Herbert A. Jung

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Herbert August Jung (born May 5, 1937 in Schwarzheide ) is a German painter, sculptor and photographer.

Life

Herbert A. Jung was born in Schwarzheide in 1937. After training as a chemist in Graz, Munich and at Yale University, New Haven, from which he completed his doctorate, he worked from 1967 to 2002 as a scientist and marketing manager at ExxonMobil in Brussels. During this period, the first creative work was done. Herbert A. Jung has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Heidelberg since 2002, and since 2006 he has also been a member of the advisory board of the Heidelberger Kunstverein .

Artistic creation

After his early experimental work in stone and steel, Herbert A. Jung increasingly placed the two materials in a linear support system that connects them. The resulting group of works by the PebbleSteels pays homage to the art of Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró . On the basis of scientific experimentation and the resulting knowledge about the materiality of the image carrier and color, Herbert A. Jung's development of his abstract, originally monochrome art initially led to the large-format polychrome works and the "abstract portraits" using a wide variety of color carriers. Herbert A. Jung's methodical approach and his artistic will to create manifest themselves in abstract condensation of colors and lines, also in the so-called glass transfer paintings. In search of ever new artistic forms of expression, the "abstract portraits" have emerged from the further development of his photo overpaintings since 2012. Herbert A. Jung then digitally assembles the people he photographed in public space and his abstract images to create new compositions. This artistic alienation process leads to a condensed perceptibility of the depicted, to which u. a. the German writer Martin Walser and the American successful author Louis Begley belong. Herbert A. Jung's artistic oeuvre today comprises around 1300 works. His art is represented in more than 50 German and international collections. In 2015, a selection of his abstract pictures and portraits was shown in the TV series “Hotel Heidelberg” on the first ARD program.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 Heidelberg City Hall - abstract portraits
  • 2013 German-American Institute Heidelberg - Abstract Portraits
  • 2010–2015 Art Hotel Heidelberg
  • 2009 Gallery P13, Heidelberg
  • 2006 Hüthig, Jehle, Rehm (South German) publishing group
  • 2006 Interchem 2000 Rotterdam
  • 2005–2013 Long Night of the Museums, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen
  • 2005 Heidelberg City Hall
  • 2005–2016 Badisches Amtsnotariat Heidelberg
  • 2004 Deutsche Bank, Mannheim
  • 2003 ExxonMobil headquarters in Brussels

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personal data
SURNAME Jung, Herbert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Herbert August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzheide