Jens Lausen

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Jens Lausen (born August 18, 1937 in Altona , today Hamburg ; † June 13, 2017 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ) was a German painter and graphic artist of the "New Landscape".

life and work

Jens Lausen / The Empty Space / Künstlerhaus Sootbörn / 7. – 21. April 2013 / Exhibition opening as part of the forum for artists' bequests

Jens Lausen graduated from 1955 to 1957 in a Hamburg department store training as use recruiters . From 1955 to 1958 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Kurt Kranz , Werner Bunz and Georg Gresko, among others . In 1964 he began to paint “Artificial Landscapes” and was, together with Hans-Jürgen Kleinhammes and Werner Nöfer , co-founders of the German post-war art movement “New Landscape”, which distinguished itself through depictions of a geometric, ornamental approach to landscape enriched with technical set pieces. Like Kleinhammes and other painters of the “New Landscape” in the 1970s and 1980s, Lausen was inspired by Caspar David Friedrich , with whom he - like Giorgio de Chirico - had already come into contact at an early age at the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Lausen's special contribution was the “artificial landscape”, a landscape designed by humans (cityscape, industrial landscape). In 1965 Lausen received the scholarship of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI) and in 1966 the art prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen .

From 1970 to 1978 he worked for longer periods of time in London and New York City and taught painting at the University of Kiel, department of design ( Muthesius Art Academy ). Since 1969 he has not only implemented his artificial and psychedelic image spaces in large-format oil paintings, but also in numbered and signed screen prints , which have been distributed by numerous graphic editions. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions, the major show Der Bruch in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1980 marked the provisional high point of his theme of landscapes, which has been relevant since 1964, and of Land-Art-like boxes in the form of stones, sticks and still lifes (nature morte) .

Lausen traveled for a long time through South America, later to the Papuans in New Guinea and meditated in a Buddhist monastery in Ladakh in the Himalayas . From 1980 to 1992 he lived and worked on a small tropical island in the Philippines , where he got married and his two children Johannes and Melody were born in 1985 and 1989. In 1992, under the title The Inner Horizon, in the Metropolitan Museum of Manila , he showed the newly created works on the island in a comprehensive solo exhibition.

In 1993 Lausen returned to Germany and has lived in the Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf ever since .

The autobiographical novel From Moment to Moment followed in 2001 . The EGO-Verlag Hamburg, founded by Lausen in 2004, has published over 40 of its own text, poetry and picture books. In 2012 he donated part of his work to the Forum for the Estates of Artists in Hamburg.

Lausen has received numerous art prizes and has regularly shown his works in over 150 exhibitions in Europe, the USA , Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania since 1964 , including a solo exhibition in the domed hall of the Kunsthalle Hamburg , in the Metropolitan Museum Manila and Kampnagel . There are also numerous works in private and public collections and museums, including the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Kunsthalle Kiel , the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Landesmuseum Hannover , the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , Gottorf Castle and Tate Britain . Lausen is mentioned in over a hundred publications, including art history books, catalogs, magazines, TV reports and films.

Jens Lausen died in June 2017 shortly before his 80th birthday in his studio in the Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf.

Selected Works

"Jens Lausen, from looking at the landscape, its natural and artificial parts, finally found that contemplation in which empty space becomes a meaningful place of the self."

- Hajo Schiff (art critic) : Speech by Hajo Schiff on the exhibition in the gallery k3 at Kampnagel in Hamburg on November 21, 1997

Jens Lausen published a total of three catalogs, which comprehensively present his works since 1974. His third catalog, The Empty Room , published in 2013, contains works from 1993 to 2012.

  • Oval Landscape , 1965, oil / gold leaf, hardboard, 80 × 65

  • Plateau 1966, oil / canvas, 120 × 80

  • The sky is full of lines , 1972, oil / canvas, 175 × 125

  • The lost horizon , 1996, oil / canvas, 160 × 160

  • Triptych: The Inner Horizon I – III , 2011, oil / canvas, each 140 × 100

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965: Jens Lausen , Falazik Gallery, Bochum
  • 1967: Jens Lausen - Signals, Stations, Landscapes , Brusberg Gallery, Hanover
  • 1967: 1st Cologne Art Market, Kölnischer Kunstverein, (represented the Brusberg Gallery there)
  • 1969: Jens Lausen - Signals, Stations, Landscapes , Marlborough Fine Art , London;
  • 1969: Kunsthalle Kiel , Schleswig Holstein Art Association
  • 1970: Alexej-Iljitsch Baschlakow - Jens Lausen , Kunstverein Mannheim
  • 1971: Overbeck Society , Lübeck
  • 1972: Galerie Walther, Düsseldorf
  • 1973: Arnesen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1974: Slow Gallery, Armadale, Australia
  • 1974: Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • 1980: Der Bruch , Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 1993: Jens Lausen , The Inner Horizon. 1981–1992, Goethe-Institut , Manila , Metropolitan Museum Manila
  • 1996: The Empty Room , Galerie Barlach, Hamburg
  • 1997: On omission , Kampnagel K: 3, Hamburg
  • 1998: Drawings C. 15, Hamburg
  • 1998: The Empty Room , Frebel Gallery, Westerland, Sylt
  • 1999: Farewell to tomorrow , Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2002: In self-measurement , Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2004: Souvenir , Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2005: Contacts , New York City , NY , USA
  • 2005: Contemporary archive, photos 1975–1976 , Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2008: Horizontal Being , October 3 to 23, 2008, poems, drawings, paintings (1965–2008), Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2010: Steps , painting, drawings, poems, Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf
  • 2013: Jens Lausen , Forum for the Estates of Artists , Hamburg (April 7-21, 2013)

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • 1965: ars viva '65 culture group in the Federal Association of German Industry, Leverkusen, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Kunstverein eV Augsburg, Oldenburger Kunstverein, 1965/1966
  • 1966: German Art Prize for Young People , Painting, State Art Gallery Baden-Baden, 1966
  • 1967: Tokyobiennale , The International Art Promotion Association
  • 1967: 128th spring exhibition , Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1967: Deutscher Künstlerbund , 15th exhibition Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe eV
  • 1968: Current art in Hamburg , Kunsthaus Hamburg , initiative, selection, organization by the exhibitors
  • 1968: Our collection , Kunstverein Bremen
  • 1968: Deutscher Künstlerbund , 16th exhibition, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 1968: German Painters of today (A contribution of the German Art Council to the Adelaide Festival of Arts)
  • 1969: painter around 30 , Museum Ulm
  • 1970: Hamburg - Marseille , Tendances actuelles, Ecole d 'Art et d'architecture, Goethe-Institut Marseille
  • 1970: Master of Printmaking in German 20th Century Art , Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1972: A journey into the universe of art , Fischer Fine Art Limited London
  • 1972: International graphics of the 20th century , Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne, warehouse catalog 6, 1972
  • 1972: New Art in the Old Farm , Jaeschke, Frielinghaus, Archive No. 4, Laer House in Bochum
  • 1973: International hand drawings 1 , Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne, catalog 8, 1973
  • 1973: Landscape, Spaces, Environment , Museum Bochum
  • 1973: Large art exhibition in Munich , House of Art , Munich
  • 1973: International Bienale of Graphic Art , Moderna Galerija Ljubljana Jugoslavia
  • 1973: Tyske Tenderser , Esbjerg Art Pavilions, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum Aalborg , Denmark
  • 1973: 6th International Trienial for Colored Printmaking , Haldenschulhaus, Kunstgesellschaft Grenchen, Switzerland
  • 1974: 5th Międzynarodowe Biennale Grafiki w Krakowie , Pawilon Wystawowy Kraków + Intergrafia Katowice, Poland
  • 1974: 2nd Norske Internasjonale grafikk Biennale , Fredrikstad, Norway
  • 1974: 3rd International Graphic Biennale, Kunstverein zu Frechen, Frechen
  • 1974: Kunstreport catalog 1974 , Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Berlin
  • 1974: International Art Exhibition , ITT Art Collection, Miami Art Center, Pacific Science Center, California Museum of Science, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Museums in: Atlanta, Hartford, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, and Minneapolis
  • 1976: The new landscape , traveling exhibition 1976, 65th BAT exhibition in Hamburg and Germany
  • 1976: 4th International Graphic Biennale , Kunstverein zu Frechen, Frechen
  • 1976: New talent in printmaking , Associated American Artists, 663 Fifth Ave., New York City , NY , USA
  • 1978: Portraits today , traveling exhibition of former laureates of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
  • 1978: International of Drawings , Christchurch Art Festival R. McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch , New Zealand
  • 1978: Reports 1978/79 , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf , Schleswig
  • 1979: Landscapes , traveling exhibition of former laureates of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
  • 1980: City (Hamburg artist), Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1980: From the longing to fly , West Bank Hanover
  • 2005: Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), KG Saur Verlag, Munich
  • 2008: Jens Lausen complete catalog , texts and comments 1965–2009, volumes 1–13, painting, drawings, graphics, sculpture, text
  • 2009: Art address book , 20th edition, (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), KG Saur Verlag, Munich
  • 2018: ALL. Artists in the Overbeck Society Lübeck 1918–2018 , anniversary exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Overbeck Society, Kunstverein Lübeck

Bibliography (catalogs)

  • 1963: Jens Lausen , Marlborough Fine Art , London
  • 1965: Jens Lausen , catalog, 1965, Falazig Gallery, Bochum
  • 1967: Jens Lausen - Signals, Stations, Landscapes , Brusberg Gallery, Hanover
  • 1970: Jens Lausen , exhibition Mannheimer Kunstverein
  • 1971: Jens Lausen - Signals, Stations, Landscapes in Space , Overbeck Society , Lübeck
  • 1974: Jens Lausen - Artificial Landscapes 1971–1974 , Galerie Kammer Hamburg, Galerie Wilbrand Düsseldorf, Böttcherstraße GmbH Bremen
  • 1979: Jens Lausen - print catalog 1969–1979 , Galerie Walther, Düsseldorf
  • 1980: Jens Lausen - The break. 1974-1979. Exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Hamburg (solo exhibition), Christians, Hamburg, 1980
  • 1991: Jens Lausen - The Inner Horizon. 1991-1992. Exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum Manila, 1991
  • 2013: Jens Lausen - The Empty Room. 1993-2012. Catalog 80 pages and over 80 color illustrations, Hamburg, 2013

Bibliography (texts and poems)

The following texts and poems have been published by the EGO-Verlag Hamburg, founded by Lausen.

  • Jens Lausen: From A – Z, Part One : A – K (Poetic Prose) , Edition No. 1, No. 1
  • Jens Lausen: From A – Z, Part Two : L – S (Poetic Prose) , Edition No. 2, No. 1
  • Jens Lausen: From A – Z, Part Three : T – Z (Poetic Prose) , Edition No. 3, No. 1
  • Jens Lausen: Das A und O , 2003, Poems, Edition No. 4, No. 1
  • Jens Lausen: Bildfelder , 2005, Poems, Edition No. 5, No. 1
  • Jens Lausen: Selected Poems , 2013, late harvest, Edition No. 6
  • Jens Lausen: From Moment to Moment , Excerpt 1, First Chapter On Death , 2000/01, Edition No. 7
  • Jens Lausen: From Moment to Moment , Excerpt 2, First Chapter On War , Ninth Chapter From Childhood , 2000/01, Edition No. 8
  • Armin Giese : Border Rivers Everywhere , 2004/2005, Poems, Edition No. 10, No. 1–11
  • Jens Lausen: Fundstücke , 2005, poems, edition no. 11, no. 1–2
  • Jens Lausen: I hear chants in an empty room , 2005, Poems, Edition No. 12, No. 1–8
  • Jens Lausen: All in all , 2005, Poems, Edition No. 13, No. 1–8
  • Jens Lausen: Under the Skin , 2005, Poems, Edition No. 14, No. 1–8
  • Melody Lausen: Melody's life , 2005, drawing and text, Edition No. 15, No. 1–10
  • Jens Lausen: The very moment , 2006, New Poems, Edition No. 16, No. 1–7
  • Jens Lausen: The divided horizon , 2006, New Poems, Edition No. 17, No. 1–11
  • Jens Lausen: Jenseits , 2006, Expression, New Poems, Edition No. 18, No. 1–8
  • Armin Giese: Himmel unter Sternen , 2006, Neue Gedichte, Edition No. 19, No. 1–18
  • Jens Lausen: Incidentally (Brüche) , 2006, New Poems, Edition No. 20, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Everything is canvas , 2006, New Poems, Edition No. 21, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Stille Schatten Ufer , 2007, New Poems, Edition No. 22, No. 1–8
  • Jens Lausen: Between Space, Time and Emptiness , 2007, New Poems, Edition No. 23, No. 1–11
  • Armin Giese: Nachklang , 2008, New Poems, Edition No. 24, No. 1–20
  • Jens Lausen: Appropriation , 2008, New Poems, Edition No. 25, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Horizontal Being , 2008, New Poems, Edition No. 26, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: So there for me ... , 2008, New Poems, Edition No. 27, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: So oder So , 2009, New Poems, Edition No. 28, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Steps , 2009, New Poems, Edition No. 29, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Brüche , 2013, New Poems, Edition No. 30, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Herbstzeitlos , 2013, New Poems, Edition No. 31, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Borrowed Being , 2014, New Poems, Edition No. 32, No. 1–15
  • Armin Giese: When we found the way ... , 2015, Neue Gedichte, Edition No. 33, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Sonnentau , 2015, New Poems, Edition No. 34, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: The Other Horizon , 2015/16, Poems, Edition No. 35, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Being found again , 2016, Poems, Edition No. 36, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Colors of the Moment , 2016, Poems, Edition No. 37, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Gehwege , 2016, New Poems, Edition No. 38, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: The Blind Spot , 2016, Poems, Edition No. 39, No. 1–15
  • Armin Giese: Already noon… , 2017, Poems, Edition No. 40, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen:… in and for itself… , 2017, poems, edition No. 41, No. 1–15
  • Jens Lausen: Weg , 2017, photos, Edition No. 42

literature

  • 1966: Musical geometry , Kunstverein Hannover, 1966.
  • 1966: Labyrinths , Fantastic Art from the 16th Century to the Present, Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1966.
  • 1967: Der Spiegel , magazine from November 6, 1967, issue No. 4.
  • 1969: Industry and Technology in German Painting (From Romanticism to the Present), 1969, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg.
  • 1970: Rolf-Gunther Dienst: German art, a new generation. Verlag Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1970, (= Yearbook of the Hamburg Art Collection, Volume 14/15), p. 269.
  • 1972: Hermann Walther: Jens Lausen. Signals - stations - landscapes in space. List of prints 1969–1972. Walther Gallery, Düsseldorf, 1972.
  • 1972: Jacob Reisner (Siemens AG): How we will live. Publisher F. Bruckmann, Munich.
  • 1974: Juliane Roh: German art since 1960. (printmaking) Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich.
  • 1975: L'Alemand (Dans les classes du second circle). Edition Fernand Nathan.
  • 1977: Volker D. Heydorn: painter in Hamburg.
  • 1977: Prints 1945–1976, BBK Hamburg. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg.
  • 1977: rainbows for a better world. Triumph of the 3rd Württemberg Art Association, Stuttgart.
  • 1978: Terzoocchio periodico d'arte fantastica, Anno IV, No. 11, Editioni Bora, Via Jacobo di Paola 42, Bologna.
  • 1982: artist in Hamburg. (Artist lexicon). Cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Christians Verlag, Hamburg.
  • 1993: MABUHAY, Oct. 1993 No. 10, Magazine of Philippine Airlines.
  • 1997: Siegfried Kühl (Ed.): Culture in Hamburg. Hamburg.
  • 2004: Landscape Pictures. (= Bochum collects. 2.) Museum Bochum.
  • 2013: CN Böttge: On the Phonon Interactions and Terahertz Excitations among Coulomb-correlated Charge Carriers of Semiconductors . Dissertation . Philipps University of Marburg , Department of Physics. Marburg an der Lahn (2013).
  • 2017: Evangelical Community Academy Blankenese: Winterreise, The song cycle, seen by 28 artists. February 19 to April 5, 2017, Ed .: Thomas Sello , Susanne Opatz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lausen on the website of the Künstlerhaus Bergedorf
  2. ^ Evangelical Community Academy Blankenese: Winterreise, The song cycle, seen by 28 artists. February 19 to April 5, 2017, Ed .: Thomas Sello , Susanne Opatz.
  3. ↑ 2013: Jens Lausen - The Empty Room. 1993-2012. Catalog 80 pages and over 80 color illustrations, Hamburg, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lausen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2017
Place of death Hamburg