Please arrange an individual appointment via e-mail.
hartwig.gerbracht@hawk.de
Function
Vita
Metal design
Task and goal of my teaching offer is,
to encourage students to understand and creatively apply the many different qualities and the interaction of motif, function, material, technology and form.
I would like to encourage the students to use their own experiences and to
to open, thus also to leave the known paths and unknown territory to
explore.
What is at issue,
what is essential,
... are crucial questions.
Furthermore, I would like to sensitize our students to the fact that
poetic and finally also for the fact that they see honesty in all forms and shapes of life.
and production areas.
With the aim of developing their individual, artistic expression.
Biography
1966
- born in Mainz
1982 - 1985
- apprenticeship as a blacksmith and journeyman with H. Gradinger, Mainz
1985 - 1988
- Journeyman in various workshops
1988 - 1994
- independent design and realization of blacksmith work in the parental blacksmith workshop
1991 - 1994
- Study of metal design with Prof. W. Bünck and Prof. A. Heuer, Hildesheim
since 1994
- Design workshop Hildesheim
- graphic design and metal design with Bettina Schneider
1999
Marriage, Bettina Schneider
1996 - 2009
- artistic- scientific assistant at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim
2004
- cquisition of a remaining farm in the southern district of Hildesheim
since 2004
- Renovation of the remaining courtyard incl. design studio, blacksmith workshop and horse stable
2009 - 2015
- Administration Professor for Metal Design, HAWK Hildesheim
since 2015
- Professor for Metal Design, HAWK Hildesheim
Exhibitions: Hartwig Gerbracht
(selection)
1990 - 2004
Mainz,Gallery Forum, Chamber of Crafts Rheinhessen
Permanent exhibition with changing objects.
1994
Hanover, Gallery: Handicraft form, Chamber of Crafts Rheinhessen
Seating objects for outdoor areas
1995
Mainz, State and Promotion Prize of the Arts and Crafts
Laureate 1995
1995
Hanover, Handwerksform and Deutsche Post AG,
House mailbox 1st prize winner
1995
Lüneburg, Handwerksform and Deutsche Post AG,
House mailbox 1st prize winner
1998
Trier, State and Sponsorship Prize of the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition participation
1998
Koblenz, State and Promotional Prize of the Arts and Crafts
Exhibition participation
1999
Saarbrücken, Saarland Artists' House
Objects made of and with wood
1999
Salzgitter, Gallery W. Gau
2000
Derneburg, Gallery Glasshouse
Group exhibition with Hartmut Reckow and Rolf Duwe
2000
Hildesheim, Kehrwiederturm art association
Lecturers and students of the metal class Hildesheim
2001
Island Föhr, Gallery Hedehusum
Transformations "solo exhibition" with Bettina Schneider
2002
Hildesheim, studio M. Borchardt
Silence, group exhibition with Bettina Schneider and Eva Ullrich
2003
Hanover, Lower Saxony Metal Foundation
Lecturers and students of the metal class Hildesheim
(5 forged steles on the subject: gesture)
2006
Hannover, handicraft form, metal moulds - Metal forming
Group exhibition
2006
Derneburg, Gallery Glasshouse
Group exhibition with Bettina Schneider, Eva Ullrich and Pavle Kovacevic
2008
Hanover, handicraft form, delights of the table
2008
Derneburg, Gallery Glasshouse
Group exhibition with Bettina Schneider and Jamshid Badrenejad
2009
Hanover, Handicraft form, Light effects
Group exhibition
since 2010 Gallery of Modern Art, Munich
Since 2010, all unique metal pieces have been exhibited and sold exclusively by the Galerie der Moderne in Munich.
