Wilhelm Beuermann
Wilhelm Beuermann (born March 21, 1937 in Berlin ; † October 1, 2006 in Hanover ) was a German painter , graphic artist and poet . He lived and worked in Hanover and at times in Liguria and Sardinia .
Life
Beuermann studied graphics at the Werkkunstschule Hannover, deepened his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the Atelier J. Friedländer and at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Bachmann and Gonda. After a scholarship from the Institut Français in 1962, he worked as a freelance painter. Wilhelm Beuermann was a member of the German Association of Artists . From the 17th exhibition in Hanover in 1969 to the 38th exhibition in Berlin in 1990, he took part in six annual DKB exhibitions.
He lived and worked with the graphic artist and draftsman Rosemarie Würth - they married in 1963 - for several months from 1971 onwards in his studios, first in Liguria and later in Sardinia - until 2003.
Wilhelm Beuermann was a member of the Hanoverian artist group PlasMa . Exhibitions from 1980–1989 with Max Sauk , Rosemarie Würth , János Nádasdy , Ulrike Enders .
Wilhelm Beuermann's work was included in the " Lower Saxony artist database and estate archive ".
Works
Painting, printmaking and drawings
The times in the Mediterranean environment had a major impact on the mood and content of the following pictures. Wilhelm Beuermann was always fascinated by the deserted urban landscapes in the midday summer heat, in which the glistening walls of the houses are structured by hard shadows.
There are 5 creative periods in his work. Up until the early 1970s, paintings with rounded organic structures were created. The 1970s were characterized by ribbon motifs. At the end of the 1970s, ribbon motifs were mixed with architectural views, only to be replaced by them in the course of the following years. The 90s were shaped by the ship motif. At the end of the 1990s, Wilhelm Beuermann discovered stone formations for his new imagery and thus turned to the world of forms of nature. While the earlier pictures lived on contrasts of intense colors, gray-black-beige tones predominated in the later pictures. This principle increased - to an individual realism depicted on the canvas and also in his diaries, which were provided with many drawings and gouaches - until his later illness and death in 2006.
I find the starting point of my pictures in what is visible in my respective home and studio. Photos and sketches on site are documents of the place where they were found, of objects, constellations and moods, places, streets, indoors and in every form of landscape. With the beginning of the painting process in the color design on paper up to the canvas picture, the subject changes in more or less comprehensible steps. Reduction and addition alternate, placing shapes and colors more and more in the context of the pictorial scenario and transforming them into a sign that moves away from the model and pure copy. ... W. Beuermann 08/22/1999
In his first year of study, Wilhelm Beuermann had modeled a 100 cm high sculpture out of plaster of paris. The painterly play with the ribbons was already indicated here. It was his wish that this depicted motif should one day decorate his grave. In 2007 the sculptor Jürgen Friede copied this sculpture in red granite. It stands at the grave of Wilhelm Beuermann in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover.
architectural art
Beuermann won several competitions for art in architecture in the public sector, for example the wall design for the facade of the sports hall of the Luther school in Hanover - Nordstadt in 1974. A painting made of shimmering blue, vertically arranged bands, which took up more than 50 m in length, spread out for the viewer on the side of Asternstrasse. In 2015 the facade had to be rebuilt and renovated. A memorial plaque with a restored architectural photograph shows and explains the original state of the wall painting.
In 1988 the mural of the post office building in Hanover- Laatzen , made from enamelled cassettes, was completed and in 1990 the mural “The Round Table” in the casino of the Heinrich-der-Löwe barracks in Braunschweig. This was followed by wall designs for a subway station in Cologne and for a light shaft for the stairwell at the Kunstverein Hannover.
poetry
Since the early 1980s, the poetic form of expression gained increasing importance in diaries and poetry .
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1968 UBU Gallery, Karlsruhe, Defet Gallery , Nuremberg, Lüpke Gallery, Frankfurt
- 1970 Drian Galleries, London, Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Galerie Villinger, Würzburg, Galerie Kühl, Hanover
- 1973 Galerie Wendtorf - Swetec, Düsseldorf, Galerie Stein, Cologne, Galerie Steintor Verlag, Burgdorf / Hanover
- 1975 Ostentor Gallery, Dortmund, Villingen Gallery, Würzburg
- 1976 Gallery CIAK, Rome, Italy, Gallery Meiborssen, Steintorverlag, Rudolf Jüdes
- 1977 Alphonse Chave Gallery, Vence / Nice / France
- 1979 Darmstadt State Theater, Large House, Battifoglio Gallery, Imperia / Italy
- 1981 Herzog Gallery, Ladenburg / Mannheim, Happy Joss Gallery, Hamburg
- 1982 Altstadt Galerie, Bonn, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
- 1985 Gallery Villinger, Würzburg
- 1986 Herzog Gallery, Ladenburg / Mannheim, Artforum Gallery, Hanover, Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen / Switzerland
- 1987 retrospective, Galerie Artforum, Hanover, retrospective, art association Kreis Gütersloh
- 1988 Gallery in the Ink District, Darmstadt
- 1990 Artforum Gallery, Hanover, Toni Brechbühl Gallery, Grenchen / Switzerland
- 1991 Cabinet at Goetheplatz, Weimar, Globus-Galerie, Leipzig
- 1993 to 1995 traveling exhibition “Days of Picture Books 90-92” in Leipzig, Berlin, Grenchen / Switzerland, Hanover
- 1995 Torhaus Gallery, Braunschweig
- 1998 Gallery at Pallas Verlag, Velver / Dinker
- 1999 retrospective, transformation of the visible , Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hanover
- 2000 pictures from three decades , New District House Hannover, pictures from the eighties , Art Association Imago, Wedemark / Hannover
- 2004 Atelier Olbricht, Garbsen / Hanover, Galerie BerGer, Delmenhorst
- 2006 Artforum Gallery, Hanover
- 2009 Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hanover - Memorial exhibition, with an extensive catalog
- 2019 Early Pictures , plathner 27 - Gallery for Art and Object, Hanover
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 1959 Colored graphics , Kestner Society, Hanover
- 1964 Galerie Schüler , Berlin
- 1965 Gallery on Bohlweg, Braunschweig, Gallery Haus Mackensen, Worpswede
- 1968 Autumn Arts Festival, Stoke Prior, Birmingham / Great Britain, autumn exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover
- 1969 Junge Stadt sees Junge Kunst, Hannover Art Association, Haute Tension , A. Chave Gallery, Vence / France
- 1971 BBK'71 Hanover Artists' Association, Stuttgart, Halland Museum, Halmstadt / Sweden
- 1973 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, BBK'73 Hanover - Institut Francais, Berlin
- 1974 Herzlandschaften , Bayer AG - world tour
- 1975 Art Association Hanover, Lower Saxony Graphics , Künstlerbund Mannheim - Junior Gallery Hanover
- 1977 Lower Saxony State Exhibition, Hanover, Felix Gallery, Caracas / Venezuela, Goethe Institute, Rome / Italy
- 1978 Art from Hanover, Zeist Castle, Utrecht / Netherlands
- 1979 BBK'79 , Hanover Orangery, Hanoverian artist , Olsztyn / Poland,
- 1980 New Sensuality , Ballhof Gallery Hanover, Le Monde de Alphonse Chave , Lyon / France
- 1984 Biennale of Hanoverian Artists, Kunstverein, Neustadt a. Rbge., Autumn exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover
- 1985 Kubus Municipal Gallery, Hanover, Bollhagen Gallery, Worpswede, Palais des Congrés, Perpignan / France
- 1987 40th anniversary of the Alphonse Chave Gallery, Vence / Nice / France
- 1989 PlasMa artist group , Museum Szombathely / Hungary
- 1990 Trust in the picture , Museum Bochum / Kunsthalle Kiel
- 1991 Topic: Arche , traveling exhibition in Leipzig, Berlin, Hanover, Frankfurt / Main
- 1992 Artist group "Arche" , Hameln, Galerie am Markt, Halle, Galerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg
- 1995 BBK'95 , Oldenburg
- 1996 Artists' Association in Hanover , Living Art Museum, Opera Plage, Nice / France
- 2020 Zeitensprung , Kunstverein Imago, Wedemark
Exhibition catalogs (selection)
Works by Beuermann can be found in the following exhibition catalogs:
- 1967, Nuremberg; Ars Phantastica in Stein Castle
- 1969, Hanover, German Association of Artists (DKB)
- 1970, Bonn; "Prism", (DKB)
- 1971, Stuttgart, (DKB)
- 1973, Berlin, "Art Report", (DKB)
- 1976, Mannheim, "Art Report", (DKB)
- 1982/83, Hanover, 69th autumn exhibition of Lower Saxony artists (HNK) at the Kunstverein Hanover
- 1988, Stuttgart, (DKB)
- 1988, Hanover, (HNK)
- 1990, Berlin, (DKB)
- 1990/91, Hanover (HNK) "Indoor climate"
- 1991, Hildesheim, Association of Visual Artists (BBK), Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
- 1995, Oldenburg, (BBK) "Painting, Graphics, Sculpture", State Museum Oldenburg
Literature and Sources
- Publications by and about Wilhelm Beuermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wilhelm Beuermann, Ulrike Enders , János Nádasdy , Max Sauk , Rosemarie Würth , PlasMa group, exhibition from July 30th - August 28th 1983 in the Kunstkreis Hameln, Hameln 1983
- Uta von Kardorff (text), Wulf Brackrock (photos): Uta von Kardoff: Who the gods love ... , in: architektur und Wohnen , Issue 1 of March 21, 1984, pp. 60–63
- Dominic Hyland (text), Jürgen Weichardt (red.): PlasMa group. Wilhelm Beuermann, Ulrike Enders, János Nádasdy, Max Sauk, Rosemarie Würth . Poznań, October 26 to November 18, 1984, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych (BWA) Stary Rynek ... Perpignan, June 14 to July 10, 1985, Palais des Congrés, Perpignan, text also fraz. u. Polish, Cultural Office Hanover, Hanover 1984
- Heinz Liesbrock , Ludwig Zerull (Red.): Holdings. The collection of the Lower Saxony Savings Banks and Giro Association , Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1994
- Jürgen Weichardt, Feledy Balázs: PlasMa group (sculpture and painting): Wilhelm Beuermann, Ulrike Enders, János Nádasdy, Max Sauk, Rosemarie Würth , 1998. oct. 27 - nov. 12-pack Szombathelyi Képtar, Szombathelyi, 1989, ISBN 963-01-9946-7
- Holles Art History Volume 2 From the Middle Ages to the Present, Baden-Baden 1971, p. 375
- Wilhelm Beuermann - Pictures from five decades , Hanover 2009, ISBN 3-89384-047-8
Web links
- Obituary Leipzigart, 2006
- Exhibition photos Wilhelm Beuermann - Pictures from 5 decades, Galerie Kubus, 2009
- Wilhelm Beuermann in: Artist database and estate archive Lower Saxony
- Benjamin Behrens: Nordstadt / Memory of a colorful mural / During the renovation of the sports hall of the Luther School in 2011, Wilhelm Beuermann's mural could no longer be preserved. Now a memorial plaque in Asternstrasse commemorates the artist who died in Hanover in 2006 and his art in building , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 7, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Participation in exhibitions: Beuermann, Wilhelm (accessed on December 23, 2015)
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^ Wilhelm Beuermann - Pictures 1983 - 1985, Gallery ArtForum, Hanover, 1986 and
Wilhelm Beuermann: Pictures 1986 to 1990, Gallery ArtForum, Hanover, 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beuermann, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 2006 |
| Place of death | Hanover |