Jacques D. Hyan

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Jacques D. Hyan (born November 27, 1937 in Berlin , † May 4, 2008 in Offenburg ) was a German painter and draftsman who kept away from contemporary schools and fashions. His mostly small-format works, mostly portraits and landscapes, are indebted to the sensual pleasure and the comedy.

life and work

As the grandson of the Berlin cabaret artist and detective writer Hans Hyan and the son of the Berlin painter and draftsman Hans Volker Hyan, Jacques Daniel Hyan stayed in the industry. Initially, of course, when he was a child, he was “sent” from bombed Berlin to Norway. After attending school, he financed his art studies in Oslo and Cologne, here with Otto Gerster , mainly as a seaman. From 1970 Hyan was able to support himself as a freelance artist. He worked alternately in the Black Forest and in Norway, which had become his second home. With his wife Marianne, a teacher (married in 1977), Hyan had a son, Daniel Hyan, who now mainly does comedy as a film director . In 2008 the 70-year-old artist succumbed to various illnesses that had been bothering him for years.

In a lecture on the occasion of a Hyan exhibition in Haslach in the summer of 2010, the art scholar Susanne Ramm-Weber brought the deceased closer to Heinrich Zille , who had illustrated several books for Hyan's grandfather. Hyan's imagery is characterized by "satirical, sometimes sarcastic exaggeration, the love of small details, the clear, bright colors, and last but not least the compositional finesse that fills the entire sheet". Market fame was difficult to achieve with something like that. However, Hyan also deliberately avoided the constraints of the art business.

Solo exhibitions

  • In the 1970s numerous exhibitions in companies, authorities and private houses in the Cologne / Bonn area and in Schloss Brühl
  • 1975 and 1976 participation in the judged exhibitions of the Kunstverein Düsseldorf
  • 1979 Gallery in the Mittelstadt, Burkheim am Kaiserstuhl
  • 1981 Galerie am Eck, Offenburg
  • 1983 Hagen Gallery, Offenburg
  • 1989 gallery in the theater Die Insel , Karlsruhe
  • 1989 Galerie Buch und Kunst Hoffmann, Eutin
  • 1989 Kehl town hall
  • 1991 Flour weigher Freiburg / Breisgau (as a guest of the BBK)
  • 1992 Wolfach Palace Hall
  • 1994 Freistett Local History Museum
  • 1995 Friedrichsbau Bühl
  • 1997 Gallery Die Scheune , Gengenbach
  • 1998 artist gallery 37, Karlsruhe
  • 1998 and 2001 Paul-Gerhardt-Haus, Offenburg
  • 1999, 2002 and 2006 Piano House Labianca, Offenburg
  • 2000 Heiligenzell Castle
  • 2002 Auerhof Gallery, Reichenbach
  • 2007 Bitzer oil mill, Offenburg
  • 2010 (posthumous) Kunstverein Mittleres Kinzigtal, Haslach
  • 2013 Artraum Gallery, Freiburg / Breisgau
  • 2014 Oleofactum Gallery, Offenburg

Further solo exhibitions in Norway. In addition, participation in numerous group exhibitions, especially in the Baden region.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the widow's information on request, June 2014
  2. ↑ Website KV Mittleres Kinzigtal

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personal data
SURNAME Hyan, Jacques D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2008
Place of death Offenburg