Artists

Karl Horst Hodicke

German, B.1938

Biography:
Karl Horst Hödicke was born in Nuremberg in 1938 and studied (1959-64) at the College of Fine Arts, Berlin, under Fred Thieler. In 1964 he was awarded the German Art Prize of Youth. He spent the academic year of 1966-67 in New York and won the Villa Massimo Prize in 1968, which enabled him to spend a year in Rome. In 1974 he became a professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin, where he now lives.

In the early 1960s In the early 1960s, the artist was able to paint his own paintings. A break with informal art at a glance. During the later 1960s, in addition to painting, Hödicke also made short films. Between 1967 and 1976 he created constructions using found objects. From the late 1970s he has produced sculpture, working in bronze since 1985. The overriding source of inspiration for Hödicke’s painting is the city of Berlin. Motifs such as the Brandenburg Gate and subjective interpretations of Berlin-specific metropolitan themes have the distinctive character of his expressive style. Through his concentration on a small number of motifs in any one picture, and their enlargement, the intense colors and the representation of beast-like figures . In addition to urban motifs, Hödicke adapts impressions he has collected on his various travels, producing records of landscape and nature. This may be understood as a counterpart to the Berlin pictures, in alluding to the loss of a natural context for human life.

Individual exhibitions (selection)
1964 Gallery Großgörschen 35, Berlin, Germany
1965 »KH Hödicke. Passages, Distortions “, Galerie René Block, Berlin
1972 »Movies 1968-71«, New Berlin Art Society, Videotheque, Berlin
1976 René Block Gallery, New York
1977 »KH Hödicke«, the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
1981 »KH Hödicke. Pictures 1962-1980 «, House at the Waldsee, Berlin
1984 “KH Hödicke. Pinturas 1975-1984 «, Gallery Fernando Vijande, Madrid
1986 »KH Hödicke, paintings, sculptures, objects, films«, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, subsequently at Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Municipal Gallery Wolfsburg, Wolfsburger Kunstverein, Wolfsburg
1987 »KH Hödicke«, LA Lauver Gallery, Venice
1988 »KH Hödicke«, one man show within the exhibition “Art in Berlin in the 20th Century”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1990 »KH Hödicke. Tiger “, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan
1991 »KH Hödicke, 89/90 Materials«, Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
1993 »KH Hödicke. Berliner Ring “, New Berlin Art Society in the Orangerie in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, subsequently at Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
1994 »KH Hödicke: Plastik«, Municipal Gallery in the Park, Viersen
1995 »KH Hödicke: Cityscapes«, Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich; “KH Hödicke: Operation Cranach. New Pictures «, Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
1996 “Bronzes and Drawings”, Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Düsseldorf
1997 »KH Hödicke: havapaintamilkaday, pictures from the west coast of Ireland 1981-1996«, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany at the Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus, Herford

Group exhibition:
1963 »Young city sees young art. Painting, Graphics, Sculpture “(Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg), Stadthalle, Wolfsburg
1964 »German Art Prize of Youth 1964: Painting«, Städtisches Kunsthalle, Mannheim
1969 “Objects and Pictures”, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
1971 »Metamorphosis of the Thing«, State Museums of Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, New National Gallery, Berlin
1981, “A New Spirit in Painting,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
1982 “Zeitgeist”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1985 »German Art in the 20th Century«, Royal Academy of Arts, London; »1945-1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany “, State Museums of Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, New National Gallery, Berlin
1987 »Berlinart 1961-1987«, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1988 »Refigured Painting. The German Image 1960-1988 «, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, followed by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, subsequently at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt / M
1990 Biennial of Venice, Venice
1993 »Europe Without Walls. Art, Postersand Revolution 1989-93 «, City Art Galleries, Manchester
1995 »Europa de postguerra 1945-1965«, Fundació »la Caixa«, Barcelona; “On paper. Art of the 20th Century from the Deutsche Bank “, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt / M, later at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
1996 “La ville moderne en Europe”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1997 “Germany Images”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
[Constance Thymel, 1997]