Holger Hattesen

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Holger Hattesen
Funeral for Three (1963)
Tidlig form II (Early Form II) (1966).
First homage: Marcus Jordanus (1967)
Oeversee (1982)
Augpiladoq, Greenland (1990)
Itilleq, Greenland (1990)

Holger Hattesen (born July 3, 1937 in Flensburg ; † October 3, 1993 ibid) was a German-Danish artist.

Life

Holger Hattesen was the third child of Margaretha (Edda) and Peter Hattesen. The father ran a photo catalog and art shop with fine arts, ethnographics, antiques and handicrafts in Flensburg and maintained contacts with contemporary artists, including Max Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz . During the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, the Social Democrat joined the German resistance movement. Among other things, Peter Hattesen hid in his private apartment in Flensburg, in a shop and in a rented apartment, persecuting German communists and artists and helping some across the border into Denmark. These and other artist friends of the father's - including Max Schwimmer and Bernard Schultze as well as the North German expressionists Heinrich Steinhagen and Rudolf Behrend - encouraged the young Holger Hattesen to use and develop his talent for drawing and painting. After the war ended, the family, who came from Denmark on their father's side, joined the Danish minority .

After completing school, Holger Hattesen completed a long internship in the ceramics workshop of the Schneider-Döring family in Bad Oldesloe and then began commercial training in Flensburg and finally an apprenticeship in the father's "Kunsthandlung Hattesen". When the Federal Republic reintroduced compulsory military service, he was recognized as the first conscientious objector in Schleswig-Holstein in 1957. During a long study visit to the Askov Højskole adult education center in Denmark, Hattesen met his future wife Anni Bøgh and got in touch with the author Tage Skou-Hansen, the ceramist Erik Nyholm and the painter Asger Jorn . After returning to Flensburg, he created stage sets for the theater and made contacts in the Schleswig-Holstein art scene. In 1959 he joined the art shop as an employee. In the 1960s he also worked as an art critic and, together with the art historian Klaus Hoffmann, published the avant-garde art magazine "pe ..." (privatissime), which also contained original graphics by contemporary artists, including representatives of Art Informel such as Piero , on modern literature and poetry Manzoni and Bernard Schulze.

Parallel to his own artistic activity, Holger Hattesen increasingly worked in his father's art dealership, which he finally took over in 1971 and developed it as an art and antiques dealer with a supraregional reputation. At the same time, he took part in political and cultural debates within the Danish minority and in the German-Danish border region with an extremely sharp pen with texts and caricatures. From 1982 he made several trips to Greenland.

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Holger Hattesen started painting at the age of 12 to 13 and showed his semi-abstract paintings for the first time in 1955 at a joint exhibition in Aalborg, Denmark, in which the North German artists Friedrich Karl Gotsch and Herbert Marxen also took part. In the following years he had solo exhibitions in galleries in Denmark.

In the first two decades, Holger Hattesen's work was characterized by an abstract language of forms. His pictures testified to existential experiences with those persecuted by the Nazi dictatorship and the air raids on Hamburg that he had experienced while accompanying his father on business trips. A number of titles of the paintings from this period also testify to an intensive examination of the work of the author and playwright Arno Schmidt .

After taking over responsibility for the father's art dealership, his visual language developed further and resulted in sober realism. Inspired by topographical graphics, which, in line with the interests of the time, increasingly came into the trade and within which Holger Hattesen had developed a great deal of expertise, the paintings now documented Flensburg, the Schleswig landscape, areas in northern Jutland and later the streets of Copenhagen and the harsh and monumental nature of Greenland. Holger Hattesen himself described the pictures as "naturalistic" and placed them in the tradition of the prospectus and landscape painters of earlier times. These paintings made no attempt to idealize the subject. Hattesen included the drinks can in the ditch, the discarded car tires in front of the church or the rusty oil barrels on the coast of Greenland in the composition and thus created his very own, topographically correct and unadorned picture of the world in which he lived. He emphasized that it was not about a raised index finger or social criticism. His ambition was, as a chronicler, to paint a correct picture in a style that could clearly be attributed to the decade in which it was created - just as the painters of the golden age in Denmark had done a century and a half earlier. (Drees, 1994)

Although painting remained Holger Hattesen's preferred medium throughout his life, his work also includes techniques such as woodcuts, etchings, drawings, ceramics, satirical dolls in paper mache, collages, poster art, book illustrations and caricatures.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions : 1967, Aarhus (DK), Galerie 14. 1968, Viborg (DK), Galleri Paradis. 1969, Aarhus (DK), Galerie 14. 1984, Bjerringbro (DK), Nørgaards Højskole. 1985, Flensburg, Dansk Centralbibliotek. 1985, Frederiksværk Kunstforening (DK). 1986, Viborg Kunstforening (DK). 1986, Sønderborg (DK), Kunstforeningen ved Sønderborg Sygehus. 1988, Hattstedt, Mikkelberg center for nordisk art. 1994, Husum, North Frisian Museum. 2003, Flensburg, Hattesen art dealer. 2003, Kiel, State House. 2005, Flensburg, Sydslesvigs danske Kunstforening. 2005, Silkeborg (DK), Kulturspinderiet. 2006, Horsens Bibliotek (DK). 2007, Nørre Vejen (DK), Galleri Bjarke. 2017, Flensburg, Messerschmidt art dealer. 2019, Flensburg, Messerschmidt art dealer (with Rudolf Behrend). 2019, Hattstedt, Mikkelberg Center for Nordisk Kunst. 2019, Flensburg, exhibition Peter and Holger Hattesen - photographs, pictures, objects.

Group exhibitions 1955, Aalborg (DK). 1966, Aabenraa (DK), borderland exhibition. 1969, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle. 1970, Hanover, Art Association Hanover. 1970, Aabenraa (DK), borderland exhibition. 1973, Aabenraa / Århus / Aalborg (DK), "Å-udstillingen". 1978, Aabenraa (DK), borderland exhibition. 1981, Odense Centralbibliotek (DK), "helvede - tema 81". 1986, Flensburg, Städtisches Museum, "Stadt-Land-Kunst". 1987, Schleswig, district building, "City-Country-Art". 1987, Fredericia kunstforening (DK). 1988, Viborg kunstforening (DK). 1988, Lyngby kunstforening (DK). 1988, Husum, Goeritz art dealer. 1988, Harrislee, Årsmødeudstilling. 1989, Itzehoe, Kunsthaus. 1989, Thisted, Grænseforeningen (DK). 1992–1993, Hattstedt, Mikkelberg center for nordisk art. 1993, Flensburg, Dansk Centralbibliotek.

Collections

Works by Holger Hattesen are represented in the

literature

  • Lars Erik Bethge: Backbone - Peter and Holger Hattesen - Two illustrated biographies of the 20th century. Flensburg, 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-064007-0
  • Lars Erik Bethge: Holger Hattesen - Kunstner og provokatør . In: Flensborg Avis , May 9, 2015, p. 21.
  • Lars Erik Bethge: Peter Hattesen - Kunstven og anti-Nazi . In: Flensborg Avis , May 8, 2015, p. 19.
  • Lars Erik Bethge: Holger Hattesen - A master of cultural landscapes . In: Kunsthandlung Messerschmidt (ed.): Holger Hattesen - painter of the inconspicuous . Flensburg 2017.
  • Peter Goeritz, Jan Drees: Holger Hattesen - works from four decades. North Frisian Museum, Husum 1994, OCLC 473375428 .
  • Anni Bøgh Hattesen, Thomas Messerschmidt: The painter Rudolf Behrend and the art dealer Hattesen . In: Sabine Behrens, Henning Repetzky: Rudolf Behrend 1895–1979 - quiet way to new things . Heikendorf Art Museum / Heinrich Blunck Foundation, Heikendorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049577-9
  • Holger Hattesen: Landskaber Landscapes. Deuns Kunstkreds, Padborg 1984, ISBN 3-88901-006-7
  • Viggo Petersen: Sydslesvigske skæbner. Sydslesvig Forlag, Sønderborg 1948, DNB 578157373 .
  • Friedhelm Rathjen: reference to Holger Hattesen . With information from Anni Bøgh Hattesen. In: Bargfelder Bote , material on Arno Schmidt's work. Munich 2017, edition text + kritik by Richard Bohrberg Verlag. ISSN  0342-8036 / ISBN 978-3-921402-50-4
  • Hattesen family, archive no. P. 337, Historical Research Department and Archive at the Dansk Central Bibliotek , Flensburg

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personal data
SURNAME Hattesen, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1993
Place of death Flensburg