Otto Herbert Hajek

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"Signpost No. 1"
"City sign 69/74"
Color wings in space, 2002 - At the SWR building in Stuttgart
Foyer of the Lahnstein town hall

Otto Herbert Hajek (born June 27, 1927 in Kaltenbach , Czechoslovakia , † April 29, 2005 in Stuttgart ) was a German abstract painter , graphic artist and sculptor . His architecture-related estate and his photo archive are in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering .

Life

Hajek attended grammar school in Prachatitz and later went to school in Erlangen . From 1947 to 1954 he studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1978 he was awarded the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg . In 1980 he was appointed head of a sculpture class at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , where he taught until 1992.

Hajek presented u. a. at documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel and thus achieved a high level of awareness. From 1972 to 1979 he was chairman of the German Association of Artists . In this capacity, he mainly campaigned for the social security of artists. He lived in Stuttgart until his death . His grave is in the forest cemetery in Degerloch .

Appreciation

His works of art are exhibited worldwide, for example in Moscow , Adelaide or in the museums of the Vatican . The works are mainly colored sculptures or objects made of steel and concrete, as well as interior and facade designs on buildings.

Awards

A hall is named after him in the Stuttgart Citizens Service Center West.

Works

Hajek's early work is still figurative in the tradition of the first half of the 20th century. Since the mid-1950s he has been modeling non-representational sculptures, the so-called spatial nodes , as well as reliefs that he designed for the church sector. These often show filigree structures created after the excavation and dissolution of large monolithic forms and can be assigned to the informal trend that was current at the time . In 1958 he first gained broader attention by participating in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the 29th Venice Biennale . From the mid-1960s onwards, Hajek used color-coded geometric shapes with which he approximated the visual language of Concrete Art , albeit without, like this, subordinating his artistic freedom to an impersonal and "objective" design principle. This also applies to Hajek's small sculptures and graphic works as well as to the monumental city signs, color paths, architecture and plaza designs that make up his main work. With these, Hajek bursts the conventional dimension of sculpture like hardly any other artist of his era.

Leuze mineral bath in Stuttgart
Spatial Movement 76/86 II, Stuttgart
  • Stone reliefs and tabernacles for St. Aurelius in Hirsau , 1955/56
  • Numerous steel sculptures in Stuttgart
  • Altar in the Catholic parish church of St. Josef in Biberach an der Riss , 1957
  • Cenotaph for the fallen in Bad Buchau , mosaic canopy, 1958
  • Spatial wall , Villingen-Schwenningen , 1959
  • Frankfurter Frühling , walkable sculpture with color paths, six modeling concrete sculptures and a relief floor (1962–1964) designed for the Heinrich Kleyer School on behalf of the City of Frankfurt / Main, presented at documenta III in Kassel, in the course of renovation work 2007–2009 in full away.
  • Large room relief (concrete) at the Waldfriedhof Stuttgart, 1962
  • Way of the Cross at the Maria Regina Martyrum Church , Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • Concrete work of art Work routes in front of the German Management Academy Lower Saxony in Celle
  • Six meter high steel sculpture Stadtzeichen 69/74 - formerly Kleiner Schloßplatz - now in Stuttgart-Wangen
  • Leuze mineral bath in Stuttgart-East
  • Rose garden in front of the cafeteria of Saarland University
  • Sign wings in space at a street crossing in Saarlouis
  • Color paths and reliefs at the Martin Luther Church in Stuhr -Seckenhausen, 1968
  • Waving ears of wheat on the forecourt of the district building in Schwelm , 1969 to 1972
  • 3 schools under one roof in front of the Albert Einstein School in Bochum , 1970, demolished in the course of the new school building in 2011.
  • Melanchton Church in Essen- Holsterhausen , 1972
  • Stainless steel sculpture "Stadtzeichen" in the pedestrian zone of Langenfeld (since 2000). The sculpture is also affectionately known by the regional geocaching scene as the "Geocachersäule", as it is here that geocache event meetings take place more often, organized by the Langenfeld geocacher "Geovortex".
  • The so-called Hajek fountain on Synagogenplatz (formerly: Viktoriaplatz) in Mülheim an der Ruhr , 1977 The removal or relocation of the controversial work of art was one of the most important issues in the 1999 municipal election campaign.
  • Spa in Königstein im Taunus , built 1972–1977, expanded in 1989 to include an outdoor pool. Colored and artistic design in the (not intended: Nassau) colors blue and orange (outside) by Otto Herbert Hajek with the architects Geier + Geier, Stuttgart; inside several “color paths” murals by Hajek. The building has been a listed building since 2013.
Koenigstein i. Ts., Kurbad, 1977, expanded in 1989

Fonts

  • Urban living space - and art. Eulen Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-89102-209-3 .
  • Signs, squares, cityscapes. Forum-Verlag, ISBN 3-8091-1049-3 .
  • Preface . In: Uli Kreh: The cold beauties. Sculptures in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1993, page 10.

estate

The artistic estate including all rights is administered by Urban Hajek, the artist's son. He oversees a permanent exhibition of works by Otto Herbert Hajek in his Stuttgart gallery Stadtatelier and organizes exhibitions in other locations as well. Parts of the written estate are in the archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . The architecture-related estate is in the SAAI (Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

literature

  • Chris Gerbing: Chances, possibilities and limits of art in the company. An interdisciplinary study using the example of the "art encirclement" by Otto Herbert Hajek at the Sparda-Bank in Stuttgart. Wasmuth-Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8030-3342-0 .
  • Interview with Otto Herbert Hajek. Interview 6. Otto Herbert Hajek in conversation with Monika Bugs. Saarbrücken 1998.
  • Uli Kreh: The cold beauties. Sculptures in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1993, pages 146-147. (Lying at the Hoppenlauschule Stuttgart)
  • Claus Pese: More than just art. The archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. (= Cultural-historical walks in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Volume 2.) Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, pp. 111–115.
  • Archive for fine arts in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (Hrsg.): OH Hajek. The penetration of life with art. Besler-Verlag, Stuttgart / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-7630-1719-4 .
  • Artistic design of the buildings on the Neckar. In: Die Rheinschiffahrt, specialist journal for inland navigation and the ferry system , No. 4 of February 25, 1963, page 49. (Relief, Pleidelsheim barrage)
  • Otto Herbert Hajek Art Foundation of Sparda-Bank Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Prints. (Volume 1: 1949-1975 / Volume 2: 1976-2005) Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-938023-08-2 .
  • Gabriele Klempert, Hans-Curt Köster (ed.): Hajek's color bath in Königstein. A symbiosis of architecture and art by Geier + Geier with Otto Herbert Hajek at the Koenigstein i. Ts. (With articles by Karin Berkemann, Chris Gerbing, Otto Herbert Hajek, Rainer Kowald and Eva Streppel as well as an interview with Ingeborg Geier and Wolfram Völlger by Karin Berkemann) Langewiesche Verlag , Königstein im Taunus 2014, ISBN 978-3-7845-6306 -0 .
  • Fritz Wiedermann: Plastic works of art for the Neckar barrages. In: Der Holz- und Steinbildhauer , born in 1956, issue 1, pages 1–6. (Otto Herbert Hajek: picture 6)
  • Württembergischer Kunstverein (ed.): Painter and sculptor. Exhibition of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in the art building on Schloßplatz 29 March - 29 April 1956. Stuttgart 1956. (2 pages, not paginated)

Web links

Commons : Otto Herbert Hajek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 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. , accessed on August 14, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 177 .
  3. ↑ welt-der-form.net: Works in public space / Participate! , accessed on August 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Large spatial relief Waldfriedhof Stuttgart , accessed on December 25, 2018.
  5. ^ Stations of the Cross Maria Regina Martyrum , accessed on December 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ 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. (accessed on September 28, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  7. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 235 .
  8. ^ Hajek-Brunnen , website Mülheim an der Ruhr. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ galerie-uhajek.de
personal data
SURNAME Hajek, Otto Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hajeka, Otto Herberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaltenbach , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2005
Place of death Stuttgart