp contrast to the previously rather angular shapes. The imagery remains abstract, but evokes associations with garden landscapes or erotic-grotesquely tangled body parts. This development culminates in colored, lacquered wood reliefs from the late 1960s, which come close to pop art in their graphic simplification.

The difference to the subsequent works from 1970 is astonishing: On large-format pictures in an almost square format, monumental, organoid individual forms that appear plastic thanks to shading in flawless gradients develop. When they come together, bruises, folds and cuts occur. The palette is largely limited to white, black and gray tones. The strong illusionary power again suggests a latent reference to the objective world - for example to joints or body shapes.

The shapes become more pointed in the following years, the surfaces appear folded or rolled up into three-dimensional bodies. Some contemporaries see a parallel in the work to the cross-sectional images by Lucio Fontana . In an art review in the Stuttgarter Zeitung from October 1970 on the occasion of a solo exhibition in the Galerie am Jakobsbrunnen: ´ {the artist uses the black color, "like Fontana the knife", to destroy the surface. With his black-and-white pictures, Wesely moved away from painterly concepts in the early 1970s and turned to sculptural issues. At the same time, for example, the large stainless steel “kinks” and “folds” by Erich Hauser were created .

A few years later, the subject of "landscape" appears. However, one looks in vain for concrete references to geographical realities.

Late work

Wesely was still concerned with “landscapes” in the 1980s, but now an aspect plays into it again that he had almost completely faded out since the late 1960s: gestural and painterly moments re-enter the pictorial space. An expressive brushstroke begins to give rhythm to the calm, flat landscapes with a horizon line, gap or "mountains".

A series of large-format works with apocalyptic scenes is created: black, chimeric beings tear open the horizon line, furrow the earth and fray towards the sky. A rhythmically impasto application of paint intensifies the impression of the seething and eruptive nature of the picture.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1961: Galerie Kirchgasse, Zurich
  • 1970: Gallery at Jakobsbrunnen, Bad Cannstatt
  • 1972: Gallery at Jakobsbrunnen, Bad Cannstatt
  • 1977: Art Landscapes , City Gallery Albstadt
  • 1977: Old Castle, Hechingen
  • 1985: Hohenzollernhalle, Bisingen

Group exhibitions

  • 1955: Association of Palatinate Artists, Kaiserslautern
  • 1955: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 1955: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 1957: Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern
  • 1958: Working group of Palatinate artists, Kaiserslautern
  • 1958: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 1960: Cultural Office Zweibrücken
  • 1962: APK exhibition, Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz
  • 1965: Young West Art Prize 65, Recklinghausen Municipal Art Gallery
  • 1966: Painting from today , Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 1966: District Office Kreuzberg, Berlin
  • 1968: Modern glass painting, graphics, painting , Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
  • 1970: Galerie Gugelot, Neu-Ulm
  • 1970: Stuttgart Graphic Artists , Galerie Pictures for Business, New York
  • 1971: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 1971: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 1971: Pirmasens town hall with Manfred Wessolowski
  • 1971: Art exhibition Rhineland-Palatinate, Middle Rhine State Museum, Mainz
  • 1972: Kolczynski Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1972: Kunstkreis Novo, Mainz (solo exhibition)
  • 1974: TWS floor gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1975: Hauber, Nürtingen (solo exhibition)
  • 1974: State art exhibition Rhineland-Palatinate, Pirmasens
  • 1974: Christ Church Bisingen (solo exhibition)
  • 1975: Episcopal Konvikt Rottweil
  • 1975: Small gallery, Tübingen (solo exhibition)
  • 1975: State art exhibition Rhineland-Palatinate, Pirmasens
  • 1980: Balingen town hall
  • 1980: Albstadt town hall
  • 1981: Zollern Castle, Balingen
  • 1981: Galerie am Haagtor, with Rintaro Yagi, Tübingen
  • 1982: PES gallery Schloss Haigerloch, with Ursula Stock and Walter Dambacher
  • 1982: Painting , Haigerloch community center
  • 1982: Landscape now , Balingen Town Hall Gallery
  • 1983 PES gallery Schloss Haigerloch
  • 1987: Fine arts in Rhineland-Palatinate 1945–1960 , Mainz
  • 1988: State Art Weeks Baden-Württemberg, Villingen-Schwenningen

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Weber , Norbert Suhr (Hrsg.): Treasures from the Graphisches Kabinett . Exhibition from October 3 to November 25, 1979. Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum Mainz, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Wesely, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Candelabra
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1987
Place of death Stuttgart