Horst Haack

Conceptual, Drawing

Born in 1940 in Neubrandenburg, Horst Haack studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin.

1961 Tour through Arab countries, Egypt, East Africa

1962 Continued education

1964 Berlin Arts Award and a trip to Mexico and the United States

1967, he travels to Ibiza and stays 12 years

1979 moved to Paris

1981, he began the "Chronography Terrestre (work in progress)"

Since 1985, he has lived alternately in Paris, Darmstadt and elsewhere.

His first solo exhibition was in 1969 at Galerie Natubs, Berlin. Since then numerous exhibitions were held in museums and galleries in Germany and abroad, including Gallery Marquardt, Paris; Kunstverein Salzgitter; Municipal Gallery in Lüdenscheid; Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt; Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt; Goethe-Institut, Paris and New York; Kunsthaus Zürich; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Gutenberg Museum Mainz.

In 2001 he received the "Wilhelm Loth prize" of Darmstadt.

The artist continued his "Chronography Terrestre (work in progress)" daily. "J´écris donc je suis".

He is a collector and translator of daily events in world affairs that affect our thinking and being. Pictures from the print media form the raw material for his work today, which he copies and edits with acid. Then he draws, paints, writes and stampes his personal reflections and fictions of contemporary events in multiple languages, in an irregular change onto the page. The result is a snapshot of his perception of the world as language-, Word- and picture-collage.

A new group of works, the "blow ups", large format ink jet prints on handmade paper arose from individual selected sheets of his Chronography in recent years.

"Apocalypse material" is the "revelation of John" transformed into the pictures, which were shown in the exhibition "Weltuntergang & Prinzip Hoffnung" in 2000, held at the Kunsthalle Zurich.