Karl Hartung

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Growing wings , Berlin (1960/62)

Karl Hartung (born May 2, 1908 in Hamburg , † July 19, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor . His works can be assigned to abstract art . From 1955 to 1967 Hartung was chairman of the German Association of Artists .

life and work

After completing his apprenticeship as a wood sculptor, Hartung studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and continued his studies in Paris from 1929 to 1932 . His role models at that time included the artists Antoine Bourdelle , Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol . In Florence in 1932 and 1933 he dealt intensively with the works of Donatello and the sculptures of the Etruscans . After his return to Hamburg in 1935, his previously object-oriented art moved closer to the abstract forms of the art of Constantin Brâncuși , Alexander Archipenko and Hans Arp .

Max Sauerlandt from the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts and the Hamburg art scene of the 1920s and 1930s gave him ideas for his path. Hartung managed to gain recognition after the restrictions imposed by the National Socialist "cultural policy" in the post-war period. With their curves, some of his sculptures are reminiscent of works by Richard Haizmann and Henry Moore .

In 1951, Hartung was appointed professor of sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . He took part in documenta 1 (1955), documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel . 1956 Hartung's large spherical shape was set up in Hanover . It was not only the first abstract art in public space in Hanover in the course of the reconstruction , but “probably in Germany at all”.

Karl Hartung was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin-Nikolassee . The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin .

Honors

Honorary grave, forest cemetery Zehlendorf

estate

The written estate has been in the Archive for Fine Arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum since 1994 .

Exhibitions

  • Karl Hartung - The Hamburg Years. May 21, 2008 to June 27, 2008, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
  • The sculptor Karl Hartung (1908-1967). Departure - departure. November 21, 2014 to April 12, 2015, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt

literature

  • Dieter Honisch (preface): 1945–1985 Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , National Gallery. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
  • Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 ( cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , vol. 2), pp. 130-134.
  • Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): neue plastik in hannover / Kunstsinn, patronage, urban aesthetics / An example in the mirror of two decades , Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover 1967, pp. 27, 80, etc.
  • Hartung, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 383 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Chairwoman of the German Association of Artists since 1950 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 15, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b c d Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 179 .
  3. ↑ Source: Invitation to the opening of the exhibition "Karl Hartung. The Hamburg Years" in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 6.30 p.m.
  4. ↑ Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): neue plastik in hannover / Kunstsinn, patronage, urban aesthetics / an example in the mirror of two decades , Steinbock-Verlag, Hanover 1967, p. 75
  5. ↑ a b new plastic in hannover ...

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personal data
SURNAME Hartung, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1967
Place of death Berlin