Friedemann Hahn
January 30 to March 23, 2012: Friedemann Hahn, Painting
Hahn's large-format paintings are particularly well suited to wide and architecturally clearly structured spaces. The perspectives in the corridors of the attic floor and in the stairwell give a first impression of the astonishing intensity of color and the dynamic pictorial structure.
Friedemann Hahn has found his subject in the Black Forest, the place where he lives and experiences.
One might think that the vibrations of the soul in the face of the wide panoramas and insights into the immediate vicinity crystallize into colour patterns. Once you have entered into this dialog between object, eye and heart, the Black Forest will appear to you in a similar way to how Hahn has depicted it.
The mountain stream of 2006 may have tempted visitors to prick up their ears. The stillness of the spruce-lined mountain heights is washed away by wild waters and the tumbling trunks and branches that tumble and crunch over rocks until they come to rest in the valley.
It is perhaps an exaggeration and somewhat presumptuous to claim that Friedemann Hahn not only paints the Black Forest but also narrates it. However, it cannot be ruled out that such impressions may arise during the viewing.
Armin Göhringer: Wood blackened, 2007
Objects by Armin Göhringer and Hannelore Weitbrecht can be seen in the showcases in the entrance hall
Vita
- Born in Singen/Hohentwiel in 1948.
- 1974-1976 studied under Peter Dreher in Freiburg (branch of the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe).
- Numerous prizes, including the Villa Romana Prize in 1979, the Villa Massimo Prize in 1981 and the Baden-Württemberg State Prize for Fine Arts in 1984.
- Guest lecturer in Pforzheim (1981), Hamburg (1988) and Karlsruhe (1988/89).
- Since 1991 Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Mainz.
- Lives and works in the Black Forest.