Helmut Sundhaußen
Helmut Sundhaußen (born September 21, 1935 in Düsseldorf ; † March 25, 2018 in Düsseldorf) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist and representative of Concrete Art . In addition, he occasionally put his artistic focus on photographs .
Life
From 1957 to 1962 Helmut Sundhaußen studied painting at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Bruno Goller , whose master class he became. The Villa Romana Prize enabled him to spend nine months in Florence. 1967–1968 he taught for a year as a guest lecturer at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld . This was followed in 1970 by a scholarship for a one-year stay at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Then, in 1971, Sundhaußen became a lecturer in painting at the Folkwang University and later in the Department of Design and Art Education at the University of Essen . Since 1973 he has held the title of professor .
Sundhaußen experimented with photographic work in the 1980s. Specific works continued to emerge. He was a member of the Siam Society Bangkok and the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia (OAG) in Tokyo, as well as in the West German Artists Association . He worked regularly in Thailand and Japan, as well as in Brazil and the USA. He also traveled to Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Tibet, Italy and Spain. Helmut Sundhaußen has been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
Trivia
A painting by Sundhaußen from the Museum Baden was used for catalog recordings in 2010 by the textile mail order company Walbusch Walter Busch . It acted as a backdrop for the models.
Prices
- 1962: Sponsorship award from the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry
- 1966: Villa Romana Prize
Publicly owned works (selection)
- Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
- Folkwang Museum , Essen
- Municipal gallery Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach
- Municipal Gallery , Lippstadt
- State Museum Münster
- State Museum Darmstadt
- Art museums Krefeld
- Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren
- Märkisches Museum , Witten
- Bochum Art Museum
- Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
- Museum Baden , Solingen
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1972: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
- 1972: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
- 1977: Museum de Arte da Pampulha
- 1982: Heritage Art Center , Manila
Group exhibitions
- 1967 15th exhibition in Karlsruhe Group exhibition with Otmar Alt , Horst Antes , Eduard Bargheer , Michael Croissant , Winfried Gaul , Fritz Köthe , Otto Piene , Sigmar Polke and others. a.
- 1970 Pictures, graphics and objects by Winfried Gaul and Helmut Sundhaußen , Overbeck-Gesellschaft , Lübeck
- 1972 Helmut Sundhaußen - Pictures - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
- 1993 Auf & zu 6 : Ex libris by Günther Uecker , Jürgen Partenheimer , Helmut Sundhaußen, Diana Radaviciute , Saulius Valius and Rimvydas Kepezinskas
- 1999 Dialogue: Ohnari-Sundhaußen - Exhibition as part of the Japan Year 1999/2000, Düsseldorf
See also
- Villa Romana scholarship holder
literature
- Kürschner's Handbook of the Visual Artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Saur-Verlag, Munich 2007
- Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon . De Gruyter, 1999, p. 650 and 959
- Manfred Tripps (Ed.): Art in Düren. New episode, Volume II: Exhibition of Villa Romana Prize winners Winfried Gaul , Horst Lerche and Helmut Sundhaußen . Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ All obituaries for Helmut Sundhaußen | trauer.rp-online.de. Retrieved on May 1, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Solinger Tageblatt , August 24, 2010 accessed January 24, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sundhaußen, Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sundhaussen, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, painter and graphic artist of Concrete Art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2018 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |