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Heinrich Mutter (1999)

Heinrich Mutter (born January 22, 1924 in Säckingen , † May 19, 1999 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German artist . He worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist and was best known as a draftsman in the region around Freiburg and Bad Säckingen.

Life

Heinrich Mutter, the son of a large sawmill worker in Obersäckingen , passed his apprenticeship examination as a painter in 1941 . His artistically talented oldest brother encouraged him to draw as early as his youth .

After the end of the war and imprisonment, he attended the private art school Ernst Honigberger in Wehr (Baden) from 1947 to 1948 and studied at the Basel School of Applied Arts with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller from 1949 to 1952 . In 1952 he went on his first major study trip with his artist friends Werner Dietz and Frowald Häusler to France, Spain and Morocco. "Picassians" was the name of mother and his painting colleagues, who had their first studios in the Thieves Tower in the Saeckingen Castle Park .

In 1959 Heinrich Mutter moved to Freiburg. Here his artistic focus was on vigorously painted oil and acrylic paintings and colorful watercolors until the early 1970s . In addition, he dealt with the woodcut technique and had devoted himself intensively to lithography in the 1970s and 1980s . He had assembled the lithographic press required for this printing process from individual parts and also acquired the lithography technique himself. In his opening speech for the 2001 exhibition, Eberhard Brügel described the rocky road to the first lithograph with plenty of pictures.

Heinrich Mutter was the driving force and organizer of the artist workshop “Mehlwaage” of the BBK in Freiburg. As deputy chairman from 1975 to 1978 and later for many years as a board member, he participated in the self-administration of the artist workshop. In 1976 Heinrich Mutter left his litho press to the artist workshop. He gave courses in lithography and received a teaching position from Peter Dreher at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe ( Freiburg branch ).

In the mid-1970s, the painter Heinrich Mutter gradually turned away from color and became a draftsman.

In 16 solo exhibitions from 1967 to 1999 and three other exhibitions after his death, his drawings were shown again and again. Outstanding were two large exhibitions in Freiburg, initiated in 1989 in the “Black Monastery” by the Kunstverein and in 1994 by the Freiburg Cultural Office in Marienbad . On the occasion of the exhibition in the “ Black Monastery ”, the Freiburg Art Association published a catalog that gives a comprehensive overview of the creative period as a draftsman from 1969 to 1989.

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The draftsman Heinrich Mutter was also a painter until he was 50. Inspired by the art movements of impressionism and expressionism , he also sought his own style with color in his oil and acrylic paintings and watercolors . The representational representations in the still lifes and landscapes of the 1960s were characterized by Cubist style elements. At the end of the 1960s, the naturalistic forms in the landscape paintings were dissolved in favor of mood.

Oil / acrylic paintings and watercolors from Heinrich Mutter's archive:

  • Still life, oil painting, 1960

  • Ischia, watercolor, 1967

  • Late winter, oil painting, 1970

  • Landscape, watercolor, 1971

  • Landscape, acrylic painting, 1972

In addition to his painting, Heinrich Mutter also carried out many private and public commissions for art in architecture until the early 1980s . From sgraffito to glass mosaic , painted ceramic tiles, concrete sculptures , concrete glass windows , leaded glass windows and sculptural work , Heinrich Mutter tried out and implemented almost all possible techniques for designing architectural works of art.

Architectural works (selection) by Heinrich Mutter:

  • Mosaic wall, 1962, school in St.Märgen

  • Glass window, 1977, consecration hall in Freiburg-Waltershofen

  • Glass window, 1978, consecration hall in Freiburg-Tiengen

  • Relief wall, 1982, main post office in Freiburg i.Br. (with Inge Althauser)

Heinrich Mutter's lithographic work, which was created in parallel and largely in the shadow of his graphic work, was honored in the article by Eva-Maria Schumann-Bacia on the 2001 lithography exhibition. Like his drawings, the lithographs from the 1970s were shaped by the impressions from the gorges on Ischia and the landscape experiences in southern France . In the 1980s the landscapes dissolved, color only appeared as a tint. The last lithographs were only black and white.

Lithographs from Heinrich Mutter's archive:

  • Ischia, 1974

  • Landscape, 1979

  • Berg, 1981

  • Landscape, 1983

  • untitled, 1990

From the mid-1970s, drawing dominated Heinrich Mutter's artistic work. In his drawings in particular, one can understand the artistic development, from the pictures that were originally still oriented towards the landscape to the increasing abstraction and detachment from any representational intent.

Drawings (1967–85) from Heinrich Mutter's archive:

  • Ischia, 1967

  • Landscape, 1976

  • Berg, 1981

  • Landscape, 1984

  • Thunderstorm, 1985

Between 1985 and 1989 he produced large-format drawings with ominously gloomy "thunderclouds". At the beginning of the 1990s, Heinrich Mutter again led the pencil more slowly, more carefully, more delicately and more sensitively. Lines grew up on the paper like blades of grass. Drawings were made again in whose play of lines one can guess the outlines and traces of natural phenomena.

Drawings (1986–99) from Heinrich Mutter's archive:

  • without title, 1986

  • without title, 1989

  • without title, 1991

  • without title, 1996

  • without title, 1998

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1967: Kurhaus Bad Krozingen
  • 1969: Trumpeter Castle in Bad Säckingen
  • 1981: BBK workshop “Mehlwaage” in Freiburg
  • 1986: Kunstverein Kirchzarten
  • 1987: Heart Center Bad Krozingen
  • 1988: Goethe Institute in Staufen
  • 1989: Kunstverein Freiburg eV in the “Black Monastery”
  • 1993: Kunstverein Wolfach
  • 1994: Freiburg Cultural Office in Marienbad
  • 1997: Art Association March-Hugstetten
  • 1998: Südwestfunk Freiburg
  • 1999: Morat Institute for Art and Art History Freiburg
  • 2001: BBK workshop “flour scales” in Freiburg
  • 2002: Kunstverein Kirchzarten
  • 2003: Heart Center Bad Krozingen
  • 2014: Gallery K in Staufen-Grunern

Group exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1955: State Art Hall Baden-Baden, “Young Artists Baden-Württemberg”, Youth Art Prize
  • 1958: Artists' Association of Baden-Württemberg, State Exhibition in Constance
  • 1975: City Gallery Innsbruck “Freiburg Artists”
  • 1976: Trumpeter Castle in Bad Säckingen
  • 1982: Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg, “Alsatian and Baden Artists”
  • 1985: Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden
  • 1987: Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen
  • 2004: Galerie Hunziger in Zurich
  • 2011: Gallery K in Staufen-Grunern

Web links

literature

  • Helge Lüdicke; Heinrich Mutter: Discovering the footsteps . Wolf Mersch Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1983, ISBN 3-922156-08-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eberhard Brügel: Introduction to the lithography exhibition by Heinrich Mutter, January 2001, (pdf, 440kB)
  2. ^ Heinrich Mutter drawings 1969–1989 ; Publisher: Kunstverein Freiburg eV 1989
  3. ↑ Eva-Maria Schumann-Bacia: The draftsman as we didn't know him before ; Badische Zeitung, January 24, 2001; (pdf, 360kB)
personal data
SURNAME Mother, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Säckingen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1999
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau