Horst Meister

Horst Meister (2013, Jerusalem)

Horst Meister (born December 11, 1937 in Karlsruhe ) is a German artist. His work includes oil paintings, sculptures, installations, graphics, drawings, texts, essays and plays; In his visual exhibits, both in terms of content and in his personal commitment, he is essentially shaped by the socio-political events since around 1975; stylistically, he feels related to figurative expressionism in his art.

life and work

Youth and Studies

After secondary school, Horst Meister initially trained as a commercial artist. Then he began at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (1956–1961) to study painting with the important graphic artist and woodcutter HAP Grieshaber, who shaped him for his further artistic and socio-political development.

Theater and television work, painter and sculptor

Parallel to his academic studies, he took acting lessons from Hans-Herbert Michel's acting lessons from the head drama director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where his first stage design for a solo evening by the expressive dancer Harald Kreutzberg was created. After completing his art academy studies, he worked as a set designer in several television productions in Munich and Berlin, before turning back to theater work. For almost 20 years, Meister was engaged as a set and costume designer at several German theaters, including Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Regensburg, Kiel and Berlin. At the Schauspielhaus Kiel he created the sets and costume designs for “Fire from the Kettles” by Ernst Toller (about the Kiel sailors' uprising), for Aristophane's “Der Friede” and for the satirical one-act play “We don't pay” by Dario Fo.

Since 1977 Meister has worked as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor, first in Regensburg, then - since 1981 on the left Lower Rhine near Düsseldorf. Most of his socio-political works on the subjects of: “The dignity of man”, “The SHOA - a German image of man” and “The great war against nature” were created here. During these years Horst Meister was an active member of Amnesty international and then of the BUND NRW in the state board. Together with his wife, he is currently looking after Syrian refugees from Aleppo.

For his wife, the actress and Diseuse Almut Grytzmann, he wrote the satirical two-act play “Your final spurt, grandma!” And wrote and directed cabaret and chanson texts for most of their more than 25 literary chanson programs.

The 80-year-old Horst Meister has always remained true to his principle of “Don't look the other way - interfere” - his new work deals with President Erdogan, who wants to turn Turkey into a dictatorship, and with the complete destruction of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Meister is currently working on a comprehensive picture cycle: TOTENTANZ 2018

Work (selection)

Oil paintings

Regensburg Requiem / Triptych 1977/180 × 70 cm
Regensburg Dance of Death (dedicated to Franz-Josef Strauss) Triptych 1979/140 × 70 cm
Adam and Eve / Triptych 1981/200 × 115 cm
Carrying the Cross (after Matthias Grünewald) 1981 120 × 120 cm
The Passion (3 middle panels from a total of 7 panels: Torture, Death, Consolation) 1981, each 50 × 190 cm
The Bayer Cross of Krefeld-Uerdingen 1982 (dedicated to the Bayer chemical company), 120 × 100 cm
Our daily bread / Triptychon 1983 (dedicated to the German armaments industry Rheinmetall) 200 × 140 cm
Eli Eli lama asabthani 1983 (dedicated to the German metal industry) 100 × 1340 cm
The slaughter festival 1988/100 × 85 cm
Violence / triptych (newspaper, perpetrator, victim) 1988 180 × 85 cm
Ascension of Francis 1988/75 × 90 cm
The Prophet of the Trees 1990/100 × 100 cm
As King David once did in 1991/75 × 150 cm
Apocalyptic horse 1995/100 × 150 cm
This side of Eden 2005/120 × 150 cm
The creation of Adam and Eve 2005/80 × 140 cm
The Shoa dream (Jacob's ladder to heaven) 2007/40 × 55 cm
Old angel couple 2007/40 × 50 cm
The 7 deadly sins (dedicated to Deutsche Bank boss Josef Ackermann) 2007/80 × 120 cm
Angel over Mount Nebo (Moses Mountain by the Dead Sea) 2009/60 × 90 cm
The great war against nature 2009/100 × 140 cm
“De dulle Griet” (after Pieter Breughel) 2011/80 × 100 cm
Playing with the fuel rod (dedicated to Tepco, Fukushima) 2011/80 × 100 cm
"Elohim dances" / Triptych 2014/200 × 100 cm
Fine Society 2014/80 × 65 cm
“Aleppo 2016” triptych “Going for a bath with Assat in Aleppo” 80 × 100 cm
"The silent scream" 100 × 120 cm
"The fleeing death" 80 × 100 cm
“You have eyes - why don't you see?” 2017/80 × 100 cm
“Dance of joy on the eve of the dictatorship”, dedicated to the Turkish President Erdogan / Diptych 2017/80 × 180 cm

Jewish Passion "Transport of corpses", 2000/14 watercolors (42 × 60 cm)
Passion / Triptych / 1983 (150 × 190 cm)
Adam and Eve, triptych / 1981 (200 × 110 cm)
Dance of joy on the eve of the dictatorship, diptych, 2017 (80 × 180 cm)
Our daily bread / Triptych 1983 (200 × 140 cm)
“The Red Carpet” installation in the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf / 1985
"An angel for Jerusalem" bronze / height 3.30 m, 1997 / Yad Kennedy Jerusalem
The great dictator (dedicated to Mr. Erdogan), 2017 (80 × 100 cm)
"You have eyes - why don't you see", 2017 (80 × 100 cm)
The silent scream / Aleppo 2016 (100 × 120 cm)
The last act 11.12.2018 / 100 × 80 cm

Sculptures / installations

The red carpet, installation for the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf / 1985
The violated tree 1985 / height 320 cm
The sky over Yad-Vashem / Relief / 1993/160 × 270 cm
The Auschwitzengel / bronze 1995 / height 118 cm
The crucified Jew / wood / 1997 / height 185 cm
The angel for Jerusalem (homage to Else Lasker-Schüler) bronze 1997 / height 350 cm
Abraham and Sarah with the Jewish star / wood / 1999 / height 110 cm
Memorial for the murdered Jewish fellow citizens in Willich / NRW / 2000 / height 330 cm
Debora / stele / 2004 / total height 240 cm
Judit / stele / 2004 / total height 150 cm

drawings

The Just (Albert Camus) 1981/50 × 64 cm
Mr. Friedrich Flick, a benefactor 1985/45 × 64 cm
Requiem for a steel mill 1986/70 × 50 cm
Blood trail / 1994/21 × 30 cm
Everyday War / 1994/30 × 21 cm
Natural disaster 1998/40 × 50 cm
Dog forgotten on the run 1999/30 × 42 cm
War dance 2006 30 × 42 cm
Danse macabre joyeux 2011/30 × 42 cm
The Judas Kiss 2011 21 × 30 cm

Graphic cycles

1978 Peace - after Aristophanes (graphic, 13 sheets)
1979 Regensburg cycle (graphic, 15 sheets)
1981 The 3rd World War has already begun (etchings, 10 sheets)
1982 "The Schwandorfer Dance of Death" (graphic, 12 sheets)
1987 "Black on White" (with a preface by Robert Jungk):
The right left Lower Rhine (graphic, 12 sheets)
in German Dance of Death (graphic, 18 sheets)
Children's pictures (graphic, 10 sheets)
1988 Labor dispute in Rheinhausen (Figure 20 sheets)
1992 Trees in Israel (graphic, 10 leaves)
2000 Jewish Passion, cycle (14 watercolors)
2007 Kaldenkirchen Jewish Passion (6 collages)

Gun trees - from the series “Trees in Israel”, 30 × 42 cm
The body regiment (Kurt Tucholsky), (21 × 30 cm)
The farmer - from the cycle "A German Dance of Death" (42 × 30 cm)
Peace - from the cycle "Peace" by Aristophanes, (42 × 21 cm)
“Sancta Justitia”, 42 × 60 cm
The lovers from the cycle "A German Dance of Death" (21 × 30 cm)
Schützen and Jecken from the cycle "The Right Left Lower Rhine", (42 × 30 cm)
“The boat is full!” (Escape to Europe) / Indian ink / 32 × 48 cm
Exhausted death / Indian ink / 32 × 48 cm
The manure farmer Phaeton - according to a Greek legend (Ovid "Metamorphoses") Indian ink / 32 × 48 cm

Solo exhibitions / art in public spaces

1976 Political graphic in a Bundeswehr barracks in Regensburg
1980 Political graphic in Osaka / Japan
1983 Environment-critical exhibition in the NRW Ministry of the Environment
1984 Political Art / Saarbrücken - Invitation from Oskar Lafontaine
1985 "Subdue the earth" Solo exhibition for the Evangelical Church Congress 1985 in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
1987 Political graphics by the Goethe Institute Rotterdam
1993 "Trees in Israel", political graphic Haifa / Israel
1995 Inauguration of an Else-Lasker-Schüler grove in Jerusalem
1997 Inauguration of the 3.5 m high bronze sculpture "An Angel for Jerusalem Homage to Else Lasker-Schüler" in the Amindaw Forest in Jerusalem
2000 memorial for the murdered citizens of Willich / Edelstahl 3.5 m high
2000 “The Jewish Passion” - picture cycle with 14 sheets for the SHOA / exhibitions in Wuppertal (Jewish synagogue), Regensburg, Moers and others
2001 "The Kaldenkirchen (Jewish) Passion" exhibition in Nettetal / North Rhine-Westphalia
2005 “This side of Eden” political pictures and sculptures in the natural history museum Schloss Drachenburg / Königswinter
2010 “A tree is coming soon” Art installation for the state garden show in Hemer / North Rhine-Westphalia
2013 "This side of Eden" St. Oswald Church Regensburg
2017 “Carrying the Cross” and “Passion” at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
2019 "A German Dance of Death" Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

further solo exhibitions in Aalborg / Denmark, Maastricht / Netherlands

Books

Interim balance, pictures and texts, MZ-Verlag, Regensburg 1980
The Schwandorf Dance of Death, Kartenhaus-Verlag, Regensburg 1982
Subdue the earth, Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1985
Black on white, graphic, Edition LambersART 1988
Art.Might.Politics, Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2013
Moving time, drawings and poems. Iris Kater Verlag Viersen / Frankfurt 2016

Plays

2000: The Unequal Sisters
2010: Your final sprint grandma!

Private and public collections (selection)

Works by Horst Meister can be found in Karlsruhe - Staatliche Kunsthalle www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/ in Regensburg - Evangelical Dean's Office and City of Regensburg, in Moers - St. Barbara, in Duisburg-Rheinhausen - St. Peter and Paul Church, University of Düsseldorf - Faculty of Medicine: Dance of Death Collection, in Yad-Vashem Jerusalem and in private collections.

literature

A network for Ikarus / PC Mayer-Tasch, Goldmann Verlag Munich 1987
Human and death / graphic collection of the University of Düsseldorf Triltsch-Verlag 1989
Grieshaber student - today / Spendhaus Reutlingen 1991
Wars of the Century - from Kollwitz to Kluge / Spendhaus Reutlingen 1994
The signs of nature / PC Mayer-Tasch, Insel Verlag Frankfurt / M. 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Meister: Not a bit quieter even at the age of 80 | Viersen inside. Accessed December 24, 2017 (German).
↑ Natascha Becker: Viersen: A life for art. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
↑ middle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 10, 2017 ; Retrieved July 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Drastic works demand humanity . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).
↑ Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: A tree will soon be growing here . In: lokalkompass.de . ( lokalkompass.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).
↑ Bertram Müller: Viersen: Horst Meisters pointed complaints. Retrieved December 19, 2017 .
↑ HEIDRUN WIRTH: Pictures of the battered father Rhine . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).
^ City of Regensburg - Events - Horst Meister, "This side of Eden". Painting, sculptures, graphics. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
^ Event calendar of the State Art Gallery Karlsruhe. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Horst Meister continues to fight . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed December 19, 2017]). Horst Meister continues to fight ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ University of Düsseldorf supplements graphics collection with Viersener "Totentanz" cycle | Rhenish mirror. Accessed January 31, 2019 (German).
^ University of Düsseldorf: Horst Meister - A German dance of death. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
↑ Horst Meister: Black on white. Political graphic by Horst Meister. Forewords by Robert Jungk. by Meister, Horst: Edition Lambers-Art., Viersen. - Michael Zaremba - mail order bookshop. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (English).
^ Silvia Ruf-Stanley: City of Kempen: A master of political art. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
↑ Klaus Sebastian: Düsseldorf: Horst Meister fights with pen and pen. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
^ State Art Gallery Karlsruhe. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
↑ The Protestant church in the Danube deanery Regensburg | Evangelical Church in the Danube Deanery Regensburg. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Master, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe

[1] Horst Meister: Not a bit quieter even at the age of 80 | Viersen inside. Accessed December 24, 2017 (German).

[2] Natascha Becker: Viersen: A life for art. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .

[3] middle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 10, 2017 ; Retrieved July 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] Mittelbayerische.de: Drastic works demand humanity . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).

[5] Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: A tree will soon be growing here . In: lokalkompass.de . ( lokalkompass.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).

[6] Bertram Müller: Viersen: Horst Meisters pointed complaints. Retrieved December 19, 2017 .

[7] HEIDRUN WIRTH: Pictures of the battered father Rhine . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on July 17, 2017]).

[8] City of Regensburg - Events - Horst Meister, "This side of Eden". Painting, sculptures, graphics. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .

[9] Event calendar of the State Art Gallery Karlsruhe. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .

[10] Mittelbayerische.de: Horst Meister continues to fight . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed December 19, 2017]). Horst Meister continues to fight ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[11] University of Düsseldorf supplements graphics collection with Viersener "Totentanz" cycle | Rhenish mirror. Accessed January 31, 2019 (German).

[12] University of Düsseldorf: Horst Meister - A German dance of death. Accessed January 31, 2019 .

[13] Horst Meister: Black on white. Political graphic by Horst Meister. Forewords by Robert Jungk. by Meister, Horst: Edition Lambers-Art., Viersen. - Michael Zaremba - mail order bookshop. Retrieved July 17, 2017 (English).

[14] Silvia Ruf-Stanley: City of Kempen: A master of political art. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .

[15] Klaus Sebastian: Düsseldorf: Horst Meister fights with pen and pen. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .

[16] State Art Gallery Karlsruhe. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .

[17] The Protestant church in the Danube deanery Regensburg | Evangelical Church in the Danube Deanery Regensburg. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .