Horst Gläsker

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Horst Gläsker (born March 21, 1949 in Herford ) is a German artist . His work is a symbiosis of music , dance , theater , drawing , painting , sculpture , installation and architecture .

Career

Horst Gläsker did an apprenticeship as a shop window designer from 1963 to 1966 and then worked as a poster painter until 1968. From 1970 to 1973 he attended the Westfalen-Kolleg and graduated from high school. At the same time he was active as a musician, in the 1960s with his four brothers in a dance band and in the 1970s in various groups of the Krautrock era. At the end of the 1970s he began building sound sculptures and doing music performances. From 1973 to 1979 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Lambert Maria Wintersberger , Gerhard Richter and Karl Otto Götz . In 1975 he lived for a year in a mountain hut in Tuscany, where he painted landscapes and portraits and dealt intensively with the effects of colors. In the following time he developed a painting from his color palettes , collected old Persian carpets from the bulky waste and painted their ornaments with psychedelic color patterns. Gerhard Richter then expelled him from the class. Gläsker then worked alone in the abandoned room of Professor Joseph Beuys, who was forcibly suspended by the then Science Minister Johannes Rau . He had been fired because he had accepted everyone who had applied. Gläsker became a master student of Karl Otto Götz (Professor of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther ).

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"Weltenspiegel": The cross of the former St. Pius Church in Langenfeld (Rhineland) in front of a 3.35 m high stainless steel plate, a work of art by Horst Gläsker

Art historians brought Horst Gläsker into connection with the term “ individual mythology ” coined by Harald Szeemann , or tried to assign it to the group of the “ new savages ”. His work can best be described with the term “ total work of art ”. The Hamburg art collector, entrepreneur, lawyer and art theorist Harald Falckenberg (see: Falckenberg Collection ) described Gläsker as a “ bird of paradise and holy fool ” and sees in him a reference to the more recent development of the “ pictorial turn ” and the old tradition of the grotesque . In addition to the connection between his art and music since the 1970s, there is also a relationship to space and architecture. Beginning in the 1980s with room-filling wallpaper overpainting, self-made and painted architectural parts and room scaffolding such as columns, chandeliers, domes, pavilions, etc. This was followed by numerous “art-in-architecture” orders such as B. wall paintings, mosaics, fountain and floor designs. The art theorist and curator Manfred Schneckenburger named Gläsker the European founder of Pattern Art in relation to his carpet and wallpaper overpainting . He also wrote that Gläsker had developed a new, own concept of ornament, “as if it had the harsh verdict of Adolf Loos ' ornament is a crime 'never given'. In the summer of 2008, the work of art “Weltenspiegel” was unveiled in the Richrath district of Langenfeld during a festive service in front of the Catholic St. Martinus Church . The cross of the former branch church of St. Martin St. Pius stands in front of a stainless steel plate hanging on the outer wall of St. Martin's Church, which is on average 3.35 m tall.

Life

Horst Gläsker lives and works in Düsseldorf . His family is an artist family . Organizationally and artistically, he works together with his wife Margret Masuch-Gläsker . Their children are Louis Gläsker (artist, musician, writer and filmmaker) and Cecilia Gläsker (filmmaker, camerawoman and photographer).

Horst Gläsker is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Teaching assignments

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980: Les nouveaux Fauves-Die neue Wilden, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
  • 1980: XI. Biennale de la Jeunesse, Musée d'Art moderne, Paris
  • 1981: Bildwechsel, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 1983: Montevideo Diagonale, Antwerp
  • 1985: Fairy tales, myths, monsters, Neue Galerie Graz and Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
  • 1986: Bonnefantenmuseum , Maastricht
  • 1994: Paper Art, International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
  • 1998: Glut, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2004: ARTKlyazma, International festival of contemporary art, Moscow
  • 2007: Tatort Paderborn, Earthly Power - Heavenly Powers

Public contracts - art in architecture (selection)

Gate of Faces (right), 2016
  • 1988: Wall and fountain mosaic in the Landeszentralbank, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1988: Mural, AID building, Bonn
  • 1990: Gate of the 4 elements and murals, in the Central Post Office, Darmstadt
  • 1998: Overall design of two church rooms, Gelsenkirchen prison
  • 1999: Column and Wall painting, Paracelsus Clinic Marl
  • 2008: Scala, Holsteiner stairs , Wuppertal
  • 2008: Cross with world mirror, Sankt Martin Church, Langenfeld
  • 2009: Gate of Faces, installation at the gate to the garden showcase in Malkastenpark , Malkasten Düsseldorf

Actions and concerts with sound sculptures (selection)

Pedal organ carpet concerts

  • 1980: XI Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art modern de la Ville de Paris
  • 1980: Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
  • 1981: New gallery collection Ludwig, Aachen

Table concerts

  • 1987: Art Museum Chur, Switzerland
  • 2004: Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
  • 2004: ARTKliazma, International festival of contemporary art, Moscow
  • 2005: Langen Foundation, Hombroich rocket station - Insel Hombroich, Neuss

Living pictures

  • 1991: The dance of the shaking spirit and the seduction of sound, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
  • 1992: Singing of the four elements, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Ruhrfestspiele
  • 1993: The song of the four elements and the seduction of light, to MEDIALE, Deichtorhalle, Kammerspiel, Hamburg and Städtisches Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm and ARENA DI SKALA, Lindinger and Schmid, Regensburg

Awards

  • 1979: Ernst Poensgen Prize of the Art Academy (travel grant), Düsseldorf

literature

  • Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia (Hrsg.): Horst Gläsker - seduction of space. Lindinger and Schmid, 2006, ISBN 3-929970-67-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From: Heiner Stachelhaus: Joseph Beuys. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-548-75071-0 , p. 127.
  2. ↑ Biography on horst-glaesker.de
  3. ↑ Information on horst-glaesker.de
  4. ↑ Information on horst-glaesker.de
  5. ↑ New art with an old cross.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rp-online.de@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "G" / Horst Gläsker (accessed on August 5, 2015)
  7. ↑ Horst Gläsker, installation at the park gate to the garden showcase, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 from 7 p.m. inauguration
personal data
SURNAME Gläsker, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford