Willibrord Haas

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Willibrord Haas (born February 9, 1936 in Schramberg ) is a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Willibrord Haas was born into a family of musicians and moved to Wangen in 1948 . From 1954 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His teachers were Hermann Kaspar , Richard Seewald , Charles Crodel , Georg Schmidt. In addition, he attended courses at the Ludwig Maximilians University with Hans Sedlmayr and Romano Guardini . In 1960 he completed his studies as a master class student. From the following year he worked in Berlin . His first exhibition took place in Biberach in 1966 . A little later he made the acquaintance of Joseph Beuys , from whose understanding of art he was inspired. From 1975 he was a lecturer in etching at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg and regularly holds events at various institutions.

Haas was married to Helga Wirth from 1972 until her death in 2014. The couple had two sons.

Willibrord Haas is one of the last surviving artists of " post-war abstraction ".

Works

Topics of his aquatint works and in blasting techniques over 3 to 4 plates often tie in with fairy tales and symbols, with the landscape and the cosmic.

  • 1998: "Dark Land"
  • 1989: "Grail"
  • 1987: "Curved color horizon"
  • 1990: "Gold and Moss"
  • 1990: "Turbogestirn"
  • 1989: "When Piet M. thinks of Seebüll"
  • 1991: "Keitum" from the Sylt series
  • 1991: "Crépuscule - Color Sounds"

Catalogs, art books and catalogs of works

  • Landscape as a color figure. Ed. Ursula Noé. Evening Gallery Berlin 1978
  • Pictures, watercolors and color etchings from 1970 to 1978. Abend-Galerie Berlin October 1978 (with a catalog raisonné of the etchings 1973–1978 by Heinrich C. Noé)
  • Color horizons. Monograph. Ed. Claus Netuschil. Texts by Angelika Stepken, Curt Grützmacher, Hans Günther Sperlich. Saalbau-Galerie Darmstadt 1986 (with an extensive catalog raisonné of the etchings up to 1985 by Reinhard W. Eckhardt)
  • The little picture book. Edition Galerie Aquaforte, Berlin 1989
  • Color sounds. The color etchings from 1973–1991. Ed. Volker Wiegand. Edition Schnake Münster artcolor-verlag 1991 (with a detailed list of all previously published color etchings, compiled by Thomas Bossen)
  • con fuoco. The big color etchings. Aquaforte Gallery Berlin 1995
  • The man in art. Erotic drawings. Edited by Volker Janssen. Janssen Verlag, Berlin 1996 (Janssen artist monographs, vol. 6)
  • The power of color. Painting 1994–1997. Texts by Ottmar Bergmann and Jürgen Steinfeld. Edition Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 1997
  • Color storm. Etchings 1997–1999. Text by Ottmar Bergmann. Edition Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 1999
  • Project 66. (In the 66th year 66 small etchings in 66 editions at a price of 66 euros). Edition Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 2002
  • Flying islands. The breviary. (Eraser folder). Edition Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 2003
  • Today. The pictures. Erasing 35 years, painting 50 years, 70 years. Texts by Angelika Steppken, Ottmar Bergmann a. a. Edition Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 2006
  • Black Friends. Photo files. Edited by Janssen Publishers. Berlin 2008
  • Color in flux. Pictures and color etchings 1993–2008. Kunstverein Salzgitter eV, June 15 to July 6, 2008
  • Self-inspection. Thirteen self-portraits etched by Willibrord Haas from 1980 to 2008. Catalog for the cassette with texts by Wolfgang Grätz, Hartmut R. Berlinicke, Dr. Martin Lätzel, W. Haas. Edited by Galerie Aquaforte Berlin 2008
  • Spring awakening. 100 etchings from 2001 to 2008. Ed. Edition Aquaforte Berlin 2009
  • Paintings and color etchings 2014/2015. Exhibition from May 31, 2015 to July 29, 2015 Temporary (time) gallery of the Kunstverein Hoher Fläming Burg Eisenhardt Bad Belzig 2015
  • Interlude. New nudes 2016.
  • Eighty Birds. 80 years - 80 pictures - 80 × 80 cm. Gallery Schloss Mochental. Exhibition from March 20 to May 8, 2016 (The Eighty Birds catalog is published on the 80th birthday of W. Haas)
  • New watercolors - old aquatints - new acrylics 2016/2017. Exhibition on the art floor of the Stadtgalerie Werder Inselstadt from February 9 to April 14, 2017
  • Spinning from thought into color. Art gallery on Gendarmenmarkt. Exhibition from August 5, 2017 to September 5, 2017. Berlin 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W. Haas in: Paintings and Color Etchings 2014/2015. Belzig 2015. Epilogue
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Willibrord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Schramberg