Henning Mittendorf

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Henning Mittendorf (born March 3, 1938 in Holzminden ) is a German artist.

life and work

After graduating from high school, Henning Mittendorf studied law and economics . With distance learning, evening courses, university visits and study visits, he created the basis for a communicative art from 1956. Since 1980 Mail Art has been the artistic focus of Mittendorf's socially critical work. The artist uses heterogeneous techniques (such as collage , airbrush , etching , copier , laser and stamp printing ) and media (such as pencil, computer, brush and stamp) to create his messages in words and images. In connection with various exhibitions, he has conducted workshops on cutting and the artistic use of stamps. Essays and poems have been published in anthologies , magazines and art catalogs. Mittendorf's work is collected publicly and privately. Henning Mittendorf donated the completed part of his archive to the Museum for Communication Frankfurt in 2004 .

Henning Mittendorf lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Solo exhibition (selection)

  • Galerie Kreuzweg Neun, Braunschweig (1979).
  • Atelier Artistique International, Séguret (1982).
  • Sung Kyun Kwan University Seoul Gallery (1987).
  • Stanza della Bohème, Milan (1988).
  • Stamp Art Gallery, San Francisco (1993/94).

Group exhibition (selection)

  • Myths and Realities. Man, the State and Society in Question , Palais de l'Europe , Strasbourg (1984).
  • Biennal Internacional de Poesia Visual y Esperimental en Mexico , Mexico City a . a. (1985, 1990, 1992, 1996).
  • Timbres d'Artistes et images de Timbres , Musée de la Poste Paris (1993).
  • Premio Nazionale di Pittura e Premio Internazionale di Grafica del Pomero, Rho (1994-1998, 2000-2006).
  • International Mail Art Show , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , Havana (1995).
  • Eastern Europe Mail Art in the international network , State Museum Schwerin (1996).
  • 1st Congress of the International Writers and Artists Association , Instituto Brasileiro de Medicina e Reabilitaçao, Rio de Janeiro (1998).
  • New York Correspondance School 1962-2002. 40 Years of Mail Art , Sala Cassero, Castel S. Pietro Terme, Italy (2002).
  • Civilizations , L'académie des beaux-arts Liège .
  • Mailartissimo 2004 , The AS Popov Central Museum of Communications, St. Petersburg (2004).

Organization of mail art exhibitions (selection)

  • If Still Alive Express It To Me! , Gallery Im Bunker, Frankfurt am Main (1985).
  • Where Do You Find Encouragement? Express It To Me! , Eeklo (1987).
  • Where Leads The Voyage? Express It To Me! , Murr , Frankfurt am Main and Ragny, France (1988, 1989, 1990).
  • Who Eats Whom And Why? Express It To Me! , Neu-Isenburg and Murr (1993, 1995).
  • Aging / Growing Old - Age (n) s pictures in the past and present , Frankfurt am Main (1998).

Award (selection)

  • 1972: 1st Prize Exposition Artistique Internationale Kunstentoonstelling , Brussels .
  • 1978: 3rd prize in the world of work , graphics competition, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1988: First International Exhibition of Rainbow Stamp Art , San Francisco .
  • 1994: 1st Prize International Writers Association , Bluffton .
  • 2002: Award of the Jury Children for Peace , Wroclaw Military Museum (Muzeum Militariów), Arsenal, Wrocław .
  • 2010: Special Prize International Spanyolnátha Mail-Art Biennale , Hernadhak (Hungary).
  • 2012: 3rd Prize Art Postal Conceptuel - Concours d'Art Postal, Amicale Philatélique , Nanterre .

literature

  • Vittore Baroni: Arte Postale. Guida al network della corrispondenza creativa (1997).
  • Theo Breuer : Art, Communication and Correspondence. Mail kind or what. In: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 , Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2005, pp. 273–288.
  • Martina Corgnati, Francesco Poli: Dizionario dell'arte del Novecento. Movimenti, artisti, opere, tecniche e loughi (2001)
  • John Held Jr .: L'Arte del Timbro / Rubber Stamp Art. A Century of Rubber Stamp Art. Birth and Implication of a New Medium (1999).
  • Günther Ruch: Mail Art Congress 86 (1987).
  • Renaud Siegman: Mail Art, Art postal - Art poster , Éditions Alternatives (2002).

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personal data
SURNAME Mittendorf, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzminden