Wolfgang Pohl (artist)

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Wolfgang Pohl

Wolfgang Pohl (* 1943 in Leverkusen ) is a German designer , artist and former university professor.

Life

Wolfgang Pohl is the son of the mechanical engineers Hubert Pohl and Käthe Pohl. From the age of 12 he received painting lessons from Margit Schweicher, the wife of the museum director of Schloss Morsbroich , Curt Schweicher . Later the painter Bernhard Wilhelm Kirchgasser invited him to his studio at Morsbroich Castle. He also took painting lessons from Björn Boström.

Pohl first completed an apprenticeship as a high-voltage electrician, which he finished in 1963. In the same year he began studying industrial design at the Werkkunstschule Kassel (now the Kunsthochschule Kassel ) , after completing this in 1967, he took up a position as an industrial designer at the Institute for Goods Testing in Fellbach.

In 1969 he took up a second degree in fine art and industrial design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . After graduating in 1971, Pohl received a teaching position at the Hamburg Art Academy and in 1972 he moved to the Braunschweig University of Art as a lecturer in design theory . Just one year later he returned to Hamburg and in 1973 became Carl Achim Czemper's assistant in the field of industrial design. In the period from 1981 to 1994 Pohl received additional teaching assignments from the Berlin University of the Arts (today Berlin University of the Arts ). From 1984 until his retirement in 2008 he was a teacher for special tasks at the Hamburg Art Academy. Pohl continues to live and work in Hamburg.

Artistic work

Wolfgang Pohl with Hermann Bröring, exhibition opening Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth

Pohl moves independently in the fields of fine art , design , cultural philosophy , poetry and art didactics . He draws inspiration from art history , especially the Baroque era . He pursues the idea of ​​a total work of art in which different topics, materials and techniques as well as forms of expression in connection with garden art come into play.

Glass art

In 1980 Borek Sipek made Pohl aware of the diverse possibilities of glass art . He suggested taking a design by Pohl to a glassworks and having it implemented there. The first glass object created in this way was a water glass. Pohl took a liking to the material glass and its properties. During his teaching activity, Pohl carried out various projects with his students with glass, for which he often used a glassworks in Ajeto ( Czech Republic ). In 1995 Pohl formed the artist group “Pepita fun Sloup” with students. They exhibited glass art works and designs in the Galerie L in Hamburg.

Together with Boris Petrovsky, Pohl is a founding member of the “Golden Garden Art Group”, which had set itself the goal of producing artistic glass in a factory-made manner and establishing it on the market, as well as the production techniques of glassblowing , which are threatened with disappearing, with its glass works of art to demonstrate.

Both groups are no longer active today.

Among other things, Pohl designed commissioned work for well-known companies such as Anta Leuchten ( Hamburg ), mercantile home accessoires ( Munich ), Nason and Muretti ( Murano ) and the Rosenthal Studiohaus in Hamburg.

Golden Garden Park

The "Golden Garden Park" is a park that has not yet been realized and conceived as a total work of art on an area of ​​around three hectares with open lawns, groups of trees, various pavilions , ponds and other design elements such as sculptures. The park is conceived as a fusion of architecture , sculpture , painting , applied arts and garden art . The accompanying exhibition in the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth gives a comprehensive impression of this .

Permanent exhibition in the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth

Exhibition room in the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth

In 2002, Pohl got to know the then director of the Bossard Art Center , Oliver Fok. Various joint projects developed from this encounter. In 2003 Oliver Fok exhibited works by Pohl and Boris Petrovsky in the joint exhibition “Flora Flash”. Pohl offered a seminar at the art college in which art students were asked to design objects for a course for the senses for the Bossard art facility. And in 2005, Pohl took part in a symposium organized by Oliver Fok and Rainer Schomann on the subject of “Artist gardens and the preservation of monuments”. Even after Oliver Fok took up the position of director of the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth , the contact did not break off. In 2009, Pohl presented glass objects as well as drafts, drawings and models of his total work of art “Golden Garden Park” as part of the special exhibition series ForumFormClemenswerth.

Pohl gave in 2013 about 200 glass works for the "Golden Garden Park" as a gift to the Emslandmuseum Clemenswerth. This dedicates a permanent exhibition with three exhibition rooms to the artist in the Coellen pavilion . In addition to glass works of art and drawings of the “Golden Garden Park” total work of art, they also contain film sequences that illustrate the creation of the drafts and their implementation in a glassworks.

Awards (selection)

  • 1974: Winner of the “Product and Environment” tender from the Berlin International Design Center
  • 1979: 1st prize in the invitation to tender on the subject of "Light" by the Philips company
  • 2005: 1st prize for the design of a trophy for the Art Prize of the Harburg district

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987: 19th Biennale of São Paulo , Brazil, guest in the Arte e Design department
  • 1988: Solo exhibition "For a beautiful city", gallery z. B. Frankfurt
  • 1994: "Glass Garden", Galerie Kontraste, Hamburg
  • 1996: “Pepita fun Sloup”, Galerie L, Hamburg
  • 1996: "Avant-garde glass - the new generation", Immenhausen Glass Museum
  • 1996: "Nature in Glass", Rosenthal Studiohaus, Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1997: “Pepita fun Sloup”, Galerie L, Hamburg
  • 1998: “Pepita fun Sloup”, U Mozart Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1999: "Sommerglas", gallery in der Handwerksform, Hamburg
  • 2001: "Glizzerglimmer", Immenhausen Glass Museum
  • 2002: "Reality Check 2002. The journey continues", Golden Garden Art Group, objects from 1997–2002, Immenhausen Glass Museum
  • 2003: "Fused", glass objects, Golden Garden Art Group, Dell Arte, Hohnhardt Castle
  • 2003: "Flora Flash", glass objects for outdoors, Golden Garden Art Group, Bossard art site, Jesteburg
  • 2005: "Edition HfbK" painted glass, annual fair, Museum of Art and Commerce, Hamburg
  • 2007: "Hyperpopfritten", drawings, wooden clay gallery, Constance
  • 2008: “Suburbanbus”, drawings and pictures, gallery of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts
  • 2009: Wolfgang Pohl - Penchant for a total work of art, Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth, Sögel

literature

  • Baroque meets modern. The artistic work of Wolfgang Pohl and the glass estate of Clemens August at Schloss Clemenswerth . In: The glass friend. No. 67, 23rd year, May 2018
  • Ernst Brennecke: A lion from the subconscious. Wolfgang Pohl designed the trophy for the art award . 2015 www.han-online.de/Harburg_Archiv/article9430/Ein-Loewe-aus-dem-Unterbewußtsein (last accessed on August 27, 2013)
  • Oliver Fok: Wolfgang Pohl - The idea of ​​a glass work of art and the work in glass . In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, edition 61/2015, pp. 283–301
  • Simone Kaempf: Interview with Wolfgang Pohl. 2006 www.roericht.de (last accessed : August 26, 2019)
  • Wolfgang Pohl: Golden Garden Park - concept of a new art park . In: Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.) / Wiese, Rolf (2005): Artists gardens and monument preservation (writings from the Bossard art site, volume 4 / writings from the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg, volume 48). Concept and processing: Fok, Oliver / Schomann, Rainer. Verlag Stiftung Kunststätte Bossard, Jesteburg and Hanover, pp. 87–94

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ interview. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ interview. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Exceptional glass art in the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth - BUSINESS-PANORAMA.de. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Baroque meets modern. The artistic work of Wolfgang Pohl and the glass estate of Clemens August at Schloss Clemenswerth. In: The glass friend . 23rd edition. No. 67 , May 2018.
  5. ↑ : "The bathing season is open". Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ A b Wolfgang Pohl: Golden Garden Park - Concept of a new art park . In: Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation / Wiese, Rolf (Hrsg.): Artists gardens and monument preservation treatment . Verlag Stiftung Kunststätte Bossard, Jesteburg and Hannover 2005, p. 87-94 .
  7. ^ Adolf Brockmann: Colorful glass art at the Bossard temple. September 2, 2003, accessed on September 3, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ : "The bathing season is open". Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ Aloys Schulte: New exhibition in Sögel: 220 works of art made of glass as gifts. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ HAN Online |. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  11. ^ Bienal São Paulo: Wolfgang Pohl. In: org.br. arquivo.bienal.org.br, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  12. ^ Adolf Brockmann: Colorful glass art at the Bossard temple. September 2, 2003, accessed on September 3, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ Holzton - Ando Hesse and Sirka Gierer, Wolfgang Pohl. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Clemenswerth Castle - the princely experience, exhibition archive. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen