Halina Jaworski
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Halina Jaworski is a German
artist
and abstract
painter
.
She lives and works in Düsseldorf
, Germany
since 1973.
and was raised in Sopot
. Due to a wave of anti-semitism
during March 1968 events in Poland
she and her family had to immigrate to Israel
. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
in Jerusalem where the staff included among others, professors from the Bauhaus
school. At Bezalel she created her first white paintings and performed linguistic experiments, in which linguistic structures formed the pictorial structures, shown at International Symposium of Concrete poetry in Selb
(1977). These experiments were continued at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in Prof. Günther Uecker
's class. She received her master student degree (Meisterschülerin) in 1979 and remained at the Academy until 1980 as an assistant lecturer. Since 1977 she experimented with polaroid photography, which resulted in the installations entitled Poesie und Gemeinheit der kleinen Dinge (Poetry and Meanness of Small Objects). Since 1978 she has been experimenting with painted polygonal shaped canvases and the dialogue of their forms on the wall. Since 1982 she has created various cycles of shaped canvas, including among others Schilde (Shields), Spielzeug (Toys), Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Unterwegs (On the Way). In 1979 she placed a number of ten-meter-high flagpoles with four-meter-wide banners on the Wupper
river bank (Fahnen Skulptur / Flag Sculpture). The flags had circular openings of a one-meter diameter. In 1980 she created her first pyramids made of triangular paintings on canvas, called Die Berge (The Mountains), a series shown in 1981 at the Düsseldorf Museum of Art
at the Treibhaus exhibition and in 1985 at the Process und Konstruktion exhibition in Munich
, forming the installation Gipfeltreffen (Summit). In 1982 she was the originator of an auction of works of art and an exhibition to protest against the martial law in Poland (Gegen das Kriegsrecht in Polen), both held at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. In 1990 the painting entitled Polnischer Adler mit Häftlings Mütze (Polish Eagle with Prisoner's Cap) was handed over to Anda Rottenberg as a gift for the first museum of art in independent Poland. In 1984 she started working on the cycle Ahnen (Ancestors), shown among others at the Dialog exhibition in Warsaw
(Centrum Sztuki, 1989) and Düsseldorf
(Kunstmuseum, 1990). In this time she created the first series of watercolors on paper, called Ansichtskarten (Postcards), shown among others in 1991 at the Richard Demarco
Gallery in Edinburgh. This series of paper works has grown into Ansichtskarten und Ansichtssachen (Postcards and Views), an extensive set of hundreds of collage
works (watercolors and photos), which were shown in different one-man shows at the Kunsthalle Altdorf (2001), Kunstverein Oerlinghausen (2002) and at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
to the European Union
in Brussels
(2004).
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and abstract
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
.
She lives and works in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
since 1973.
Biography
Halina Jaworski was born 1952 in GdańskGdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
and was raised in Sopot
Sopot
Sopot is a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000....
. Due to a wave of anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
during March 1968 events in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
she and her family had to immigrate to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national school of art, founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....
in Jerusalem where the staff included among others, professors from the Bauhaus
Bauhaus
', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
school. At Bezalel she created her first white paintings and performed linguistic experiments, in which linguistic structures formed the pictorial structures, shown at International Symposium of Concrete poetry in Selb
Selb
Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, on the border with the Czech Republic, 20 km northwest of Cheb and 23 km southeast of Hof.-Notable people:...
(1977). These experiments were continued at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in Prof. Günther Uecker
Günther Uecker
Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...
's class. She received her master student degree (Meisterschülerin) in 1979 and remained at the Academy until 1980 as an assistant lecturer. Since 1977 she experimented with polaroid photography, which resulted in the installations entitled Poesie und Gemeinheit der kleinen Dinge (Poetry and Meanness of Small Objects). Since 1978 she has been experimenting with painted polygonal shaped canvases and the dialogue of their forms on the wall. Since 1982 she has created various cycles of shaped canvas, including among others Schilde (Shields), Spielzeug (Toys), Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Unterwegs (On the Way). In 1979 she placed a number of ten-meter-high flagpoles with four-meter-wide banners on the Wupper
Wupper
The Wupper is a right tributary to the Rhine river in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Rising near Marienheide in western Sauerland it runs through the mountainous area of the Bergisches Land Berg County and enters the Rhine at Leverkussen, south of Düsseldorf...
river bank (Fahnen Skulptur / Flag Sculpture). The flags had circular openings of a one-meter diameter. In 1980 she created her first pyramids made of triangular paintings on canvas, called Die Berge (The Mountains), a series shown in 1981 at the Düsseldorf Museum of Art
Museum kunst palast
The Museum Kunstpalast is an art museum in Düsseldorf, Germany.- History :The Museum Kunst Palast was founded as Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, a typical communal arts collection in Germany. The first exhibits were given by the popular regent Jan Wellem, Duke of Palatinate, and his wife Anna Maria Luisa...
at the Treibhaus exhibition and in 1985 at the Process und Konstruktion exhibition in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, forming the installation Gipfeltreffen (Summit). In 1982 she was the originator of an auction of works of art and an exhibition to protest against the martial law in Poland (Gegen das Kriegsrecht in Polen), both held at the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. In 1990 the painting entitled Polnischer Adler mit Häftlings Mütze (Polish Eagle with Prisoner's Cap) was handed over to Anda Rottenberg as a gift for the first museum of art in independent Poland. In 1984 she started working on the cycle Ahnen (Ancestors), shown among others at the Dialog exhibition in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
(Centrum Sztuki, 1989) and Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
(Kunstmuseum, 1990). In this time she created the first series of watercolors on paper, called Ansichtskarten (Postcards), shown among others in 1991 at the Richard Demarco
Richard Demarco
Richard Demarco, CBE is an Italian Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts.-Richard Demarco Gallery:...
Gallery in Edinburgh. This series of paper works has grown into Ansichtskarten und Ansichtssachen (Postcards and Views), an extensive set of hundreds of collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
works (watercolors and photos), which were shown in different one-man shows at the Kunsthalle Altdorf (2001), Kunstverein Oerlinghausen (2002) and at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
to the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
(2004).
Selected awards
- 1973 Helena RubinsteinHelena RubinsteinHelena Rubinstein , a Polish born Australian-American business magnate. She is the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women.-Early life:...
scholarship - 1977 Travel grant to JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
of the Kunstakademie DüsseldorfKunstakademie DüsseldorfThe Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky... - 1979 Kunstakademie DüsseldorfKunstakademie DüsseldorfThe Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...
award - 1984 Stiftung Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium, BonnBonnBonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
- 1986 GoslarGoslarGoslar is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines of Rammelsberg are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.-Geography:Goslar is situated at the...
Kaiserring-Stipendium