Hartmut Wiesner

Wiesner with one of his cross nails

Hartmut Wiesner (* 1944 in Sanderbusch , Friesland) is a German painter , sculptor and university lecturer (retired). He lives in Wilhelmshaven .

Life

After graduating from high school in Wilhelmshaven, Hartmut Wiesner studied art history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg from 1965/1966 and from 1966 to 1970 art and art education at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , where he was a student of Paul Wunderlich , Allen Jones and David Hockney .

After working in school (1970–1977), he had been a professor for art and didactics at the University of Oldenburg since 1978 . In 1984 he received his doctorate. phil. with work on Johann Georg Siehl-Freystett . 2003–2004 he was a visiting professor at the University of Kalmar (Sweden). In 2008 he retired from teaching at the university, but continues to work on paintings and sculptures.

In 2010 he realized two church windows for the Heppenser Church based on designs by Tina Asche .

The works Portrait Fritz Höger (2011), Hol über (2012) and Himmelsstürmer (2015) were created in connection with residential construction projects in Wilhelmshaven .

The PAKT app, published in 2012 with an introductory essay by Gert Selle, contains numerous images as well as biographical data in tabular form.

He set up installations with three oversized cross nails in 2015 in the Christ and Garrison Church (Wilhelmshaven) and the Delmenhorster City Church and in 2016 in St. Marien (Schillig) and the Lambertikirche (Oldenburg) .

Works

Sculptures

Little Water Spirit (1987)
Nautilus (1987, together with Hans-Georg Wölbern)
Ship on a Wave (1994)
Bride of the Wind (1994)
Rieger relief (2008)
Portrait Fritz Höger (2011)
Get Over (2012)
Dancers (2017)
Sisyphus (2019)

painting

Already dead
(2015, 80 × 100 cm)
Mr. Hobbie
(2015, 60 × 70 cm)
Bugatti's Panther in Halle
(2016, 60 × 60 cm)
With bow and arrow
(2018, 119 × 170 cm)
At night in Mopti
(2019, 180 × 220 cm)
Encounter in the Arctic
(2019, 180 × 220 cm)

Books and other media

Hartmut Wiesner, Susanne Wiesner: Laboratorium Kunst 2000 . Ed .: State Association of Art Schools in Lower Saxony. Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2000, ISBN 3-930510-74-X
PAKT (app for iOS in the style of a catalog with 167 pages, 2012)
Litmus. Gropius, Höger and Razorcopter in Alfeld Catalog for the exhibition in Alfeld, 2015
Association of friends of art for Wilhelmshaven eV (Hrsg.): Wild grow. Hartmut Wiesner Pictures and Sculptures 2012–2019 . Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2019, ISBN 978-3-941929-77-7 . With contributions by Sven Hartog, Lars U. Scholl and Petra Stegmann.

Exhibitions with catalogs

1973: Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
1986: obrazy i objekty, Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (Warsaw)
1993: Pictures and sculptures, Delmenhorst
1994: Drawings 1987–1993, Galerie Schlieper, Neustadtgödens
1994: Review of 25 years of painting 1969–94, Wilhelmshaven
1996: Work from 1995, Parliamentary Society , Bonn
2001: “Nightingale”, painting and photo work, museums of the city of Delmenhorst
2002: Painting, film and photo work, Foundation Burg Kniphausen
2012: Pact , painting, drawing, sculpture and film work, Foundation Burg Kniphausen
2015: litmus. Gropius, Höger and Razorcopter in Alfeld , Fagus-Werk and Stadtmuseum Alfeld
2016: what is man? 13 pictures in the Lambertikirche (Oldenburg)
2019: Grow wild. Pictures 2012–2019 , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

literature

Gert Selle : Handwritten gestures, object-related metaphors and ironic quotations. About Hartmut Wiesner's painterly and sculptural works. In: PAKT, Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2012, ISBN 978-3-941929-55-5 , pp. 5-9.
Club to Wilhelmshaven (ed.): Wilhelmshavens cultural landscape. Volume 1: Sculptures and sculptures in public space. Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2015, ISBN 978-3-941929-11-1 , pp. 58, 78, 90-93, 98, 108, 124.
Ralph Hennings (Ed.): What is man? Pictures by Hartmut Wiesner in the St. Lamberti Church Oldenburg July 24 to August 20, 2016. Brune-Mettcker, Wilhelmshaven 2016, ISBN 978-3-941929-70-8 .