Karl-Heinz Lingner

Karl-Heinz Lingner (born June 4, 1925 in Cologne ; † August 12, 1998 in Celle ) was a German graphic artist , painter and art teacher.

Life

Lingner grew up in Dessau and graduated from high school there in 1943. He then began to study architecture in Berlin, which was interrupted early by being called up for military service. From 1945 to 1946 he was in English captivity in Belgium; then he returned to Dessau, where he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. In 1949 Lingner married his wife Ingrid (née Köhler), and their son Michael Lingner was born in 1950 . In the same year he and his family left the GDR for political reasons and moved to West Berlin. At the University of Education in Celle and Osnabrück he studied from 1951 first education , later he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . Until his early retirement in 1984, Lingner worked as an art teacher, most recently as a senior teacher. Lingner lived in Celle for more than 40 years until his death.

Lingner began to work artistically while still at school. While his representations initially remained pictorial and were first oriented towards the Impressionists and later towards the Expressionists , he began from 1950 with abstract , informal works, influenced a. a. by Paul Klee and the Bauhaus . Lingner mainly worked with screen printing , but also with techniques such as woodcuts , watercolor painting and collages . He is one of the German representatives of Informel and Tachism . He reacted again and again to the course of time, for example from 1968 with a series of large-format, color screen prints against the background of the political upheavals in Germany and Europe. From 1970 he increasingly included photography, later also texts and even pure word installations.

Lingner established himself primarily in the local and regional art scene in Celle and Lower Saxony and was a member of the board of the Celle Art Association for a long time. In addition to his work as an art teacher, he also repeatedly worked as a commercial artist for publishers and museums, designing book titles and signets. He also remained connected to Dessau throughout his life. The Gemäldegalerie Dessau today has 80 works by Lingner and showed some of them in 2010 in the exhibition "Between Black and Red - Paintings and Graphics of the Informel".

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions:

• 1948–1951 in Dessau, Dresden, Halle, Leuna and Berlin
• from 1952 until his death in 1998 regularly in Lower Saxony and Celle as well as in numerous other places
• 1960 "without object", Celle
• 1962 "Exhibition Lingner-Reichelt", Celle
• 1977 with Marlis Antes-Scotti, Galerie Commercio, Zurich
• 2010 "Between Black and Red - Art Informel Paintings and Graphics", Gemäldegalerie Dessau

Solo exhibitions:

• 1976 Home Gallery, Berg-St. Gallen
• 1990 "Review" Castle Celle
• 1995 "without properties", Bomann-Museum Celle

Catalogs

• "Review", exhibition catalog, Celle Castle, 1990
• "Without properties", exhibition catalog, Bomann Museum Celle, 1995

swell

• Text about the Informel exhibition "Between Black and Red" in Dessau
• The Celler Zeitung about an art scandal in 1962 in which Lingner was involved: The gentlemen "non-object"