Horst Hussel

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Horst Hussel (2004)

Horst Hussel (born April 28, 1934 in Greifswald ; † November 18, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German draftsman , graphic artist , illustrator and writer .

Life

Horst Hussel studied from 1953 until his premature de-registration due to “formalistic activities” in 1954 at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden with Erich Fraaß . From 1954 to 1958 he studied painting at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee with Kurt Robbel , Bert Heller and Gabriele Mucchi . He was de-registered in Berlin during his diploma thesis phase because of his "decadent artistic conception" and studied graphics at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Friedrich Stabenau from 1958 to 1961 . He was friends with Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern . In August 1961 he dropped out of his third degree. It was only in 1990 that he was subsequently awarded the diploma from the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. In 1994, Hussel founded the Dronte-Presse . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Since 1961 he has worked as a graphic artist and draftsman, book designer, writer and publisher. In 1993 he received the Jule Hammer Prize. He was honorary president of the Schwitters Society and also an art propagandist for kindred spirits, such as Paul Scheerbart , Robert Walser , Alexander Olbricht , Marcus Behmer , Kurt Schwitters , Albert Wigand and Gerhard Altenbourg . Altenbourg created a portrait of Hussel in 1961 with the lithograph “Freund H.”.

Horst Hussel became known through an abundance of quirky and bizarre illustrated books by other authors, through a large number of his own illustrated books and through book covers, endpapers and vignettes that he designed . In addition, he created an extensive oeuvre , which mainly consists of graphics and drawings, and which has been presented in numerous exhibitions. Horst Hussel designed the book covers for the Friedenauer Presse and drew for the magazines Sibylle and Das Magazin .

The fictional character he created of the composer Albrecht Kasimir Bölckow is recited again and again in the media.

Hussel lived in Berlin-Pankow . He died in November 2017 after a short, serious illness in a Berlin hospice.

He was married to the Berlin author and Germanist Anne Gabrisch (1932–2004) and the father of their daughter Anna Hussel.

Portfolio editions (selection)

  • 1995: The strangest beetles in the Mark Brandenburg region . Portfolio with 10 etchings. 11. Printed by the Berlin graphic press
  • 1998: Portrait of Bertolt Brecht I-IV. Portfolio with three chalk lithographs and an algraph. 12. Printed by the Berlin graphic press

Publications (selection)

  • 1982: Briviéra. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin.
  • 1985: Calmen / Twenty-three conversations and twelve drawings. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig. (Attached: L'Heure Embrasée. Chamber opera by Horst Hussel and Frank Schneider .)
  • 1986: Evening glow. Publishing house Klaus G. Renner, Munich.
  • 1993: Catalog raisonné of prints and books 1954–1993. Edited and edited by Hiltrud Lübbert and Peter Röske , with contributions by Stefan Heym, Friedrich Dieckmann and Peter Röske. Gallery of the Berlin graphic press.
  • 2002: Flying cucumbers.
  • 2003: Music from Gägelow / From the diaries and music books of the composer Albrecht Kasimir Bölckow. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin.
  • 2004: book covers, endpapers, signets. With an afterword by Helmut Schumacher.
  • 2004: Hebrides landscapes.
  • 2008: Spring stories.
  • 2008: Gastro Mechanico. ed. from the Galerie Gesellschaft H. Saborowski and the Dronte Presse, Berlin.
  • 2009: Gouaches and drawings: 2006–2008.
  • 2009: April weather.
  • 2011: From Nippon. Berlin / Hamburg.
  • 2015: On the bench - ladies' talks. Zurich.
  • 2018: Franz . PalmArtpress, Berlin.

Radio plays

Book illustrations (selection)

  • 1965: Hermann Harry Schmitz . Baptism and Other Disasters; (with wood engraving montages); Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin
  • 1965: Sholem Alejchem : the son of the cantor. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin
  • 1966: Eric Knight . Sam Small is flying again; Rütten & Loening, Berlin
  • 1966: Günter de Bruyn . Masquerades. Parodies; (with wood engraving montages); Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle
  • 1972: Eduard Petiška : The Golem. Jewish fairy tales and legends from old Prague. Union Verlag Berlin
  • 1979: dividing coin. From the German lexicon of proverbs by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander. Publishing house Volk und Wissen, Berlin
  • 1989: Stefan Heym : The witch and other fairy tales for clever children. C. Bertelsmann, Munich.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Horst Hussel has died. deutschlandfunkkultur.de, November 19, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Birgit Grimm: World Citizens of Fantasy. In: Sächsische Zeitung , December 11, 2009, p. 7.
  3. ↑ https://www.robertwalser.ch/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/jahrestagungen/vortraege/Gabrisch-1999.pdf
  4. ↑ a b http://www.galerie-berliner-graphikpresse.de/berliner-graphikpresse/mappenwerke
personal data
SURNAME Hussel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2017
Place of death Berlin