Paul Wans

Paul Wans in the studio

Paul Wans (born March 31, 1957 in Straelen ) is a German painter , artist and art teacher.

Life

After graduating from the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , where Franz Joseph van der Grinten was his teacher, Wans studied painting and graphics as well as art history and education from 1975 to 1979 at the University of Duisburg . Since the 2nd state examination in art and art education in 1981 he has lived in Kevelaer and works as a freelance artist and art educator in the secondary school service.

In 1977 and 1978 Wans studied Renaissance painting in Florence and Siena, and on a scholarship at the Oronsko Sculpture and Painting Center near Warsaw, landscape painting. The following year he came second in the 3rd International Watercolor Competition of the Sinaide Ghi Art Foundation in Rome . In 2004 he was awarded the Southwest German Watercolor Prize of the City of Völklingen , and in 2009 the Culture Prize for Fine Arts in the Kleve District (1st prize).

For almost 30 years he has primarily dealt artistically with the agriculture that has shaped the Meuse-Rhine region. Wans is known for his large-format, critical watercolors from the field of agriculture. In them he combines stylistic elements of classic interior and still life painting with those of a heightened, magical realism to create his own painting style. The image and title with which he plays language games usually form a correlate: “Minced beef”, “In one piece or cut?”, “Milk ice cream”, “Last supper before the slaughter”, “Town musicians”, “Stahllstangen”.

Wans has been a member since 1985 and was chairman of the Professional Association of Visual Artists / District Association of the Lower Rhine from 1987 to 1991; In addition, from 2005 he was chairman of the Neuy-Kunst-Verein eV Kevelaer until the association was dissolved in 2013 for the artistic legacy of the Kevelaer Bauhaus and Kandinsky student Heinrich Neuy .

Reviews

Irmgard Bernrieder: “... He pays homage to the uniqueness of cows and sows by depicting them as lifelike as possible using the well-known elaborate watercolor technique. He made the black and white spotted people, whose giant udders tell more about modern production constraints on profitable farms than about rural calm and serenity, his topic early on ... Animal body seems to paint Wans against clichés ... "

Walter Filz: "... Paul Wans succeeds in what modernism has no longer considered possible for almost 100 years: the renewal of landscape painting as agricultural painting .... Animals stand and lie like strange sculptures, foreign bodies in the landscape. ..something that we feed, milk and slaughter, but cannot understand. Especially in their cool, distant lack of emotion, Paul Wans' pictures develop something magical, almost religious, and not only in Kevelaer! "

Exhibitions (selection)

2017 "Agriculture - Agricultures. Paul Wans, Painting. ”, LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin
2010 “The land animals of the landlord, Paul Wans - painting and drawing”, Heylshof Art Museum , Worms
2006 “Stall Land Vieh, Paul Wans, Aquarelle”, Museum Haus Lawaczeck , Kerken
1993/94 "animal rural": Municipal Gallery Rees, Niederrheinisches Museum Kevelaer, Gallery Huis Kernhem, Ede (Netherlands)
1989 Municipal Gallery "Haus Hartmann", Grevenbroich; Galerie Peppers, Linz am Rhein; NGW gallery, Duisburg-Hamborn
1988 “Land Stil Leben” - watercolors 1983-88: Gallery “Art in the Tower” (together with Peter Dekkers, Netherlands), Schwanenburg Kleve; Gallery in the Ministry for Environment and Agriculture, Düsseldorf; Institute center of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture, Bonn
1987 “Paul Wans, Painting a. Graphics 1976-86 “: Städtische Galerie Werner-Jaeger-Halle, Nettetal; Engelhaupt Gallery, Heinsberg
1986 “Agriculture”, Peschken Gallery, Krefeld
1984 "Everyday Life on the Lower Rhine" (together with photographs by Hartmut Mirbach ): Niederrheinisches Museum Kevelaer; Municipal Kramer Museum Kempen; Municipal Museum - Gallery in the center of Wesel
1979 Gallery in the town hall of Straelen

Participation in exhibitions

2017 “YIA Art Fair”, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2016 "ArtFair Cologne", Cologne exhibition halls
2015 "Gallery Weekend Berlin", LDX Artodrome Gallery
2014 “Nasowatt-Humor in the K.”, Kalkar Municipal Museum
2013 “Painting for you” as part of the Berlin Art Week 2013, LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin
2013 "Art Beijing 2013", Agricultural Exhibition Center of China, Beijing
2012 "Nature and Life" (J / Kat), LDX Artodrome Gallery Berlin
2012 "Nature - Human" (J / Kat), 18th Int. Art exhibition Städt. Gallery St. Andreasberg / Harz
2010 "Gier" (J / Kat), Galerie Artodrome Berlin
2009 "bridgeArtFair New York 09", New York City / Chelsea (USA)
2009 "28. Lineart Gent 2009 "(J / Kat), Expo Gent (BEL)
2009 “20 Years Fall of the Wall, Berlin // Berlin” (J / Kat), Artodrome Gallery Berlin
2008 30. artexpo New York (J), Javits Center New York City (USA)
2007 15th Int. Art exhibition "FORMART" (J / Kat), Marcellin-Verbe-Haus Glinde b. Hamburg
2005 "Four Artists from the Lower Rhine", Duisburger Cubus Kunsthalle (J)
2004 "6. Southwest German Watercolor Prize of the City of Völklingen "(J),
2004 "Art postcard NRW - over 200 artists" (J / Kat), Cubus Kunsthalle Duisburg
2003 "Water on the Lower Rhine - Culture Prize for Fine Arts in the Kleve District" (J / Kat), Kevelaer Concert Hall and Stage
2002 "3 x Kuh - Kunst" (together with Gabriele Heider and Klaus Büschgens), Museum Bislich / Galerie Auf dem Steinberg, Wesel
2002 "Varieties of Realism" (J / Kat), Gallery of the Esslingen Cultural Foundation
2002 "Natur - Mensch" (J / Kat), 8th art exhibition, Städt. Gallery St. Andreasberg / Harz
2001 “Artists from Niederrhein a. Bury St. Edmunds “(J / Kat), Städt. Gallery Bury St. Edmunds (GB)
1987 "Great Art Exhibition NRW" (J / Kat), Ehrenhof Düsseldorf
1985 "The border area in pictures, NL / D" (J / Kat), House of the Province, Arnhem (NL)
1981 “Landscape watercolors by young European artists” (J), Sinaide Ghi Art Foundation, Rome

Publications

Everyday life on the Lower Rhine , ISBN 3-7666-9296-8 , Paul Wans (painting) and Hartmut Mirbach (photography), Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1983
Agriculture (catalog), Paul Wans-Aquarelle, Galerie Peschken, Krefeld 1986
Country - Style - Life , ISBN 3-922384-08-0 , Paul Wans-Aquarelle 1983-88, Boss-Verlag, Kleve 1988
animal rural (catalog) Paul Wans-Aquarelle u. Assemblages, Museum Kevelaer / Stadt Rees 1993
Stall - Land - Vieh , ISBN 3-921760-42-9 , Verlag des Hist. Geldern Association, Geldern 2006
Paul Wans, painting and drawing , ISBN 978-3-936118-36-0 , Worms-Verlag, Worms 2010

Individual evidence

↑ Irmgard Bernrieder, "That goes on a cow skin" in the magazine 'kult', No. 4/2006, p. 29 about the book "Stall Land Vieh"
↑ Cultural journalist Dr. Walter Filz on May 4, 1994 in the WDR program "Mosaik"

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personal data
SURNAME	Wans, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Straelen

[1] Irmgard Bernrieder, "That goes on a cow skin" in the magazine 'kult', No. 4/2006, p. 29 about the book "Stall Land Vieh"

[2] Cultural journalist Dr. Walter Filz on May 4, 1994 in the WDR program "Mosaik"