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Hommage to Ernst Hermanns 100. birthday
With works of: Ernst Hermanns, Otto Boll, Harald Busch, Heinz Jahn, Rolf Nolden, Stefan Pietryga, Christoph Rust, Heidemarie Wenzel
As an artist, Ernst Hermanns (*1914, †2000) had a decisive influence on sculpture after 1945, as well as on the development of the art landscape in Westphalia. Ernst Hermanns created his first abstract work in 1950. He increasingly increased the dissolution and dissolution of boundaries of the sculptural body, whose volume he spatially penetrated. Its surface is broken up, it proliferates and grows into the space, developing an increasingly vegetative-organic repertoire of forms and appearing like a counterpart to Art Informel painting.
However, Hermanns' informal phase, with its expression of spontaneous gesture and a moving surface structure alluding to natural processes, was limited to just under a decade.
From the early 1960s onwards, he worked with sculptural elements that were no longer characterized by an individual signature, with simple stereometric bodies such as spheres, cylinders and rods, rings and discs.They condense into compact constellations, play with repetition and sequencing or articulate the emptiness of spatial situations, for example when a few elements such as thin round rods or small spheres correspond with each other in the expanse of the sculptural field, filling the emptiness through their dialog and giving it a form - but above all a human scale that brings the works back into our world.From 1975-1980, he taught as a professor at the Institute for Art Education at the State Academy of Art in Düsseldorf, Münster department, now the Münster Academy of Art, where he led a sculpture class. Seven students have been in close contact since their studies and provided the impetus to present the idea of his work, the minimalist constellation of geometric bodies in space and their reference back to him in size, form and material as an exhibition concept on the occasion of Ernst Hermanns' 100th birthday on December 8, 2014. In a dialog, contemporary works by the students, who have since developed independent multimedia, sculptural and painterly positions, will be presented.
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