Hans-Jörg Holubitschka (born 29 July 1960 in Seltzer,

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) was a German painter. He studied at the

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. Holubitschka lived and worked in

. At the Ruhrakademie in Schwerte he taught the subject

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

Life

After leaving school, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka went on the recommendation of his former art teacher at the high school to Düsseldorf to study from 1980 to 1988 at the

in the class of

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German ...

. There he met other students, for example his fellow painter Thomas Bernstein. Other later fellow artists with whom he already be friends during the Academy times, as Stefan Demary, Heinz Hausmann,

Bernard Lokai Bernard Lokai (born 5 September 1960) is a German painter. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of Gerhard Richter, and part of the Young Figuratives movement. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany. In 2 ...

and more accompanied him on his other artistic projects.

Work

After finishing his studies, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka devoted to the landscape painting. His favorite subjects are landscapes views among others in southern

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with Scotland,

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, landscapes in Germany including his native

, but also the

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and the

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. The "Urban Landscapes" and cityscapes, he has painted, include the following cities:

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and

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. Since the year 2012, he also dealt with the theme of

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. For this purpose, it is one of the artificially designed landscapes, such as

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landscapes. He has implemented picturesque new visual landscapes of the following places: The Fifteens (Düsseldorf Golf Club), The Seventh (Hubbelrath Golf Club), Princeville

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, Oubaai (South Africa) and Les Dunes

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. Hans-Jörg Holubitschka did not paint the representational quality of a landscape. The landscape was the medium for him to give the viewer a familiar motif access to its "soul pictures". He made use of color and its composition possibilities as an instrument to mental states to express. His images reflect in their color effects and excesses of the painter of the American Color Field painting like

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. While these painters moved in perfect abstract space, it took Hans-Jörg Holubutischka, figurative elements of the landscape into abstract color fields to convert.

Exhibitions

* 1990 Gallery Tabea Langenkamp, Duesseldorf * 1995 Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve * 1995 Gallery Schoettle, Munich * 1996 Galerie Johnen & Schoettle, Cologne * 1996 "Pintura", Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy * 1996 En Helvetes förvandling Engelsk-fran NRW, Stockholm, Sweden * 1997 A different view, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, Great Britain * 1998 New German Painters, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Exhibitions, Decoplage, Miami, United States of America * 1998 Due Dimensioni,

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, Venice, Italy * 1999 Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, Great britain * 2000 Informal landscapes - scenic Informal, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Duesseldorf, Germany * 2000 Due Dimensioni, pescheria Nuevo, Rovigo, Italy * 2001 Young Figuratives, including

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, Peter Lindenberg, Olibver Loachau,

, Stefan Müller, Katrin Roeber, Ketterer Kunst in Carolinen Palais, Munich, Germany. * 2002 Artax art trade - Ralph Kleinsimlinghaus, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2002 Young Figuratives, including

, Peter Lindenberg, Olibver Loachau,

, Stefan Müller, Katrin Roeber, Mönchehaus - Museum of Modern Art, Goslar, Germany * 2002 Dispute of the painters, with Armin Baumgarten, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, Bernard Lokai, Peter Lindenberg, Stefan Müller, Katrin Roeber, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2003 visions of landscape, gallery Schmalfuß, Marburg, Germany * 2003 new positions painting gallery Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany * 2004 Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany * 2004 Kunstverein Ulm, Jost Münster, Germany * 2005 Gallery CP, Wiesbaden, Germany * 2008 Gallery Wittenbrink, Munich; Germany * 2009 Gallery CP, Wiesbaden, Germany * 2010 "carom"; Gallery Fellner of Feldegg, Krefeld, Germany * 2012 New landscapes, Düsseldorf Golf Club, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2013 Gallery of Fellnegg Fellner, with Bernard Lokai, Krefeld, Germany * 2014 "4 auf 8" with Armin Baumgarten,

and Katrin Roeber, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf * 2014 "Forbidden Colours", Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Aussstellungen, Düsseldorf * 2014 Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, Gallery Wittenbrink, MunichHans-Jörg Holubitschka, with greetings by Johann Georg Prince of Hohenzollern and contributions by Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Editor: Jürgen Krieger, Edition Braus Berlin,2014, * 2016 "Olympic Landscapes", Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, Düsseldorf

Literature

* (Ed.) Martin Leyer-Pritzkow: Junge Figurative ( Young Figuratives) : Robert Ketterer rolog with contribution of Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, Christoph Zuschlag, Düsseldorf, 50 with artists: Woytek Berowski; Hans-Jörg Holubitschka; Peter Lindenberg; Oliver Lochau; Bernard Lokai; Stefan Müller; Benjamin Nachtwey; Katrin Roeber, in English and German language, 2001, * Das Kunstkaufbuch (the Art Purchase Book.): für Sammler und solche, die es werden wollen, (for collectors and others want to be), authors: Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, Klaus Sebastian. Artists:

Thomas Schütte Thomas Schütte (born 16 November 1954) is a German contemporary artist. He sculpts, creates architectural designs, and draws. He lives and works in Düsseldorf. Education From 1973 to 1981 Schütte studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf al ...

; Santiaogo Sierra; Horst Wackerbarth;

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; Hans-Jörg Holubitschka; Musa, Hassan; ...- München; u.a. : Prestel., 63 p.: numerous coloured images, * Hans-Jörg Holubitschka : die Farben von Urbino ; Landschaften 1992-2007 ; (The colours of Urbino - Landscapes 1992-2007 ) with contribution of , Peter Stüber, Walter Feilchenfeldt, ,....Wädenswil : Nimbus Kunst und Bücher. - 103 p. Coloured images, 2008,

References

* 1992 "The near and the distant," Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Cologne sketches, Issue 2 * 1993 "Fond of landscapes," Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Düsseldorf booklets 10 * 1993 'gallery Tabea Langenkamp, "Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Art Forum" Vol 124 * 1994 'cycle of growth and decay, "ART 5" * 1994 "Becoming and Decaying in nature," Michael Tesch, Solinger Morgenpost, Issue 18 June 1994 * 1994 'turbulent nature rules, "Klaus Sebastian, Rheinische Post", 1 April 1994 * 1995 "Beyond the city or Essay on Landscape Painting", Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Art Forum Vol 130/1995, pp. 225 * 1997 "A different view", Time Out, London, Vol 3 * 1997 "The sky above the cities," Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Art Forum Vol 137 * 2000 "In the wake of the painted landscape," Bertram Müller, Rheinische Post 7 November 2000 * 2002 "Wonderful Worlds ..." Klaus Sebastian, Rheinische Post, 8 November 2002 * 2004 "object painting", Ralf Heese, New Ulm newspaper, 19 June 2004 * 2004 "The eyes do not dare," Petra Kollros, Südwestpresse 16 June 2004 * 2004 "key motive Matterhorn: Hans-Jörg Holubitschka" Dorothee Baer-archers, Art Newspaper No. 96, 8/2004 * 2005 "flirtation with kitsch motifs", Wiesbaden Kurier, 3/2005 * 2005 "The colors of Urbino," Nimbus. Art and Books AG, Zurich, Switzerland * 2004 Wellness on shaky hill, in the studio of the Düsseldorf artist, Interview by Ulrike Knöfel, Der Spiegel, 51/2004 * 2005 (Das Kunstkaufbuch) The Art Purchase Book, pp. 48 ff, Prestel-Verlag * 2012 Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, judges, students and its golf landscapes, Uschi Beer, Golf in the Lower Rhine, Issue 2/2012 * 2012 The art of good financial investment, Katrin Gotthold and Daniel Eckert, in Die Welt, Issue 11 November 2012

External links

Literature from and about Hans-Jörg Holubitschka in the German National Library

Literature from and about Hans-Jörg Holubitschka in the online-library of the art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Art works from Hans-Jörg Holubitschka at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow

Video

Interview from Martin Leyer-Pritzkow with Hans-Jörg Holubitschka in his art studio, autumn 2014 (German language)
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