Hermann Bartels (painter)

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Hermann Bartels (* 1928 in Riesenburg , West Prussia; † 1989 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter and object artist .

life and work

Hermann Bartels was born in Riesenburg in 1928. In 1948 he began a four-year training course in portrait , landscape and art history in the Bernecker studio in Lüneburg . Finally he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1952 , where he got in touch with the Quadriga artist group ( Karl Otto Götz , Bernard Schultze and others) through the Franck Gallery . In 1957 he went to Lausanne for a year and had his first solo exhibition there.

He was one of the protagonists of tachistic and new monochrome painting in Germany. Later he found completely new pictorial solutions, which consisted in assembling picture objects from several elements. Dealing with the image and thus one of the basic questions of Concrete Art remained Bartels' basic artistic principle throughout his life.

The Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design took over the artist's estate in spring 2010.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Galerie l'entracte, Lausanne, 1957, 1960, 1965
  • Galerie R. Boukes, Wiesbaden, 1958, 1960
  • Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt, 1959
  • Dato Gallery, Frankfurt, 1961
  • Gallery Punt 31, Dordrecht (gouaches), 1961
  • Parnassian Yearling Gallery , Wuppertal, 1961
  • Pianohaus Kohl, Gelsenkirchen, 1965
  • Intergallery, Brussels, 1968
  • Teufel Gallery, Koblenz, 1968, 1970
  • Galerie Lichter, Frankfurt, 1971
  • Halfmannshof , Gelsenkirchen (retrospective), 1972
  • Galerie Wendtorf & Swetec, Düsseldorf, 1972
  • Gallery 44, Kaarst, 1978
  • Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin, 1980
  • St. Johann Gallery, Saarbrücken, 1980
  • Teufel Gallery, Cologne, 1982
  • Hermann Bartels - Painting between Surface and Space, Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt, 2010

Works in public collections

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artcontent.de: Galerie Parnass - from 1949 - 1965: File: MS Bartels, signature: A005_VIII_014 ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 2, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artcontent.de

literature

  • Hermann Bartels - overview of works from 1960-1980. Ed .: Galerie Teufel, Cologne, 1982
  • Hermann Bartels . Ed .: Gallery of the City of Kornwestheim, 1993
  • The Idea Concrete - Concrete Art as a development in the history of ideas . Ed .: Tobias Hoffmann. Wien Verlag, Cologne 2012
  • Hermann Bartels - painting between surface and space . Ed .: Ed. Tobias Hoffmann, Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt. Wienand Verlag, 2010

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesenburg , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Dusseldorf