Hartlib Rex

Hartlib Rex 1986

Hartlib Rex (* 1936 in Hamburg-Altona ; † 2009 in Paray-le-Monial , Burgundy , France ) was a German painter and author of essays and poems.

Life

As the son of the sculptor Wilhelm Rex (1870–1944), Hartlib Rex experienced the oppressive atmosphere of the Nazi era , the firestorm on Hamburg , escape into the Bavarian Forest and cramped living conditions. The family lived on the income and the drive of their mother, who was a teacher. The musically talented sister, Renate Rex, 5 years older, became a pianist and later an organist.

From 1958 to 1964 Rex studied painting at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe (class Walter Herzger as successor to Erich Heckel ) and at the Chelsea School of Art , London, as well as art history and English at the University of Hamburg and at St. Mary's College in London. In 1968 he opened the "Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst" in Hamburg, which was frequented by little-known artists such as Hermann Tomada , Rudolf Schwaiger and Eberhard Linke . In 1975 Rex retired to the Black Forest (Mundelfingen) near Donaueschingen in order to devote himself more intensively to his own work. As early as 1961, Rex exhibited in well-known galleries and museums. A second marriage to Sonia Junod in 1980 led to the move to Zurich, Switzerland, where he spent the next 20 years. In this phase of life the work cycle "Kopfwelten" was created. In 2001 he bought a property in Marcigny , Burgundy, and set up the "Maison d'Art Bourgogne du Sud" there. The outbuilding and garden were redesigned and opened to the public in 2005 as an exhibition space for figurative artists . Hartlib Rex died in 2009 of complications from a tumor.

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His style of painting and themes can be assigned to expressive realism . Rex saw himself as an artist and contemporary witness and took a thematic position on world events, in an explicit way (e.g. early triptych "Our American Way of Death", 1972, 156x257) and also in his portraits. Hartlib Rex constantly developed his figurative-expressive style with the inclusion of modernism . In terms of art theory, he dealt with the question “How to continue after Picasso ”. His extensive work cycle "Kopfwelten" deals critically with personalities in the cultural industry.

Memberships

Hartlib Rex was a member of several artist groups and associations; Masters of Fine Art International, European Section, 1969; Fantasmagie Internationale, CIAFMA. Center International de l'Actualité Fantastique et Magique, Brussels (German section Rudolf Haus); 1979-86 BBK Hamburg; 1981-89 Association of German Writers ; from 1979 Swiss authors group Olten; from 1987 International PEN Club German-Swiss Section.

Exhibitions (selection)

In the Maison d'Art works by Hartlib Rex are constantly visible.

1961	Soest Art Association
1964	City Museum Neumünster
1966	Art Center Haarlem / Noord-Holland
1967	State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
	Rothenburg / Tauber town hall
	Art Association Lüneburg
1969	Art Center Leeuwarden / Friesland
	Gallery Municipale des Métiers d'Art Liège / Luik / Liège
	Kunstverein Bad Salzuflen double with Karl-Henning Seemann
1970	Veendam Art Center / Groningen
	Kunsthalle Bremerhaven double with Karl-Henning Seemann
1972	Gemeentelijke Van Reekum Galerij Apeldoorn / Gelderland doubles with Waldemar Otto
	Secession Vienna
1973	Gallery Merino del Nero Worms
1983	Art Center Nijmegen / Gelderland
1987	Kunstverein St. Wendel double with Clemens M. Strugalla sculptures
1988	Kunstverein Gauting Pictures 1975–1988
	Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus Soest municipal art collection
1991	Themed exhibition “Self-Portraits” at Galerie Renée Ziegler Zurich
	Art circle Heimatmuseum Todtmoos
1999	Participation in the 22nd Blumberg art exhibition
2006	& 2008 Le Petit Louvre, La Pacaudière, Dept. Loire

Hartlib Rex was represented at various international art fairs: ART Basel, Düsseldorf, Brussels and Paris (FIAC) 1973-76. Between 1977 and 1988 he took part in transnational themed and traveling exhibitions such as Pictures for Africa against Apartheid , Artists for Amnesty International , 1984 and Resistance - Liberation - Peace May 8, 1945 - May 8, 1985 .

Images, collages, texts (selection)

• Exhibition catalog "De Wereld von Hartlib Rex" Gemeentelijke Van Reekum Galerij Apeldoorn 1972
• Exhibition catalog Hartlib Rex Galerie Schulze-Theiler Münster 1972
• Painter in Hamburg 1966–1974, Volker Detlef Heydorn blue Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974
• Chile - song and report, publisher Volker Braun blau, Bernhard Heisig blau, Günter Kunert blau Halle 1975
• Answers from the crosshairs . Collages, poems. eco-Verlag Zurich 1979. ISBN 3-85637-016-1
• Artists in Hamburg Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1982
• Peace Declaration, Fischerhude 1982
• Une Certaine Allemagne, Metz 1982
• Artist in Hamburg, Hamburg 1982
• Ricco Bilger, Steve B. Peinemann and Hartlib Rex. The war enjoys its peace: poems, aphorisms and pictures . For the generation willing to survive. Kiel 1983. 3-890291007
• "1984", Venlo 1984
• Objection, Limmat Verlag Zurich 1989 & 1991

literature

• Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (ed.): Hartlib Rex; Karl-Henning Seeman .
• Arnold Bauer: Testimony to the Age of Fear . Berlin 1965
• Elisabeth Rehtz: painter and literary painter at the same time . Hamburg 1965
• Hans Vogelesang: A sign from zijn tijd . Haarlem 1966
• Konrad Cell: The Return of Man in Art, Berlin 1968
• Leo Kofler, New Ruhr University Bochum: Away from naturalistic and absurd art . Cologne 1973
• Dirk Rolfes: Collages by Hartlib Rex . Hamburg 1986
• Rex, Hartlib. In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's lexicon ; supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 369.

Web links

• Hartlib Rex collection. Retrieved July 21, 2012 . 
• Burgundian town of Marcigny. Retrieved July 21, 2012 .