Horst Bartnig

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Horst Bartnig, 2016
Colored acrylic painting by Horst Bartnig from the "Interruptions" series from 2011 in his studio

Horst Bartnig (born November 15, 1936 in Militsch , Silesia ) is a contemporary German painter , stage painter , graphic artist , computer graphic artist and sculptor . Today he lives in Berlin . As a painter, he can be assigned to Concrete Art .

1954–57 Horst Bartnig studied at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . Since 1964 he has been dealing with concrete art. In addition to developing his oeuvre , he worked as a stage painter for the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Berliner Ensemble .

Among other things, Bartnig distinguishes himself within concrete painting by the fact that he works out series, once conceived, in all declinations. So there are series of z. B. 70, 136, 1044 and 3622 variations of a theme.

Since 1972, he has been working with a physicist who worked at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf near Dresden for more complex image sequences . This applies in particular to tasks in counting combinatorics , questions about geometric symmetries and group theory . From 1979 to 1985, Bartnig, together with employees of the Institute for Computer Science and Computing Technology of the AdW in Berlin-Adlershof, devoted himself to artistic computer graphics , in which the Soviet BESM-6 large computer system was also used.

Bartnig found ways to surprisingly rediscover colors in their interplay and to maximize the range of optical effects of individual images depending on the distance and angle of the viewer.

In 1993 Horst Bartnig was awarded the Will Grohmann Prize and in 2001 the Hannah Höch Prize .

Public collections (selection)

This list follows the list of public collections (selection) in the catalog of an exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976 Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf near Dresden
  • 1976 Arcade Gallery, Berlin-Mitte
  • 1980 Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
  • 1981 Clara Mosch Gallery , Adelsberg
  • 1985 Studio gallery, Berlin-Baumschulenweg
  • 1986 North Gallery, Dresden
  • 1989 Heinz Teufel Gallery , Cologne
  • 1991 Heinz Teufel Gallery, Bad Münstereifel
  • 1994 Mies van der Rohe House , Berlin
  • 1994 Teufel-Holze Gallery, Dresden
  • 1996 Studio gallery, Berlin-Baumschulenweg
  • 1996 Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen / Rhine
  • 1998 Gallery in the horse stable, Kulturbrauerei , Berlin
  • 1999 Josef Albert Museum , Bottrop
  • 1999 Gallery for Contemporary Art , Leipzig
  • 2000 Arithmeum , Bonn
  • 2001 New Museum Nuremberg
  • 2001 Berlinische Galerie , Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 2002 Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 2003 Vivantes Clinic, Berlin-Friedrichshain
  • 2003 Mies van der Rohe House, Berlin
  • 2003 Architecture Gallery Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
  • 2003 Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 2004 Old School Gallery, Berlin-Adlershof
  • 2005 Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
  • 2006 Galerie im Turm, Berlin-Friedrichshain
  • 2006 Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Alte Jakobstrasse
  • 2007 Kulturbundgalerie, Berlin-Treptow
  • 2008 Art Space Engländerbau, Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
  • 2008 18 m gallery, gallery for numerical values, Berlin-Schöneberg
  • 2008 Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
  • 2010 St. Petri zu Lübeck , Lübeck
  • 2011 Galerie Anke Zeisler, Berlin
  • 2012 Gallery Bernau, near Berlin
  • 2012 K16, Duisburg
  • 2012 Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg
  • 2013 Gallery Parterre, Berlin
  • 2015 Galerie Anke Zeisler, Berlin
  • 2016 Galerie Schwarz, Greifswald
  • 2016 gallery in the art house of the Achim Freyer Foundation, Berlin
  • 2017 Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg

Literature (selection)

  • Horst Bartnig interruptions 1984-1991. Galerie Heinz Teufel, Bad Münstereifel / Mahlberg 1991, ISBN 3-9271410-2-X
  • Horst Bartnig 1968 - 1998. Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-9805959-7-8 . (Traveling exhibition catalog: Quadrat Bottrop, Josef-Albers-Museum, 1999; Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, 1999; Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design, 2001).
  • Horst Bartnig in the Arithmeum. Bouvier, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-4160292-3-2 .
  • Hannah Höch Prize 2001: Horst Bartnig. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9278737-3-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. M. Fischer, M. Grabow: Mathematics, Computer Graphics, Infomatics . In: Alpha - Mathematical student magazine . tape 16 , no. 2 . People and knowledge Volkseigener Verlag, Berlin 1982, p. 27-29 .
  2. ^ Herbert W. Franke : Computer graphics gallery: Horst Bartnig . In: Applied Computer Science . No.  3 . Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, p. 120-122 .
  3. Eugen Blume, Uwe Gellner, Annegret Laabs (eds.): Horst bartnig, specifically: interruptions, concrete: interruptions . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-903153-32-5 , p. 107 (108 pp.).
  4. ^ Astrid Prange: A Brazilian in Berlin. November 7, 2014, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  5. Daimler Art Collection. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  6. ^ Foundation for Concrete Art. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ Art space Engländerbau. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  8. ^ The art house of the Achim Freyer Foundation in Berlin. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .