Horst Lerche

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Horst Lerche (born September 12, 1938 in Hamburg ; † December 3, 2017 in Jüchen ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Horst Lerche was born in Hamburg in 1938. After a bomb attack in 1943, the family moved to the Lüneburg Heath . In Lüneburg , schooling ended with the secondary school leaving certificate, which was already accompanied by intensive artistic practice. In 1956 Horst Lerche applied to the Düsseldorf Art Academy and joined Otto Pankok's class the following year . After his retirement he continued studying with Joseph Fassbender and Ferdinand Macketanz . Helmut Sundhaußen and Blinky Palermo were among his college friends . In the early sixties he belonged to the group of artists who moved into quarters in the Einbrunger Mühle, including Hannes Esser , Günther Uecker , Bernd and Hilla Becher . After Horst Lerche received the Villa Romana Prize in 1967 , he lived with his wife, the textile artist and pedagogue Heidi Lerche-Renn, for a year in Florence , where his daughter Lina was born. He decided early on to be a freelance artist. In the 1990s he took on a teaching position at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Applied, predominantly architecture-related works remained an important part of the work alongside painting, which has been presented in numerous exhibitions at important institutes, has been awarded several prizes and has been documented in extensive literature. From 1975 Horst Lerche and his wife lived and worked on their property, the Hamscherhof in Jüchen , which is a popular meeting place for artists and intellectuals . A long-term friendship linked Horst Lerche u. a. with the Düsseldorf painter Sigrid Kopfermann and the graphic artist Helfried Hagenberg . From the early 1980s to 2012, the long and regular stays in Greece left clear traces in the artist's work. Horst Lerche died in Jüchen in 2017 after a long illness.

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painting

In the early sixties, Horst Lerche's painting moved close to the subject, but consciously turned away from the paralyzing dictates of the previous decades. Like many artists of his generation, he discovered modernism in connection with expressionist positions, with echoes of Munch's Nordic landscapes being unmistakable. The Villa Romana period in 1967 marked a turning point towards minimalist composition, in which the landscapes gradually lose their expressive character and merge into constructed color spaces. After exploring the possibilities of hard-edge painting, which was current at the time, both on canvas and on variable objects, Horst Lerche discovered - in addition to cloths - wood as the material that made his painting into constitutive elements of the room. His color and space installations (color space Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld ) mark a convention-breaking, unmistakable position in West German art. The painting of the eighties and nineties, oscillating between baroque splendor and minimalist severity, unfolds on the surfaces of three-dimensional wooden objects. Explosive color cascades, often forming a landscape again, were increasingly joined by monochrome surfaces in the course of the nineties. The color blue asserts itself as a decisive factor.

Sculpture "The Blue House"

Wooden sculptures

Represented in numerous museums and collections, Horst Lerche approached his subject from a new perspective from 1987. In partly monumental wooden constructions (including the Blauer Turm in Heidelberg ), the real landscape itself takes on the role of painting, with the result that the separation of interior and exterior space appears to be abolished. Accompanied by an analytical preparation of the visual material on the picture surface, a number of half-timbered architectures emerge, such as the Blue House 1987, The Blue Tower of Heidelberg 1990, The Blue Tower of Wevelinghoven 1993, The Blue Tower of Moyland Castle 1999. Inspired by the The vastness of the Greek landscape, the analytically defined color space takes on traits of romantic spirituality. When naming works from the last few years, Horst Lerche sometimes moves away from the typical specific picture titles and chooses metaphorical formulations such as Time and Work 2003, Dark Waters 2008 or Past Time 2011.

Architecture related work

In addition to works of pure painting, over fifty applied, architecture-related works and the like were created between 1975 and 2014. a. in cooperation with the architects Karlhans Pfleiderer and Heinz Döhmen and several color concepts for the organ building company Martin Scholz.

Shape and color design in the auditorium of the Aachen Cathedral Singing School

Selection of architecture-related work

  • Color versions of Martin Scholz organs in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2013
  • various color schemes of churches, retirement homes, youth and community centers, swimming pools, sports halls, schools and kindergartens in North Rhine-Westphalia such as B .:

Awards

  • 1997: Art Prize of the Artists , Düsseldorf
  • 1989: Award for fine arts from the city of Berlin
  • 1978: Art Prize of the City of Krefeld
  • 1975/1976: Working scholarship cultural group of the German economy in the BDI eV, Bonn
  • 1967: Villa Romana Prize, Florence

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016: Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Foundation, Düsseldorf. Image spaces
  • 2006: Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen . Time and work
  • 2004: Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach . Works 1960 * 2002
  • 2003: Galerie Franz Swetec, Düsseldorf. Panel paintings, watercolors, gouaches
  • 1999: Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau . The blue tower
  • 1998: Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid . New work
  • 1997: House of the building trade union, Frankfurt am Main. Built pictures
  • 1995: Galerie Franz Swetec, Darmstadt. Panel paintings, collages, gouaches
  • 1994: Hartmann House, Grevenbroich . Works on paper. Room concepts. Models
  • 1994: Art Association Springerhof, Neuenkirchen. Landscape spaces: watercolors. Gouaches. Panel paintings
  • 1993: Jordan Gallery, Wilnsdorf. Landscape and space. painting
  • 1992: Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld. Color space and landscape space
  • 1991: Museum Folkwang , Essen . The Blue Tower of Heidelberg , painting and concepts for space and sculpture
  • 1989: Galerie Niepel, Düsseldorf. Panel paintings
  • 1989: Nowald Gallery, Berlin. Sign and space
  • 1989: Museum Haus Koekkoek , Kleve . Landscape space , panel paintings, works on paper
  • 1989: St. Petri Church, Lübeck. Iconostasis
  • 1988: Galerie Kremer-Tengelmann, Cologne. Landscapes 1960 and 1962 , panel paintings since 1982
  • 1987: Kunstverein Springhornhof Neuenkirchen near Soltau, summer exhibition 'Fachwerk'. The blue house
  • 1986: Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne. Color space, panel paintings
  • 1985: City Gallery Paderborn. Working since 1979
  • 1985: Art Museum Gelsenkirchen. Working since 1979
  • 1985: Minden Museum . Working since 1979
  • 1985: Forum Kunst Rottweil. Panel paintings and color spaces
  • 1985: Gerald Just, Hanover. Pictorial spaces
  • 1985: Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges. New work
  • 1984: Wintersberger Gallery, Cologne. Painting, sculpture
  • 1984: City Gallery Lüdenscheid . Working since 1979
  • 1984: Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr . Working since 1979
  • 1984: Schröder Gallery, Mönchengladbach. Painting and drawing
  • 1984: Art Cabinet in Bleichstrasse, Mülheim an der Ruhr. Drawings and paintings on cardboard
  • 1983: Westphalian State Museum , Münster. Drawing and painting on cardboard
  • 1983: Galerie Grossmann Kasper, Bochum. Drawing and painting on cardboard
  • 1982: Wintersberger Gallery, Cologne. Blackboard paintings and drawings
  • 1981: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen. Room pictures, board pictures, drawings
  • 1979: Wintersberger Gallery, Cologne. Space scaffolding
  • 1978: Museum Bochum - art collection . Wall objects, color spaces, room surfaces
  • 1976: Giancarlo Bocchi Gallery, Milan. Progetto per uno Spazio
  • 1983: Galerie Peccolo, Cologne. The defined color space
  • 1975: Art Museum Gelsenkirchen . Wood and fabric room with blue color zone
  • 1974: Galerie december, Münster , wall objects
  • 1974: Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart. Wall objects , black wood and fabric room with blue color zone
  • 1973: Museum Folkwang , Essen. Light and shadow space
  • 1973: Ruhrkohle AG , Essen. From image to space
  • 1972: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe . Pictures, wood and fabric objects
  • 1972: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld. Blue wood and fabric room
  • 1972: Falazik Gallery, Neuenkirchen. Wood and fabric work
  • 1971: Märkisches Museum, Witten . Pictures and Objects * 1961– * 1971
  • 1971: Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn. Woods and fabrics
  • 1971: Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig , Aachen , colored surfaces in front of the wall

Publicly owned work

The following institutions have works by Horst Lerche in their holdings:

  • Former imperial abbey Kornelimünster , Aachen
  • Artothek Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin
  • Artothek Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
  • Museum Bochum - Art Collection, Bochum
  • Municipal Art Museum, Bonn
  • Art collection of the Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
  • Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren
  • Art Museum Düsseldorf
  • Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • Municipal art collection, Gelsenkirchen
  • Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
  • Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve
  • Emschertal Museum , Herne
  • National Museum in Krakow , Poland
  • Foundation of the Jürgen Weichardt Collection
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
  • Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Culture house of the city of Lüdenscheid
  • Municipal gallery Lüdenscheid
  • Municipal Museum, Mühlheim
  • Moyland Castle Museum Foundation
  • Museum Schloss Hagenberg, Neviges
  • Museum im Obertor, Neuss
  • Ulm Museum
  • Märkisches Museum, Witten
  • City Gallery Wolfsburg

bibliography

Extract from the bibliography:

  • Kopfermann Fuhrmann Foundation (ed.): Horst Lerche - picture spaces. Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052378-6 .
  • Friends of the Museum Schloss Moyland (ed.): Museum Schloss Moyland - Sculpture Park. (Art-Landscape Project 1967-2000. Art Association and Springhornhof Foundation). DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-8321-5589-6 .
  • Horst Lerche: Determination of the place. Art and construction. Ministry for Building and Housing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1998, ISBN 978-3-87909-628-2 .
  • Bernhard Körte, Heribert Brinkmann, Georg-W. Költzsch, Klaus Peter Kienitz. Siegfried Salzmann: The blue tower of Wevelinghoven. Grevenbroich 1993.
  • Helga Meister: The artists of the Einbrunger Mühle. Beton Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 978-3-7640-0336-4 .
  • '68 - Art and Culture. Secretariat for cultural cooperation between non-theater-carrying cities and communities in Gütersloh Verlag Schuffelen, Pulheim 1993.
  • Roswitha Siewert: Iconostasis (publication. Spatial dialogues). Art per St. Petri. Verlag der Buchhandlung Weiland, Lübeck 1993.
  • Haus Gerke: blue, the color of a distance. (Catalog). Heidelberg Art Association. Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1990.
  • Ruth Falazik, Lothar Romain: Art-Landscape: Neuenkirchener Symposia 1974–1987. Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen 1987.
  • Klaus Palm, Jürgen Morschel, Peter Spielmann: The space-forming power of color I: Space-color-art, color-space works by the artist Horst Lerche. In: Farbe + Design , issue 39/40. Gaildorf 1987.
  • Hajo Düchting: Pure painting in Germany. In: Delaunay and Germany. Catalog exhibition State Gallery of Modern Art in the House of Art, Munich. Du Mont Buchverlag, Cologne 1985.
  • Heiner Stachelhaus: In a nutshell, art reviews 1963 to 1985. Aurel Bongers Verlag, Recklinghausen 1985, ISBN 978-3-7647-0372-1 .
  • Arnika Verena Langenmaier: Ambiente , issue 4, 1983.
  • Bernhard Kerber: Sculpture and Color. In: Kunstforum International. Sculpture and Color I. Volume 60, 4/1983. Kunstforum International, Cologne 1983.
  • Francesca Alinovi: Pittura - Ambiente (catalog). Palazzo Reale, Milan 1979.
  • Bernhard Kerber: Principle Vertical (catalog). Galerie Teufel, Cologne 1979.
  • Peter Spielmann, Jürgen Morschel, Werner Lippert. Karlheinz Nowald: Horst Lerche - Museum Bochum, art collection, May 27 - July 1, 1978 (catalog). ISBN 978-3-8093-0037-3 .
  • Arcobaleno sulla piscina. In: Domus, No. 572, Milan July 1977.
  • Andreas Pfeiffer: Series: For art funding in Germany. Volume: For example Villa Romana (catalog). State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden 1977.
  • Jürgen Harten: Calendar Düsseldorf Artists Today. Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, 1974.
  • Gert Winkler: Artificial weather. Belser-Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 978-3-7630-1569-6 .
  • Juliane Roh: German art of the 60s. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1971/1976, ISBN 978-3-7654-1396-4 .
  • Joachim Büchner: Catalog Kunsthaus der Stadt Bocholt. 1969.
  • Joachim Büchner: Catalog Leopold-Hoesch Museum. Düren 1969.
  • Gillo Dorfles: Catalog Villa Romana. Florence 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The artists' colony in the Einbrunger paper mill. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 23, 2019 ; accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Horst Lerche (Ill.): Half-timbered - the Blue House . Art Association Springhornhof Neuenkirchen in d. Lüneburg Heath, Neuenkirchen near Soltau 1987. }
  3. ↑ a b c d Siegfried Gnichwitz, Peter Kienitz, Ulrich Krempel, Heidi Lerche-Renn: Horst Lerche - picture spaces . Ed .: Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung. Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052378-6 , p. 77 .
  4. ↑ Neuwerk parish church (organ section). Parish Mary of the Apostles - Mönchengladbach-Neuwerk, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ Orgelbau Martin Scholz: pictures of the organ St. Vincenz in Menden. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ev. Parish Osterath: Evangelical Church Osterath, church ceiling. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Parish of St. Josef Inden: Parish church in Inden / Altdorf, interior color scheme. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Förderverein Festhalle Viersen eV: renovation of the interior, new color design. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Blue landmark. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). FUNKE MEDIEN NRW GmbH, accessed on December 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ List of winners Art Prize of the Artists: Art Prize of the Artists
  11. ↑ Berlin Art Prize with award winners. Academy of the Arts, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  12. ^ Culture in Krefeld, fine arts, prizes-scholarships. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ List of the prize winners 1976 Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI eV: ars viva, 1976 work grants. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ List of Villa Romana Prize winners: Villa Romana Prize, winners 1959 to 1969
  15. ↑ 2016 Horst Lerche. Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Exhibition review . Villa Zanders, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Helfried Hagenberg (Ed.): Horst Lerche. Works 1960 - 2002 . Exhibition catalog. Wienand Verlag & Medien, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-836-0 .
  18. ↑ Review of exhibitions. Galerie Franz Swetec, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Exhibition review 1997–2019. (PDF) Museum Schloss Moyland, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  20. ^ Franz Joseph van der Grinten, and Reggy Haveskes-van Creij: The Blue Tower of Moyland Castle: Horst Lerche . Exhibition catalog. Ed .: Bernd Finkeldey. Museum Schloß Moyland, Bedburg-Hau 1999, ISBN 978-3-929042-24-5 .
  21. ^ Siegfried Gnichwitz, Peter Kienitz, Ulrich Krempel, Heidi Lerche-Renn: Horst Lerche - image spaces . Ed .: Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Foundation. Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052378-6 , p. 77 .
  22. ↑ Peter Ulrich Hein: Dynamics, Statics, Balance. Catalog Horst Lerche “The painter builds a picture” . Ed .: House of the Construction Union. House of the building trade union, Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  23. ↑ Guido de Werd: Horst Lerche - From color space to landscape space 1972–1992 (leaflet) . Ed .: Krefelder Kunstverein eV Krefeld 1992.
  24. ↑ Exhibitions: Archive. Museum Folkwang, accessed on April 23, 2019 .
  25. ↑ THE T-BEAM. TAZ, March 29, 1989, accessed December 28, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Guido de Werd: Horst Lerche: landscape space, panel paintings, works on paper . Exhibition catalog. Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve 1989.
  27. ^ Poster "Horst Lerche. Landscape, panel paintings, works on paper ”. Museum Kurhaus Kleve, accessed on December 28, 2019 .
  28. ^ Peter Ulrich Hein: Horst Lerche landscapes 1960 and 1962, panel paintings since 1982 (catalog) . Ed .: Galerie Kremer-Tengelmann. Cologne 1988.
  29. ^ Siegfried Salzmann: The blue house (catalog) . Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen near Soltau 1987.
  30. ↑ artist index . Forum Kunst Rottweil, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Horst Lerche . Exhibition catalog touring exhibition. City Lüdenscheid Gallery, Lüdenscheid 1984.
  32. ↑ Horst Lerche and Johann Heinrich Müller: Horst Lerche: Raumbilder, Tafelbilder, Drawings . Exhibition catalog. Ed .: Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum. Hagen 1981.
  33. ^ Museum Bochum / Art Collection (ed.): Horst Lerche: Museum Bochum . Exhibition catalog. Bochum 1978, ISBN 3-8093-0037-3 .
  34. ^ Exhibition catalog: Horst Lerche Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen. Art collection Gelsenkirchen, design: Axel Heibel. Art Association, Gelsenkirchen 1975.
  35. ^ Dieter Honisch (Ed.): One-room exhibitions: '73, Artists in the Museum (catalog) . Museum Folkwang, Essen 1973, DNB  800954726 , p. 162 .
  36. ^ Badischer Kunstverein, archive. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  37. ^ Culture in Krefeld. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  38. ^ Exhibition catalog: Horst Lerche: Farbraum, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld 1972.
  39. ^ Jürgen Weichardt: Wooden objects (catalog) . Ed .: Falazik Gallery. Neuenkirchen 1972.
  40. ^ Exhibition catalog: Wilhelm Nettmann: Horst Lerche. Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten 1971.
  41. ^ Exhibition catalog: Hugo Borger: Lerche, Bonner Kunstverein. Rhine. State Museum, Bonn 1971.
  42. ↑ The space-forming power of color (color-space works by the artist Horst Lerche). (PDF; 14.8 MB) In: Farbe + Design, issue 39/40. Farbe + Design Verlag, 1978, pp. 8–12 , accessed on December 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lark, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2017
Place of death Juchen