Hans-Hendrik Grimmling reads from his autobiography:
"the reeducation of birds: a painter living"
(Central German Publishers, 2008)
288 pages, hardback m. Shu, zahlr. Fig
ISBN 978-3-89812-543-7
He's too wild, he smashes everything. "
Wolfgang Matt Heuer, 1999
It is the surprising, unconventional look of a nonconformist artist, painter, thinker with rebellious temperament and intellectual restlessness with the Sprite his career from its beginnings in the first studio in the small Saxon town Zwenkau tells about his first drawing lessons in Leipzig, where suggests itself for him at a young age the "fate of art" and he turns away later with dark, startling bird metaphors of the realism of the "Leipzig School". "In the circle of artists" tangent is co-founder of the legendary Grimmling »1 Leipzig Autumn Salon ", a semi-legal exhibition in the house on the market in 1984, a milestone of inappropriate East German art history, which is classified by the East German authorities as a "counterrevolutionary."
1986 came from Sprite to West Berlin, where he feels like a "wet bird that falls into the wall." He describes the difficult new beginning in the West, portraying artist friends and companions, his experience recapitulates the "German-German Bilderstreit" thoughtful and determined individual artistic positions.
described from the perspective of one of the main protagonists, illuminates this little-known chapter book of memories including the alternative Leipzig art scene of the eighties.
Press
"Sprite has managed an unobtrusive self-portrait, always looking for happiness and the lost paradise. He leaves the usual beaten track, falls sometimes between all fronts, and yet he invites you to the joy of flying. "
Christ Läpple, ZDF broadcast aspects, 05.12.2008
» Grimmling visual language allows the reader to dive into the maelstrom of lifestyle seventies in East Germany. The circle of misfits who were starving away from the socialist daily, and yet marked them for life. The reader encounters here quickly forgotten recent German history, which fuses with the vivid biography of the artist. "
Hannelore Offner in the Rheinische Merkur, 13 November 2008
"A very personal book that wants to go beyond navel-gazing."
Berliner Morgenpost, 28 August 2008
"Fortunately, much more than the usual artist's feelings and vanities. 'Re-education of the birds' represents a piece of German-German history. "
Michael Zajonz, Daily Mirror, 1 April 2008
The artist Hans-Hendrik Grimm
Ling, born in 1947 in Zwenkau in Leipzig, studied painting at the 1969 Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, then at the School of Visual Arts Leipzig. By the representatives of the Leipziger School, "influenced, he developed into their antipodes. 1986 departure to West Berlin, since 2006 he is professor at the Berlin Technical School of Art.
The co-author
Doris Liebermann, born in 1953 in Thuringia, was expatriated by the Biermann's expatriation with the so-called "anti-state group of Jena," about the writer Jürgen Fuchs to West Berlin. Studied Eastern European history and Slavic studies. Since 1983 she has worked as a writer for radio, television and newspapers.
(Text: Courtesy of the Central German Publisher)
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