Jorg Hartig

This article deals with the painter, for the chemist see Jörg S. Hartig

Jorg Hartig, 2017

Jorg Hartig (born February 14, 1932 in Morchenstern , Czechoslovakia ) is an Austrian painter. 

Life

Hartig grew up in Graz , Austria , and later went to Vienna , where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1954 . Since then he has participated in solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Works are in private and public ownership.

From 1949 to 1958 Hartig was a member of the Steiermärkischer Kunstverein , from 1956 to 1983 a member or board member of the Künstlerbund Graz . From 1967 to 1980 he was Vice President of the Professional Association of Austrian Visual Artists (BVÖ) . From 1967 to 1993 he taught as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 1971 to 75 Jorg Hartig was President of the New Hagenbund . Hartig has been a member since 1975, from 1983 to 1993 he was a board member of the Vienna Secession .

In 1982 he was awarded the title of professor.

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Jorg Hartig was one of the first artists in Austria to experiment with acrylic painting , which he discovered for himself in the 1960s. During his life, Hartig drew the greatest inspiration from his immediate environment - from phenomena of the modern world, civilization and culture. He mainly dealt with their appearances and crises, which gives his work a strong time-critical component. "He is one of the few artists of his time who began to create and represent a worldview again," said Claus Pack. “Hartig is not only a contemporary, but also a distanced artist, who succeeds in overcoming the so long forced, false individualism in general, to develop a cosmological awareness that seems appropriate to the situation of humanity and the world and does justice to it becomes."

Jorg Hartig's work is always tied to reality. At the beginning of a new work with Hartig there is usually an optical stimulus, which the artist gives spontaneously and emotionally painterly based on a constructive framework. He himself describes this as "REALPOP". In the sense of “look and recognize!” Hartig always addresses “the person”, wants to convey what he has “recognized” and at the same time awaken the “recognition” in the viewer. In his work he also tries again and again to give graphic expression to what is no longer comprehensible, at least with the mind. “The head has no place in art. The mind runs out very quickly. Emotions go deeper and persist, ”says Hartig. In contrast to the scientist, the artist cannot explain or prove the world - but he can interpret it and call this interpretation into consciousness through signs or “aha experiences”.

Hartig deals with topics that have repeatedly gained new meaning for him over the years, which he continues or thinks ahead in his work. Central thematic groups that metaphorically characterize both the artist himself and the respective time are in Hartig “movement”, “destruction”, “street”, “sex”, “ice cream sundae”, “car”, “cosmic horizons”, “vegetation” "And" Meditation ", as well as in the last few years especially the" Figure in the change of interpretation ".

Prices

• I. Prize of the City of Graz , AT
• Art medal of the city of Graz , AT
• Art Prize of the State of Styria - purchase price, AT
• Theodor Körner Prize , AT
• Jury award at the XIVe Festival International de la Peinture in Cagenes-Sur-Mer , FR
• Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts

Exhibitions

• 1954 Steiermärkischer Kunstverein in the Vienna Secession , AT
• 1955 Forum Stadtpark Graz im Hagenbund, Vienna, AT
• 1956 Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT
• 1957 Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT
• 1958 Youth Biennial in the city of Gorizia , former Yugoslavia
• 1958 Hagenbund, Vienna, AT
• 1958 traveling exhibition Cairo - Ankara, EG
• 1959 Künstlerbund, Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT
• 1960 Athens Biennale, GR
• 1961 Gallery of the Young Generation, Vienna. AT
• 1961 Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
• 1962 Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe, DE
• 1962 Exhibition of the representatives of Austrian painting and sculpture in the Salon Comparaison, Paris, FR
• 1962 Kulturforum Karlsruhe, DE
• 1964 Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt , AT
• 1965 Künstlerbund, Graz, in the Wiener Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
• 1966 Trigon, Graz, AT
• 1966 1st International Painting Weeks in Graz, Neue Galerie Leibnitz, Stadtgalerie, AT
• 1966 European painting in Bregenz in the Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, AT
• 1967 Exhibition of Trigon, 1st International Painting Weeks in Ljubljana, Galeria Mestna, former Yugoslavia
• 1967 Austria Weeks in Stuttgart, DE
• 1968 Artists Association of Southern Germany, Esslingen Town Hall, DE
• 1969 Galerie Seilerststätte, Vienna, AT
• 1969 Galerie Café Museum, Vienna, AT
• 1969 Galerie Seilerststätte, Vienna - Art and technical environment - The blue eagle, Vienna, AT
• 1970 New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AT
• 1972 Steirischer Herbst - Austrian painting as part of Trigon, Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT
• 1974            Künstlerhaus Vienna - Man and the City, AT
• 1974 Austriagraph '- Austrian graphics of the 20th century Bozen, Rome, IT
• 1975 Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna, AT
• 1975 Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT
• 1975            Austrian Cultural Center , Vienna - Myth of Women, AT
• 1976 Jorg Hartig. Painting and graphics, Gallery of the Vienna Secession , Vienna, AT
• 1977 Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna, AT
• 1977 Gallery Klement, Graz, AT

• 1978 Science Fair, University of Salzburg, AT

• 1978 n.a. V. Danubia, Vienna, AT

• 1979 The members of the Vienna Secession. Painting-plastic-drawings-objects-photos, Vienna Secession , AT

• 1979 Gallery at the Stubenbastei, Vienna, AT

• 1980            Darmstadt State Theater , DE

• 1980 City Hall, Vienna (action artists paint and draw in companies)

• 1981            New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt , DE, and Kunsthalle, Krakow, PL

• 1981 Gallery in the Vienna State Opera (Ludwig Foundation), Vienna, AT

• 1982 Künstlerbund, Graz, AT

• 1982 BVÖ., Vienna, AT
• 1982 From the collections of artist friend Viktor Matejka. Portraits, roosters, montages and other things,  Vienna Secession , AT 

• 1982 Festival exhibition of the Vienna Secession : Individual contributions from members, Vienna Secession, AT

• 1982 International de la Peinture Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR

• 1982 The Vienna Secession 1982 in Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, DE (Jorg Hartig was also a curator here)

• 1983 The small format. Painting plastic object. As part of the exhibition "Room miniatures, landscape and architectural spaces in sculpture", Vienna Secession , AT

• 1983 Science fair in the Vienna Messepalast , AT

• 1983 With the Darmstadt Secession in Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, DE

• 1983 In the Secession , Vienna and in the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf , DE, Galerie Kaufbeuren, DE

• 1983 Styrian painting from 1945-60 in Graz, Neue Galerie, AT

• 1983 Ars Sacra, Vienna, AT

• 1983 Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast - large art exhibition, DE

• 1984 Bosch-Investa in the Vienna Exhibition Center , AT

• 1984 36 artists from Austria in Munich, Vienna, Künstlerhaus and Berlin in the radio tower

• 1984 Large art exhibition in Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast , DE

• 1985 36 artists from Austria in Sofia and Kjustendil, BG, as well as in Tifilis, former USSR and Zagreb, former Yugoslavia

• 1985 Triennial in Sofia, BG

• 1985            Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, DE

• 1985 Large art exhibition in Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast , DE

• 1986            Darmstadt Secession in the Künstlerhaus, Graz, AT

• 1986 signs and gestures. Informal tendencies in Austria, Vienna Secession , Vienna, AT

• 1987            City Museum, Graz , AT
• 1987 Jorg Hartig. Painting. Views - Insights,  Vienna Secession , AT
• 1987 Austrian graphic II after 1970. From the collection of the Vienna Secession,  Vienna Secession , AT

• 1988 “Jugendwerke vom Schillerplatz”, Academy of Fine Arts , Vienna, AT

• 1988 "Maria 88", gallery of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, AT

• 1989 “Querdurch”, contemporary Austrian painting, Kulturhaus, Bratislava , SK

• 1990 "Querdurch", Vychodslovenka Galeria, Košice , SK

• 1991 Traveling exhibition through Lower Austria of the Lower Austrian Society for Art and Culture, AT

• 1992 "Put on paper", City Hall, Vienna, AT

• 1992 "Put on Paper", New York , USA

• 1993            Darmstadt Secession , Darmstadt , Mathildenhöhe , DE

• 1993 Wystawowy Pavilion, Cracow , PL

• 1994 "Put on Paper", Washington , USA

• 1995            Darmstadt Secession , Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, DE

• 1995 "Great Art Exhibition", Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, DE

• 1997 VHS Vienna, AT
• 1998 “Put on Paper”, Pushkin Museum , Moscow, RU
• 2001            Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, DE
• 2003            Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, DE
• 2004            New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, DE
• 2005 "Location 2005", New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, DE
• 2017 "JORG.HARTIG.REALPOP. A retrospective ”, MUSA, Vienna, AT

literature

• Jorg Hartig (Ed.): Hartig. With an introduction by Claus Pack and a text by Otmar Rychlik. - Hermann Böhlaus Nachf. Vienna, Cologne, Graz 1986; ISBN 3-205-02029-4
• 25th annual exhibition of the New Darmstadt Secession (ed.): Location 87. Pictures - sculptures - objects - installations by members and guests. - Rotherdruck, Darmstadt, 1987
• Wolfgang Hilger (Ed. For the cultural department of the City of Vienna): Put on paper. Viennese art since 1945. - Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-9500063-2-X , p. 92
• Berthold Ecker, Johannes Karel (ed. For the cultural department of the city of Vienna - MUSA): The seventies. Expansion of Viennese art. - Ambergris | V, 2013; ISBN 978-3-99043-560-1 ; P. 482
• Darmstädter Sezession (Ed.): Inventory. The Darmstadt Secession 2013. - Justus von Liebig Verlag, 2013; ISBN 978-3-87390-332-6 ; P. 132 ff.
• Berthold Ecker, Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer (ed. For the cultural department of the city of Vienna - MUSA): The eighties. Pluralism on the threshold of the information age. - DeGruyter, 2015; ISBN 978-3-11-043892-5 ; Pp. 239, 488
• Wolfgang Drechsler, Berthold Ecker, Sonja Gruber (ed. For the cultural department of the City of Vienna - MUSA): JORG HARTIG. REALPOP. - DeGruyter, 2017; ISBN 978-3-11-054466-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Claus Pack, Otmar Rychlik: Hartig . Ed .: Jorg Hartig. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1986, ISBN 3-205-02029-4 .
2. ↑ Claus Pack, Otmar Rychlik: Hartig . Ed .: Jorg Hartig. Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1986, ISBN 3-205-02029-4 .