Reiner Kallhardt

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Reiner Kallhardt (also Rainer Kallhardt, born April 20, 1933 in Munich ) is a German painter of concrete and constructivist art and exhibition curator .

life and work

Kallhardt studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1951 and then became a private student of  Fritz Winter . In 1956 he switched to the academy there as a master class student in Kassel. From 1959 he worked as a freelance painter.

In 1967 Kallhardt became exhibition director at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg and in 1969 took over the management of the   Institute for Modern Art . Among other things, he worked on the concept for the exhibition “Constructive Art, Elements and Principles” at the 1st Biennale in Nuremberg in 1969, the first international exhibition of this art direction. In 1970 it became director of the Munich Art Association . In 1971, Kallhardt took over a professorship at the Kassel Art College .

In 1998, as professor emeritus of the previous art department, he was elected founding dean of the semi-autonomous department of the new Kassel University . In 2000 he was temporarily replaced by Heiner Georgsdorf , and finally by Karin Stempel . In the same year, Kallhardt established contacts with the Sichuan University of the Arts in Chongqing in order to prepare exchange projects for students from both universities. He then took on a teaching position at the university.

From 2000 to 2006 Kallhardt had a studio in Berlin, and since 2007 he has lived and worked in Prien am Chiemsee.

Exhibitions

  • 2014 Play Objects - The Art of Possibilities , Museum Tinguely , Basel
  • 2013 Anti-image-Poetry , Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, Chengdu, Sichuan (E)
  • 1994 Black and white sheets clearly grouped , Städtisches Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Sello : Freshly dared and only half won. Nuremberg opened its 1st Biennale . In: The time of April 25, 1969
  2. ↑ Website of the University of Kassel
personal data
SURNAME Kallhardt, Reiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kallhardt, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, sculptor, curator and art professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich