Jochen Senger

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Jochen Senger (born May 8, 1929 in Berlin-Dahlem as Hans-Joachim Senger ; † July 25, 2016 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German painter and sculptor.

Life

Jochen Senger spent his childhood and youth in Berlin-Lankwitz. After graduating from high school, he began studying at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. Here he met Max Pechstein , Karl Hofer , Richard Scheibe , Alexander Camaro , Paul Dierkes , Ernst Schumacher and Karl Hartung . He came to the modern age through Will Grohmann , the art historian and fellow campaigner of German Expressionism . While still a student, Senger was commissioned by the French military priest Père Barth to design the hospital chapel in the Napoleon district . With a grant from the French state, he went to Paris from 1952 to 1953, where he met Fernand Léger . In 1954 he completed his university studies as a master student of Hans Orlowski .

In 1955 he married Jadwiga, the daughter of Alexander Camaro . From 1956 to 1966 he lived and worked alternately in Altea, Spain, where he designed and built his studio house, and in Berlin. Senger traveled to (Mexico) in November 1962 on a HAPAG grant . On the recommendation of Will Grohmann and with the help of the German Embassy, ​​he soon got important contacts in Mexico. He met Luis Islas Garcia, Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna , Paul Westheim and the gallery owner Antonio Souza. In October 1963 he married his second wife Gabriele, with whom he has two children.

In 1967 he met Werner Haftmann in Berlin , the first director of the Neue Nationalgalerie , in which a large solo exhibition of his works was shown in 1970. During this time he met artists such as Mies van der Rohe , Roberto Matta , Jorge Castillo , Pierre Soulages and Jean Tinguely . From 1971 to 1972 he was a scholarship holder of the Károlyi Foundation in Vence and the Consulat des Arts in La Garde-Freinet . In 1972 Senger went to Denmark, first he worked for a friend in Hørsholm , then he rented a studio in Hornbaek . The landscape and moods of the north, which he had got to know in Norway in 1967 and 1968, influenced his painting. Knud W. Jensen, director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, bought a work.

During a visit to Karlsruhe , an architect friend offered him a vacant studio in Weinbrennerstrasse, in which he worked from 1974 to 1979. Here there was a radical change in his visual language. Several of his lithographs were printed in the academy's workshops. Through the mediation of Karlsruhe galleries, his works were sold, among others to the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe . Since he did not want to stay in Karlsruhe, he moved into a house in Johannisberg arranged by Heinz te Laake . Here he lived with his future wife Grazyna from 1979 in a large front building of the Villa Mumm, in which he had a spacious studio. In 1980 and 1981 he spent three months in the Valle de Bravo in the Mexican summer house of his benefactor, who placed him with an art-in-building contract for the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. However, it remained with the planning. He had already carried out such orders in different materials before, e.g. B. 1963 a sculpture wall in San Roque (Spain), 1969 a ceramic wall for the Ahrenberg collection in Chexbres (Switzerland) and 1974 the house painting for the sculptor's studio Wille in Vierhuizen, Holland. This was followed by larger solo exhibitions, in 1982 in the Dresdner Bank , Frankfurt am Main, and in 1983 a retrospective with over 100 works in the Neue Galerie der Staatliche und Städtische Kunstsammlungen in Kassel.

In 1985 Senger finally said goodbye to the Rheingau and returned to Berlin, where he had had a studio in the Wedding district since 1983 . With the fee for painting a 120-meter-long connecting tunnel to the DRK hospital in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , he acquired a farmhouse in Zeetze in Wendland. In addition to the Wendland art scene, he exhibited his new works in Krakow , Berlin and Madrid . He turned to the technique of screen printing . Many new works were created using this printing technique. After the sale of the house in Wendland, he worked from 1996 to 2006 in a studio in Kreuzberg supported by the Berlin Senate. It was here that he developed his late style, reduced to architectural symbols, which he put flat on the paper with black and white ink.

Most recently he lived and worked in Berlin-Friedenau , where he and his wife had owned an apartment since 1985.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960: Museum and Art Association, Wuppertal, Remscheid
  • 1963: Souza Gallery, Mexico DF, New York
  • 1968: Kikos Galleries, Houston, Texas
  • 1970: National Gallery, Berlin
  • 1971: Fondation Carolyi, Vence / France
  • 1982: Galerie Roswitha Haftmann Modern Art, Zurich
    Dresdner Bank Frankfurt / M.
    Country. Art collections Neue Galerie, Schöne Aussicht, Kassel, pictures and drawings
  • 1989: Centro Cultural de las Rozas de Madrid
  • 1993: Museums of the city of Salzwedel, Salzwedel, pictures / drawings / sculptures
  • 1995: Galerie Parterre, Kulturamt Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, pictures, drawings, collages objects
  • 2001: Centro Cultural de las Rozas de Madrid, Sala Maruja Malo, Spain
  • 2003: Villa Oppenheim, BA Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Homo Ludens
  • 2009: Galerie im Turm, BA Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, works on paper
  • 2011: Berlinische Galerie , Berlin

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, generation around 1930
  • 1963: House of Art, Munich
  • 1964: Galerie Benjamin Katz, Berlin
  • 1965: Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel, aspects of surrealism 1924-1965
  • 1966: Kunsthaus Hamburg, Berlin sculptor painter
  • 1968/1971: Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, annual editions
  • 1976: National Gallery, Berlin
  • 2002: Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, From the Dürer Period to Postmodernism
  • 2003: Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, annual gifts ,
    Institute Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, lines against nothing
  • 2011: Galerie Parterre, Prenzlauer Berg, Arno Schmidt and what does Already New York mean?

Literature (selection)

  • Luis Islas Garcia: Hans Joachim Senger . Catalog, Berlin sculptor painter, 1963
  • Lore Ditzen: Senger in the "S" gallery . Radio license fee, Sender Free Berlin, January 10, 1966
  • Godehard Lietzow: Foreword to Tierra Sonada . Catalog, 1967
  • Heinz Ohff: Art in Berlin 1945 to the present day . Catalog, Belser Verlag, 1969
  • Werner Haftmann: Horizonte J.Senger , Forces Vives Collection, Rousseau Edition Geneva, 1970
  • Jean Petit, Werner Haftmann: Joachim Senger . rousseau-life, Geneva February 1971
  • Jochen Senger: title page. PLATEA Revista Cultural , art magazine, Madrid, ISSN  1577-7502
  • Horst Hollstein: The painter Jochen Senger , Ursula Prinz: Tore zum Licht , Andreas Schalhorn: Shapes of Things to Come. Some remarks on Jochen Senger's art of drawing . Edition Xim Virgines, ISBN 978-3-934268-94-4

Exhibition catalogs

  • Eberhard Marx: Three painters from Berlin . Catalog, Kunstverein Cologne, 1961
  • Hans-Theodor Flemming: Heinrich Richter, Harry Kögler, Joachim Senger . Catalog, Galeria de Antonio Souza, Mexico, 1963
  • Ursula Lehmann-Brockhaus: Jochen Senger . Catalog, National Gallery, 1970
  • Werner Haftmann: Parables , Ulrich Schmidt: Landscapes and walls . J. Senger pictures a. Drawings 1971–1982, catalog, Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt / M. and Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Neue Galerie, 1982
  • Dorothea van der Koelen: Traces of Landscapes - Ciphers , Ursula Prinz: Pictures , Werner Langer. J. Senger Pictures and Drawings Catalog, Dorothea van der Koelen Gallery, Mainz-Bretzenheim, 1985. DNB 900190310
  • Werner Haftmann: Opinions sobre la obra de Jochen Senger , Ursula Prinz: Lienzos . Jochen Senger catalog, Centro Cultural las Rozas de Madrid, 1989
  • Renate Franke: Creative world view , Günther Kochan: Draft for a composition to pictures. Catalog Jochen Senger 1984–1994, Galerie Kunstraum Wendland, R. Kolakowski, Galerie Epikur, Wuppertal, 1994
  • Ursula Prinz: Homo Ludens , Joaquin Rico-Consuelo. J. Senger catalog, Centro Cultural las Rozas de Madrid, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova . Roswitha Haftmann . P. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Senger, Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senger, Hans-Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Dahlem
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2016
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf