Henning von Gierke
Henning von Gierke (born December 22, 1947 in Karlsruhe ) is a German painter .
life and work
He finished school in 1969 with the Abitur, since then he has worked as a freelance painter ( autodidact ), film set designer and stage designer. Henning von Gierke has been present in 50 solo exhibitions and trade fair participations in Europe, the USA and Japan since 1970. Gierke's “staged realism ”, his pictorial language, the subtle coloring and his mythological occidental image content make the painter a representative of realistic painting of the 21st century. Since 1970 he has illustrated theater productions with his work, equipped films and designed furniture. Since 1984 he has also made costumes, stage sets and his own productions for music theater .
Painting is Gierke's most important art. Werner Herzog writes in the foreword of the publication “Goldener Strom”: “As if a whole world were transforming into silence before our eyes ... it flows from everywhere, this silence, gathers around the faces of his characters and includes us in this gathering .. . "
Henning von Gierke worked with Werner Herzog (including the Federal Film Prize in Gold 1975 for Everyone for Himself and God Against All ), Volker Schlöndorff , B. Wilson, J. Takashima, Michael Hampe and Wolfgang Sawallisch . Between 2005 and 2014 he taught at the Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies of the Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna . He is a member of the German Film Academy .
Gierke lives in Munich and Santa Maria / Azorn with the photo artist Isabella Berr and two children.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1973 Berlin, Small World Lantern
- 1974 Berlin, Gallery November | Munich, Galerie Tègü
- 1975 Wuppertal, Brauda Gallery | Berlin, Gallery November | Nuremberg, Voigt Gallery
- 1977 Munich, Galerie Rutzmoser | Cologne, Galerie Orangerie Reinz
- 1977–2000 permanent collaboration with the gallery | Orangery Reinz Cologne; Group exhibitions and participation in trade fairs in Switzerland, Spain, France and the USA
- 1980 Berlin, Gallery November
- 1981 Washington, Radicke Gallery | Minden, Galerie Fischer | Hamburg, Levy Gallery
- 1982 Munich, Rutzmoser Gallery
- 1983 Cologne, Orangerie-Reinz Gallery
- 1985 Düsseldorf, Galerie Vömel
- 1987 Cologne, Orangerie-Reinz Gallery
- 1989 Münster, Galerie Schnake | Bayreuth, Old Castle Gallery | Bayreuth, Schmidt Bank, stage and costume designs Lohengrin
- 1990 Münster, Schnake Gallery
- 1991 Nuremberg, Galerie Voigt
- 1993 Cologne, Orangerie-Reinz Gallery | Tokyo, Nissai Theater
- 1994 Mainz, visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg University
- 1995 Munich, Galerie Charlotte | Munich, Bernd Dürr Gallery
- 1996 Bayreuth, Stadtsparkasse: “Wonnen und Wunden” | Tokyo, Shimaso Gallery
- 1997 Nuremberg, Galerie Voigt: "Sleep"
- 1998 Wuppertal, Galerie Luley | Bayreuth, gallery at the city church | Munich, Galerie Bernd Dürr: "Pictures of Pictures"
- 1999 Bologna, German Cultural Institute, and Galleria l'Ariete: "Music and Painting"
- 2000 Wuppertal, Galerie Luley | Munich, Gallery Bernd Dürr | Nuremberg, Galerie Voigt | Celle, Halbach-Meinecke Gallery
- 2001 Cologne, Gallery Wehr | Münster, gallery signature | Bayreuth, Steingräber Gallery
- 2002 Munich, Bernd Dürr Gallery
- 2003 Nuremberg, Voigt Gallery
- 2004 Celle, Halbach Gallery | Bilbao, Uranga Gallery
- 2005 Zurich, Art Gallery Artefiz | Augsburg, Galerie Hassold | Vienna, teaching position at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Sciences at the University | Bonn, Old Bundestag
- 2006 Bonn, Foyer Posttower | Bayreuth, Richard Wagner Museum: “My dear swan” | Munich, Gallery Winterberg: "Matisse - Gierke"
- 2007 Regensburg, Galerie Bäumler: "Picture Storm" | Augsburg, Galerie Hassold | Munich, Kallmann Museum: “Fascinated by the stage” | Munich, Gallery Winterberg: "In the reflection of the dream"
- 2008 Nuremberg, Galerie Voigt: “Blue Hour” | Mönchengladbach, Art Company
- 2009 Palm Beach, Holden Luntz Gallery: "Truth and Reality" (with Isabella Berr) | Koblenz, Ludwig Museum: "Golden Stream" | Munich, Radowitz Gallery: “Eros Thantos” | Frankfurt, Villa Merton Union International Club: "Picture Spaces"
- 2010 Munich, Gallery Winterberg: “SILENTIUM VITAE. An imaginary archive "
- 2011 Munich, Radowitz Gallery, Fairy Tales and Landscape
- 2012 Munich, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, The Expulsion from Paradise
- 2013 Regensburg, Galerie Bäumler, fairy tales
- 2013 Bayreuth, Neudrossenfeld Castle, From the appearance of things
- 2013 Starnberg, Thoma Gallery, Still with lobster, lust and cream
- 2013 Hannover, Galerie Art Studio FAEL, people, fairy tales and landscape
- 2014 Trentino, Tenno, Memoria - Remembrance, Casartisti, Borgo Medioevale di Canale
- 2014 Wiesbaden, Art Gallery Wiesbaden, People and Interior
- 2014 Stuttgart-Kornwestheim, museum in the Kleihues building, passages
- 2014 Munich, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, New Masters
- 2015 Wiesbaden, Art Gallery Wiesbaden
- 2016 Düsseldorf, Kulturbahnhof Eller, position of the contemporary portrait
- 2016 Munich, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, New Masters
Films and musical theater
- 1975 Film equipment Everyone for himself and God against all (Federal Film Prize in Gold in the Best Equipment category )
- 1976 Film equipment Heart of Glass | Film equipment Stroszek
- 1978 Film equipment Woyzeck | Film equipment Nosferatu ( Silver Bear Berlinale 1979 )
- 1979 film equipment Fitzcarraldo (until 1981)
- 1984 Set and costumes Doctor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni , Teatro Comunale Bologna | Stage and costumes for Lohengrin by Richard Wagner , Bayreuth Festival
- 1988 Costumes for Cosmopolitan Greetings by Rolf Liebermann , Allen Ginsberg , Hamburg State Opera | Production, stage design and costumes for Giovanna d'Arco by Giuseppe Verdi , Teatro Comunale Bologna (with W. Herzog)
- 1990 Production and stage design for Der Fliegende Holländer by R. Wagner, Munich State Opera
- 1992 Set design for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare , Teatro J. Cajetano Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian contribution to "ECO '92"
- 1994 German premiere of Freshwater by Virginia Woolf , Kammerspiele Mainz | Visual conception, set design and costumes for Der Freischütz by CM v. Weber , Tokyo, Nissai Theater, Aichi Arts Center Nagoja and Kobe (with Isao Takashima)
- 1997 Visual conception, set and costumes for Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Arthur Honegger , NHK Hall Tokyo (with Isao Takashima)
- 1998 Stage and costumes for The Magic Flute by WA Mozart , New National Theater Tokyo
- 1999 Visual conception, stage design and costumes for Il prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola and Requiem by Gabriel Fauré , NKH Hall Tokyo (with Isao Takashima)
- 2000–2003 Visual conception, stage design and costumes for Das Rheingold , Die Walküre , Siegfried and Götterdämmerung by R. Wagner, Bunka Kaikan Theater , Tokyo (with Isao Takashima)
- 2002 Stage and costumes for Die Sündflut by Wilfried Maria Danner , Karlsruhe (with Michael Hampe) | Visual conception, set design and costumes for Parsifal by R. Wagner, Tokyo (with Isao Takashima)
- 2010 Visual conception, stage design and costumes for Orphée et Euridice by Ch. W. Gluck , Nissai Theater Tokyo
- 2016 Set design and costumes for "The Flying Dutchman" by R. Wagner (with Michael Hampe), Biwako Hall Otsu / Kyoto, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Yokohama, Iichiko Cultural Canter Oita
- 2017 Set design and costumes for "Rheingold" by R. Wagner (with Michael Hampe), Biwako Hall Otsu / Kyoto
Publications
- Henning von Gierke: The Flying Dutchman, performance documentation , Munich 2016
- Henning von Gierke: Fairy Tales and Landscape , Munich 2012
- Henning von Gierke: Silentium Vitae , Munich 2010
- Henning von Gierke: Goldener Strom , Prestelverlag, Munich / Berlin / London / NY 2009
- Henning von Gierke: "My dear swan" - ways and motifs to Wagner , Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 2006
- Henning von Gierke: Pictures of Pictures , Hiermer, Munich 2000
- Henning von Gierke: The inner sleep , Verlag Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1996, paperback published by DTV 1999
- Henning von Gierke: Ilga , publishing house for modern art, publishing house for modern art, Nuremberg 1990
- Henning von Gierke: Stage design and costumes for Lohengrin , Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 1989
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning von Gierke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website
- Documentation "Golden Storm" by Jürgen Schnier
Individual evidence
- ^ Henning von Gierke: Goldener Strom, Prestelverlag, 2009, p. 226.
- ^ Henning von Gierke: Goldener Strom, Prestelverlag, 2009, p. 226.
- ^ Henning von Gierke: Goldener Strom, Prestelverlag, 2009, p. 7.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gierke, Henning von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |