Oskar Holweck

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Oskar Holweck (born November 19, 1924 in St. Ingbert , Saarland , † January 30, 2007 there ) was a German visual artist and art teacher.

Life

From 1943 to 1945 Holweck did his military service, after the end of the war he was taken prisoner. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken with Boris Kleint . From 1949 to 1951 he began studying at the Ecole des arts appliqués à l'industrie and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , both in Paris . In 1951 he was appointed as an assistant at the State School for Arts and Crafts. From 1956 he was head of the "Basic Teaching" class at the same school, and he also taught at the State Art School in Saarbrücken and at the Saarland University of Applied Sciences in the field of design in his specialty "Design Theory". In 1989 he stopped teaching.

In 1958 Holweck joined the artist group ZERO , founded shortly before by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene , which saw itself as a countercurrent and alternative to the informal painting of the post-war period. Holweck was involved in numerous exhibitions by the ZERO group. He gained international attention with his highly regarded basic teaching exhibitions "Seeing", which were successfully shown in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain. Holweck turned down invitations to the documenta in Kassel in 1959 and 1972 as well as a number of appointments to other art colleges. For family reasons, he could not make up his mind to take on a chair at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , to which the then rector Wolfgang Kermer , formerly a graduate of the Holweck basic apprenticeship, wanted him to take over with broad support from his university.

His ink drawings from the 1950s can be assigned to the Informel ; they are characterized by an almost constructive-concrete structure and often show serial orders. Since the 1960s, Holweck has been working almost exclusively with his masterfully formed technique of tearing paper. Created in two dimensions, but often looking three-dimensional, he creates two-dimensional works as well as sculptural works. He uses different techniques: he tears, compresses, folds, crumples and fans out paper. Over time, his paper sculptures took on ever more filigree and complex structures. "Oskar Holweck's great merit is to have developed paper as an artistic medium at the highest level, to have established it and to have perfected it" stubbornly "( Dietfried Gerhardus , art scholar).

Holweck formulated his artistic credo in 1980 as follows: "My main concern is to obtain forms of its own kind from the material and to concretize - not to imitate - the effects of light on surfaces, in cavities and through the material properties."

Holweck had earned the reputation of an internationally recognized and valued artist. He is one of the most important artists that Saarland has produced. Oskar Holweck was a member of the German Association of Artists . He died on January 30, 2007 at the age of 82 in his native St. Ingbert.

Awards / prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Holweck, Oskar ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 30, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Holweck, Oskar. In: kuenstlerlexikonsaar.de. September 16, 2016, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  3. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 5 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 24, 1991, p. 103 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 423 kB ; accessed on June 4, 2017]).

Literature (selection)

  • Oskar Holweck. Works 1956 - 1977. [Catalog for the exhibition in the Karin Fesel Gallery, Wiesbaden. September - November 1977]. Wiesbaden: self-rel. d. Gallery, 1977. 10 p. M. Fig.
  • Paper objects - a new artistic language. <Le papier - un nouveau langage artistique>. [ Oskar Holweck , Ritzi Jacobi, Heiko Tappenbeck, Nance O'Banion and others. a.]. Zurich: Self-published by Museum Bellerive , 1984. 52 p., Numerous. Fig.
  • Oskar Holweck - Working with paper. [Catalog for the exhibition in the Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum Saarbrücken. December 15, 1985 to February 2, 1986.] Text u. Ed .: Georg-W. Koeltzsch. Saarbrücken: self-rel. d. Museums, 1985. 140 pp. Fig.
  • Oskar Holweck. Catalog raisonné of the drawings 1956-1980. Ed .: Jo Enzweiler, Sigurd Rompza . Saarbrücken: Galerie St. Johann, 1986. 82 p., Numerous. Fig.
  • Oskar Holweck. Works 1956-1994. [Catalog for the exhibitions in the Museum Sankt Ingbert from May 11, 1995 to July 30, 1995 and in the Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop , from April 28, 1996 to June 9, 1996.] Ed .: Andrea Fischer, Erhard Witzel . St. Ingbert: Self-published d. Museums, 1995. 55 p., Numerous. Fig.
  • Bertazzoni, Marco: Oskar Holweck. His work and its creation. Saarbrücken: Inst. F. Landeskunde, 2004. 311 p., (Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies; 41), ISBN 3-923877-41-2
  • Bardt, Juliane: Art made of paper. On the iconography of a plastic work material in contemporary art. Analyzes of exemplary works of art by Oskar Holweck , Robert Rauschenberg , David Hockney , Andreas von Weizsäcker , Jan Schoonhoven , Leo Erb , Günther Uecker , Henri Matisse , Felix Droese and Lore Bert. Hildesheim: Olms 2006. 207 p. With 48 illustrations (Studies on Art History; 169), ISBN 3-487-13093-9
  • Gerhardus, Dietfried: Oskar Holweck 1924 - 2007. Paper is torn. Saarbrücken: Verl. Saarkultur, 2007. in: Opus. Culture magazine for Saarland and Greater Region ; 2007 / No. 1, p. 31.

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personal data
SURNAME Holweck, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert , Saarland
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2007
Place of death St. Ingbert , Saarland