Werner write

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Werner Schreib (born March 16, 1925 in Berlin ; † September 20, 1969 with Lorsch ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Monument for travelers ... , 1965, installed on Friedrichswall in Hanover
Monument to travelers, detail

Writing grew up in Berlin-Charlottenburg and Berlin-Zehlendorf. His ancestors had settled in the Prignitz after the Thirty Years' War . According to an anecdote rumored by Schreib himself, the well-known Russian artist Kandinsky is said to have observed the young Schreib painting stone slabs and praised him with the words "You did it well, I can't even do it that well". A short time later writing was 13 years old orphan and learned "the breeding and rods education an uncle", so write, know, and then in a boarding school to come. Although he still wanted to become an engineer as a schoolboy, he studied at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel in 1947 , and from 1949 on he attended the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden . As part of a scholarship, he learned the art of etching in SW Hayter's Paris studio . In 1969, when he was driving home from an exhibition at Hauswedell, Schreib was killed in a car accident through no fault of his own near Lorsch. He left a daughter and his widow, Ingeborg Schreib-Wywiorski.

Artistic work

Writing became known for its "structural ornaments" and miniature cache floors, an artistic seal printing technique ( stamp images ). In addition to the cache levels, Schreib developed a wide range of printing techniques. He tried to expand his artistic work to include handicrafts and made designs for Rosenthal porcelain . His prose and poems also identified him as a writer. One of his great role models was Max Ernst , whose pictorial structures and compositional motifs write partially varied and further developed with his own expressive elements. Since 1950, Schreib has organized happenings. His exhibition activity began in the mid-1950s. In 1959 he was briefly at the Académie Ranson in Paris, where he met Max Ernst. In 1964 he received an award at the I. International Drawing in Darmstadt . A short time later he received a special prize at the 1st Graphic Biennale in Krakow . Since she started working as a gallery in 1963, Margarete Lauter has presented works by Werner Schreib in several solo and group exhibitions in her Mannheim gallery. The most spectacular exhibition opened on May 20, 1966 with a happening in the presence of the black cat von Schreib. At the beginning of the opening of Semantics in Mannheim: Lattanzi & Schreib , Kurt Schwitters had a say with a recording of his Ursonate . After further action elements, the artists distributed originals to all visitors at the end of the happening.

Exhibitions

  • 1959 Galerie Schmücking, Braunschweig
  • 1959 1ère Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Paris, Grand Prix International de Gravure
  • 1959 documenta II, Kassel
  • 1960 XXX Biennale Arte, Esposizione Internazionale, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venezi
  • 1961 semantic painting , gallery Brusberg, Hanover (with Lattanzi)
  • 1961 2nd International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Municipal Museum of Art, J-Osaka
  • 1962 La peinture sémantique , Galérie le soleil dans la tête, Paris (with Lattanzi)
  • 1963 Writing and Image , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
  • 1965 Letters, traces of writing, signals , Galerie Friedrich + Dahlem, Munich and Hessischer Rundfunk, D-Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1966 Semantics in Mannheim / Lattanzi & Schreib , Margarete Lauter Gallery, Mannheim
  • 1966 Ière Biennale de Gravure, Kraków, Prix Ex Æquo Victor Vasarely
  • 1967 Writing - Hommage à Heraklit et Beat, Galerie Rothe, Wolfsburg
  • 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, USA-Pittsburgh / PA
  • 1968 Paysages astronautiques , HILT Gallery, Basel
  • 1969 Objects and reliefs , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  • 1969 Werner writing / working for a decade , Marielies-Hess-Stiftung eV, Haus des Hessischer Rundfunks, Frankfurt a. M.

literature

from write:

  • God doesn't smoke, he needs pudding, poems, prose, happenings Karl Riha , Franz-Josef Weber, ed., Postscript, Hanover 1991. 151 pp. (= Marginal figures of modernity , no. 14)
  • Werner Schreib, the artistic work , Kunstverein Siegen, ed., Anabas, Gießen 1987
  • The Tribunal, a novel assemblage with sixteen illustrations based on photo collages , Anabas, Gießen 1987
  • Poems and other texts , Karl Riha, ed., University and Comprehensive University Siegen 1985, 2nd edition 1987 (= Forgotten authors of the modern age , issue 12)
  • Werner Schreib, The graphic work , Kunsthalle Mannheim 1974
  • hucke nucke wucke wack, monuments from the dwarf cabinet , hermit press, Stierstadt im Taunus 1971
  • Suite astronautique, 9 etchings , Hauswedell, Hamburg 1970
  • God doesn't smoke, he needs pudding, Ideographic report , Karl Riha, Siegfried J. Schmidt , ed., Gesamtthochschule Siegen 1967, 44 pp. (= Experimental texts , No. 4)
  • Hallmarks with Schnatterings , Eremiten Presse, Stierstadt im Taunus 1960
  • The macabre drawings by the strange Herr Schreib , Eremiten Presse, Stierstadt im Taunus 1958

about write:

  • Jürgen Claus: Semi-mechanical image processes: Werner Schreib , in: Jürgen Claus: Art today , Rowohlt Verlag 1965

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Schreib exhibitions page. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ PROGRAM ON MAY 20. (PDF, 28 KB) May 20, 1966, accessed on March 25, 2020 (sequence of the happening for the opening of the exhibition “Semantics in Mannheim / lattanzi & Schreib”). Available at Werner Schreib exhibitions page.
  3. ↑ hr de, Frankfurt Germany: Marielies Hess Foundation. March 24, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Write, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1969
Place of death at Lorsch