Artiste allemand, vit et travaille entre Houston et l’Allemagne.
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Hans Molzberger
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Hans Molzberger est un artiste autodidacte né en 1953 en Allemagne. Il crée un atelier à Wendland en 1982. En 1991 il montait sa première exposition dans un musée.
Travaillant principalement avec des assemblages et des objets de céramique Raku, il se tourne à présent vers la gravure. Il crée aujourd’hui des gravures sur bois ainsi que des sérigraphies grand format qui traitent toujours de sujets politiques.
Molzberger a travaillé en Israël, en France, aux Pays-Bas, en Pologne et en Russie. Il vit aujourd’hui entre l’Allemagne et Houston où il est artiste résident à la Houston Baptist University. Il dirige également un programme de résidence d’artistes à Hilmsen en Allemagne depuis 1996.
«Je suis essentiellement un travailleur des arts visuels». Une définition qui tente de justifier pourquoi je travaille avec une telle diversité de matériaux : assemblages, céramique, verre fondu, sérigraphie, vidéo, verre fondu, sculpture en acier soudé… Ce que cette définition suggère c’est aussi la vision humble que je porte à ma propre histoire. Je tente d’illustrer ce qu’est réellement un artiste : une personne qui acquiert des compétences techniques qu’elle met au service d’une réponse créative à la vie.
Artiste autodidacte, je fais de mes expériences personnelles des motifs d’expression artistique. Toutes mes expositions solo reflètent, tant dans les sujets abordés que dans la technique utilisée, un souci pour la vie contemporaine et la condition humaine.
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Hans Molzberger
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Molzberger, a self-taught artist, was born in 1953 in Höhr-Grenzhausen in Germany’s Rhineland region where his family has lived for many generations working in industrial ceramic factories.
In 1982, as a result of mounting personal crises and a fervent need to reassess his life, Molzberger started a studio in Wendland, Germany and by 1991 mounted his first museum exhibition. Working mainly with assemblages and Raku ceramic objects, the artist recently turned to printmaking. He now creates woodcuts and large-scale silkscreens that contain political subject matter.
Molzberger has worked in Israel, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Russia and lectured at several major universities. He currently divides his time between Germany and Houston where he is an Artist Affiliate at Houston Baptist University. He is also director of an artist residency program in Hilmsen, Germany, that began in 1996.
“I am primarily a working visual artist”, is how I responded to one of my colleagues about why I do artwork. A statement that was meant as a justification for working in a wide array of materials and medias; including, assemblage, ceramics, fused glass, screen printing, video and welded steel sculpture.
My statement implies much more than an admission that I know how to work in various materials. What was also implied was a humble response to how I examine my own life history. I try to exemplify the true meaning of what an artist is; a person who acquires technical skills which he puts to the service of a creative response to life itself.
Last year I started working large scale woodblocks in combination with silkscreen. During the christmas break I prepared the memorial of the Jewish community of Salzwedel, an art project, supported by the city of Salzwedel wich will be created as a collaboration of HBU students and students from Germany in summer 2011.
Basically a self taught artist, I access my own life experiences as motifs for my artistic expressions. All of my many one-person exhibitions reflect, in craft and subject matter, a concern for contemporary life and the human condition. I try to be an extremely prolific artist.
Hans Molzberger