Heinz Otterson
Heinz Otterson (born November 14, 1928 in Berlin ; † June 5, 1979 there ) was a German painter , draftsman , sculptor and filmmaker .
Life
Heinz Otterson grew up with his grandparents in Silesia. In 1946 he studied at the Dresden Academy , went to Berlin in 1952 and studied with Friedrich Stabenau from 1953 to 1959 at the State University of Fine Arts (HfbK), now University of the Arts (UdK), in Berlin.
At the beginning of 1963, he and his first wife took over Günter Wirth's studio on Krumme Strasse in Charlottenburg. After separating from his wife, he found a place to stay in a forge in the back yard of Haubachstrasse, which he used as a studio. Günter Wirth moved into a 5-1 / 2-room apartment in Wundtstraße on Kaiserdamm at the end of 1963 and set it up as a gallery. The first representation was given to Heinz Otterson. The courier wrote: “A bourgeois citizen invites wild-bearded journeymen into his cleaned room to bring pictures to the man in an orderly fashion.” The “cleaned room” was the Dagmar Wirth gallery, which later became the Wirth Berlin gallery.
This was followed by exhibitions in the Ladengalerie (their first exhibition) and in the Forum Theater in 1962, in 1964 in the Gerda Bassenge Gallery , then from 1965 to 1973 various exhibitions in Tübingen, Stuttgart, Gießen and Berlin. In 1973 an extensive catalog by Heinz Otterson was published in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein .
Death and grave
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In December 1978 Heinz Otterson suffered a severe heart attack from which he did not fully recover. He died on June 5, 1979, at the age of 50, of heart failure in a Berlin hospital, where he had been admitted with pneumonia . The burial took place on June 12, 1979 in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district.
By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the last resting place of Heinz Otterson (grave location: 15-162) has been dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since 2001 . The dedication is valid for the usual period of twenty years, but can then be extended.
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Otterson became known to the wider public mainly as a sculptor, through metal constructions which he made from scrap with a welding machine and which earned him the title “Schrotterson” in the Berlin public. The fantastic looking sculptures either remained untreated, were chrome-plated or hot-dip galvanized. His drawings, of which he often made hundreds of one and the same object in daily practice, had, according to the characterization of his friend and gallery owner Ben Wagin, their starting point in a “black and white created space” into which colored passages were carefully “woven” in order to create The result is not perspectives and spatial illusion, but rather an image density created by multiple overlapping designs.
As a poet, he created emphatically naive, but rich in punchlines, sentences and also puns, "simplicity poems" that circulated orally in the circle of friends, but also entered his graphic work in calligraphic writing with graphic design of the background. As publisher and editor, he participated in the late 1960s with two of his own issues (No. 4–5, 1964–1965 / 66) in the magazine for criticism, literature and founded by Peter Neitzke , Rudolf Karl Schmidt and Wilhelm Kaltenborn Art Das Heft and organized its own film experiments with public screenings.
Exhibitions
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Exhibition catalogs (selection)
- Forum Theater Berlin: Heinz Otterson . March 1963, no.15.
- Eberhard Roters: Supplement to the Heinz Otterson exhibition at Galerie Bassenge . September 1964
- Charly Leskie: Heinz Otterson . Graphic sheets. Exhibition of the gallery in the Schinkelsaal, Benninkmeyerhaus, Berlin, 2. – 25. February 1968. Reinickendorf Art Office, Berlin 1968
- Ralph Wünsche (Ed.): Exhibition of the New Berlin Art Association from 9. – 30. March 1974
Radio and TV portraits
- 1965 SFB film: Heinz Otterson, a sculptor
- 1967 Hessischer Rundfunk: Portrait of Heinz Otterson
- 1967 ZDF turntable: portrait of Heinz Otterson
literature
- Ben Wagin : Heinz Ottersen ("Westermann" Galerie Graphik der Gegenwart, 16). In: Westermanns Monatshefte , vol. 1973, 3, p. 15 ff.
- Personal details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1969 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Otterson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinz Otterson's website
- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Accessed August 7, 2012
- Heinz Otterson on artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Schrottersohn: The man who made art out of scrap metal . In: BZ . June 1979. Retrieved on November 14, 2019. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin Burial Sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 492.
- ↑ Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection: Honorary Graves of the State of Berlin (Status: November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 64. Accessed on November 14, 2019. Submission - for information - about the recognition and further preservation of graves Well-known and deserving personalities as honorary graves in Berlin (PDF, 158 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 14/1607 of November 1, 2001, pp. 1–2. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
- ^ Schrottersohn: The man who made art out of scrap metal . In: BZ , 1979
- ↑ Quoted from Heinz Otterson's website
- ^ Ben Wagin: Heinz Ottersen ("Westermann" Galerie Graphik der Gegenwart, 16). In: Westermanns Monatshefte , vol. 1973, 3, p. 15 ff.
- ↑ Examples on the Heinz Otterson website in the text section , rendering of the poem “The Mummy” by Ben Wagin.
- ^ Bernhard Fischer, Thomas Dietzel: German literary journals, 1945-1970: a repertory , volume 2. KG Saur, Munich / New York a. a. 1992, p. 339, No. 461
- ↑ Personal details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1969 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Otterson, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman, sculptor and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 1979 |
| Place of death | Berlin |