Matthias Holländer
Matthias Holländer (* 1954 in Heidelberg ) is a German photorealistic painter .
Life
Matthias Holländer was born in Heidelberg in 1954. After childhood and youth in Switzerland and on Lake Constance, he studied painting from 1973 to 1978 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , with Rudolf Hausner among others .
Holländer has lived as a freelance painter on Lake Constance since 1980. His works have been shown regularly in Germany and abroad since the 1970s, including in Basel, Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Konstanz, Monaco, San Francisco and Vienna.
Works
The catalog raisonné includes over 250 works. Holländer's main themes are various manifestations of a “nature morte”, for example skeletons, anatomical models, skins of slaughtered animals, objects that have weathered in nature, ruins of previously inhabited rooms, abandoned industrial plants, aging organic material. Typical of Holländer's approach is the computer-based pre-processing of the photo material, which not only changes the real sizes of some objects, in some cases greatly, but also transforms real scenarios into imagined ones using assembly techniques.
Many of his works, which were created over 40 years of artistic creation, were part of the exhibition Retrospective - Painting and Photography from 40 Years , which took place in 2014 at the Konstanzer Kunstverein.
His best-known subjects include exhibits from the Natural History Museum Vienna and the Josephinum, also located in Vienna . Holländer also deals with the theme of museum memory in interior views of the Galérie d'Anatomie Comparée of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Biographical memory is linked to a historical backdrop in a series of paintings and graphics dedicated to the Swiss sanatorium Bellevue .
technology
In his oeuvre, Holländer makes use of various techniques such as oil painting , watercolor , gouache , graphics (including etching , heliogravure , serigraphy ) and photography . What the works have in common is the photorealistic access.
The basis for all paintings and graphics are historical photographs made or found by Holländer . This material is processed on the computer and then projected as a slide onto the image carrier (canvas, paper or Dibond plates). The projection is then transferred in detail manually onto the white painting surface.
In his oil painting , Holländer works with a glaze technique similar to that used by the old Dutch masters. Thin, transparent layers of paint are applied one on top of the other. After drying, each layer is partly removed again using razor blades or other grinding instruments in order to allow the layers below to contribute to the color effect. The smoothness of the picture surface achieved by grinding, the richness of detail and the lifelike perspective give the paintings their quasi-photographic appearance. The time-consuming act of painting adds a physical experience that enriches the photographic accuracy with the dimension of subjective processing.
Exhibitions
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Awards
- 1982: Palette d'Or du Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-mer
- 1983: Merit Award, Art Directors Club 62 Annual Exhibition 1983, New York
- 1984: Prix Fondation Princesse Grace, Monaco
- 1994: Konstanz Art Prize
Fonts
- Painting . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-922777-96-0 .
- Photography - Nature morte . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-922777-97-7 .
- The light of things . Libelle, Lengwil 1997, ISBN 3-909081-18-5 .
- Rest of the night . Art connection, Basel 1987, OCLC 310664737 .
literature
- art - the art magazine . No. 10, October 1981.
- Martin Seel : Events of Uneventfulness . In: Matthias Holländer. Rest of the night . art connection, Basel 1987.
- Matthias Holländer . In: First Realism Triennial . Edited by the Künstleronderbund in Germany . Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89479-006-7 .
- Adolf Muschg : In the mirror of the blade . In: Matthias Holländer: The light of things . Libelle, Lengwil 1997, ISBN 3-909081-18-5 .
- Christoph Bauer: Matthias Holländer . In: Blick und Bild . Edited by the Kunstmuseum Singen et al. Wachter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-89904-022-8 .
- Who is Who Lake Constance 2006/2007 . Südkurier Medienhaus, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 300018740-5 .
- Martin Seel : In the backlight of history. Matthias Holländer's monumental study of the present of the past . In: Martin Seel: The power of appearing. Texts on aesthetics . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29467-3 .
- Alissa Walser : Pass by looking . In: Matthias Holländer: Painting . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-922777-96-0 .
- Christoph Bauer: The shimmering appearance . In: Matthias Holländer: Photography -Nature morte . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-922777-97-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Holländer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Matthias Holländer
- Outline of life and work
- Introductory lecture by the publisher Ekkehard Faude on the work of Holländer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b retrospective - painting and photography from 40 years; October 11 to December 7, 2014 ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2014 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.
- ↑ Retrospective - painting and photography from 40 years; October 11 to December 7, 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ Flyer illustration for the special exhibition in the Museum Rosenegg; April 19 to June 23, 2013
- ↑ Reiner Alber: "drawn - exhibition in the" neuwerk "from November 21 to 29, 2015". In: kunsthalle.neuwerk.org. October 15, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015 .
- ↑ SOBAG Ag: Around the Twiel - The landscape of the Hegau in Art - Art Museum Singen, Singen - nordagenda.ch. In: nordagenda.ch. November 20, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015 .
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| SURNAME | Dutchman, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, representative of photorealism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |