Wolfram Huschens

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Wolfram Huschens (born March 10, 1921 in Oberstein , † June 16, 1989 in Saarbrücken ) was a German artist.

Life

Huschens was born in 1921 as the son of the chief telegraph director Heinrich Huschens and his wife Emilie, b. Brunnet was born. When the father changed jobs, the family moved to Saarbrücken in 1930. Here Huschens got to know the painter Fritz Zolnhofer , who lived in the same house and was friends with his father. Huschens attended elementary school and secondary school (today Otto Hahn Gymnasium ). The young man joined the Hitler Youth in order to avoid the labor service and in 1940 received the certificate of maturity from the Oberschule in Neunkirchen (Saar) . At that time he was living with his mother in Ottweiler , since Saarbrücken had been evacuated. On October 1, 1940, he was finally called up for military service as a tank grenadier , from which he was officially released in August 1945.

After five years as a soldier in World War II , he studied art for teaching at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Munich from 1946 under Helmut Braig , Anton Marxmüller and Josef Henselmann and passed his state examination in May 1949. The works from this period were mainly inspired by Paul Cézanne , and in the following years also by Cubism and Expressionism . At the same time as starting his legal clerkship at a grammar school in St. Ingbert , he began studying at the newly founded “ Saar University ” in order to acquire a second subject that is necessary for civil service. He initially chose geography, but then German studies in 1950. In 1951, Huschens was taken on as a drawing teacher at the state high school in Sulzbach. Two of his students there were Wolfgang Kermer and Horst Linn . In 1954 he moved to the Ludwigsgymnasium in Saarbrücken. It was not until 1964 that the civil service was granted for life.

Huschens had already turned to geometric abstraction since the 1950s. Since the 1960s he has exhibited frequently with the artist group neue gruppe saar . During the same period he was also a co-founder of the "Deutscher Werkbund Saar" and became a member of the Saarland Artists Association. As early as 1957/58 he was appointed university drawing teacher as part of a teaching position at Saarland University.

When Huschens suffered a stroke in 1977, he remained paralyzed on one side and had to rely on a walking stick. He could only paint with his left hand. That is why he retired the following year. He now often stayed in Leukerbad and designed a religious mural there. Due to his handicap, he mainly developed art for public spaces, including two works for a social care vocational training center in Saarbrücken and a sculpture on the "Bridge of Friendship" in Kleinblittersdorf .

In 1987 he was appointed professor by the Saarland government as an award for life's work. In 1989 Huschens died in Saarbrücken.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1967 “studio”, Saarbrücken
  • 1987 retrospective, Peter-Schweitzer-Haus, Saarwellingen
  • 1999 Wolfram Huschens Memorial Exhibition, City Hall Gallery St. Johann, Saarbrücken
  • 2001 St. Arnual Local History Museum, Saarbrücken
  • 2006 retrospective pictures by Wolfram Huschens, Kleinblittersdorf
  • 2012: Wolfram Huschens, Kunstverein Bahlingen

Group exhibitions

  • 1947 Young Art on the Saar , Neunkirchen (Saar)
  • 1953 Painting - Plastic - Graphics , Saarland Museum , Saarbrücken
  • 1957 Saarländischer Künstlerbund 1922–1957 , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
  • 1982 60 years of the Saarland Artists Association. Past and present 1922–1982 , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
  • 1985 (eight Saarland artists) , Comeniushaus , Saarbrücken
  • 1987 Saar art scene , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
  • 1997 IndustrieMenschenBilder , Historisches Museum Saar , Saarbrücken
  • 2012 Saarland Art of the 50s , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken

Works in public space (selection)

  • Saarbrücken State Theater , mural
  • St. Johann Town Hall , Saarbrücken, “The Four Elements”, 1951, lead-framed stained glass windows in the stairwell
  • Elementary and all-day school Rastpfuhl, Saarbrücken, wall frieze, 1954
  • Saarland University , Saarbrücken, Building 12, Philosophical Faculty: Wall design, 1954/55
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Building 10, Philosophical Faculty: Wall design, 1954/57
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, building 12, staircase, 2nd floor: mural
  • State Statistical Office , Saarbrücken, Virchowstrasse: wall frieze (inside), 1960
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, building 9.1, Europa-Institut, ground floor and 1st floor: two wall designs, 1961
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, building 16, law, conference room: wall design, 1962
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, building 24, biology, foyer: wall design (ground floor and basement), 1966
  • SKG Bank , Saarbrücken, facade, Ursulinenstrasse: “The cycle of money”, grating, 1967/1979, two-part aluminum grating
  • Losheim , hospital chapel: altar back wall with tabernacle, 1968/69, aluminum relief
  • Abt-Fulrad-Brücke (Kleinblittersdorf) , former customs station on the east bank: "Border between Germany and France", 1987, sculpture made of copper sheet

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Frank Brenner: Wolfram Huschens. Artist and educator . Master's thesis at Saarland University, 1997
  2. ↑ Exhibition cat. Young art on the Saar , exhibition by the city of Neunkirchen (Saar). Neunkirchen (Saar): Neunkirchener Buchdruckerei u. Verlag (Druck), n.d. [1947], n.p. [6]
personal data
SURNAME Huschens, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstein
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1989
Place of death Saarbrücken