Karl-Heinz Adler

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Karl-Heinz Adler (2015)

Karl-Heinz Adler (born June 20, 1927 in Remtengrün ; † November 4, 2018 in Dresden ) was a German painter , graphic artist and conceptual artist .

biography

Karl-Heinz Adler grew up in simple circumstances. From 1941 to 1944 he learned the profession of pattern draftsman and began studying at the State Master School for the Textile Industry in Plauen as a student of Walther Löbering . From 1947 to 1953 he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (West) with Arthur Degner and at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden with Wilhelm Rudolph and Hans Grundig . In 1953 he obtained his diploma in Dresden and became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Two years later, Adler began teaching and research in the field of architecture and sculpture at the TH Dresden . In 1957 he was able to visit the ceramics center Vallauris and Pablo Picasso in the south of France . In 1957 and 1958 he created the first constructive and creative collage groups based on the principle of layering serial geometric elements such as squares, triangles, semicircles and quarter circles. Since 1960 he was a member of the cooperative of fine artists Kunst am Bau in Dresden. From 1961 to 1966, Adler was artistic director for the visual arts at the Zentralhaus für Kulturarbeit in Leipzig.

From 1968, together with Friedrich Kracht, he developed the concrete block system as well as serial systems for facades, fountains and playgrounds. These were manufactured industrially from 1970. A guest lecturer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, offered to him in 1979, was forbidden by the GDR authorities. In 1982 Adler had his first solo exhibition in the Galerie Mitte in Dresden. In 1984 he exhibited at the Malmö Art Gallery . From 1988 to 1995 he was a visiting professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Through his wife, the art historian Ingrid Adler, who campaigned for the specific artists of the GDR with lectures, publications and exhibitions at home and abroad, the Dresden specific artists Manfred Luther (1925-2004) and Wilhelm Müller (1928-1999 ) came between the Dresden specific artists ) a close friendly relationship was established, which manifested itself in joint exhibitions.

As a full member of the German Association of Artists (DKB), Adler took part in the DKB annual exhibitions in 1992 and 1993. Adler died on November 4, 2018 at the age of 91 in Dresden. His grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery .

Works (selection)

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: Points and lines to the surface. Gallery 2nd floor, New Town Hall Dresden
  • 2015–2016: Schaudepot # 7 / Abstract Images. Painting depot of the Dresden City Art Fund
  • 2015–2016: specifically on paper. Art concepts realization, Duisburg
  • 2016: Virus Shape. Geometric from Dresden from 1920 to 2016. Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden and Berlin
  • 2016: Augenstern - Alterswerke IV in the Saxon State Parliament
  • 2017: Constructive - concrete. The art of individual realism. Object40 gallery in Berlin
  • 2017: Red comes before red , collection presentation Museum Ritter , Waldenbruch
  • 2017: behind the mask. Artists in the GDR , Museum Barberini , Potsdam
  • 2018: raster. Screen printing in Dresden from the beginning to the present. Galerie Leonhardi-Museum Dresden

Web links

Commons : Karl-Heinz Adler  - Collection of Images

literature

  • Ingrid Adler: Constructive-concrete art in the GDR (=  The Art of Individual Realism. Vol. 1). Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942106-44-3 .
  • Antje Kirsch, Sylvia Lemke: Production cooperative art in buildings Dresden 1958–1990. Catalog for the 2011 exhibition. Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau, Dresden 2013.
  • Bozena Kowalska: Karl-Heinz Adler. In search of order and space. Barthel + Tetzner Gallery. Philo & Philo Fine Arts, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86572-518-X .
  • Ingrid Mössinger, Sabine Tauscher: Karl-Heinz Adler. Works 1942–2010. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5453-9 .
  • Karl-Heinz Adler. Painting, objects, drawings. Exhibitions May 15 - June 15, 1997, Museum Folkwang Essen; May 22nd - June 22nd 1997, Galerie Neher, Essen; June 27 - August 10, 1997, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden. Catalog with texts by Eugen Gomringer, Margit Weinberg Staber and Marion Agthe. Düsseldorf 1997.
  • Claudia Tittel, Sabine Tauscher (eds.): Karl-Heinz Adler - Zeitschichten: Works 1957–2017. Xenomoi, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-942106-52-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Adler. In: Project Art in Building GDR. March 12, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ingrid Adler. In: Stadtwiki Dresden. June 12, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Müller. In: Stadtwiki Dresden. January 3, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 27.09.1992 to 15.11.1992 Aachen: The German Association of Artists in Aachen: 40th annual exhibition. In: kuenstlerbund.de . Archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  5. ^ Beyond the grid: On the death of the artist Karl-Heinz Adler. Monopoly , November 5, 2108.
  6. ^ Karl-Heinz Adler. Quite concrete March 30 to June 25, 2017, Galerie Neue Meister in the Albertinum. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, archived from the original on April 3, 2017 ; accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Manja Reinhard: Stratifications in the square. In: www.freipresse.de. Free Press , June 18, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Open depot # 7. Abstract images. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ specifically on paper 09/25/2015 - 02/27/2016. Art Concepts Realization, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Susanne Altmann: Virus Form, Geometrisches aus Dresden from 1920 to 2016. Gebr. Lehmann Berlin, accessed on November 5, 2018 (with an MDR article).
  11. ↑ Red comes before red: collection presentation. Museum Ritter, Waldenbruck, accessed on November 5, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Behind the mask. Exhibition from October 29, 2017 to February 4, 2018. Museum Barberini, Potsdam, accessed on April 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Remtengrün
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2018
Place of death Dresden