Uwe Ernst

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Uwe Ernst at work (2011)

Uwe Ernst (* 1947 in Göppingen ) is a German painter and draftsman .

Life

Uwe Ernst studied from 1966 to 1967 at the Freie Kunstschule eV Stuttgart and from 1967 to 1974 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart free painting with professors Albrecht Appelhans and Rudolf Haegele . He has been a freelance worker since 1974.

Uwe Ernst has lived and worked in Böbingen an der Rems since 1989 . He is married to the vocal performer Dorothea Ernst and has one daughter.

Uwe Ernst is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg eV (VBKW).

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Since 1974 Uwe Ernst has been working and experimenting mainly with black chalk on paper. He has acquired a special, elaborate working technique, the palette of which ranges from the finest gray to the deepest black.

Free drawing and realistic representation refer to each other equally in the large-format painterly drawings. Ernst's figurative drawings are highly critical observations of human and social activity in our time.

The objects such as hats, funnels, wheels, tongs and vessels that appear again and again in his works are in dialogue with the creature, whose existential threats and fears the artist expresses in his pictures.

Uwe Ernst: The Last Supper, black chalk on paper, 147.5 × 223 cm, 2002

In 2002 a picture cycle for the St. Matthew Passion was created . The cycle became the basis of the multimedia project In principle: Hope. Audiovisual concert on the mechanics of suffering. Five scenes for images and sounds made of black chalk , which was premiered on October 20, 2002 in the Ostalbkreishaus Aalen . In addition to Uwe Ernst and the vocalist Dorothea Ernst, the audio artist Otto Kränzler and the video artist Roland Barth also worked on the project.

Ernst's work is in private and public collections.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Uwe Ernst: To love upwards, black chalk on paper, 143 × 212 cm, 2004
Uwe Ernst: Mahlwerk I, black chalk on paper, 37.5 × 64 cm, 2008
Uwe Ernst: Die Dekadenz (the decay), black chalk on paper, 137.5 × 207 cm, 2009
Uwe Ernst: Africa (resolutions), black chalk on paper, 108.5 × 165.5 cm, 2015
  • 1974 Wendelin Niedlich Gallery , Stuttgart
  • 1976 Kunstverein Osterholz-Scharmbeck
  • 1978 Heilbronn Art Association
  • 1985 Gallery Ventzki, Göppingen
  • 1986 Municipal Gallery Plochingen
  • 1986 Geiger Gallery, Kornwestheim
  • 1987 Kunstverein Ellwangen eV
  • 1987 Evangelical Academy Bad Boll
  • 1989 Art Association Balingen
  • 1989 Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg, Weingarten
  • 1992 gallery in the Kornhauskeller, Ulm
  • 1998 Brandstätter Gallery, Öhningen
  • 2000 Aalen Town Hall Gallery
  • 2001 SWR Baden-Baden, gallery in the house of the radio directorate
  • 2002 Gallery at the Black Sea Bremen
  • 2002 District Office Aalen, world premiere »In principle: Hope«
  • 2006 Kornhausgalerie Weingarten
  • 2007 Kunstforum Weil der Stadt eV
  • 2007 Museum Theo Kerg, Schriesheim
  • 2008 Kunstverein Mosbach, Altes Schlachthaus
  • 2008 Gallery Wendelinskapelle, Marbach
  • 2009 Gmünder Kunstverein , Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • 2009 Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen Accompanying exhibition to "Picture stories from Wilhelm Busch to Robert Gernhardt "
  • 2010 City Hall Gallery Walldorf
  • 2010 District Office Aalen, book presentation "Serious is art, serene life"
  • 2012 Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden
  • 2013 Hohenloher Kunstverein, Künzelsau
  • 2013 Club des Arts, Conseil de l'Europe, Strasbourg
  • 2016 Municipal Gallery The Ferry , Bad Saulgau, "Small World Theater"

Literature about Uwe Ernst

  • Uwe Ernst drawings. With contributions by Reinhard Döhl and Wolfgang Nussbaumer. 1987.
  • Horst Brandstätter : Festival bundle for the 60th birthday of the bookseller Wendelin Niedlich , Gifkendorf, Merlin Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-926112-04-2 .
  • Reinhard Döhl (Hrsg.): Kunst Handwerk Kunst , Kornwestheim 1986.
  • Reinhard Döhl: The Black Hole , 1992.
  • August Heuser , Wolfgang Nussbaumer: Uwe Ernst Catalog , 1998.
  • Art is serious, life is serene - the artist couple Uwe and Dorothea Ernst. With contributions by Dorothea Ernst, Günter Guben , Helmut Herbst, Otto Kränzler, Wendelin Niedlich and Wolfgang Nussbaumer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029208-8 .
  • God and the Lust for Mechanics: Contemporary Artists and the Legacy of Philipp Matthäus Hahn. Irmgard Sedler (Ed.), 2015, ISBN 978-38030-3375-8 .
  • Idea - concept - draft. Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg (Ed.), Edition Cantz Esslingen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-947563-18-0 .

Film about Uwe Ernst

  • Roland Barth: Technique: Black chalk on paper - the draftsman Uwe Ernst at work , 1997, 29 minutes. Watch the film on YouTube

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Nussbaumer: On the mechanics of suffering in the Cretaceous period . In: Schwäbische Post from October 16, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen