Jan Voss (painter)

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Jan Voss

Jan Voss (born October 9, 1936 in Hamburg , Germany ; lives in Paris , France ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Jan Voss spent his early childhood and youth in Marne in Holstein until he was sent to the Schloss Plön boarding school in 1953 . From 1956 to 1960 Voss studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He has lived in Paris since 1960 . From 1966 to 1967 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . From 1987 to 1992 he was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in Paris. He had his first solo exhibition in 1962 at the Baier Gallery in Mainz . Between 1969 and 1992, as a member of the German Association of Artists , Jan Voss took part in a total of twelve exhibitions at the major annual exhibitions of the DKB.

The basic theme of his painting is the “order” of a constantly moving chaos of a difficult and fragmented situation. Jan Voss uses numerous materials and techniques in his work. He works with color-intensive paintings on canvas and with finer drawings that look like comic- like stories and come up with many details. In 1968 he participated in the 4th documenta in Kassel with four pictures .

He also created wood and paper reliefs and watercolors . All works are characterized by an accumulation of different color and form elements that interlock, overlap and are connected to one another by signs and lines. Initially only held in the second dimension, Voss extended this form of expression to the third dimension and began in the 1980s to crumple, fold, tear and saw his pictures.

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. die-galerie.com: Jan Voss / Biography (accessed on 2 June 2016)
  2. s. Art report. nineteen three nineteen ninety five. An overview of the German Association of Artists , DKB Berlin, special edition winter 1994/1995. Page 134: Voss, Jan .

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