Werner Baumann (artist)

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Werner Baumann, Strichvögel , linocut, 1960, 42 cm × 29.5 cm

Werner Baumann (born April 11, 1925 in Crailsheim ; † October 19, 2009 in Heilbronn ) was a German graphic artist , art educator and art educator.

Life

Werner Baumann studied graphic and book illustration with Karl Rössing , art history with Otto Schmitt , Hans Wentzel and Hans Fegers , life drawing with Walter Wörn at the TH Stuttgart as well as after military service, wounding and hospital stay in Czechoslovakia from 1946 at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart Geography with Hermann von Wissmann and geology with Georg Wagner at the University of Tübingen . He then worked as an art teacher at the Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn (1951–1987, also as an art educator, specialist advisor for art education at the Stuttgart Higher School Authority), as an exhibition manager at the Künstlerbund Heilbronn (1960–1965) and at the Kunstverein Heilbronn (1965–1991) and as a freelancer Graphic artist.

Werner Baumann was married to Ruth Baumann-Bantel (1925–1994). His estate is in the possession of the Städtische Museen Heilbronn , in the archive of the city of Crailsheim as well as in private hands.

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Werner Baumann, Coppelius , linocut, 1962, 42 cm × 29.5 cm

Werner Baumann originally came from pen drawings and small-format woodcuts , mostly designed and used as book illustrations. In the course of his artistic activity he turned almost exclusively to black and white linocut , which extended to wall-sized hand prints. Color prints and prints with linoleum stamps are increasingly found in the later work.

The printing was done almost exclusively as a pure hand print with a bone folder and fingernail without a printing press on Japanese paper , the material structure of which in combination with the glossy printer's ink gives the originals a special sensuality in his eyes. While the oeuvre of the “original black and white talent” was initially limited almost exclusively to figurative motifs (biblical, literary and historical people, theater, circus and artist worlds, allegorical and mythical figures), an increasing number took place from the mid-1980s Abstraction with architectural motifs (house structures and geometries, Hohenloher farmhouses, cycle Niederhaller Altstadt), which finally resulted in a late work of "Concretion" with compositions without reference to figurative models.

However, the pronounced black and white contrast and the ingenious composition of lines and surfaces determine the content of the image throughout. In doing so, he consciously referred to a sentence by his teacher Karl Rössing : “We call everything concise, clear, straightforward woodcut: a prayer and a manifesto, biblical laws and old folk books. That is also the reason why no other graphic technique feels so closely related to the word and why no other has such a good visual connection with the printed word "and adds:" Image design means rhythmic and proportionate division of a surface with shapes and colors . The woodcut and linocut forbids brilliance with the handwritten style, as well as unclear moodiness and non-binding. My creative process is a constant process of abstraction. The 'soul' and the 'spiritual' are realized in the material and its processing. Cutting and printing are related to my sense of shape and willingness. "

Illustrations

  • Für Dich, A Yearbook for Girls, Volume 1, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1956/1957.
  • Various books published by K. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • Forty years of Volkshochschule Heilbronn 1919–1959.
  • Cross calendar 1979, Biblical message in graphics and poetry, Wartburg Verlag Max Keßler Jena.
  • Kreuzkalender 1987, 1989, Biblical message in graphics and poetry, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin.
  • Schwäbischer Heimatkalender 1988, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart.

Exhibitions

Werner Baumann, The View into the Dark , India ink drawing, 1948, 21 cm × 14 cm

Solo exhibitions

  • 1960: Upper rooms Café Frank, Crailsheim
  • 1962: Upper room, Ulm
  • 1964: Ladengalerie, Berlin
  • 1973: Protestant conference center, Löwenstein-Altenhau
  • 1989: Town Hall, Niedernhall
  • 1991: Chapel on the Gottesacker, Crailsheim
  • 1992: Landesgirokasse, Heilbronn
  • 1999: Artists' Meeting, Stuttgart
  • 2000: City library, Heilbronn
  • 2000: Museum im Spital, Crailsheim
  • 2004: Town Hall, Fichtenau
  • 2005: Heilbronn Art Association
  • 2005: City Museums Heilbronn
  • 2010: Hirschwirtscheuer , Künzelsau
  • 2015: Sandelsches Museum Kirchberg / Jagst
  • 2019: K55 Kunstetage Künstlerbund Heilbronn

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt, Heilbronn, Langenburg, Esslingen, Karlsruhe, Reutlingen, Schwetzingen, Schwäbisch Hall, Chemnitz, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Béziers (France), Kyoto (Japan), Tel Aviv (Israel), St. Petersburg ( Russia), Beijing (PR China), Warsaw, Krakow (Poland) Wilnius (Lithuania), St. Pölten (Austria) Winterthur (Switzerland)

Memberships

Werner Baumann, Hohenloher farmhouse , linocut, 1972, 29.5 cm × 42 cm
  • Association of Visual Artists Württemberg
  • Artists Association of Baden-Württemberg
  • International Association of Wood Cutters XYLON, German Section
  • Künstlerbund Heilbronn (KBH)
  • Heilbronn Art Association (KVH)
  • Hohenloher Kunstverein

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Heilbronn Art Association
  • 1990: Federal Cross of Merit

literature

  • Werner Baumann. In: Kürschner's graphic artist's manual. Berlin 1967, 2nd edition, archive No. 19 13 671.
  • From abstraction to concretion, Werner Baumann linocuts 1940–2005. 2005, ISBN 3-929233-42-8 .
  • Werner Baumann. With lines and surfaces to a solid form. Text by Martina Kitzing-Bretz. 2010, ISBN 978-3-89929-174-2 .
  • Contribution to: Topic white. Catalog annual exhibition KBH in the municipal museums Heilbronn, 1996.
  • Contribution to: Exhibition catalog Woodcut Today. Art Prize 2002. Foundation Art, Culture and Education Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg 2002.
  • Contribution to: Interfaces. High-pressure graphics from the woodcutter association XYLON German Section e. V. 2002.
  • Contribution in: Land auf Land ab, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart in the kaleidoscope of the Würth Collection. 2004, ISBN 3-89929-018-6 .
  • Article in: Heilbronn and the art of the 50s. Ed. Städtische Museen Heilbronn. 1993, ISBN 3-921638-43-7 .
  • Article in: 125 Years of the Heilbronn Art Association 1879–2004. Published by the Heilbronn Art Association. 2004
  • Post in: yesterday - today - tomorrow. Exhibition and colloquium of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association for the 60th anniversary of the state of Baden-Württemberg. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86833-111-0
  • Contribution in: Folker Förtsch, Hans Dieter Haller (ed.): Bookmark culture. ( Historical publication series of the city of Crailsheim, Volume 11), 2012, pp. 71–76.
  • Contribution in: Hans Dieter Haller: Kirchberg an der Jagst - A painter's place. Kirchberg / Jagst 2015, pp. 162/163.

Web links

Commons : Werner Baumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog, Werner Baumann, 50 Years of Linocuts 1949–1999, Booklet No. 24 to KBH exhibitions in the Heilbronn City Library, 2000
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog, Werner Baumann, Das Schwarz und das Weiß. 1992.
  4. ↑ Book information from Swiridoff Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Crailsheim
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 2009
Place of death Heilbronn