A mirror of the inner world and outer facts, consisting of drawings, gouaches, photos, language and collages. An artists journal, presented as monthly panels, each containing 20 folios, in chronological order.
225 x 54 cm (panels), 22 x 17 cm (folios)
Since 1981.
76 panels from the cycle Chronographie terrestre (Work in Progress) arranged in chronological order.
112 x 146 cm
A series of ink-jets reworked using gouache, coloured pencil and ink in an editon of five.
From 1979 to the present.
130 pages, 35 x 25 cm
Gouache, encre de Chine, crayon de colour, tampon de lettre pour le texte. 2021.
30 pages, 27 images, leporello, 25 x 17 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from Chronographie Terrestre. Since 2007.
72 pages, 70 images, 50 x 35 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from Chronographie Terrestre. Since 2008.
90 pages, 45 images, 27 x 22 cm
Pen and ink, colored pencil. Text: Encyclopedia of film, notes taken while viewing. Since 2003.
90 pages, 90 images, 32 x 25 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from excerpts from medical textbooks and diary. 1999.
44 pages, 44 images, 30 x 23 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from daily news, medical textbook and diary excerpts. 1996.
26 pages, leporello, 23 x 17 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: An english proverb. 1997.
92 pages, 85 images, 32 x 25 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, colored pencil, transfer drawing. Text: Collage (English, German, French) incl. items of news, proverbs and diary excerpts. 1995.
92 pages, 48 images, 27 x 22 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, colored pencil. Text: Collage (French) from Chronographie Terrestre. 1981.
92 pages, 48 images, 27 x 22 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: Collage (French) from Chronographie Terrestre. 1982.
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 1 - 10).
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 11 - 20).
60 pages, 30 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 21 - 32).
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 33 - 42).
Each title indicates a cycle of images inspired by important texts from world literature or by lesser-known witnesses of existential or fatal experience. The texts are reproduces in their entirety and become vital elements of the composition. They form a fundamental cornerstone of each picture.
Five Panels 225 x 54 cm
Each panel containing 30 Images (22 x 17 cm).
Gouache, transfer drawing, ink, colored pencil, collage on paper (1990-1999).
Ink-jets 145 x 122 cm
A selection of 63 images taken from the original panels and turned into ink-jets. Each one is reworked, altered and refined with gouache and colored pencil.
Ink-jets 150 x 112 cm
Ten ink-jets based on a suite of collages (19 x 28 cm) realized in 2001. The text follows a letter from Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976), written in solitary confinement in Cologne’s Ossendorf prison in 1972/73.
Ink-jets 130 x 90 cm
A cycle of 32 ink-jets reproduce the original text in its entirety. The images are reworked using gouache, colored pencil and ink. The originals (32 x 21 cm) on which the ink-jets are based consist of collages with transfer drawing, gouache and ink, realized in 2002-05.
Ink-jets 132 x 96 cm
A descent into hell in 23 images (25 x 18 cm) transformed into ink-jets. Collage, photo, ink and stains. 2008-2009.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris, France. +33 1 53 79 59 59 https://www.bnf.fr
Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, 10969 Berlin. +49 30 78902600 bg@berlinischegalerie.de http://www.berlinischegalerie.de
Klingspor Museum, Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main. +49 69 80652164 klingspormuseum@offenbach.de https://www.offenbach.de
FRAC Auvergne, 6 Rue du Terrail, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. +33 4 73 90 50 00 contact@fracauvergne.com https://www.frac-auvergne.fr
Gutenberg Museum, Liebfrauenplatz 5, 55116 Mainz. +49 6131 12264-0 gutenberg-museum⚹stadt◦mainz◦de https://www.mainz.de
Herzog August Bibliothek, Lessingplatz 1, 38304 Wolfenbüttel. +49 5331 808-0 auskunft@hab.de https://www.hab.de
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt. +49 6151 3601-200 info@hlmd.de https://www.hlmd.de
Kunsthalle, Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim. +49 621 293 6423 info@kuma.art https://www.kuma.art
Museo de arte Contemporaneo de Ibiza, Zona Dalt Vila, Ronda de Narcis Puget Viñas, 7800 Ibiza, Spain. +34 971 30 27 23 mac@eivissa.es https://www.eivissa.es
The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, 125 West Washington St., IA 52242-1420 Iowa City, United States. +1 319 335-5921 lib-art@uiowa.edu https://www.lib.uiowa.edu
Weserburg Museum of modern art, Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen. +49 421 598390 info@weserburg.de https://weserburg.de
Born 1940 in Neubrandenburg, Horst Haack lived in Lübeck from 1945 to 1959. He moved to West Berlin to study painting at the Berlin Academy of Art. Painting "light"! From 1967 on he lived and worked on the spanish island of Ibiza. 1979 he relocated to Paris. There, in 1981, he began his "Chronographie Terrestre (Work in Progress)" – not realizing at the time this was to be his future life's work. It is a painted, drawn and panel-mounted diary that he has continued to work on ever since. He lives and works in Darmstadt and Paris.