Horst Ganea

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Horst Ganea (born January 21, 1938 in Ploeşti , Great Wallachia , Romania ; † April 28, 2006 in Fürstenfeldbruck , Bavaria ), was a Romanian-German painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and photographer.

Life

Horst Viktor Ganea came from a traditional, middle-class family in which there were several visual artists. So z. B. his mother's brother was the Bohemian painter and draftsman Eduard Carol Petržilka, who lived in the southern Transylvanian village of Kerz ( Cârța ) and in Hermannstadt ( Sibiu ), where he also worked as an art teacher. Ganea's mother, Hildegard Gärtner-Ganea, was also a painter, and his father, Hans Viktor Ganea, an optician by profession, was a well-known art photographer in Bucharest .

After the Second World War, the family moved from Ploieşti to Bucharest, where Horst Ganea grew up with his two years younger sister Erika and attended the German grammar school.

In 1960, in Bucharest, he met Marianne Bosch, who came from Brasov in Brasov , and studied here at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning . When she was still attending the Kronstadt Volks-Kunstschule courses from 1951 to 1956, Marianne Bosch was a student of Marianne Schmidt, Harald Meschendörfer and Adelheid Goosch .

Horst Ganea and Marianne Bosch married in 1964, son Peter was born in 1969 and daughter Johanna in 1971. Marianne Ganea soon became known as a ceramist and designer of small sculptures after they moved to Germany together.

activity

Horst Ganea's first series of caricatures and humorous sketches were created while still in Bucharest, after having enjoyed drawing a lot as a child. A formative experience then inspired him, during a trip to France, to become a painter himself. According to his own account, it was in 1983 in Montmartre ( Paris ) the chance encounter with a Greek artist, presumably Dimitrios Farmakopoulos , “who filled the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre church in one hour . I watched him at work ", Ganea recalls," and thought to myself: What he does in one hour, you can maybe do in five hours. This is how my first oil painting was created. ”It was a view of the village with a church -“ Schöngeising ”.

From then on, Ganea decided not only to photograph motifs, as before, but also to paint, and he took advanced courses - nude and portrait drawing - at the VHS Fürstenfeldbruck.

Through the acquaintance with the doctor and painter Eckbert Nocke, Horst Ganea was accepted into a Schwabing artist group and in 1983 he had his first own exhibition in Großhadern , which was a “surprising success”, as the artist later reported. The painter couple Henriette and Ewald Hense, whom Ganea got to know in the meantime, put him in contact with German artists. Two years after his retrospective exhibition in 2004 in Ebersberg , he died of an incurable disease.

A large retrospective - 2010 in the Rathaus-Galerie Ebersberg - once again reminded of the thematically diverse work of the artist, who died in 2006. Works by Horst Ganea are in various collections in Germany, Austria , Denmark , Italy , Hungary and Romania.

Memberships

  • 1983 "Nude drawing group", Munich
  • 1996 “Shop Art” group, Munich
  • 1999 artist group "artig eV" Kempten (Allgäu)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984 Gallery Großhadern Großhadern
  • 1985 "Akt Aktuell", Munich
  • 1986 “7th Art exhibition of the district ”, Fürstenfeldbruck
  • 1996 Classic Gallery, Germering
  • 2001 Gallery "Ameise", Maisach (near Munich)
  • 2001 7th joint exhibition "Art and Crafts in the Stadl", Anzhofen / Maisach
  • 2002 Gallery in the House of the German East (HDO), Munich, joint retrospective with Marianne Ganea
  • 2003 Stadtsparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck, spring exhibition "Subject matter and abstraction in competition"
  • 2004 Rathaus-Galerie Ebersberg, together with Marianne Ganea
  • 2010 Rathaus-Galerie Ebersberg, retrospective "In Memoriam Horst Ganea"

Literature (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hog-kronstadt.de/fileadmin/PDF/archiv/nkz/2001_NKrZ_03.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Ganea, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploeşti , Great Wallachia , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2006
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck , Bavaria