Hartmut Hornung

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Hartmut Hornung (born October 14, 1952 in Zehdenick ) is a German sculptor , painter and graphic artist .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Hornung served in the National People's Army from 1971 to 1973 . Afterwards, an already promised place to study geology was withdrawn from him, and he was also denied regular studies at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art because, as a soldier on the border with the Federal Republic of Germany, he had refused to accept the shooting order. After his service, Hornung temporarily worked as a transport worker. From 1974 to 1978 he studied art education / German at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Gerenot Richter and the head of the graphic workshop Johannes Prusko were his teachers there. He also took painting courses with Bruno Bernitz at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . 1978–1979 Hornung worked as a drawing teacher in Berlin. Against fierce opposition he gave up this work and started his own business as a painter. With great effort, he and his friend Michael Diller set up a graphic workshop for etchings and lithographs in Berlin. In 1984 he created a second place to live and work in Ludwigshof near Ueckermünde. There he began in 1985 besides painting and graphics with wood carving.

Hornung first became known for his expressive cycle of drypoint etchings on the ship disaster of the " Andrea Doria ", which was shown in 1985 in the exhibition "100 selected graphics from the GDR". In 1991 Hornung gave up his Berlin studio and moved entirely to Ludwigshof. From 1992 to 1998 he had a teaching position in the master class of Alfred Hrdlicka , whose work stimulated and shaped his artistic work at an early stage, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . From 2000 to 2002 he was Professor and Head of the Institute for Elementary Forms in the Department of Architecture at the University of Braunschweig and from 2003 Professor in the Department of Architecture at the West Saxon University in Zwickau.

reception

"Hartmut Hornung's work is characterized by the expressive gesture in the art of the GDR of the eighties, an expression of the end-time mood of that time, an expression of constant irritation due to the annoying inadequacies in both material and, above all, intellectual life ...

What remains from the experiences of his youth are his skepticism, his rigorism, but also his vitality. His sculptural work is also influenced by this. Unlike sculptures made of plaster, they are not conceived from the core, but cut out with a chainsaw, but also refined with a chisel. "

Memberships

Works (selection)

Works in public space (selection)

  • Bendorf, Sayn Castle: Guardian, Oak, 2004
  • Berlin, Magdalenenstrasse underground station: Series “History of the Labor Movement”, 20 murals, on-glaze painting on Meissen tiles (with Wolfgang Frankenstein), 1986
  • Buk (Dobra), Poland: grounds of the National Library of Szczecin: chair object, oak, 1995
  • Neubrandenburg, premises of the State Insurance Institute: Three Boats, Cast Iron, 1995–1996

Artist books

  • Variations on the theme of the chair (with 19 woodcuts, 11 of them two-tone), edited by Edition Februar Presse, 1995
  • Variations on the subject of the head (with 18 woodcuts, including 6 three-color, five two-color and seven single-color), edited by Edition Februar Presse, 1996
  • Edition Gedichte - Grafik (with six drypoint etchings and five poems by Bernd Gottschalk), 1986

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981 Berlin, Galerie Sophienstraße (with Michael Diller)
  • 1982 Berlin, Galerie Junge Kunst
  • 1983/84 Gransee, gallery on Schinkelplatz
  • 1985 Prague, Galeria Fronta (with Michael Diller)
  • 1986 Pirna, Galerie am Elbtor
  • 1989 Leonberg, Rathausgalerie
  • 1993 Odense (Denmark), Kunsthalle Brands clothing factory
  • 1995 Berlin, Studio Fine Arts
  • 1996 Greifswald, Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald
  • 1997 Hamburg, Galerie Rose
  • 1999 Neustadt-Glewe, Burggalerie
  • 2000 Rostock, Art Fuhrmann Gallery
  • 2001 Ahrenshoop, Neues Kunsthaus
  • 2002 Zehdenick, monastery gallery
  • 2003 Zinnowitz, Usedomer Kunsthaus, Villa Meyer
  • 2005 Budapest, Fise Gallery
  • 2008 Teterow, Galerie am Kamp
  • 2010 Neustadt-Glewe, Burggalerie
  • 2011 Wustrow, Barnsdorf Art Barn
  • 2012 Schwerin, Berger Gallery
  • 2013 Ueckermünde, Kulturspeicher
  • 2016, Wernigerode, gallery on the first floor
  • 2016 Ahlbeck, Galerie Kalkschuppen (with Anje Fretwurst-Colberg and Friedrich-Wilhelm Fretwurst )
  • 2018 Berlin, art dealer Dr. Wilfried Karger ("Artistic Attitudes")

Works in museums and public collections

  • Berlin, National Gallery
  • Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
  • Moscow, Pushkin Museum,
  • Szczecin, Pomeranian State Library
  • St. Petersburg, Russian Museum
  • Vienna, Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts

literature

  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 382
  • Hartmut Hornung: sculptures, drawings, painting. Edition February press, Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald, 1997, OCLC 246362854 .
  • Hartmut Hornung: Artistic Attitudes. Edition February Press, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038346-5 .
  • Hornung. Picture letters. Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop / Edition February Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hartmut Hornung: Pictorial attitudes. Art dealer Dr. Wilfried Karger, accessed on August 10, 2020 (biography, at the bottom of the website).
  2. ↑ a b http://www.kunsthandel-karger.com/pdf/Rede_Bildnerische_Attitueden.pdf
  3. ↑ a b c d Public space. Hartmut Hornung, accessed on August 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c publications. Hartmut Hornung, accessed on August 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hornung, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zehdenick