Peter Hodiamont

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Peter Paul Jacob Hodiamont (born February 13, 1925 in Aachen , † December 15, 2004 in Baelen ) was a German-Dutch painter and sculptor.

Live and act

Peter Hodiamont was the son of a Dutch father and a German mother. From 1937 he attended the grammar school of the Mariengarden monastery in Burlo, a district of Borken in Westphalia. As a foreigner, forcibly recruited by the German Wehrmacht and after a short war deployment, he was able to take the Abitur at the Couven-Gymnasium in Aachen in 1946 . From 1946 to 1948 he studied drawing, glass painting and free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student of Otto Pankok and Heinrich Kamps , before he decided to work in his father's painting business. In 1955 he passed his master craftsman examination as a painter. From 1956 to 1962 he was a lecturer at the master school of the Chamber of Crafts for Painters in Aachen.

From 1969 to 1982 Hodiamont was an art teacher at the girls' high school St. Ursula high school in Aachen. In 1970 he moved to Baelen, Belgium, where regular exhibitions were held in a farmhouse and residential building "House of the Sun" in the Mazarinen district that had been converted into a studio. In 1977 Hodiamont completed a theological degree in Cologne. His work is shaped by his intensive preoccupation with religious topics. So many ways of the cross, church windows and doors, etc. a. the seven-part woodcut cycle “The Song of the Sun of Saint Franz”. Hodiamont also received numerous commissions for sculptures and fountains in public spaces.

From 1982 Hodiamont worked as a freelance artist in Baelen. In 1997 the "Peter PJ Hodiamont Foundation" was established, which administers his work and maintains the sculpture garden in Baelen. A large solo exhibition took place in March 1999 under the title "RetrospektivEPerspektivenE" at the Museum Zinkhütter Hof in Stolberg .

Hodiamont died on December 15, 2004 in his "House of the Sun". In February 2005 the urn burial took place in the sculpture garden of the foundation.

Selection of works

  • 4 seasons, Aachen-Rothe Erde

  • Life ladder, Aachen fire

  • Eupen Peace Fountain

  • Euregio Fountain Eupen

  • Eupen weaver fountain

  • Way of the Cross , texts and drawings by Peter Hodiamont, self-published, 1973
  • Window wreath of the Schneeberg Chapel on the Schneeberg , Aachen-Vaalserquartier
  • Church window , St. Franziskus, Stolberg-Velau
  • Church window , Markus Church, Herzogenrath
  • Church window , chapel of the Heinsberg prison
  • Trees of Life , Perpetual Calendar, 12 texts and 12 woodcuts by Peter Hodiamont, Regenbogenschule Stolberg, 1988
  • Wi d'r Oüpener kalld (e) , texts Willi Brammertz, drawings by Peter Hodiamont, KuB-Verlag Eupen
  • Auwetittse Oüpener Kalle , texts Willi Brammertz, drawings by Peter Hodiamont, KuB-Verlag Eupen, 1988, register no. the royal Belg. Library: 4741-88-1
  • ALTER EGO - 1940–1990 , Image-Druck, Aachen, 1990
  • Calvaire Mazarinen Peter Hodiamont, self-published, 1993
  • On life and death , 19 woodcuts, texts by Freddy Derwahl , prints by Peter Hodiamont
  • Declaration of love for an island , watercolors and drawings, self-published, Rügen 2003

Exhibitions

  • War and reconciliation . Kulturkino vogelsang ip, Schleiden. 2013-2016
  • Peter Paul Jacob Hodiamont . Markuskirche, Herzogenrath, March 13 - April 20, 2014
  • 10th annual memory . Garnstock Monastery Church, Baelen, December 12, 2014
  • Exhibition 'Beethoven in view of modern and historical art' with loans from the Fondation Hodiamont; Kunsthaus Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, October 18 - November 15, 2015
  • 11th anniversary in St. Alexius, monastery chapel of the Alexians, Aachen, December 19, 2015
  • Exhibition "The Song of the Sun from Saint Franz", 50th St. Franziskus Parish Festival, Stolberg, June 25, 2016
  • Exhibition "The Song of the Sun from Saint Franz", 80th parish festival of the Garnstock monastery chapel in Baelen, September 4 - October 4, 2016
  • 12th anniversary in the former Augustinian canons' monastery in Rolduc in Kerkrade / Netherlands, December 17, 2016
  • Exhibition "Connected in Art": M. Katzgrau († 1998 in Aachen) / P. Hodiamont († 2004 in Baelen) / M. Wienges - St. Ursula Gymnasium, Aachen - 11-15 June 2017
  • 13th anniversary in the former Recollektinnerinnenklosterkapelle Heidberg in Eupen, December 17, 2017
  • "Orchestral instruments sound new" - woodcut cycle from 1992, edited by Monika Wienges, Fondation Hodiamont Baelen, December 2017 - February 2018

literature

  • Peter Hodiamont 70 years . GEV Grenz-Echo-Verlag, Eupen 1994, ISBN 978-90-5433-049-3 (in German and English)
  • Dialogue , texts on the life and work of Peter Hodiamont, Heinz Josef Lambertz, Heinz-Jürgen Schuhmacher Verlag, Herzogenrath, 2005, ISBN 3-9810715-0-6
  • War and Reconciliation / Guerre et réconciliation / oorlog en zoning , selection of works from 6 decades; Exhibition catalog vogelsang ip, Schleiden, 2012
  • 40 years of Hodiamont glass windows in the Markus Church , Herzogenrath Passion Sermons, Ev. Herzogenrath parish, 2014

Web links

Commons : Peter Hodiamont  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Heck: Peter Paul Jacob Hodiamont . In: Grenzecho from November 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Heck: New and proven at the Hodiamont Foundation . In: Grenzecho from November 20, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Hodiamont, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodiamont, Peter Paul Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2004
Place of death Baelen