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German artist ()

Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber (15 February – 12 May ) was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.^[1]

Biography

Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in Reutlingen.

From the age of 17 he was apprenticed to the printing trade in Reutlingen. While here, from to , he studied art in nearby Stuttgart.

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He then travelled extensively to Paris, London, Egypt, Arabia and Greece. At the beginning of the Nazi regime, from until , Grieshaber was banned from his profession. During that time he scratched out a living as an untrained labourer in the town of Reutlingen. He spent the war years unwillingly in the German army and, as a prisoner of war, doing forced labour in Belgian mines.

After the war he returned to Germany, living in a small cottage on the Achalm, and concentrated on doing large-scale woodcuts and posters.

Hap grieshaber biography husband Large-format woodcuts in abstract yet figurative style characterize the art of German graphic artist HAP Grieshaber — This panoramic exhibition situates the artist in the context of the woodcut revolution in Germany and examines the socio-political positions he formulated with and in this medium. As a consequence, he placed humankind and nature at the centre of his art, in a clear demonstration of humanist principles. His chosen medium to express his pictorial and political ideas was the woodcut, that centuries-old form of relief printmaking whose aesthetic properties dominate the visual vernacular of his works, irrespective of subject matter. Through his consistent and virtuoso use of a supposedly outdated technique, Grieshaber not only succeeded in dragging the woodcut into postwar contemporary art, but, with his large-format prints, also expanded its scope of application — especially with regard to issues of a current, international, and personal nature.

From to he taught at the Bernsteinschule school of art. Between and he taught at the Kunstakademie (Academy of Fine Arts) in Karlsruhe as successor to Erich Heckel.^[2]

Grieshaber was a long-time pacifist and political activist, not only against the dictatorships in Greece and Chile, but also in the area of conservation and ecology, against nuclear plants, and in favour of a bridging between the two Germanies.

His companion in his later years, from till his death in , was the lyric poet Margarete Hannsmann.

Grieshaber was honoured with numerous prizes and retrospective exhibitions. He exhibited works at the documenta in and In honor of his 70th birthday in , large retrospectives were shown in various museums in both parts of Germany.

The last prize that Grieshaber was awarded in was the art prize of the town of Konstanz. Grieshaber died in in Eningen unter Achalm aged 72 years.

Hap grieshaber biography wikipedia His preferred medium was large format woodcuts. Grieshaber was born in Rot an der Rot. He went to school in Nagold and later in Reutlingen. From the age of 17 he was apprenticed to the printing trade in Reutlingen. While here, from to , he studied art in nearby Stuttgart.

Relations

Grieshaber's daughter, Nani Croze, founded a stained glass workshop on the Athi-Kapiti plains adjacent to the Nairobi National Park. She was primarily a muralist, experimenting in a range of materials. Her commissioned works can be found all over East Africa. HAP's grandson, Anselm Croze (who apprenticed with him in as a nine year old), owns and runs a renowned glass blowing and dalle de verre studio - Kitengela Glass, which he founded in

Works

Grieshaber's work were influenced by works of Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger.^{[citation needed]} He took a stab at industrial design in the s with a piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Grieshaber decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.^[3]

See also

References

Exhibition Catalogue (, Auckland, New Zealand) - Some of the foregoing information is taken from the catalogue of an exhibition of Greishaber's held during the Auckland Festival.

It is likely that the biography in that document was provided by the artist himself

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