To mark the 125th birthday of Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987), the Villa Grisebach is showing over 150 works from Dresden's private collection from Saturday 13 September, many of which were previously unknown to the public. The exhibition runs until 1 November.
Hermann Glöckner is one of the great mavericks in the history of art. Born in Cotta near Dresden in 1889, he initially worked as a freelance artist after training as a pattern draughtsman until 1915. It was only after the First World War that he went to the academy. Glöckner's oeuvre is fascinating in its diversity. There is no clear line to define his work and no category for the artist; he is most frequently categorised as a Constructivist. His oeuvre includes landscape, still life, portrait and abstract works in various techniques: oil painting, watercolour, drawing and collage. Glöckner also created sculptural works, often inspired by found objects. He also had a keen eye for the unimportant, inconspicuous things, for matchboxes or coloured scraps of fabric, and distilled works of art from them. He became famous for his folds - for Glöckner "a special kind of graphic art", in which geometric shapes are created by dividing and folding surfaces.
The last exhibition covering all of Hermann Glöckner's creative phases took place in Dresden and Halle in 1989; the last Hermann Glöckner exhibition in Berlin was in 1982.
A comprehensive catalogue with texts by Peter Richter and Martin Engler, biography and bibliography will be published by Wolff Verlag Berlin to accompany the exhibition. All exhibited works are illustrated in colour (30,- Euro). A special edition (15 copies) of the catalogue, each with an enclosed original drawing, is available at a price of 900 euros.
Micaela Kapitzky
10 September 2014
Hermann Glöckner. On his 125th birthday
13 September until 1 November 2014
Villa Grisebach - Fasanenstraße 25 - 10719 Berlin
Mon - Fri 10.00 to 18.30 - Sat 11.00 to 16.00