Herman de Vries

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Herman de Vries

Herman de Vries (born July 11, 1931 in Alkmaar ) is a Dutch visual artist living in Lower Franconia .

Life

Herman de Vries attended the Reichsgartenbauschule in Hoorn from 1949 to 1951 and then worked as a farm worker and gardener in France and the Netherlands. From 1961 to 1968 he worked at the Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature. He has lived in Knetzgau (Eschenau) since 1970 .

De Vries began working as an artist in 1953, and he had his first solo exhibition in 1954. In the mid-1950s he painted informal pictures, the first white collages were created in 1956, and the first white picture in 1959. Like Jan Schoonhoven , who in 1959 formed the Dutch informal group with Armando , Henk Peeters, Kees van Bohemen and Jan Henderikse , which became the nul group in 1960 , he was close to ZERO . De Vries' works were shown at the 1962 exhibition nul, curated by Peeters, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . In the same year the first aleatoric works were created .

In 1961 de Vries published the first number of nul = 0 with Armando and Henk Peeters , the second number (April 1963) with Peeters, the numbers 3, 1963 and 4, 1964 alone. From 1965 to 1972 de Vries edited the revue intégration . From 1991 six issues of a new integration - magazine for mind-moving plants and culture , published with Wolfgang Bauer .

The pamphlets manifest van de gecastreerde werkelijheid and wit is overdaad (white is overpowering) appeared in 1960, a first artist's book wit 1962. De Vries wrote several books about his chance art , essays about language and Ludwig Wittgenstein , about old plant names and ecology.

De Vries has performed a variety of activities in public spaces since 1961, including in Arnheim, Düsseldorf, Biel, Hagen, Marl, Bamberg, Amsterdam, Rosenheim, Nuremberg, Munich, New York, Enschede, Kaiserslautern, Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Stuttgart ( Sanctuarium , 1993), Erfurt as well as at the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster .

There were important exhibitions of his works in Würzburg (2005), Vienna (2005), Amsterdam (2004), Bremen (2003), Stuttgart (2003), Karlsruhe (2003), Hagen (2002) and Düsseldorf (2002). His work has been shown in the Skulptur.Projekt, Münster and at the Venice and Lyon biennials. In 1984 he was represented at Von hier aus - Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf .

In 2015, de Vries designed the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Under the title to be all ways to be he showed new sculptures, objects, works on paper and photographs. In 2016 the Ernst-Barlach-Haus in Hamburg exhibited works by the artist under the title sculptures trouvées .

position

De Vries created paintings , collages , text images, sculptures , artist books , installations and art in public spaces. Furthermore, de Vries wrote many articles on art theory .

Today nature and especially the world of plants play a central role in his work , both in botany and in medicine, folk medicine and mythology . His extensive artistic exploration of the plant world also includes experiences with the psychedelic effects of plants. He works with dried plants, minerals and objets trouvés of various kinds from nature.

Quote

“Nature is enough for itself and should also be enough for people. What we can still find around us from nature (I consciously do not say 'have') does not need any human additions. she is herself - and a revelation for us ... "

Literature (selection)

  • natural relations, a sketch. Catalog of the collection with annotations. Edited by the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 1989. ISBN 3-122531-72-5
  • ambulo ergo sum . Artist edition in the series "mimas atlas # 10", Hybriden-Verlag 2010.
  • herman de vries - it's there . Exhibition catalog Mies van der Rohe Haus , form + Zweck Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-935053-35-8 .
  • herman de vries - text fields . With an essay by Stephan Geiger . Exhibition catalog Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2019, ISBN 978-3-946060-07-9
  • herman de vries - how green is the grass? Exhibition catalog Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin 2020.

Exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Press release Dutch Pavilion Biennale 2015. (PDF) Retrieved on August 10, 2016 .
  2. ^ Karsten Müller: Ernst Barlach House Hamburg · Museum. In: ernst-barlach-haus.de. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .