Karl Heinz Jakob

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Karl Heinz Jakob (born August 15, 1929 in Zwickau ; † March 2, 1997 in Zwickau- Weißenborn ) was a German artist , graphic artist and painter . As one of two artists, he was awarded the Max Pechstein Prize of the city of Zwickau twice .

biography

Karl Heinz Jakob graduated from high school in 1948 . This was followed by a three-year traineeship with the architect Kurt Ludwig. At the same time he began an artistic training in 1949 at the painting and drawing school in Zwickau with Carl Michel and Karlheinz Schuster . In 1951 he began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Erich Fraaß , Wilhelm Lachnit and Rudolf Bergander , from which he graduated in 1955 with a diploma. As early as 1954 he became a member of the Association of German Visual Artists (VBKD) and after graduating he began to work freelance in Zwickau.

From 1958, under the motto “Art helps coal”, artists were given study assignments in regions of the mining and coal processing industries of the GDR . Karl Heinz Jakob took part in an artist brigade with thirteen artists, including Erhard Zierold, Paul Schmidt-Roller , Erika and Edgar Klier , Käthe Walther and Erik Winnertz , in production and portrait studies of miners at the Martin Hoop hard coal works in Zwickau. The main aim was to present the working people in production in the spirit of socialist realism .

From 1961 Jakob became the artistic director of the painting and drawing circle in the VEB hard coal works "Martin Hoop" in Zwickau. The memorial stone erected in 1972 for Martin Hoop goes back to the designs of the members of the painting and drawing circle, which, under the direction of Karl Heinz Jakobs, had developed into one of the most prominent folk art collectives in the GDR. In 1968 he became head of the painting development studio at the Zwickauer Stadtkabinett Kulturarbeit in the Galerie am Domhof for almost 30 years.

From 1983 to 1986 he received a teaching position as an honorary lecturer at the Technical School for Applied Arts Schneeberg , today part of the West Saxon University of Zwickau ; one of his students was the sculptor Hans-Georg Wagner .

After the fall of the Wall he was a member of the re-established Saxon Artists Association / Chemnitz Artists Association in the Federal Association of Visual Artists from 1990 to 1997. Since 1991 Jakob has been an honorary member of the Kunstverein Zwickau e. V. Karl Heinz Jakob, who was married, died in 1997 in his hometown of Zwickau. He was the only artist to receive the Max Pechstein Prize twice for his achievements, in 1954 and 21 years later in 1985.

His granddaughter is the installation artist Henrike Naumann , who from 2018 onwards increasingly dealt with the artistic legacy of her grandfather through the estate of Jakob in her installations and integrated his images into her installations. In 2019 she received the Max Pechstein Prize for DDR Noir with Jacob's Pictures.

Oeuvre

Karl Heinz Jakobs pictures and graphics largely dealt with people from everyday work . His formal language was body-hugging in the manner of socialist realism . Throughout his life he remained connected to the Zwickau coal field and the hard work underground. The first works on the subject were created in the early 1950s and were implemented in new pictures until the end of the district in the mid-1970s. From several study trips abroad, u. a. to Cuba (1961), to the Federal Republic (1965, Hamburg), to the Soviet Union (1966 to Moscow and Leningrad , 1968 to Eastern Siberia with Klaus Matthäi , 1978 to Central Asia , 1982 Caucasus region , 1987 Leningrad and Murmansk ), to the ČSSR (1965 ), Bulgaria (1973), Poland (1980) and Turkey (1993, Istanbul ) he always brought new ideas with him that further influenced his work.

In the early 1950s through the 1960s, painting was an important part of his artistic representations. Later drawings and graphics became the focus of his work.

“While painting was an important part of his work in the early years, drawing later became part of his life. In doing so, he developed a mastery that is second to none. The whole range of human life, from birth to death, formed the focus of his work. In doing so, he was relentless towards himself and the viewer. Karl Heinz Jakob was a quiet person, but his works testify to his need to show the real people, honestly and unadorned. Where others needed a lot of words, he only needed a few strokes. "

- Description of the 2019 exhibition in the tower gallery at the Augustusburg hunting lodge

In 2009 he was identified by Siegfried Wagner, then chairman of the Kunstverein Zwickau e. V. , for the opening of the exhibition in the hallways of the Zwickau city administration as follows:

“With his work, Karl Heinz Jakob clearly set standards. Inner size and suggestive silence determine his work, which begins with colored and graphic works mainly on mining issues, but increasingly turns to people in their decrepit security and makes all facets of human existence visible. Especially in his drawings of the last two decades of his life, he attains a mastery that quietly develops. Karl Heinz Jakob has surrendered himself to man, his life, his suffering, his death. From a pool of thousands of sketches, notations, yes, only 'written down' lines of thought, he develops the moving, painfully sublime sheets of great art of drawing, which he really consumes. 'I am the sum of my characters', he confesses in a note from his estate . Karl Heinz Jakob protected human existence in his hand drawings and preserved it with deep devotion, with desperate strength, with an inexorable claim to himself. He leaves us his credo : 'I have no spectacular ideas and no unusual new forms - I am in search of human existence - cry for humanity in our world. '"

- Siegfried Wagner, then chairman of the Kunstverein Zwickau eV , September 2009

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1960: Freiberg
  • February 16 - March 31, 1964: Karl-Marx-Stadt , Museum am Theaterplatz : Karl Heinz Jakob, Zwickau: oil paintings, watercolors, drawings
  • 1965: Erfurt, Angermuseum
  • May 20 - July 2, 1967: Dresden, in the glockenspiel pavilion of the Zwinger : Exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists of Germany, Dresden District Board
  • 1968: Altenburg, Lindenau Museum
  • 1972: Leipzig , word and work
  • 1973: Karl-Marx-Stadt, gallery above (opening exhibition of the gallery), exhibition in Agricola-Haus ,
  • 1981: Adelsberg , Galerie Clara Mosch
  • August 13 - September 24, 1989: Zwickau, gallery at the Domhof: Karl Heinz Jakob: a development of the self-confessed gesture
  • October 4th - November 4th 1989: Karl-Marx-Stadt, gallery above
  • 4th July - 29th August 1999: Zwickau, gallery at the Domhof: Karl Heinz Jakob: Painting and graphics

Group exhibitions (selection)

Works (selection)

  • Three-time activist Arthur Kraus, Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik (1952/1953), III. Art exhibition of the German Democratic Republic in Dresden, whereabouts unknown
  • Cuban street scene (after 1961), two watercolors on the subject, Zwickau City Museum
  • Oil painting concert introduction (before 1962), 5th art exhibition of the German Democratic Republic, whereabouts unknown
  • Oil painting Helmut Schürer (1964), whereabouts unknown
  • Oil portrait of Zwickau miners (1971), VII art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden, whereabouts unknown (The artist has created several versions of this work.)
  • Oil painting Cuban street musicians (around 1970), Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt / Oder (gallery no. 301)
  • Mixed media oil painting Recover (1981), IX. Art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden, private collection
  • Oil painting Shift Change (1982), Oelsnitz Mining Museum (Erzgebirge)
  • Am Schwanenteich (around 1983), three watercolors on the subject, Zwickau City Museum
  • View of the city of Zwickau (around 1983), two watercolors on the subject, Zwickau City Museum

His works are in many private collections in Saxony, in the Zwickau art collections, in the Museum of Young Art in Frankfurt / Oder , in the Berlin National Gallery , the Chemnitz City Museums, in the Lindenau Museum of the city of Altenburg , owned by the Dresden University of Fine Arts and in many other museums.

There is a bronze bust of himself , probably created by the Zwickau sculptor Berthold Dietz around 1963, but incorrectly attributed to the Dresden sculptor Reinhard Dietrich .

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: Karl Heinz Jakob, Zwickau: Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings: Exhibition in the Museum am Theaterplatz, from February 16 to March 31, 1964 , Städtische Kunstsammlung, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1964.
  • Wolfgang Hütt: Karl-Heinz Jakob . In: Young visual artists of the GDR: Sketches on the situation of art in our time . Verlag VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1965, DNB  452131596 , p. 71-76 .
  • Georg Brühl : Karl-Heinz Jakob . In: Series: Artists from the Karl-Marx-Stadt district , publisher: Council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt District Department of Culture, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1973, 2 leaflets (= 24 pages).
  • Hans-Ulrich Lehmann: Karl-Heinz Jakob . In: Werner Schmidt (Ed.): Drawings in the Art of the GDR (exhibition in the Albertinum, Dresden, from September 1, 1974 to November 10, 1974; on the 25th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic) . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1974, DNB  740870408 , p. 105-106 .
  • Siegfried Wagner: Karl-Heinz Jakob: a man of silence. In: Art education: magazine for teachers and youth educators , (vol. 36). Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1989, p. 202.
  • Joachim Voigtmann: Karl Heinz Jakob: a development towards the self-confessed gesture , exhibition catalog: Galerie am Domhof Zwickau and Galerie Oben in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Zwickau / Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989.
  • Johannes Grimm: Karl Heinz Jakob: painter a. Graphic artist. In: Zwickauer Heimatjournal: Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Kultur und Umwelt , (Volume 5), Verlag WSM-Werbeagentur, Greiz / Zwickau 1997, pp. 30–33.
  • Werner Ballarin, Karl Brix, Petra Lewey, Siegfried Wagner: Karl Heinz Jakob: Painting and Graphics (biography and catalog for the exhibition), (Ed.) Städtisches Museum Zwickau on behalf of the city of Zwickau and in cooperation with the Galerie am Domhof and the Kunstverein Zwickau eV, Verlag Stadt Zwickau, Zwickau 1999, ISBN 3-933282-05-5 , 120 pages.
  • Gerd Dietrich: Kulturgeschichte der DDR , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-647370-87-3 , pp. 723, 1043, 1529 f.

Web links

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ His original double first name was usually spelled in the literature with a hyphen as Karl-Heinz Jakob , also Karl-Heinz Jacob or Karlheinz Jakob .
  2. ↑ a b Karl Heinz Jakob “I am the sum of my characters”. Tower gallery at Augustusburg Palace; accessed on August 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ Manuela Bonnke: Art in Production: Fine Arts and Nationally Owned Economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-35805-1 , p. 161 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ The memorial stone for Martin Hoop was ceremoniously unveiled . In: New Germany . New Germany , Berlin July 1, 1973, p. 2 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Art in the GDR: Karl Heinz Jakob on the picture atlas Art in the GDR ; accessed on August 2, 2020
  6. ^ Artist Henrike Naumann: DDR Noir , online in monopol. magazine for art and life (2018/2019); accessed on August 3, 2020
  7. ^ Ballarin, Brix, Lewey, Wagner: Karl Heinz Jakob: Painting and Graphics , p. 27
  8. ↑ City administration corridor is currently a small art gallery. Exhibition of works by Zwickau artists ; accessed on August 2, 2020
  9. ↑ Graphic “Young Couple” ; accessed on August 2, 2020
  10. ^ A b Karl Heinz Jakob: a development to the confessing gesture , Saxon Library Online; accessed on August 4, 2020
  11. ^ Pictures from the art collection of the district of Zwickau , website of the district; accessed on August 2, 2020
  12. ↑ drawn. Collection presentation 2017 Saxon art after '45 , website Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz ; accessed on August 6, 2020
  13. ↑ Exhibition opening: Industry in Pictures , at www.industriekultur-in-sachsen.de ; accessed on August 2, 2020.
  14. ↑ Three-time activist Arthur Kraus, Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik , Deutsche Fotothek; accessed on August 3, 2020
  15. ↑ Jakob, Karl Heinz (1929. 08.15 Zwickau - 1997.03.02 Zwickau / Weißenborn). “Concert introduction.” Oil, dimensions: 150.0 cm X 150.0 cm. Dresden: 5th German Art Exhibition, 1962 , Deutsche Fotothek; accessed on August 3, 2020.
  16. ↑ Portrait of Helmut Schürer , Deutsche Fotothek; accessed on August 3, 2020.
  17. ^ Zwickauer Bergarbeiter (1st version) , Deutsche Fotothek; accessed on August 3, 2020
  18. ^ Karl-Heinz Jacob: Cuban Street Musicians, Photo Archive Photo Marburg, Collection: Deutsche Fotothek; accessed on August 13, 2020
  19. ↑ Recovering party , German photo library; accessed on August 3, 2020.
  20. ↑ painting "Shift Change" ; accessed on August 2, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Jakob, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jakob, Karl-Heinz; Jacob, Karl-Heinz; Jakob, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter, graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1997
Place of death Zwickau - Weißenborn