Walter Dahn
Walter Dahn (born October 8, 1954 in St. Tönis ) is a German painter , photographer and sound artist . He is one of the most important representatives of the Junge Wilde of the 1980s. Dahn teaches painting at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .
Life
From 1971 to 1979 Dahn studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy where he was a master student of Joseph Beuys . His first works were drawings and installations in room 19 of the academy. In his work, the focus was particularly on drawing, photography and the creation of videos and Super 8 films. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the Mülheimer Freiheit artist group , which also included Hans Peter Adamski , Peter Bömmels , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Gerard Kever and Gerhard Naschberger . The young artists shared a backyard studio in the “Mülheimer Freiheit” street in Cologne, which leads to the Rhine.
His breakthrough came with an exhibition in the gatehouse gallery “When the guinea fowl weeps softly”. In 1981 he was represented in the exhibition of the Rundschau Deutschland . From 1981 he published sound carriers under the project names "The Party", "The Hornets" and "# 9 Dream". In 1982 Dahn exhibited some of his works at documenta 7 in Kassel . In 1983 and 1984, together with Dokoupil, he was given a teaching position at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since 1996 he has held a professorship at the Braunschweig University of Art . Until 1984 he created joint pictures with Dokoupil. In the same year he took part in the exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf . In 2003/2004 his work was shown at Obsessive Painting - A Review of the New Wild in Karlsruhe.
Walter Dahn lives and works in Cologne .
Representations and motifs
Walter Dahn's motifs initially consist of figurative representations or metamorphoses. This is how deformed human figures often arise in the course of further development. Furthermore, his painting is characterized by spontaneity and a reduction to the essentials and thus shows similarities to the works of Beuys. Recurring themes in his works are helpless, naked people or dream and wishful ideas, for example the return to or into nature as well as human longings and fears.
Works in museums
- Salto Mortale from 1984 in the Neue Galerie Kassel
Exhibitions (selection)
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Books and exhibition catalogs (selection)
- Aspects of today's German art. Association of Friends of the New Gallery, Aachen 1983, DNB 840408382 .
- with Marcus Steinweg: The abandoned house. Salon-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-932189-08-6 .
- Spiritual America. König, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-88375-346-7 .
- Goin 'back. Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 978-3-940099-19-8 .
- Walter Dahn, Andreas Gehlen. Galerie Klein, Bad Münstereifel-Mutscheid 2002, DNB 965552381 .
- Walther Dahn, about today - photography, painting, sculpture. 1994-2009. König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-621-1 .
- Walter Dahn, flowers & coffee. König, Cologne 2011, DNB 1013654250 .
Musical publications (selection)
- Helmut Zerlett, Walter Dahn: Rhythm and irrelevance. Warner Music Germany, Hamburg around 1994, DNB 35524022X .
- Walter Dahn & Hornets: honey and dirt. Dieter Hoff, Cologne around 2004, DNB 358918693 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Dahn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Dahn on kunstaspekte.de
- Art projects
- Materials by and about Walter Dahn in the documenta archive
- 10 video clips "Answers to questions about art in the context of documenta-dock.net" on documenta-dock.net
- Walter Dahn at artfacts.net (exhibition overview)
- Walter Dahn on kunstaspekte.de (exhibition overview)
- Walter Dahn on artype.de (artist books and catalogs)
- Musical works
- Walter Dahn + Hornets at Soundcloud.com
- Walter Dahn - Honig und Dreck at Discogs.com
- # 9 Dream at Discogs.com (Helmut Zerlett & Walter Dahn)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Dahn: Flowers & Coffee. (PDF; 15 kB) at hbk-bs.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ a b Walter Dahn ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at bonner-kunstverein.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ FIVE FRIENDS IN ZURICH. - A suggestion from Walter Dahn… August 25 - October 1, 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on schauort.com, accessed on March 19, 2014.
- ↑ MMK 1991–2011, 20 years of the present. ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: mmk-frankfurt.de. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
- ^ I hate Paul Klee - Works on paper and artist books from the Speck Collection. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at leopoldhoeschmuseum.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ The Silver Show - 25 years of the NAK. at neueraachenerkunstverein.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ March 24th − 12th August 2012 - the name is BURROUGHS - Expanded Media. on on1.zkm.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ Water level report - 20 years of the Kunstmuseum Bonn. at kunstmuseum-bonn.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ↑ Man and his objects - photographic collection. at museum-folkwang.de, accessed on February 22, 2013.
- ^ Exhibition information Ludwig Forum. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Dahn, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, photographer and sound artist, Junge Wilde, professor of painting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Tönis |