Karl Horst Hödicke

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Karl-Horst Hödicke (born February 21, 1938 in Nuremberg ) is a German painter .

He is considered "one of the pioneers of German Neo-Expressionism [...] and one of the most important stimuli of the so-called Neue Wilden and - alongside Baselitz , Immendorff , Lüpertz , Koberling and Penck - as an important representative of the New Figuration ."

Life

Bronze sculpture Kaspar (in the Viersener sculpture collection )

Hödicke was born in Nuremberg in 1938, and his family fled with him to Vienna in 1945, where his mother died. In 1957 he moved with his family to Berlin , where he studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1959 to 1964 , but after just one semester he switched to the Berlin University of the Arts and studied painting with Fred Thieler .

In 1961 he became a member of the Vision group together with Bernd Koberling . In 1964 he founded a. a. with Markus Lüpertz and Bernd Koberling the legendary producer or self-help gallery Großgörschen 35 . For a work in his first exhibition there, he received the German Youth Art Prize for painting. Hödicke stayed in America from 1966 to 1967, where he produced experimental short films, most of which reflect his stay in New York .

In 1968 he received the scholarship for the Villa Massimo . He then devoted himself to plastic experiments, in which he let the buckets or tons of black tar hung on the wall or ceiling flow out ( Kalter Fluß , 1969), which took weeks at room temperature and thus emphasized the process character.

In 1974 he was appointed professor of his own painting class at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he taught until 2005. In his class a. a. Helmut Middendorf , Barbara Heinisch , Salomé , Cheng Yuzheng and Jan Muche . Since 1980 he has been a full member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1983 he received the German Critics' Prize and in 1998 the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting from the Berlinische Galerie .

Karl Horst Hödicke was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection)

Public collections

literature

  • Berlinische Galerie (ed.): KH Hödicke . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2057-8
  • René Block , Christian Malycha and Jörn Merkert : Touché [1974-2005]. Class KH Hödicke at the UdK . Ed .: University of the Arts Berlin. Berlin 2005.
  • Wolfgang Gmyrek (Ed.): KH Hödicke. nocturnal . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1997, ISBN 90-5705-082-X .
  • KH Hödicke: Annatomy - Autonomy - Annomaly . Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • KH Hödicke: Calendar sheets . Ed .: DAAD artist program. Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • KH Hödicke: Somersault. Pictures and poems . Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88537-069-7 .
  • Peter Kastner: KH Hödicke. Plastic . Viersen 1994, ISBN 3-928298-06-2 .
  • Heinrich Klotz: The new savages in Berlin . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-76159-4 .
  • Jörn Merkert: KH Hödicke. On the work of KH Hödicke in the Berlinische Galerie . Ed .: Berlinische Galerie. Berlin 1988.
  • Raab Gallery (Ed.): KH Hödicke paints Elvira . Berlin / London 1991, ISBN 3-926639-26-1 .
  • Achim Sommer (Ed.): KH Hödicke. havapaintamilkaday. Pictures from the west coast of Ireland . Wienand, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-87909-521-3 .
  • Eckhart J. Gillen (Ed.): Großgörschen 35 . Departure for the art city Berlin 1964 . Exhibition catalog with texts by Barbara Esch Marowski, Lothar C. Poll , Eckhard J. Gillen. Haus am Kleistpark in cooperation with the Poll Art Foundation , Berlin 2014.

Web links

Commons : Karl Horst Hödicke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from René Block, Christian Malycha and Jörn Merkert: Touché [1974-2005]. Class KH Hödicke at the UdK . Ed .: University of the Arts Berlin. Berlin 2005. p. 6.
  2. ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Hödicke, Karl Horst . In: kuenstlerbund.de. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 3, page 370: hand drawings, utopian design, books 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
personal data
SURNAME Hödicke, Karl Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hödicke, KH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg