Gerhard Hoehme
115 x 112 x 12 cm, WV 73-05
115 x 112 x 12 cm, WV 73-05









Biography
1951-53 Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Otto Coester
1954 Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf
1954-57 Chairman of the artists' association Gruppe 53.
1957 Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
1959 Participates in documenta II in Kassel
1960 Scholarship from the German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome
1965-1984 Professor of free painting at the State Academy of Art in Düsseldorf
1977 First solo exhibition at Galerie Georg Nothelfer
1984 Paul Klee Professorship for Fine Arts at the University of Gießen
Gerhard Hoehme is one of the most important representatives of German post-war art. While his art was initially strongly associated with gestural and informal painting, he soon sought new creative possibilities. Hoehme was preoccupied with the material qualities of his painting media. He layered clods of paint, which he scraped off old canvases, to create haptic space-occupying objects (Borkenbilder). In relation to the traditional format of the panel painting, Hoehme sought new freedom and independence: he regarded the painting as an open, energetic field that expands towards its surroundings. As a result, he developed irregularly contoured canvases - an early anticipation of the "shaped canvases". He was already working with plastic in the 1950s and is considered a pioneer in the use of polyethylene tubing in painting and sculpture. To this day, he stands out with his expansive paintings and string sculptures.
Exhibitions
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All I Think About Is You
30 April to 26 June 2021
Galerie & Showroom
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Accrochage
18 December 2020 to 20 March 2021
Showroom
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Gerhard Hoehme. Unterwegs
18 January to 29 February 2020
Corneliusstraße
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Gruppenausstellung/Group Show
29 June to 30 August 2019
Corneliusstraße
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Accrochage
22 January to 23 February 2019
Corneliusstraße
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Sommeraccrochage
30 June to 15 September 2018
Corneliusstraße
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Gerhard Hoehme. Zwischen Ding und Raum
16 September to 28 October 2017
Corneliusstraße
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Guppenausstellung/Group exhibition
1 July to 26 August 2017
Corneliusstraße
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Zeitfenster. Abstrakte Poesie
17 November 2015 to 9 January 2016
Corneliusstraße
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Gerhard Hoehme - Bilder, Objekte, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Collagen, Grafik, Bücher
1 November 2008 to 7 February 2009
Corneliusstrasse
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Gerhard Hoehme - Bilder, Objekte, Arbeiten auf Papier
28 January to 10 April 2006
Uhlandstrasse
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Gerhard Hoehme - Bilder, Objekte, Arbeiten auf Papier
28 January to 10 April 2006
Corneliusstrasse
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Gerhard Hoehme „Bilder, Objekte, Arbeiten auf Papier, Bücher“
1 February to 16 March 2002
Corneliusstrasse
Editions
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Montepulciano, 1987, Colour etching, signed by the artist, 79,5 x 64,5 cm, Copies: 100
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O.T./Untitled, 1986, Serigraphy, signed by the artist, 89,5 x 70 cm, Copies: 25
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Poseidonius, 1977, Serigraphy, signed and dated recto lower left, 76 × 64 cm, Copies: 50
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Publications
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Catalogue Raisonné, 1998, Catalogue raisonné, text by Gottfried Boehm, 552 pages, 611 illustrations, 404 of them in colour, German, Verlag Gerd Hatje, EUR 295
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NEMI, 1994, Edited by Roman Zenner, German/English, 30 pages, 9 illustrations, 8 in colour, EUR 22
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Begegnung mit Gerhard Hoehme, 1992, Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition in Düsseldorf from 2 April to 5 May 1992 with many portraits of the artist in his studio and elsewhere, 135 pages, numerous colour illustrations., EUR 18
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