Criticisms 1971-1980:

1971

"criticism and irony"

Hellmuth Eichner in the gallery at the west barrier. Signed with A February 1971

A new exhibition in the gallery at the west barrier concerns itself with "critical realism". Hellmuth Eichner from Cologne, 1946 in beautiful mountain born, which participated only recently in the Rhine Tiber price in Rome, takes the today's society, above all however the youth ironically and with expressed pictorial effect on the grain. Picture titles and from the oppositeness living composition make the irony understandable. In the ranges of topics around parents, youth, occupations, love and world view the Zwiespaeltigkeit of our existence is taken up. It understands again and again the artist to point out that our existence in the reason is still in the Middle Ages and in outward added itself what is called liberty at best shows. Hellmuth Eichner is never aggressive in its criticism. The Feinnervigkeit of its pallet provides for compensatory harmony, although the color actually participates in the marking of headlight ELT, Vereinsamung and passivitaet Hellmuth Eichner is an artist, who for the topic tables requirement and the formal condition for its translation the nearly total agreement, which found formula of the inseparableness of contents and form. . . . When the exhibition was opened on past Saturday, the larger part of the Krefelder "art window blind" was missing. It replaced a half travel company under guidance studied by Anatol book wood, Eichner in the Beuys class), whose faces are otherwise in the Duesseldorfer Galeriedickicht at home. They had apparent the better Riecher.

(note: Anatol book wood said admiringly on the Vernissage "you can Watts." nothing was sold on the exhibition. However the WDR brought a film to 3 over me in the yearbook of the week, from Dr. Juergen Hassel, which bought "the doll" and "the Selbstportrait to Christmas".

1971

GENERAL INDICATOR

Exhibition in the Friedrich Ebert donation

halflaterally one illustrated: We are nevertheless your merry youth, Europe!"

The yesterday with the today confronts in this picture, which shows apparently an idyl however in reality the dream of the sound world ad absurdum leads. "I am in Godtes Handt, retain me more fueer for and Brandt", stand at the crossbar of the old half timbered house, against whose wall three young people are leaned. In their unnaturally largely drawn faces, ours are not framed, by any means sound idyllische world with long Beatlehaaren, are reflected. That carries the title: We are your merry youth Europe "and come from in pc. Augustin living painter Hellmuth Eichner, which issues donation in Bonn in the coming week in the Friedrich Ebert.

1972

International art market Duesseldorf

Group: "the plow" catalog different Abbildungen

1972

GENERAL INDICATOR

"before the gates an indication"

19. February 1972

by Dieter Buchholtz

Directly in the entrance manieriert felt top-heavy Twentypen presents in stereotyped pupateful Regungslosigkeit, stylistic settled for instance between Surrealismus and fantastischem realism. It is not hervorzaubert the Eichner from pc. Augustin, which used up itself the duenngliedrigen types, with the spray gun this unreal material reality, that the central vertex heads with their view lots however nevertheless in such a way speaking dreamed eyes and persifliert solidifies for anything saying and nevertheless so eloquent smile, which sets this Kopfmonumente of our time on kleinfuessige Leptosome. HELLMUTH EICHNER places its figures before mono chrome background surfaces, in addition, before kullissenhaft undercooled landscapes and architectures to usually rural provenance.

(note of the artist: I do not have a spray gun used)

 

1972 24. 3

N R Z

Illustration of the picture "Grosskoenigsdorfimpression"

Most expensive pictures of the exhibition "artist from Cologne countries", who is opened this evening in the Frechener Kolpingsaal. the 26 year old painters Eichner for its "Grosskoenigsdorfimpression" requires 4500 Marks

1972

"Seismograf of its time."

Beuys pupil Hellmuth Eichner in the gallery studio 68

Catalog

Meanwhile it already participated in a set of exhibitions abroad in, among other things in Rome Rhine Tiber price, London gallery Treadwell, Basel "KIND", Vienna art cabinet. The Viennese school of fantastischen realism related, he draws humans in their life situations, material and - by extra large balloon heads with innocenceful expressionless almond eyes - nevertheless verfremdet.

The society-critical tendency is indeterminable, as "has ' me dear '", or "LOVE, LOVE" (two Esser, man and woman, with the daily meal.)

 

 

1973

Cologne Kunstkaleidoskop

Deutzer halls

Exhibition of the BBK Cologne

Catalog

1973

"RHEINI POST OFFICE"

by Bernd Castell

"Seismograf of our time",

Rheini artist finds international echo

unfortunately clearly as copy, cannot be seen however.

 

1973 1. 12

Duesseldorfer stock exchanges of booklets

With two illustrations of Yehuda Rodan from Israel and "1, May with finery assistance" to the exhibition "artist from four nations in the gallery of the Artes in Duesseldorf

... most interesting the 1946 in the Rhine victory circle is born Hellmuth Eichner, which studied with Beuys, from its art however mile far departed, because it belongs to the young materialists, which strive for the representation of humans and with all Akkuratesse the representation method or take straight thereby to social problems position. One sees Anstreicher, bricklayer, charwomen, young people at the beach and Transvestiten. In a picture like the man in the prism symbolic arrives at the representation.

1973

NEW HANNOVER NEWSPAPER

"over everything Heino" stands

with haven guessing photo of Eichner

Symbolic strength has the picture of the young German painter Hellmuth Eichner Titel: "the century of the small man". Special idea: Behind the having trouble pair Heino stands and promises comfort. The work, which is to be assigned to fantastischen realism, caused sensation: Hellmuth Eichner was distinguished with a bronze medal Europe of the price in Oostende.

1973

European price Oostende

Catalog with a Portraitfoto before the large picture "butcher 70 and the illustration" the herbstzeitlose "130 x 130 cm.

1973

Oostende

Prix "Europe" de peinture

Hellmuth Eichner

Catalog

Adepte dúne peinture placeé sous le signe de la "novella Figuration" cet artiste, qui A obtenu re'cemment a'Oostende une me'daille de Bronze, exprime SA vision you moons dúne manie're tout a'fait personal et humoristique. Certdes, IL est a'láffut de línselite, de l'homme outer travail, de l'homme dans SA vie prive's, you couple, tablet de famille.. Cerium width unit, IL observe tous les detail et les transcrit d'un dessin vigoureux solidly. Corn pours jeunesse d'esprit et pours verve styrique! Peinture pleine de v'erite et de sourire. Hellmuth Eichner, le sourire dans l'ame, camaoufle dans l'eclat de rire, une grande sensiblite..

1973

GENERAL INDICATOR

of LEO Lichtinghagen

with illustration before "fools on the highway" which on it was bought briefly by the city Goettingen.

Eichner, 1946 in beautiful mountain born, still succeeded the crucial break-through as an autodidact, before he studied at the Cologne academy of the arts with Beuys: 1966/67 issued it the well-known gallery Gmurzynska with as famous artists as Dali, max Ernst, Delvaux and Miro. Enormous child heads with aged face courses, maskful smooth faces with high foreheads, from which world pain and helpless astonishment speak: that falls at Eichner in the meantime extensive, mostly large sized Oeuvre in oil on wood and canvas first in the eye. Its pictures are present critical, them provoke, to correct the conception from a sound world to.

1974

MANNHEIMER MORNING

"Seismograf of its time

The Eichner issues studio 68 in the Speyrer gallery

"I see the role of an artist as Seismografen of its time, which feels the vibrations, mankind is exposed to which, better, because it is more sensitive", says Hellmuth Eichner. Eichner, 1946 born, autodidact and finally pupil with Beuys, issues for the first time in our culture landscape. By 30 June the gallery studio shows 68 oil pictures, erasures and designs of the painter Bedenkt one living between Bonn and Cologne the initially quoted set of Eichner, then social commitment is a matter of course. This becomes immediately evident also before its pictures. It is geknechtete, unfree humans, lonely also in the embrace and two-SAMNESS. In order to stress this, the heads are blown up, in relation to the body ueberproportioniert and with obsolete physiognomie loaded. They are ugly and from statutory severity and immobility. Thematically one would like to call the oil picture "the century of the small man" (1972) symptomatic, even if the "symbolism" does not arrive with the remaining issued pictures in same clarity at the expression. Two humans pull a plow on a volume with the federal colors by the field. The one carries on the ausgemergelten woman body a man head, the other one is completely naked. Behind the two a man with ruler expression and sun glasses stands and leads the plow. No interpretatorischen obstacles are against-posed to the general understanding. The areas, in which Eichners humans are posed - farmhouses, half timbered houses, realistic, seen a tiled bath or are simple color areas, but nevertheless dyed with those Couleur, which correspond to its commitment. With photo realism Eichner has the brutal, hard and inconsiderate optics together, which does not mask anything. The color is an important vehicle for the expression and thus for the understanding. It underlines the form, strengthens outlined the form. That grey - green Inkarnat of the bricklayers in the picture of the same name or the daemonischen man with the title "Hab'mich dear '" is characteristic. Wools and form of the statement harmonize in Hellmuth Eichners pictures.

1974

Rheini federal state museum Bonn

Exhibition Bonn galleries, Eichner in the gallery hen man

1974

23/24 November

Illustration in COLOGNE CITY the INDICATOR "the charwomen"

1974

GOETTINGER DAY SHEETS

by Monika Carpenter

Further continuously the tendency is away from the abstract to the gegenstaendlichen painting. "new realism in such a way specified" is represented on this art market with works, which belong to the most remarkable entire exhibition. This applies in particular to the works of Hellmuth Eichner from ST.Augustin with Bonn. The Eichner succeeded in, in the style from America to Europe imported "new realism" to paint without also equal the American picture contents to take over coining/shaping but from the topic special German new realism. Not consumer criticism like mostly, but socialcritical remarks e.g. the life on a farm as in the picture "Grosskoenigsdorfimpression" on wood