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German Paintings To Be in Art Museum
Exhibit
The Oklahoma Daily 1961
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Hans Vincenz 1959, Gouache
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Thirty-seven paintings by the German artist Hans
Vincenz will be exhibited March 15-April 5 in the OU art museum.
(Oklahoma University Museum of Art)
Singled out from other contemporary German paintings for their first
American showing at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Vincenz works
are richly inventive and relatively small scale. They are gouaches,
which are paintings done in opaque water colours prepared with gum.
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Vincenz is not obsessed with gargantuan egoism for its own sake and
many of his best works are relatively small, “noted Jerry Bywaters,
director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. ‘The gouaches are
typical examples of how even modest-sized works can be bristling
with abstract content and brilliant technical performance. Here again — with
great content in small area — is a welcome paradox among abstract
expressionist paintings of today. “ |
The works are catalogued not by titles
but by numbers and dates in chronological order from 1957 to 1960.
Bywaters noted that Vincenz had resisted the temptation to interpret
his works of art through psychological titles or involved explanations.
Vincenz was born In Cologne, Germany, in 1900. Nearly 40 years
of his life have been devoted to art. His first paintings were
done in the early 1920‘s when he was living in Essen. A period
of almost exclusive work in wood sculpture followed.
In 1931-32 he returned to painting until a completely new approach,
a lighter, more colourful palette from which evolved forms of pure
colour, flat and often mural like in character.
In 1945, after returning from the war, he began painting again.
His first non-objective pictures were created in 1947, and after
that he made various experimental approaches leading to his most
recent work.
In an explanatory note, Vincenz writes:
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After this record of influences and phases of development, the
painter might be expected (considering his bug experiences in the
field) to make a statement about work in art, about meanings and
general goals. The only point, however, about which I can speak
is to describe the process of working, technique; about the participation
of the intellect; on the whole a report of the ‘workshop.‘ The
artist is not able to speak in words about meanings and essence
of art generally since his language is to speak in terms of his
metier.
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New years bring up new ways, with no repeating,“ he observed.
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Only by an always new approach in experimenting with variations
is it possible to come closest to the Image of the final picture,“ he
went on. “Due to these variations, different possibilities
and intentions, the entire world is the field of the artist, invading
him through his eyes. The sensual joy in seeing awakes his joyfulness
in painting — using colours and treating the surfaces in
most refined ways.
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