Werner Nöfer

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Wall painting on Grünspan, Hamburg 1968 Werner Nöfer

Werner Nöfer (* 1937 in Essen ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

Werner Nöfer studied from 1956 to 1959 at the Folkwang School in Essen a. a. with Max Burchartz and Werner Graeff , then until 1964 at the State University of Fine Arts Hamburg a . a. with Kurt Kranz . From the mid-1960s onwards, he developed his brightly colored, emblematic pictures and graphics (mainly screen prints), which also made him internationally known. In 1965 he founded the artist group Cruizin 4 (syndicate for the art business) with Gunter Gerlach , Herman Prigann , Dirk Zimmer (Dizi) and Dieter Glasmacher . In 1966 he received a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to London . Since 1968 he has created various wall paintings and art in public space , for example the facade painting at the Hamburg music club Grünspan , one of the first wall paintings in Germany (together with Dieter Glasmacher), 1972 murals as an orientation system in Berlin-Tegel Airport, 1970 wall objects for the Ruhr University Bochum , 1972 and 1978 Wallpaintings in Bremen, 1968 he co-founded the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg .

In 1970 and 1971 he was a guest lecturer at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel . In 1971 he and Kurt Rosenthal received a federal film award for the animated film “Storyboard”. In 1976 he was awarded the International Triennial Prize for Colored Graphics in Grenchen . From 1977 to 1978 he held a teaching position at the Bremen University of the Arts . From 1982 the three-dimensional paper objects (“Model Germany”) as well as the large-format multi-layer paper cuts, paper architectures and cartographies were created.

From 1979 to 2000 he was a professor in the design department at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences (degree in object design / art in public spaces). In the course of time he had around 70 solo exhibitions and was involved in over 100 themed and group exhibitions. Werner Nöfer is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Hamburg and Oberndorf , where he set up his studio in an old farmhouse.

Quotes

“The lack of original perceptions forces one to react to a reproduced environment that rasterizes, retouches, masks, stencils, manipulates and stereotypically repeats all processes ... I find myself in a voyeur situation. Through the cash I see memories and rudiments of landscapes, figures, flying objects, streets, assembly instructions ... The cash enables the objectified quotation, the symmetry shows the process in a visually complex manner, the contour and the hatching reduce the artistic effort to a radical and concise one Valence ... the violence of the technological and mechanical environment would have to correspond to the pictorial means so that an adequate aggression material can develop. ... whoever paints illusionary pictures is really reactionary ... "

- WN 1968 in “German art: a new generation” in “das kunstwerk” (the work of art) No. 9-10 / XXI June-July 1968 by Rolf-Gunter Dienst

“... from the graphical fixation of positions, locations, angles, branches and distances, network plans from the past and future are formed ... there is no reality ... everything is fiction or agreement ... from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from small model for the larger world context ... oppose the excessiveness of the larger contexts with the model ... "WN 1990 in" Werner Nöfer - paper works "

- Exhibition catalog Karl Ernst Osthaus - Museum Hagen

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 University of Fine Arts Hamburg
  • 1966 Galerie Friedrich + Dahlem, Munich
  • 1969 Cabinet for Current Art , Bremerhaven
  • 1971 Städt. Museum, Mülheim ad Ruhr
  • 1972 Wilbrand Gallery, Cologne
  • 1973 Dierks Gallery, Aarhus DK
  • 1974 Kerlikowsky Gallery, Paris
  • 1976 Folkwang Museum, Essen, graphic retrospective
  • 1977 Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen
  • 1978 Galerie Baviera, Schulze + Baltensberger, Zurich
  • 1987 City Gallery + Museum, Wolfsburg
  • 1989 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 1990 Karl Ernst Osthaus - Museum, Hagen
  • 1998 Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg
  • 2004 City Gallery in the Cube, Hanover
  • 2009 Gallery of Chance and Luck, Hanover
  • 2016 City Museum Mülheim, ad Ruhr, Pop Art USA / Germany: Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Nöfer

Movies

  • "Score", 16 mm, 1968 animation (with Kurt Rosenthal), Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin,
  • “Storyboard”, 16 mm, 1970 animation (with Kurt Rosenthal) Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin;

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
  • Wolfsburg municipal art collection
  • Recklinghausen art gallery
  • Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
  • Württemberg State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Kunsthalle Kiel
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
  • State Museum Münster
  • National Gallery of Krakow
  • Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • Folkwang Museum Essen
  • Sprengel Museum Hannover
  • Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen
  • Museum am Ostwall Dortmund
  • NMCA Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki
  • East Museum of Drawing Skopje
  • Kunsthaus Zurich
  • City Museum Mülheim adRuhr
  • Art collection NRW Düsseldorf

literature

  • Rolf-Gunter's “German Art” service in The Artwork 9-10, Baden-Baden 1968.
  • Hans-Peter Riese "On the work of Werner Nöfer" Hessischer Rundfunk, Kulturelles Wort, March 25, 1970
  • Hannes Keil "Werner Nöfer" in aspects ZDF Mainz 1970
  • "Current Art in Hamburg" catalog of the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg 1968.
  • Rolf-Gunter Dienst "German Art - A New Generation", DuMont Publishing House, Cologne 1970.
  • Michael Naumann "Werner Nöfer - Street Art" in ZEITmagazin 3/1970;
  • Walter Aue "SCIENCE-FICTION" Texts and pictures by Werner Nöfer (pp. 36–39) Melzer Verlag 1970.
  • Rolf Jüdes "Werner Nöfer - Monograph" Gallery and Edition Walther, Düsseldorf 1970.
  • "Now" arts in Germany now, catalog, Kunsthalle Cologne 1970
  • Joachim Kuhlbrodt “About the films by Werner Nöfer and Kurt Rosenthal” in Filmkritik 6/1971;
  • Reinhard Bentmann "Experiment about Werner Nöfer", catalog of the Apfelbaum Gallery, Karlsruhe 1971.
  • Reiner Bentmann and Heinz Ohff
  • "Landscape Art", in Neue Landchaft, Edition Herzog, Berlin 1971
  • Gottfried Sello “New Landscape” in ZEITmagazin 9/1971;
  • Juliane Roh "German Art of the 1960s" Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1971.
  • Karin Thomas "Until today, style history of the fine arts in the 20th century" Verlag DuMont Schauberg Cologne 1971.
  • Jürgen Weichardt : "New Landscape" , in magazine art , issue 45/1972;
  • Juliane Roh "German Art since 1960, Part 3 - Graphic Art" Bruckmann Verlag 1971.
  • Wieland Schmied "Painting after 1945" Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1974.
  • Stefanie Endlich "Art at Berlin Airport", Berliner Flughafen-Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1974
  • AR writer "APEX-Interwiews 1" Gallery APEX, Göttingen 1974
  • “Painter in Hamburg” Volker Detlef Heydorn, Hans Christians Verlag Hamburg 1974.
  • Graphics from Hamburg, Heinz Spielmann, Lichtwark-Gesellschaft, Alexandria, Amman, Ankara, Athens, Beirut, Belgrade, Istanbul, Cairo 1974
  • Herlyn, Manske , Weisser “Art in the Cityscape” Bremen 1976;
  • Colin Naylor "Contemporary Artists" St. James Press, London 1977 and St. Martin's Press, New York 1977.
  • Rolf Wedewer "Landscape painting between dream and reality" DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1978.
  • Wolfgang Hainke "Siebdruck" DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1979.
  • Werner Nöfer A sketchbook. Sketches, auxiliary drawings, ideas, plans, incidental, unrealized, not yet realized, unrealizable. Hamburg 1979.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , p. 126f.
  • Waltraud Brodersen and Claus Mewes "Model Germany / Layers of Paper and History" catalog of the Studio Galerie, Hamburg 1986.
  • Sigrid Godau “Landscape as a Model and Fiction” and Michael Fehr “Hagener Versuchsfeld” in the Werner Nöfer exhibition catalog * Works on paper 1982–1989, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 1990.
  • "Architecture of Ideas - Thought Buildings in Art" Verlag Triton Vienna / Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-901310-15-0 .
  • Volker Plagemann "Art in Public Space - A Guide through the City of Hamburg", Julius Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-88506-275-5 .
  • Jörgen Bracker “The change in the republic or a theory of architecture” Catalog of the exhibition Werner Nöfer in the Museum of Hamburg History with contributions by Michael Fehr “Reconstruction of Deconstruction” Werner Nöfer “A semester report” and Jörgen Bracker “Biography” Hamburg 1998
  • Werner Nöfer "Sketches-Auxiliary Drawings-Travel-Casual" Museum for Hamburg History, 1998, ISBN 3-00-002497-2
  • Ludwig Zerull : Werner Nöfer , contemporary art from Lower Saxony, ed. from the Lower Saxony Lotto Foundation , Hannover 2009, 79 S, ISBN 978-3-00-027368-1 .
  • Hartmut Kraft / Beate Reese: I like progress: German Pop reloaded. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-89-770469-5
  • Danah Weßling: "The mural by Werner Nöfer and Dieter Glasmacher on Grünspan, Große Freiheit Hamburg" Dresden University of Fine Arts, degree course in art technology, conservation of art and cultural assets, Dresden 2018
  • Thomas Hirschbiegel: "Crazy controversy over cult paintings of the fawn", Hamburger Morgenpost August 18, 2020

Web links

Commons : Werner Nöfer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bücherhalen Hamburg Short biography of Gunter Gerlach ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ nrw-museum.de
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Nöfer, Werner ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 30, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Nöfer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH eat