Holger Herrmann

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Holger Herrmann , artist name: holgerherrmann (born December 30, 1942 in Mainz ; † May 20, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

After studying art history at the University of Mainz , Herrmann attended the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule from 1965 to 1968 . This was followed by four semesters of study at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1971 to 1973 .

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Already at the Städelschule with Johann Georg Geyger , the artist created his first abstract works, which were replaced by realistic motifs with socially critical content in the 1970s. With the painter Peter Engel, he founded a litho workshop to print his own work in small editions. Here, as in the following period, Herrmann worked serially in groups of works. From 1980, large-format paintings followed ( The Walker , 198, Oil Nessel Wood, 2 panels each 155 × 95 cm, total approx. 155 × 190) and painterly and gestural figurations, also using the graphic printing techniques of etching and woodcut . Almost all of his work was destroyed in a studio fire in December 2009. A painterly new beginning followed with a large-format series of silver pen drawings entitled “Exercises”. At his last exhibition in 2014 in the exhibition hall at Schulstrasse 1a, abstract large-format grisaille pictures were shown under the common title Rauschen . "A gestural painting that organizes itself ..."

In 1986 Herrmann founded the Artothek in Frankfurt, which he managed until 1988. Between 2000 and 2010 he held teaching positions in the art department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Mainz University of Art . Holger Herrmann lived and worked in the north end of Frankfurt . In 2013 he was awarded the Ilse Hannes Prize.

Exhibitions

  • 1983: New Art from Frankfurt , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984: Holger Herrmann , Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 1990: parts. Municipal gallery in the canvas house, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995: Holger Herrmann , Goldhalle des Hessischer Rundfunk , Marielies Hess Foundation , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: series II - 11 large-format wood prints , Braubachfive Gallery, Frankfurt am Main; “... no more than this stick”, St. Matthew's Church, Berlin
  • 2014: Works on paper, cotton and canvas 2010 to 2014 , exhibition hall Schulstrasse 1A

Works and writings

  • Dorit Marhenke (Ed.): Holger Herrmann Kunsthalle Darmstadt , Kunstverein Darmstadt, 1984
  • A series of 8 drypoint etchings and 1 sketch by Adam Silk , Galerie im Draier Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989
  • Parts. Publishing house Kommunale Galerie in the canvas house, Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • He. Working since 1987. With a text by Ariane Grigoteit and three poems by Hadayatullah Hübsch , Dreier-Edition, Friedberg (Hessen) 1991
  • The Walker. Works 1990-2002 (trilingual edition: German - English - Spanish), Galerie Forum, Usingen 2002

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noise - Holger Herrmann is dead (obituary). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 22, 2014, p. 35
  2. ↑ Christoph Schütte: The painter of silence . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 16, 2014, No. 113, p. 34
  3. ↑ Holger Herrmann, in: Christoph Schütte: The painter of silence
personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES holgerherrmann (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2014
Place of death Frankfurt am Main