Otto Quirin

Otto Quirin (born March 7, 1927 in Mönchengladbach ), actually Otto Kaiser , is a painter of lyrical abstraction in Germany.

Life

During his studies in painting, art history, German studies and philosophy at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , the Nordische Kunsthochschule Bremen , the University of Hamburg and the Landeskunstschule Hamburg from 1948 to 1955, among others with Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Quirin received the sponsorship award of the Bremen Senates. In the same year he had his first solo exhibition in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Stadthalle in Mönchengladbach.

In 1955 he exhibited in the Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1950, and got to know the members of the Quadriga artist group, who were classified as informal painting and who also exhibited at Franck.

From 1962 Otto Quirin worked in Hamburg as a teacher and as a member of the Art Commission of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, of which he was a member until 1975, with one interruption during his stay in Chile. In addition, he and his students organized exhibitions by the sculptors Gerhard Marcks and Gustav Seitz , as well as the painters Otto Dix and Oskar Kokoschka - of whom he made portrait drawings. The exhibition of the Dresden Artists Association followed in 1963 . He created further portrait drawings during an invitation to the GDR from Otto Dix in 1964 on the occasion of the 200th annual celebration of the Dresden Academy and from Erich Heckel in Hamburg that same year .

From 1966 to 1970 the artist lived in Chile , where he took over the management of the Instituto Alemán Carlos Anwandter in Valdivia . In Santiago de Chile he met Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda , and painted and drew portraits of both. He received commissions from churches in Valdivia and Osorno and from the Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia). He showed his works in exhibitions in Osorno, Valdivia and in Santiago de Chile in the Galeria El Patio.

After his return from Chile, he headed the Hansa-Kolleg Hamburg from 1971 to 1978 , and then the German School in Barcelona until 1984 .

Otto Quirin has had a studio in Hamburg since 1984 , and another in Blanes / Girona in Catalonia from 1990 to 2008 .

Exhibitions

1950: Participation in the exhibition "Western European Academies and Art Schools", Kunsthalle Hamburg

1951: First solo exhibition in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle, Mönchengladbach

1955: Solo exhibitions at Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt am Main

1963 and 1964: Solo exhibitions at the Rose Fried Gallery, New York, the Galerie La Rouet, Paris and the Galerie Ernest Horn, Luxembourg

1976: Exhibition at the Art Museum in Tondern / Denmark

2004: Kunsthalle St. Annen, museum for art and cultural history in St. Anne's monastery in Lübeck

2005: 17th Biennial "Humor and Satire in the Arts", Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

2005: Museum am Burghof in Lörrach, Association of Fine Arts, Lörrach

2006: Sept. – Oct .: Klaussynagoge in Halberstadt " Reencounter " (portrait drawings)

2007: Fundació Angel Planells, Blanes (Girona)

2007: Exhibition in the culture circle Torhaus in the civil association Wellingsbüttel eV, Torhaus Wellingsbüttel

2008: Group exhibition (4 painters) in the Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog (gallery and artist house Spiekeroog) "The Art of Collecting"

2009: Feb. – March: Solo exhibition “Form und Narration” in the Anne Moerchen Gallery, Milchstr. 6a, Hamburg

2009: BbK exhibition participation

2009: October: Exhibition in the authority for urban development and the environment with the support of the cultural authority, Hamburg Stadthausbrücke

2009: November: Group exhibition at Galerie Kramski, Burgdorf

2009: Nov. – Dec .: Participation in the exhibition “Blood Pictures” for the German Cancer Aid, Haspa-Galerie Hamburg

2009: 19th Biennale "Humor and Satire in the Arts", Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

2010: Feb. – Apr .: Solo exhibition “Heads in Head” in the Syker Vorwerk - Center for Contemporary Art.

2010: Second exhibition in the authority for urban development and the environment , Hamburg Stadthausbrücke 8. Introduction Senator Hajduk.

2011: March – June: Solo exhibition “The world is full of symbols” in the Fietz house in Göddingen.

2014: May – June: Solo exhibition “So or So. Two positions of postmodernism” at the Kunstverein Worpswede “Das Blaue Haus”, in a double pack with the solo exhibition of the same name by Peter Barthold Schnibbe.

Awards

1951: Sponsorship award from the Bremen Senate
1954: Sponsorship award from the Hamburg Senate
1968: Critique Prize in Santiago de Chile
2007: Appointment as honorary member of the Hanse Academy for European Cultural Integration
2011: Gallery Prize 2010 from the Kramski Gallery and Collection, Hanover, Burgdorf

literature

Maike Bruhns, Kay Rump: The New Rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. 2nd Edition. Wachtholz, 2005, ISBN 3-529-02792-8 .
Otto Quirin. Exhibition Fundació Angel Planells. E-17300 Blanes. Legal deposit: GI-368-2007
Who's who. 5th edition. 1998, ISBN 3-7290-0024-1 , p. 2063.
Michael Studemund-Halévy : In Jewish Hamburg. With portraits by Otto Quirin. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-937904-97-9 .
Ina S. Lorenz, Michael Studemund-Halévy (eds.): Otto Quirin. Hamburg Jewish portraits. ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936406-38-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ "Re-Encounter" is a traveling exhibition. Later on in the Jewish cultural center in Berlin (2007), in the synagogue in Lübeck (2008), in Hamburg (2009) and in the Kulturhaus Eppendorf (2010).

^ Catalog for the portrait exhibition Reencounter in the Klaussynagoge Halberstadt

^ Poster of the exhibition in the Fundació Angel Planells ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

↑ Otto Quirin in the Wellingsbüttel gatehouse. ( Memento from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 458 kB) In: Alstertal magazine for the exhibition in the Torhaus 2007.

↑ Website of the Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog ( Memento from March 3, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )

↑ “As little as he programmatically adheres to an art movement, Quirin wants to teach or turn his innermost inside out. His pictures document an intensive examination of the formative art movements of the 20th century and at the same time a strong artistic personality who has developed a great imaginative power in the creation of forms and a wealth of detail and nuanced differentiation in the composition. Spontaneity and formal work complement each other productively and charge the picture with life and structure. In his most recent pictures, the 81-year-old uses his creative reservoir with virtuoso freedom. In a time in which a supposed polarity and objectivity are no longer an issue, the view becomes free for the fine work, for the momentary, for the layers in which corporeality and sound, figure and free lines correspond with each other. Here worlds of sensation and objective reality flow into one another. ”( Dr. Rainer Beßling : Catalog for the exhibition“ Art of Collecting ”from April 13 to May 3, 2008 in the Galerie Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog)

↑ Otto Quirin in the Anne Moerchen Gallery ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2012 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. @1@ 2
↑ Internet page about the exhibition "Heads in Head" in the Syker Vorwerk
↑ Artist directory Galerie kit Stadthaus Hamburg ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Article in the Elbmarsch newspaper about the exhibition “The world is full of symbols” in Göddingen ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
^ "So or So. Two positions of postmodernism" in the exhibition archive of the artists' association Worpswede "The Blue House"
↑ Gallery and Collection Marlies Kramski ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2017 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. @1@ 2

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Quirin, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaiser, Otto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mönchengladbach

[1] "Re-Encounter" is a traveling exhibition. Later on in the Jewish cultural center in Berlin (2007), in the synagogue in Lübeck (2008), in Hamburg (2009) and in the Kulturhaus Eppendorf (2010).

[2] Catalog for the portrait exhibition Reencounter in the Klaussynagoge Halberstadt

[3] Poster of the exhibition in the Fundació Angel Planells ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

[4] Otto Quirin in the Wellingsbüttel gatehouse. ( Memento from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 458 kB) In: Alstertal magazine for the exhibition in the Torhaus 2007.

[5] Website of the Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog ( Memento from March 3, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )

[6] “As little as he programmatically adheres to an art movement, Quirin wants to teach or turn his innermost inside out. His pictures document an intensive examination of the formative art movements of the 20th century and at the same time a strong artistic personality who has developed a great imaginative power in the creation of forms and a wealth of detail and nuanced differentiation in the composition. Spontaneity and formal work complement each other productively and charge the picture with life and structure. In his most recent pictures, the 81-year-old uses his creative reservoir with virtuoso freedom. In a time in which a supposed polarity and objectivity are no longer an issue, the view becomes free for the fine work, for the momentary, for the layers in which corporeality and sound, figure and free lines correspond with each other. Here worlds of sensation and objective reality flow into one another. ”( Dr. Rainer Beßling : Catalog for the exhibition“ Art of Collecting ”from April 13 to May 3, 2008 in the Galerie Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog)