Willi Mayerhofer
Willi Mayerhofer (* 1951 in Kösching ) is a German graphic artist and painter and a contemporary representative of abstract expressionism .
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Life
Mayerhofer first completed an apprenticeship as a screen printer . In the technique of artistic screen printing, he works on the production of the printed works of the op art pioneer Victor Vasarely and the Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers . From 1973 to 1976 he studied painting, graphics and design in Munich. From 1976 he worked as a freelance graphic designer with a studio in Ingolstadt . Under his direction, logos and image concepts for industry such as Audi and BMW were developed. In 1993 he moved to Les Issambres in the south of France and opened a studio there.
Works
His painted pictures are mostly unique . For his serigraphs based on acrylic and pastels, he draws on his experience as a screen printer. In his current creative period, the painter discovered the advantages of colored chalk and thus also uses the surface structure of the canvas. The color of the background shines through the structured surface. The pastel pencil creates compositions whose colored surfaces are animated by a colored vibration.
Abstract expressionism
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The color and the light are the focus of his work. His theme is also nature as an act of creation. He seeks her closeness in order to at the same time distance himself from her in his pictures. Oriented towards reality, expressions of overwhelming spontaneity and emotionality arise, which almost culminate in the unreal. Carlo Carrà provides the psychological explanation for the possible conversion of emotional states into color qualities : “ Making emotional vibrations visible requires the materiality of the representational to be abolished ”, ie a transformation of what has been seen and experienced into energy and color.
Image selection, image description
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The picture Sturm am Meer (acrylic on canvas 70 × 100 cm) lets the viewer experience the anger of the sea, the elemental force of the wave, one is in the middle of the troubled sea, caught in contradicting emotions, one hears the infernal din of the breaking wave, you can feel the roaring wind. A different kind of force of nature depicted in the painting "Feux aux Issambres", 2003 (acrylic on canvas 70 × 50 cm). The colors fire red to black become one of the objective language of emotions with the moods of fear and destruction. The color gestures capture the canvas. A color carpet, like a wall of fire or glowing lava, which covers the surface without wanting to end.
Exhibitions (selection)
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Awards
- 2013 Troisieme Prix, Salon du Grand Format, Villa Aurélienne, Frejus
- 2013 Nominated for the Palm Art Award, Germany
- 2011 Médaille de Bronze, Espace Culturel Paul Vernet, Frejus
- 2010 Grande Médaille d´Or, Salon d´Automne, Ville de Frejus
- 2010 Prix du Conseil Général Var, Société des Beaux-Arts, Var
- 2006 Prix d´Honneur, Grand Prix International des Beaux Arts
- 2006 Diplôme painture, Côté Arts-Magazine des Art, Marseille
- 2006 Bronze medal, Grand Prix de la Ville de Frejus
literature
- Pruksil Art Funding: Portfolio in cooperation with the Ingolstadt cultural department . With biography and foreword by Gabriel Engert. Catalog for the exhibition Willi Mayerhofer 2006;
- Alfred Werner Maurer : Letter on the opening of Willi Mayerhofer in Villa Wiwada , Les Issambres 2006;
- Alfred Werner Maurer: The artists of abstract impressionism - Willi Mayerhofer - Seelenimpressionen , Saarbrücken 2007;
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.artou.de/kuenstler/willi-mayerhofer/
- ↑ http://aw-maurer.npage.eu/get_file.php?id=11736385&vnr=954806
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayerhofer, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koesching |