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1937 born in Ansbach, Franken
1958-64 studies at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig with Prof. Peter Voigt
1964 moves to Berlin
1971 scolarship at Villa Romana, Florenz
1974 assistant lecturer at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
1977 participation at documenta
1981 scolarship Niedersächsischer Kunstpreis
1985 price of the Nord LB, Hannover, since 1985 professor in Braunschweig
Hermann Albert lives and works in Ronzano, Italy, Braunschweig and München
When Hermann Albert moved to Berlin in 1964, there was a strong feeling among intellectuals, that figurative painitng was defined by the hateful Stalin doctrine that determined how and what artists were supposed to paint: they were to worship the working class and its achievements and they were to do so in portraits, stillives and landscapes in a heroic style. However in West- Berlin a young generation of painters, among them Baselitz, Hödicke, Lüpertz and Albert, thought that figurative art of the 20ies, like German Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit were important painterly traditions of the 20th century and they felt the urge to continue in that tradition. Soon they found support, with more figurative tendancies in American art:, especially pop art, but as well a return to more figuration as one can see in the works of the late Jackson Pollock.Lokking back to the time, it is interesting to see the influence of Tom Wesselmann in Albert's early work, where it is combined with German Neue Sachlichkeit of the twenties and thus leads to another important source of inspiration: pittura metafisica and de Chirico. In the eighties, the isolation of figurative painters from Berlin turns to acceptance. It is only than that Balthus and Klossowski are internationally noticeable, that Garouste in France, Freud and Auerbach in England or Chia, Cucchi, Clemente in Italy are greeted enthousiastically with figuative art. Already than Albert has moved to another sphere of thought. While in his early works he is preoccupied with everyday life, he now moves to a representation of the eternal values in the human condition: beauty, silence, metaphorical expression.
Exhibitions: (selection)
1967 Galerie Grossgörschen, Berlin
1969 Galerie Poll, Berlin
1970 Galerie Poll, Berlin Galerie Cournels, Baden-Baden Galerie Niepel, Düsseldorf
1972 Galleria L'Indiano, Florenz (Katalog) Galleria Schubert, Mailand
1973 Galerie Mewes, Hamburg Galerie Leske, Hamburg 1974 Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln A.H. Grafik, Stockholm Galerie Poll, Berlin
1975 Galerie Buchholz, München (Katalog) Galerie Mewes, Hamburg Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln
1976 Galerie Buchholz, München
1977 Galerie Buchholz, München
1978 Galerie Poll, Berlin
1979 Galerie Buchholz, München
1981 Galerie Poll (Katalog) Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (Katalog) Galleria Toninelli, FIAC, Paris
1982 Galerie Hermeyer, München
1983 Galerie in der Böttgerstrasse, Bremen Raab Galerie, Berlin (Katalog) Galerie Huber, Genf
1985 Raab Galerie, Berlin (Katalog) Sander Gallery, New York Totah Gallery, London
1986 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco Sprengel Museum Hannover Raab Galerie, Berlin
1987 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Mailand
1988 Galerie Oniris, Digione Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago Raab Galerie, Berlin (Katalog) Raab Gallery, London
1989 Galerie im Hofmeisterhaus, Bremen
1990 Galérie Michèle Sadoun, Paris
1991 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Mailand (Katalog)
1993 Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Mailand (Katalog) Abbazia di San Gregorio, Sammlung Monzino, Venedig (Katalog)
1995 Galerie Mönch, Bremen Villa Romana, Florenz Galleria Il Polittico, Rom (Katalog) Kunstverein Braunschweig (Katalog)
1996 Palazzo Ducale, Revere (Katalog)
1998 Galleria della Scudo, Verona (Katalog) Galerie Mönch, Bremen
1999 Galerie Burkhard H. Eikelmann, Essen (Katalog) Galleria d'Arte Poggiali & Forconi, Florenz (Katalog)