Henning John from Freyend

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Henning John von Freyend (born August 13, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German artist .

life and work

After graduating from high school at Birklehof in Hinterzarten , Henning John von Freyend studied methodology of form and image design from 1963 to 1968 at the general trade school in Basel (class of Armin Hofmann). After a first trip to the USA in 1966, he first worked as a commercial artist in New York City in 1968 . In 1969 he founded the artist group EXIT in Cologne , together with Berndt Höppner and Thomas Hornemann . After experiments with screen printing , he turned to oil painting , which is still the focus of his artistic work today.

From 1969 to 1975 Henning John von Freyend was in close contact with the writer Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , whose radical subjectivism was of central importance for the artistic development of John von Freyend. He portrayed the writer friend several times during his lifetime as if posthumously in oil. An extensive correspondence between Brinkmann and John von Freyend still awaits publication. In portraiture, the artist has repeatedly dealt with other personalities of contemporary history, such as John F. Kennedy , Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Michael Klett or Dieter Wellershoff .

Since 1977 John von Freyend has exhibited his artistic work in solo and group exhibitions in Cologne, Marbach , Munich and other places. From 1977 to 1979 he stayed in Rio de Janeiro . After Cologne (1970–1983) and Erftstadt (1983–2000), the painter has been running his studio since 2000 on a former farm in Vettweiß- Sievernich.

John von Freyend's pictures are in numerous private and public collections, including a. the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, the central and state library in Berlin, the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf, the University of Music in Cologne or the bishop's residence in Würzburg. Reinhold Neven DuMont acquired one of his first oil paintings for the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house as early as 1970 .

Henning John von Freyend lives with the writer Linda Pfeiffer in Sievernich .

Exhibitions (selection)

Radio broadcast

A short story by Henning John von Freyend and the shirt by Rolf Dieter . A feature by Jan Valk. Editor: Adrian Winkler. First broadcast on January 22, 2011 (6:05 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.). Production WDR 2011.

Others

Henning John von Freyend is represented with three of his works in the book by Dieter Wellershoff: What the pictures tell. A tour through my imaginary museum . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Bergmann's multi-part film project Brinkmanns Zorn also dealt with this friendship. The booklet for the DVD edition says: "The second DVD is dedicated to the workbooks and collages that were created between 1971-73. Brinkmann and his friend Henning John von Freyend, a painter, went to an old mill withdrawn to find out with him what they actually want, in their life, in their art. Bergmann lets Brinkmann's texts that were created run across the screen, over the landscapes, over the walks of the two men. " ( Website for the film project )
  2. ↑ See the article by Jörg Schröder "Letters to a painter" on his blog.
  3. ↑ As part of the exhibition dedicated to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Extraordinary and Obscene , the artist a. a. his famous painting The Shirt by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1970, acrylic on canvas). See also here in a one-hour video tour of the exhibition.
  4. ↑ As part of a studio exhibition with pictures from the 1970s, which were created during the time of friendship and collaboration with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, the writer Theo Breuer read Brinkmann's poems on July 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ The "Open Studio Day" takes place every year as part of the culture days of the municipality of Vettweiß (see here the report on the 2013 culture days ).
  6. ↑ Notes on the exhibition
  7. ↑ Review by Roberto Di Bella (with picture of the artist)
  8. ↑ Information from the publisher

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personal data
SURNAME Freyend, Henning John from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg