Johannes Eidt

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Johannes Eidt (left) in his studio in Osnabrück in 2013 together with the photo artist and writer Ulrich Brinkhoff

Johannes Eidt (born June 21, 1936 in Osnabrück ) is a German painter and graphic artist.

He lives as a freelance artist in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) and has a studio in Tokyo (Japan). He was a university professor in Germany and also taught in Japan.

Life

Johannes Eidt studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1956 to 1958 under Heinrich Wildemann , who nominated him as a master student. Eidt did not accept this offer and left the academy in a conflict with his professor because he did not want to follow the zeitgeist of abstraction. Together with a fellow student, he hitchhiked to India without any means. After traveling for a year, he came to Japan on board a freighter in 1959. After acquiring a basic knowledge of the Japanese language, he studied graphics from 1960 to 1962 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Komai Tetsurō .

In 1963 he returned to his hometown Osnabrück and initially set up a studio together with the sculptor Hermann Auf der Heide and the ceramicist Rolf Overberg , in which he devoted himself to lithography , serigraphy and collage . In 1963 he married Sonoi Kato from Japan, with whom he has two children. With her he went to Japan again in 1969, where he was assistant at the Department of Graphics at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo until 1972. From 1974 he studied at the Kassel Art Academy and in 1977 as a visiting student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Angers , Osnabrück's French twin town. In 1981 he received the first prize from the Japanese artist group Shun-Yo-Kai, of which he is a member as well as the artist group Arche and the Federal Association of Visual Artists Lower Saxony. He spent a work stay in New York in 1982.

From 1983 to 1986 he taught at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences , was a guest artist at the Paul Ernst Wilke Society in Bremerhaven in 1988, and in 1990 was a lecturer at the International Museum for Artistic Graphics in Machida ( Tokyo Prefecture ). In 1991 he set up a studio in Tokyo and has been there regularly since then to work and to supervise the exhibitions of his works in Japan.

In 2003 he received an award as part of the Fahnenmeer project at the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven . His hometown Osnabrück paid tribute to the wanderer between two worlds from January 18 to April 8, 2007 with a retrospective in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche under the title Johannes Eidt - Graphics and Collages from 50 Years .

Johannes Eidt and his work were included in the artist database and estate archive of Lower Saxony .

Works

As an artist, Johannes Eidt was influenced by classical modernism . Johannes Eidt does not see himself as a painter, although he studied painting. His preferred stylistic device is the screen printing technique . In his workshop gallery with his own printing studio in the Heger Straße in Osnabrück's old town, he produces rather small-format serigraphs with an edition of 50 or a hundred sheets.

Regarding the influence of Japanese culture on his work, Eidt said in 2006: “[...] after Japan, that is, since 1960, I have not painted at all and have consistently concentrated on artist graphics and especially on lithography. There is sure to be a certain Japanese influence, because it is very typical for a Japanese artist that, after he has chosen a certain medium, he sticks with it all his life. ”He never tied himself to a gallery because he did this felt that the corset was too tight: “Month after month I could only have sold my entire production through the gallery owner. [...] I would have been deprived of the freedom to use even one sheet of paper for myself. In addition, I should have asked permission for each exhibition. To the prospect of such a lack of freedom, which would undoubtedly have nourished me, I preferred independence and the unavoidable insecurity that goes with it. "

Johannes Eidt also appears as a singer with self-written songs, to which he accompanies himself on the guitar.

reception

Klaus Dierßen from Hildesheim, like Eidt, a member of the Arche artist group, described him as a “modern master from Osnabrück”.

Honors

Solo exhibitions

Since 1962 Johannes Eidt has exhibited his work in more than 90 solo exhibitions in galleries in Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Japan and Australia, as well as in a good two dozen solo exhibitions by art associations in Germany and Austria. He also had more than 15 solo exhibitions in museums in Germany and Japan and a further 24 in other institutions in Europe and Asia. Selection:

CD publications

  • 2016 The artist who betrayed art 12 songs, with explanations by Wolfgang Hesse.

literature

  • City of Osnabrück, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (ed.): Johannes Eidt- graphics and collages from 50 years . Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-88926-883-9 .
  • Wolfgang Hesse: The sun is yellow - Johannes Eidt, artist life between Osnabrück and Tokyo . Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-940210-12-8 .
  • Wolfgang Hesse: Between all chairs - Johannes Eidt 50 years of artistic life in and around Osnabrück - 1963 to 2013. Mariprosa, Bad Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816170-0-9 .
  • ヴ ォ ル フ ガ ン グ ・ ヘ ッ セ: 「太陽 は 黄色 だ！」. Japanese translation of the title The sun is yellow - Johannes Eidt, Künstlerleben between Osnabrück and Tokyo by Wolfgang Hesse. Edited by Keizo Takizawa. Translation by Akiko Fukase. Design: Lisa Eidt. Tokyo 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Rattemeyer: A look back at the pioneering years in: Johannes Eidt - Graphics and Collages from 50 Years , Osnabrück 2007, pages 4 to 5
  2. ^ André Lindhorst: In conversation with Johannes Eidt in: Stadt Osnabrück, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (ed.): Johannes Eidt - graphics and collages from 50 years . Osnabrück 2007, page 7
  3. ^ André Lindhorst: In conversation with Johannes Eidt , as above, page 9
  4. ↑ Klaus Dierßen: Phenomena and structures of the pictorial realities by Johannes Eidt in: Stadt Osnabrück, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (ed.): Johannes Eidt - graphics and collages from 50 years . Osnabrück 2007, page 12
  5. ^ City of Osnabrück, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche (ed.): Johannes Eidt - graphics and collages from 50 years . Osnabrück 2007, pages 116 and 117
personal data
SURNAME Eidt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück