Horst Haack
Current Shows
Works
Kronografie 2000
A visual diary.
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.
Chronographie terrestre
Work in Progress
225 x 54 cm (panels), 22 x 17 cm (folios)
Since 1981.
Writing Times Image
To the Power of Three
76 panels from the cycle Chronographie terrestre (Work in Progress) arranged in chronological order.
The Blow Ups
Details from Chronographie Terrestre (Work in Progress)
112 x 146 cm
A series of ink-jets reworked using gouache, coloured pencil and ink in an editon of five.
Artist's Books
From 1979 to the present.
Transit Deux Mille 21
130 pages, 35 x 25 cm
Gouache, encre de Chine, crayon de colour, tampon de lettre pour le texte. 2021.
Le Comptable
30 pages, 27 images, leporello, 25 x 17 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from Chronographie Terrestre. Since 2007.
Faits divers
Miscellaneous
72 pages, 70 images, 50 x 35 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: Collage from Chronographie Terrestre. Since 2008.
Blind mit Links
Blindlings
90 pages, 45 images, 27 x 22 cm
Pen and ink, colored pencil. Text: Encyclopedia of film, notes taken while viewing. Since 2003.
Falsche Legenden
Palimpsest
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.
Songs of Gastarbeiter
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.
IF
Oder: Wie Profis Ihr Erbgut weitergeben
26 pages, leporello, 23 x 17 cm
Transfer drawing, gouache, colored pencil, pen and ink. Text: An english proverb. 1997.
Dog Days
(Hundstage – Le beau fixe)
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.
Bestiaire I
Les Invertébrés (Les organismes)
92 pages, 48 images, 27 x 22 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, colored pencil. Text: Collage (French) from Chronographie Terrestre. 1981.
Bestiaire II
Les Invertébrés (La reproduction)
92 pages, 48 images, 27 x 22 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: Collage (French) from Chronographie Terrestre. 1982.
Anatomy and Solitudes
Volume I – The Vessels
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 1 - 10).
Anatomy and Solitudes
Volume II – The Nerves
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 11 - 20).
Anatomy and Solitudes
Volume III – The Muscles
60 pages, 30 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 21 - 32).
Anatomy and Solitudes
Volume IV – The Organs
60 pages, 25 images, 34 x 27 cm
Gouache, pen and ink, coloured pencil. Text: The Book of Job (Chapter 33 - 42).
Horst Haack and literature
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.
Apocalypse
The Revelation of St. John
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).
Apocalypse
Grand format
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.
News from the „Silent Ward“
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.
The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot
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.
La Fin Du Monde
Reloaded
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.
Works in public Collections
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
Past Shows
Selected One Man Shows
2019 KRONOGRAFIE 2000, part of „100 Jahre Darmstädter Sezession“, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt . 2018 KRONOGRAFIE 2000, Gallery Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe . KRONOGRAFIE 2000, Gallery Espace Délire, Paris . 2009 Chronographie Terrestre and Bessunger Aporie, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Köln . 2007 Depotgeflüster, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt . 2006 L’Apocalypse, Eglise des Trinitaires, Metz . The Waste Land, Mozarteum, Salzburg . 2004 Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt . Günter Grass Haus, Lübeck . 1992 Gallery Nikki Marquart, Paris . 1989 Bookstore Niedlich, Stuttgart . 1985 Institute Pierre Werner, Luxemburg . Autoren Galerie 1, München . 1978 Galeria El Mensajero, Ibiza . 1972 Galeria Vandrés, Madrid . 1969 Galerie Natubs, Berlin . Show allSelected Group Shows
2024 Imagetexte 7, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris . 2023 Grünzeug, Plants on Paper, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt . LIVRES UNIKS, CINQ, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris . Animalia, Forays from Los Angeles to Mumbai, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt . Summer of Painting, Dengler und Dengler, Gallery For The Fine Arts, Stuttgart . 2020 Humanimalismes, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris . DISTURBANCE:WITCH, Spandau Citadel, Berlin . Anihumals, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris . 2017 HEY!, Gallery Arts Factory, Paris . 2015 carte blanche à gabriel müller, Gallery Gimpel & Müller, Paris . 2014 Apocalypse Now!, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern . Quatorze, Centre Artistique de Verderonne, Verderonne . 2013 Ornamental Structures, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne . Am Anfang war das Wort, QuadrART, Dornbirn . 2012 Best of, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Köln . 2010 30 Years Gallery Schüppenhauer, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Köln . 12 Artists from "Darmstädter Sezzesion", Reök Palace, Szeged . 2005 Vers l'Infini, Museo de arte Contemporaneo de Ibiza, Ibiza . 2002 Bellissima, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig . 1997 Kunsthalle, Darmstadt . 1996 Wewerka Galerie, Berlin . 1992 Writer's Digest - Reader's Art, Waikato Museum, Hamilton . 1991 Künstler der Galerie, Gallery Terbrüggen, Lörrach . 1989 Writer's Digest - Reader's Art, Goethe House New York, New York . 1987 Auf ein Wort - Aspekt visueller Poesie, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz . 1985 F.R.A.C. Auverge, Musee d'Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand . 1971 Eros y el arte actual en España, Galeria Vandrés, Madrid . 1967 Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Natubs, Berlin . Show allAbout Horst Haack
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.