Siegbert Hahn

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Siegbert Hahn (born May 22, 1937 in Breslau ) is a German painter .

biography

After graduating from high school, Hahn worked from 1957 to 1960 as an assistant for director and camera at the DEFA film company in East Berlin. During this time the first oil paintings were created. In 1960 he fled to West Berlin. A year later he moved to Cologne, where he studied art history from 1962 to 1966 and still lives today. He had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1963. Eventually Siegbert Hahn gave up his studies in favor of painting and has been a freelance painter ever since. During his lifetime the painter and his friend Peter Guckel chose a final resting place in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne. The tombstone ("The bird with the stone") made of Aachen bluestone was designed with motifs from his work.

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The focus of his artistic work, which comprises more than 600 works, is the examination of nature, its beauty and diversity in growth and decay, but also with its threat. Hahn's representational oil painting is realistic down to the smallest detail. The imaginary image content of puzzling fish and birds, wondrous trees and mysterious landscapes are in an exciting contrast. His paintings become symbols for the mystery of life and nature - in other words: images of his Natura mystica . His oeuvre can be grouped into the categories “water-fish-tree-bird”, “time-space-beginning”, “polarity transgression” and “still life”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Exhibitions in the dbb-forum seven mountains, Königswinter and in the dbb-club berlin , Berlin
  • 2006: Parallel exhibition of the Kulturhistorisches Museum, Stralsund and St. Jürgen Church ( brick Gothic) Starkow / Velgast

Works (selection)

  • The autumn bird, 1970, 80 × 100 cm
  • Silent Scream, 1978, 80 × 100 cm
  • The grotto bird, 1982, 60 × 60 cm
  • The tree fish, 1987, 80 × 100 cm
  • The red gate, 1994, 80 × 110 cm
  • Elapsing time, 1995, 70 × 60 cm
  • The many realities, 2000, 60 × 85 cm
  • Under the autumn tree, 2002, 100 × 130 cm

Fonts (selection)

  • Literature on the work: Peter Guckel (Ed.), Natura mystica, Die Bildwelt von Siegbert Hahn - Siegbert Hahn's World of Images (German-English), Cologne, edition alectri, 2001, ISBN 3-934233-02-3 [978-3 -934233-02-7]
  • Literature on the curriculum vitae: Peter Guckel, Unter dem Orion, ways of a friendship, Cologne, edition alectri, 2000, ISBN 3-934233-00-7 [978-3-934233-00-3]
  • Literature on the tombstone: Peter Guckel, The bird with the stone, A tomb at the Melatenfriedhof in Cologne, Cologne, edition alectri, 2005, ISBN 3-934233-03-1

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Siegbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw