Kurt Wanski
Kurt Wanski (born April 26, 1922 in Altglienicke ; † August 16, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German painter, musician and an institution in the Berlin art world.
Life
Kurt Wanski lived with his twin brother in an orphanage until 1927; after that the two children lived with their mother in Berlin. From 1928 Wanski attended a school for learning disabled children. There he learned to draw and to play the harmonica. As a young man he came to a farming family. From 1939 to 1945 he was imprisoned in Rummelsburg prison for reasons that are no longer comprehensible today . He worked with other prisoners in a thermal power station. After the war he was imprisoned again after a short time in freedom, only to be admitted to a sanatorium in April 1947 as an “ oligophrenic with antisocial tendencies” from prison.
After several stays in various psychiatric hospitals, he lived since 1971 as an "outdoor prisoner" permanently in St. Joseph Stift in Berlin-Weißensee . There he began to draw intensively. With pencils and colored pencils, later also with oil pastels and felt-tip pens, Wanski painted his environment including the reproduction of this environment in the media such as B. posters, film programs, magazine and calendar pictures and deposited these drawings with sometimes apocryphal or subtle notes. Representations from the circus and the Friedrichstadtpalast , the zoo , from films as well as the Catholic church life and the Marxist festivities of the GDR were among his most frequent motifs in the beginning. Wanski's friends have been collecting his pictures since the early 1980s; In 1984 his works were exhibited to the public for the first time in a factory floor in Prenzlauer Berg. Since then, his pictures have been on view in Art Brut museums or can be purchased in galleries. In 1989, the documentary film director Gerd Kroske made a film about him called Kurt - or you should laugh . Wanski's artistic estate (drawings still in the St. Josephs Hospital, all created after 2000) became the property of the Pankow Art Collection in 2013.
Exhibitions
- 1984: Drawings, in the St. Joseph Hospital
- 1992: Galerie des Kunstamt Weißensee
- 2002: Brecht House, Weissensee
- 2002: Summer gardens , Galerie Hofmann + Kyrath, Berlin (with Hans Scheib )
- 2011: Drawings, in the Galeriecafè Emma T. in Weißensee
- 2013: Exclamation mark and underlined , Bayer Kulturhaus, Leverkusen
- 2015: A woman for grandfather - the drawing group of the Maria-Frieden house in Berlin-Niederschönhausen and sheets by Kurt Wanski from the collection of the Pankow art collection, Parterre Gallery in Berlin
- 2017: Kurt Wanski - The Draftsman , Magistrale of the Park-Klinik Weißensee, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://galerie-pankow.de/2012/08/23/zum-tode-von-kurt-wanski/
- ^ Short biography of Kurt Wanski
- ↑ Galerie Zander ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bernd Wagner : Kurt Wanski: Headstand. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 26, 2012.
Web links
- Website about Kurt Wanski
- David Ensikat: It may be that he stole the show from others. Obituary for Kurt Wanski. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 2, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wanski, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altglienicke |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |