Hermann Naumann

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Hermann Naumann (born February 14, 1930 in Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul ) is a German graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Students studying , 1956 (detail)

In 1946, Naumann started his apprenticeship as a stonemason with a cemetery sculptor and in the same year received private training as a sculptor with Burkhart Ebe . The first sculpture portrait of my father was made at this time. From 1947 to 1949 he was trained as a sculptor with Herbert Volwahsen , who took him into his studio in Loschwitz . In 1950, at the age of 20, Naumann was accepted into the Association of German Visual Artists as the youngest student . From 1950 Naumann worked as a freelancer in Dresden. As an artist who turned against the state's official cultural policy, he was promoted by Werner Scheffel , among others , who bought Naumann's works for the TH Dresden . Naumann also received the orders for relief designs for the student residence at Fritz-Löffler-Strasse 16 and the student residence at Hoyerswerdaer Strasse from the TH and TU Dresden. Naumann lived and worked in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz from 1950 . It was not until 1994 that he moved to the “Künstlerhaus Hofmannsches Gut” in Dittersbach , where he has lived and worked ever since.

From 1950 to 1977 Naumann was with the sculptor Ursula Naumann, b. Stöhr (* 1921) married. The marriage has four children. In 1991 Naumann married Helga Luzens, who had been the model for many of his drawings and sculptures since 1971.

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Grave of the artist Ernst Hassebrauk in the Loschwitz cemetery. Grave design by Hermann Naumann, 1975

Naumann began as a sculptor with naturalistic representations. Works such as Portrait mein Vater (1946) or Portrait Statuette Angela (1953) were created. Under the influence of Karl Albiker and Richard Scheibe towards Ernst Barlach , he found abstract representations on the basis of geometrical figures during his training at Volwahsen, which he further developed autodidactically in the following years. He works with different materials such as plaster of paris, colored cement, ceramics, sandstone and, since 1969, steel. In addition, he created sandstone reliefs on Dresden buildings by order.

Naumann is one of the few graphic artists who has mastered the renaissance technique of countertop engraving , with which he has been involved since 1950. Many of his works have been used as book illustrations since 1960, including by the Phillip Reclam Jr. publishing house in Leipzig.

Naumann's works are now in the possession of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the New Masters Gallery , the Kupferstichkabinett and the Sculpture Collection in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Sculptures and reliefs

Bay window scenes from the life of Prince Putyatin , 1962

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Heinrich Böll: Stories. 10 woodcuts. Union, Berlin 1961.
  • The journey home of Rabbi Chanina and other tales and stories from Yiddish. Union Verlag Berlin, 1964.
  • Luis de Góngora y Argote: Soledades. Case with 11 signed and numbered lithographs, four-page accompanying text and an embedded book in semi-parchment. Claassen Verlag, Hamburg / Düsseldorf, 1969.
  • Hubert Witt: My Jewish eyes. 13 hallmarks. Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig 1969.
  • Max Dauthendey: Not a single cloud is silent. 28 woodblock prints. Union, Berlin 1970.
  • Knut Hamsun: Pan. 10 etchings. Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig 1979.
  • Franz Kafka: Contemplation. 18 stone drawings. Philipp Reclam Jun., Leipzig 1986.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann: Glossaries on the Old Testament. Lithographs and hand drawings / watercolors, special edition. Publishing house Faber & Faber, Leipzig 1997.
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Humiliated and Offended. 33 illustrations. Publishing house Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2008.

Awards

  • CDU graphics prize (3rd prize for cycles) for the illustrations for Tewjes, the milk merchant (1960)
  • Award "Most Beautiful Books of the GDR" for My Jewish Eyes with 14 punch marks by Hermann Naumann (1969)
  • Award “Most Beautiful Books of the GDR” for Arthur Rimbaud: Poems with 8 punch marks and 10 etchings by Hermann Naumann (1976). Reclam, Leipzig
  • Honorary doctorate from the Accademia Italia delle Arti e del Lavoro (1987)

media

  • Marion Rasche (director): The painter Hermann Naumann. Documentary, Defa-Studio, Dresden 1990.
  • Joachim Richter: Hermann Naumann on the 80th In: Radebeuler Monatshefte e. V. (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . March 2010 (with a photo of the artist).
  • Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz (ed.): Artists on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume 1. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 1999, p. 118.
  • Horst Zimmermann: The sculptor Hermann Naumann. In: Hermann Naumann. Sculpture 2000. Catalog with catalog raisonné. Quandt Association for the Promotion of the Arts, Dittersbach 2000, pp. 7–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simone Simpson: Between cultural mandate and artistic autonomy. Dresden sculpture of the 1950s and 1960s. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2010, p. 32.
  2. ↑ Hermann Naumann
  3. ^ Yiddish poetry from Poland , translated and compiled by Hubert Witt . Reclam, Leipzig.
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötzschenbroda