Horst Hübsch

Horst Hübsch (born May 10, 1952 in Saarbrücken ; † August 1, 2001 in Homburg ) was a German artist .

Life

Horst Hübsch spent his childhood and youth in Saarbrücken. After graduating from high school in 1974, he studied from 1974 to 1977 at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule in Saarbrücken, one of the predecessor institutions of today's Saar College of Fine Arts . He then completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor at a stone mason company in Saarbrücken . From 1991 to 1993 he studied painting at the University of the Arts in Berlin . Since 1981 Hübsch worked as a freelance artist and art lecturer.

Pretty was a reader, an intellectual spirit. He was particularly interested in philosophical issues, political events and the interactions of all influences in the entire human environment. His motto, to which he consistently subordinated his entire work - especially his artistic work - was: “Everything has to do with everything.”
Hübsch was married and had a son from his first marriage. He lived and worked mainly in Saarbrücken and the greater region of Luxembourg , Lorraine , Saarland , Rhineland-Palatinate and Wallonia . The artist died after a short, serious illness at the age of 49.

Work description

As a child, Hübsch was interested in painting and always drew everything that happened around him. In his youth, he was so impressed by the painting by the English artist Francis Bacon that he hitchhiked to Paris to see an exhibition of his works. He was fascinated by Bacon's ability to relentlessly portray modern man in his existential turmoil, his social isolation and his creatural rawness. The painting techniques of the self-taught Bacon also had a lasting influence on Horst Hübsch in his later work: based on his role model, he worked with different materials in a freely managed mixed technique, he joined torn cardboard with organic scraps of paint, paints and found objects.

Over the years, Hübsch's motifs, as well as his colors, became darker, sombre and morbid. His preferred color was black in all shades, his main motif was the cross, which he painted in numerous variations. With this symbol he connected on the one hand the meeting point of two lines, on the other hand he saw in it the "intersection between death and life". He saw in the Christian symbol the metaphor for a dialectical relationship between two different situations, relationships, currents or positions. At a talk with the artist, Hübsch said that the themes that touched him were “death, eros and mysticism”. In an obituary, the art critic Sabine Graf identified him as "... a man who spoke about death and dying with a certain delicacy" (see references). With his dark, depressive colors and streaks of color, Hübsch did not correspond to the current canon of painting. His works seem bulky, never pleasing.

Prizes / awards

• 1984 Prize for Young Painting (Metz), 2nd Prize
• 1988 Saarland scholarship for Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano
• 1989 Prize of the City of Saarbrücken
• 1992 Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation (Berlin): Study visit to the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 1993 Saarland scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 1994 Scholarship from the State of Schleswig-Holstein in the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (Elbe)
• 1994 scholarship at the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg eV
• 1996 "Atelier Worpswede" grant
• 1997 Scholarship at Künstlerhaus Haid

Solo exhibitions

• 1983 Youth Gallery, Saarbrücken
• 1984 VHS Center Saarbrücken (District Culture House)
• 1985 Steinert Gallery, Saarbrücken
• 1985 Oeil Gallery, Forbach
• 1987/88/91 Weinand-Bessoth Gallery, Saarbrücken
• 1987 Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
• 1988 Gallery Lillebonne, Nancy / France
• 1988 Galerie Oeil, Forbach / France (catalog)
• 1989/93 Galerie Espace Bateau Lavoir, Paris
• 1989 Formart Gallery, Zweibrücken-Mörsbach
• 1990 Lüpfert Gallery, Hanover
• 1991 Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
• 1992 Gallery in the courtyard, St. Wendel
• 1993 Municipal Gallery (Castle), Oberhausen
• 1994 House of the Saar, Paris
• 1994 Künstlerhaus, Lauenburg / Elbe
• 1994 Deutsche Bank, Cologne
• 1994 Artists' Station, Ebernburg
• 1995 Gallery in the Belgian Quarter, Cologne
• 1995 Galerie Studio Rosha, Munich
• 1995 Orangery, Blieskastel
• 1995 Gallery in Johannishof, Regensburg
• 1995 St. Wendel Museum
• 1996 Kahnweilerhaus , Rockenhausen
• 1996 Municipal Gallery (Old Town Hall), Worpswede
• 1996 Gallery in the Museum (Bürgerhaus), Neunkirchen
• 1997 Follow-Christ Church, Bonn
• 1998 Galerie X, Munich
• 1998 Ascension Church, Munich-Sendling
• 1999 Kunstverein Dillingen in the Old Castle, Dillingen
• 1999 St. Arnual Local History Museum, Saarbrücken
• 2001 Rathausgalerie, St. Ingbert
• 2004 Bosener Mühle Art Center , Bosen
• 2010 Galerie Besch, Saarbrücken: “I am perhaps a forgotten landscape”. A representative selection
• 2013 Gallery in the KuBa (cultural center at the Eurobahnhof), Saarbrücken

Hübsch took part in numerous group exhibitions.

literature

• Horst Hübsch: peintures et dessins. [Exposition Galérie Oeuil, Lycée Jean-Mouein, Forbach, on 19 oct. you 16 nov. 1985]. Texts: Théo Wolters. Forbach: Ed. Voix, 1985. 12 pp. Ill.
• Horst Hübsch: Not you - toi pas! Montigny-les-Metz: Ed. Voix, 1989. 60 sheets, overwhelmingly. Ill.
• Horst Hübsch - pictures. [Cat. z. Deutsche Bank Saar exhibition]. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Deutsche Bank Saar, 1989.
• Horst Hübsch - Rolf Viva - Thomas Wojciechowicz. [Cat. z. Exhibition at Deutsche Bank Saar AG, April 28 - May 2, 1989]. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Deutsche Bank Saar AG, 1989. 41 p., Overw. Ill.
• Horst Hübsch. [Exhibition cat.] Ed .: IHK d. Saarland. Saarbrücken: self-published d. IHK, 1991. 6 pages, with 5 plates
• Horst Hübsch - Paintings. Works on paper and cardboard [exhibition cat. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern <22. January - March 3, 1991>]. Kaiserslautern: self-rel. d. Pfalzgalerie, 1991. 24 p., Predominantly. Ill. (Small writings of the Pfalzgalerie; 13) ISBN 3-89422-040-6
• Saarland art scene. [Cat. z. Exhibition in Mainau Castle in 1991]. Ed .: Ministry f. Knowledge u. Culture d. Saarland, 1991.
• Similitudes et différences - Young art from Lorraine, Luxemburg a. the Saarland. [Cat. z. Exhibition in the Saarland Museum]. Ed .: Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Théo Wolters. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Saarland Museum, 1991.
• Horst Hübsch: Talking about Economics [Cat. z. Exhibition in the industrial u. Chamber of Commerce d. Saarland]. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. IHK, 1991.
• Wolfgang Koch: The staged devastation; Horst Hübsch in the Kaiserslautern Palatinate Gallery. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (4 February 1991, p. 11)
• Horst Hübsch: new works - Fritz Zolnhofer: pastels and drawings. [Cat. z. Exhibition in the Sparkasse Neunkirchen / Saar]. Ed .: Ernst-Gerhard Güse. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Saarland Museum, 1993.
• Horst Hübsch: At the end of a landscape. [Cat. z. Exhib. December 1, 1995 - January 21, 1996]. Ed .: Museum St. Wendel. Ed .: Cornelieke Lagerwaard, Claudia Besch-Moutty. Dillingen: Krüger, 1995. 64. S.
• Horst Hübsch: "Headscapes". New pictures from Worpswede. [Exhibition cat.] Text: Nicole Nix. Neunkirchen: self-rel. d. City Gallery, 1996.
• Sabine Graf: Obituary for Horst Hübsch. In: Institute for Contemporary Art: Communications; No. 9. Dillingen: Krüger, 2001. 40 p., 49 b / w illustrations. ISBN 3-928596-69-1
• Sabine Graf: The remaining light behind the black depths - death, eros, mysticism were his themes: the Saarland painter Horst Hübsch died at the age of 49. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (August 4/5, 2001, p. 8)
• Sabine Graf: More than black, coffin and cross . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of December 13, 2010, p. C5

Web links

• Film about Hübsch in the culture mirror of the Saarländischer Rundfunk
• Artist Lexicon Saar (with photo)
• Literature on Horst Hübsch in the Saarland Bibliography