Leiv Warren Donnan

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Leiv Warren Donnan (born July 23, 1938 in Bairnsdale , Australia ) is an Australian-German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and art teacher . He lives and works in Hanover .

Life

Leiv W. Donnan studied art education in West Berlin at the State University of Fine Arts and was a master class student in painting in 1964 . In the same year he co-founded the producer gallery Großgörschen 35 in Berlin. This first gallery of its kind in Germany included colleagues such as Markus Lüpertz and Wolfgang Petrick .

After his first and second state exams as an art teacher, Donnan initially worked in school in Berlin and from 1972 in Hanover at the Tellkampf School .

From 1963 on, Donnan, a member of the German Association of Artists , sent numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Donnan's works can be found in public collections such as the Märkisches Museum in Witten , the Kunsthalle Bochum , the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin , the Albertina in Vienna , the University of Texas , the Galerie des 20. Century - Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Landesmuseum Hannover , in the August Kestner Museum and in the Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Helmut R. Leppien once wrote about Leiv W. Donnan:

“The working method becomes clear; the discovery of extreme motifs of movement in pictures, the intention of which is not art, and their transformation into signs ... The shreds of images from reality fixed by Donnan awaken a process in the viewer that goes beyond reception and analysis. "

- Helmut R. Leppien in: Der neue Egoist , Volume 1, Hanover 1975

In 1979 Donnan had an apartment and studio at Liebigstrasse 13 in the Hanover district of List .

On the occasion of his own 80th birthday, Donnan gave the Sprengel Museum Hannover 68 of his own prints and 41 graphics by other artists. As a result, the museum showed a special exhibition with Donnan etchings. Donnan, who often printed several plates on top of each other and thus blurred the boundaries between figurative and abstraction, explained during the vernissage in an artist talk with the curator Karin Orchard:

“Nowadays, more and more pictures come to us. I want to slow down this process and make sure that the viewer turns to the pictures. "

- Leiv W. Donnan during his vernissage at the Sprengel Museum Hannover in July 2018

Leiv Warren Donnan's work has been included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".

Fonts

  • Leiv Warren Donnan (text) et al. : Ulrich Hanschke . Lichtkinetik , exhibition catalog, Berlin: Haus am Lützowplatz, Fördererkreis Kulturzentrum, 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Directory of visual artists in Hanover , 1st edition 1. – 5. Thousand, ed. from the cultural office of the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1979, ISBN 978-3-87706-020-9 and ISBN 3-87706-020-X , p. 48
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d Jörg Worat: Culture / Exhibition / Sprengel Museum honors Leiv Warren Donnan ... , article on the website of the daily newspaper Neue Presse from July 25, 2018, last accessed on May 20, 2019
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Liebigstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 160
personal data
SURNAME Donnan, Leiv Warren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donnan, Leiv W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bairnsdale , Australia