Hartmut Bonk

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Imaginary theater, 1986/87 . A scenic figure composition in three groups and a single figure. Bronze sculptures, fountain system, Karl-Marx-Platz, Berlin-Neukölln. 1. Two titans 2. Two women with a swan 3. Centaur 4. Young man
Big Strider , 1988. Bronze

Hartmut Bonk (born September 11, 1939 in Pulsnitz ; † September 6, 2019 ) was a contemporary German sculptor and painter.

life and work

Hartmut Bonk studied from 1957 to 1960 at the workers and farmers faculty for fine arts in Dresden. 1961–1967 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (with Gerd Jaeger , Hans Steger and Walter Arnold ). From 1967 he worked as a freelancer in Hoyerswerda and began working in Stein, 1969–1971 he worked as a freelancer in Dresden.

In 1974 he took part in the sculpture symposium in Oronsko / Poland, 1975–1976 at the I and II sculpture symposium in Dresden in Pirna-Rottwerndorf. 1975 was the beginning of his work in polyester. The figuration White Group (1975/1976), Alba Urbana (1976) and Civilized World (1977/1978) emerged. In 1979/1980 the three silver figures of this life-size group were shown in the Dresden exhibition “Young Sculpture of the GDR”, in 1981 the group was loaned to the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle (purchase of the group 1981–1987).

The six-figure Civilized World was followed by other life-size sculptures, and in 1979/1980 an ensemble of twelve figures was created: Society apocalyptic . Bonk got a studio in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz . In 1982 he moved to West Berlin and started traveling to the Mediterranean region (reception of antiquities). In 1983 he got a studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which was followed by the start of working in paper maché. In 1985 Bonk received a work grant from the city and state of Berlin (Senator for Cultural Affairs). The purchase of labor "South Axial" from the working group Psychic - robot was made by the Galerie Berlinische .

In 1986 Bonk was the winner of the fountain competition on Karl-Marx-Platz in Berlin-Neukölln and started executing it ( Imaginary Theater ). In 1988 he received a scholarship from Villa Serpentara in Olevano-Romano , Italy. From 1988 to 2004 Hartmut Bonk was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection) 

  • 1974: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
  • 1977. Central Institute for Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben
  • 1978: Galerie Nord, Dresden
  • 1983: “Dinner Maniera”, Suspekt Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 1990: Museum in the Fine Arts Gallery, Warsaw
  • 1991: Leonhardi Museum, Dresden
  • 1993: "SKYLLA", Art Association Bautzen
  • 1994: HARTMUT BONK "CHIMÄRA". Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus; State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle; Orangery in Körnerpark, Berlin, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, exhibition in Dresden Castle
  • 1996: "DISPUT", St. Marien in Prenzlau
  • 1996: "ARKADIEN", watercolors, etchings, small sculptures, Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring eV, Pulsnitz
  • 1999: "ARKADIEN" pictures and sculptures, gallery at Savignyplatz, Berlin
  • 2002: "HORSE AND LANDSCAPE", painting-graphic-sculpture, gallery at the blue wonder, Dresden
  • 2007: HARTMUT BONK "SCULPTURE AND LANDSCAPE",  Blankensee Castle
  • 2009: "BONK and PENCK" for the 70th. Graphic sculpture. Summer exhibition, gallery at the blue wonder, Dresden
  • 2009: "SOCIETY APOKALYPTISCH", exhibition of the 12-figure group "Society apokalyptisch" from 1979/80 in "OHNE UNS", Dresden, September 24, 2009 to April 11, 2010
  • 2016: HARTMUT BONK "GESTURES AND STATUARIES", the small gallery, Berlin April 28 to June 10, 2016

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976: "Young Artists of the GDR", exhibition center at the television tower Berlin, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • 1976: Winckelmann Museum, Stendal
  • 1977: "14. Biennial for Free Plastic “, Middelheim / Netherlands
  • 1977/1978: “VIII. Art exhibition of the GDR ”, Dresden
  • 1978: Galerie Nord, Dresden: October 15 - November 20, 1978: Hartmut Bonk, plastic drawings
  • 1979: "Young Sculpture of the GDR", Albertinum Dresden, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • 1981: "Ikarus", 100th exhibition of the Club Gallery, Magdeburg
  • 1983: "International Plastic Symposium", Lindau Municipal Museum on Lake Constance
  • 1986: "Hands that can see". A sculpture exhibition for the blind and sighted. Chapel of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin
  • 1986: “Neptune's Empire on the Spree. Berlin fountain from Begas to Bonk ”. Kunstamt Neukölln, Galerie am Körnerpark Berlin
  • 1987: "Myth Berlin", Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin
  • 1988: Odense Town Hall Gallery, Denmark
  • 1988: “Homage to Berlin”, Commerzbankforum, Berlin, traveling exhibition
  • 1989: "In honor of Eberhard Roters", Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1990: "Menetekel", Kampnagel, Hamburg
  • 1990/1991: “Ausgebürgert”, Albertinum Dresden, Kleine Deichtorhalle Hamburg
  • 1991: "Artists from Saxony", New Saxon Art Association in the Dresden City Museum
  • 1992: "Via Italia II", State Lindenau Museum Altenburg
  • 1992/1993: "Art and norms - norms of an artistic worldview", DIN - German Institute for Standardization, Berlin
  • 1993: "Obsessions". Annual exhibition of the New Saxon Art Association Leipzig
  • 1993: "I think of Germany ...", artist for tolerance, artist against violence, Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
  • 1994: "Body Images-People Images", German Hygiene Museum Dresden
  • 1997: “pro figura”, 2nd Bautzen Autumn Salon
  • 1999: "Self-Portrait", 4th Bautzen Autumn Salon
  • 2000: "JANUS", 5th Bautzen Autumn Salon
  • 2000: galerie parterre, Berlin
  • 2001: "Kassandrarufe and Schwanengesänge". Critical pictures and sculptures from the late GDR. Cappenberg Castle Unna
  • 2001: “MYTH AND FIGURE. But I find the ancient world too alive ”, Gotha Castle Museum, Friedenstein Castle
  • 2002: 10 years of the gallery of the Bautzener Kunstverein eV.
  • 2004: "East / West Ikaros, A Myth in Divided Germany", Winckelmann Museum Stendal, Art Museum Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, cubus Kunsthalle Duisburg, Kunstverein Wasserburg am Inn.
  • 2009: "OHNE UNS", exhibition on art & alternative culture in Dresden before and after '89, Dresden
  • 2014: "Expressive - constructive - fantastic". East German art from 1945 to 1990 from a private collection. House of Brandenburg-Prussian History, Potsdam.
  • 2014: “SPANISHED SPACE - pictorial figurations and real sculptures”, WESTRAUM - nestor 36, Berlin.

literature

  • Hartmut Bonk: "... always keep an eye on the work of the neighbor ..." enforce the symposium idea. In: Fine arts. Issue 10, 1976, p. 472 (Symposium of the Dresden artists in the sandstone quarry Lohmgrund Pirna-Rottwerndorf 1975)
  • Henry Schumann: Atelier Talks. (Conversations with: Hartmut Bonk, Carlfriedrich Claus, Fritz Eisel, Wieland Förster, Claus-Lutz Gaedicke, Peter Graf, Bernhard Heisig, Friedrich B. Henkel, Werner Hennig, Peter Herrmann, Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt, Harald Metzkes, Rolf Münzner, Ronald Paris, Wolfgang Peuker, Nuria Quevedo, Arno Rink, Werner Tübke, Christoph Wetzel, Walter Womacka). EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1976, pp. 7-17.
  • Gabriele Muschter: The sculptor Hartmut Bonk. In: Fine arts. Henschel-Verl., Berlin 1979, pp. 543-545.
  • Andreas Thielemann (Andreas Walawani): Hartmut Bonk. From: Catalog of scholarship holders of the Senator for Cultural Affairs in 1985, Part II. Berlin (West) 1986.
  • Wolfgang Schuster: biography of a process. Critical review of the Kunst-im-Stadtraum competition fountain for Karl-Marx-Platz in Neukölln. In: Neptune's Empire on the Spree: Berlin fountains from Begas to Bonk. Eds. Elke Messer, Bernd Nicolai, Wolfgang Schuster in collaboration with the Neukölln Art Office. Berlin 1986.
  • The myth of Berlin. On the history of perception of an industrial metropolis. A scenic exhibition on the grounds of the Anhalter Bahnhof. Berlin 1987.
  • Berlin - Odense. Edited by Michael Schulz. Berlin 1988.
  • Thalatta, Thalatta! The beach image in the age of mass tourism. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 1989.
  • Document Germany. SIMERA art center. Maastrich 1990
  • Britta Kaiser-Schuster: “You have to resemble what you fight.” New work by Hartmut Bonk. In: Fine arts. 11/1990, pp. 22-23.
  • Expatriated. Artists from the GDR 1949–1989. Edited by Werner Schmidt. State Art Collections Dresden, 1990.
  • Waldemar Baraniewski: figures and machines / figury i machiny. Catalog of the exhibition "Hartmut Bonk - rzezby-grafika-obrazy" Muzeum Akademii Sztuk. Warsaw 1990. (Translation: Elzbieta Labinska)
  • Waldemar Baraniewski: figures and machines. In: Catalog for the exhibition Hartmut Bonk, "CHIMÄRA", plastic painting drawing. [Cottbus - Halle - Berlin - Dresden], 1994.
  • Joscijka Abels: On the Hartmut Bonk exhibition “CHIMÄRA”. In: fama. 4/1994, pp. 32–33. (Exhibition from September 21 to November 13, 1994 in the Dresden Castle)
  • Hartmut Bonk: Chimera. Sculpture, painting, drawing. Exhibition catalog 1994. Ed. Hartmut Bonk u. Joscijka Abels.
  • Joscijka Abels: DISPUT. Berlin, 1996. On the Hartmut Bonk exhibition “DISPUT”. St. Marien in Prenzlau, May 26, 1996 to July 7, 1996.
  • Joscijka Abels: THE FALLEN ANGEL - OR THE FORGOTTEN MESSAGE.  In: Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (ed.): Program book for Ingomar Grünauer, Winterreise. Opera in 11 scenes. (German premiere March 15, 1997). Wiesbaden 1997.
  • Peter Arlt: Myth and Figure in Contemporary German Art. In: MYTH AND FIGURE. But I find the ancient world too alive. Exhibition in the Gotha Castle Museum, Friedenstein Castle, Gotha 2001.
  • Gabriele Muschter: The heavenly seal. About the sculptor Hartmut Bonk. In: Artists in Dresden in the 20th century. Literary portraits. Edited by Wulf Kirsten, Hans-Peter Lühr. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2005, pp. 181–185.
  • Andreas Thielemann: Crescendo before departure. The polyester groups by Hartmut Bonk, 2009. In: Without us! Edited by Frank Eckhardt, Paul Kaiser. With contributions by Susanne Altmann. Dresden, pp. 294-307.
  • Werner Karsch, Christoph Münchow (ed.): Art changed. Art actions in the Dresden Reconciliation Church 1979 to 1988. Dresden 2015.
  • Joscijka Abels: THE HEAD OF ORPHEUS - or the myth-teller Hartmut Bonk. For the exhibition "GESTURES AND STATUARIES". Berlin 2016.

Web links

Commons : Hartmut Bonk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventor of post-pop: Hartmut Bonk died. In: Dresdner Latest News , September 12, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  2. ↑ http://sammlung-online.berlinischegalerie.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=140602&viewType=detailView
personal data
SURNAME Bonk, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulsnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2019