Informations
Facts:
- Hartmut Priesner was born 1965 in Marburg/Germany.
- An arts teacher discovered his artistic talent in 1982 and in the same year Priesner introduced his pictures to the public for the first time.
- Priesner started to write: short stories, satires, poems, cabaret.
- Junior College, later an A-levels school-leaver, industrial management degree holder, advertising, free arts.
- Exhibitions at art societies, galleries, museums and other institutions. Publications in print and TV.
- Hartmut Priesner's works can be found in private and public collections.
- Several sojourns to on the Cook Islands / South Pacific.
- Priesner lives in Nuernberg.
Splinters:
- Techniques: oil and acryl, pastel, photographs, digital techniques, different printing techniques.
- Prints play an important role for Priesner.
- The "Art Factory" promotes experiments.
- "Art Factory" also means: art for everybody. Limited editions. Handsigned. Motive postcards and a combination of print and manual after treatment.
- Photographs: photographs were originally used as motive patterns. Today they are a part of Priesner's art.
- Advertising: at first advertising strategies and ad-writing, later also commercial art. Today mainly ideas and free art. Priesner finds advertising as art and vice versa. Fun is a part of it.
- Industrial enterprises discover art. Priesner visualizes CI- conforming furnishings of buildings and external constructions.
- First place in creative.
- Principle: reduction of the picture contents to one essential motive.
- Priesner produces unequivocals and avoids confusion. Priesner finds less more, simplicity art.
Quotations:
- "Art must find its own way apart from the overexaggerated intellectuals. It needs to be shown outside dusty museums. Art must be for everybody, it has to be understandable to everyone."
- "There are theorists on every corner - art speaks for itself."
- "To be independant in arts is the premise for a creative development."
- "Artists have the right to look at things from different perspectives. They are discoverers and critics as well as idealists and romantics."
- "Artists are somehow philosophers!"
- "And never ask me what I thought of while creating a picture!"
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