Karl Horst Hodicke

KARL HORST HODICKE (Nuremberg, 1938- Berlin, 2024).
Untitled, 1985.
Gouache on paper.
With informative labels on the back.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Provenance: Galerie Gmyrek, Düsseldorf and private collection.
Measurements: 100 x 70 cm; 124 x 93 cm (frame).

Work exhibited at:
-ARCO 87. Galerie Gmyrek, Madrid, 1987.
-Manolo Escobar. The exciting vice of collecting. Monastery of Veruela, Zaragoza, 2007 (17 July-15 September).
-A Spanish look. Manolo Escobar, collector, Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, 2012 (12 June-15 September).

Bibliography:
-VV. AA., "A Spanish look. Manolo Escobar, collector", Alcobendas City Hall, Madrid 2012, p.132.
-Castro Florez. F., "Manolo Escobar. El apasionante vicio de coleccionar", Diputación de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 2007, p. 124.

Karl Horst Hödicke was an outstanding German painter. He is considered one of the forerunners of German Neo-Expressionism, a decisive driving force in the movement of the so-called New Savages and, together with figures such as Baselitz, Immendorff, Lüpertz, Koberling and Penck, a central representative of the New Figuration.
His childhood was marked by his family's flight to Vienna in 1945, where he lost his mother. In 1957 he moved to Berlin, where he began studying architecture at the Technical University, and later devoted himself to painting at the Hochschule der Künste under the tutelage of Fred Thieler. In 1961, together with Bernd Koberling, he joined the Vision group and in 1964, together with artists such as Markus Lüpertz, he founded the historic self-managed gallery Großgörschen 35, where he exhibited for the first time and received the German Young Art Prize for Painting.
Between 1966 and 1967 he lived in the United States, where he produced experimental short films documenting his New York experience. During the same period he obtained a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Upon his return, he began process-based plastic explorations, such as his work Kalter Fluß (1969), in which he let tar slowly drip from suspended containers, emphasizing the temporal component of artistic creation.
In 1974 he was appointed professor with his own chair at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he trained several generations of artists until 2005. Among his students were Helmut Middendorf, Barbara Heinisch, Salomé, Cheng Yuzheng and Jan Muche. Since 1980 he has been a full member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, received the German Critics' Prize in 1983 and the Fred-Thieler Prize for Painting awarded by the Berlinische Galerie in 1998.