Adam Jankowski

Adam Jankowski ( born 1948 in Gdańsk ) is an Austrian painter and professor at the Offenbach School of Design, his studio is located in St. Pauli, Hamburg.

Life

Adam Jankowski grew up in Gdansk, Poland, but moved in 1955 to Warsaw, before he, with his parents to Vienna moved in 1961 and took Austrian citizenship. After leaving school at the Federal Grammar School Vienna IV Walter alley he studied from 1966 to 1968 mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna

Jankowski discovered early the art of its own and also drew the consequence for his studies. From 1968 to 1970 he studied thus painting at the Vienna Academy under Franz Elsner, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg at Almir Mavignier and KP Brehmer 1970-1976. Moreover, he studied art history at the University of Hamburg, Klaus Herding and Horst Bredekamp 1976-1980. Already in the late 1970s learned Jankowski's work first major attention he received as a student in 1977, the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts. 1979 Jankowski was co-founder of the autonomous cultural-political initiative Free Association of Visual Artists of Hamburg and the Working Group Fine Arts in Hamburg.

1986 establishes Jankowski, together with KP Brehmer, Anna Oppermann, Dagmar Fedderke, Constantin Hahm, Herbert Hossmann and Gesine Petersen artists cooperative gallery Vorsetzen (named after the address on Elbkai Vorsetzen 53). As a result of the sale of the building by the city took place in 1987, the last major exhibition. Also, this was accompanied by great media attention. The time described the situation as follows: Now the gallery Vorsetzen is torpedoed [ ... ] The city also is good all alone in the winter fairy tale. Then moved to the gallery Vorsetzen in the Seilerstraße and was there until 1996.

From 1984, Jankowski taught at the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, where he remained until 1985, before 1987, a professor of painting at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main received, a position he held until his retirement in 2013.

Work

The early work of Jankowski is closely related to the '68 movement. Together with Angela Hofer and Hermann Josef Painitz Jankowski published in April 1970, the "Manifesto No. 1" against an " art-historically oriented state." An art critic in Vienna took Jankowski's political ambitions in the art as a new form of communication aufDas political motive in painting Jankowski but was regarded as a provocation, both Gerd Winkler ( 1971 in the column " art weather conditions " the pardon), and Jürgen Schmidt ( in the Frankfurter Rundschau, 1972) were critical.

Up to the present Jankowski devoted to the question of landscape painting in the age of digital imaging technologies.

The artistic career of Adam Jankowski has always been characterized by the exchange with other artists. Over the years, thus made ​​acquaintances and joint projects, including Uwe Schneede and Robert rood screen.

• "Portrait of Sarra ", 1974 acrylic on canvas, 196 x 196
• Cycle " Technologic "
• Cycle " head trips "
• Cycle " Water Lily Pond ", 2005

2006 Jankowski in the operated by the Darmstadt artists Sandip Shah showroom BKI Inhabited art installation titled " First Hamburger hermitages plantation " an exhibition installation, which also integrated in addition to pictures from the work of Jankowski exotic plants and African fetishes from his collection to create an ensemble that shown works were mainly from the cycle " lily ponds " and " ponds, pools, ponds ". The reference to plants Jankowski commented as follows: "In my studio, the image incursions such as plants thrive on a well-managed overseas plantation. ".

Permanently accessible to the public works are among others at the Museum Bochum, Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Hesse State Museum and the Belvedere Vienna, as well as in semi-public areas of various institutions.

Student

His students include many successful artists, including among others Oliver Flössel, Parastou Forouhar, Sabine Moritz, Julia Oschatz, Henning Strassburger, Markus Weisbeck, Peter Zizka. 2013 showed the Wiesbaden Nassauische Kunstverein an exhibition of works of his students.

The painting class in Offenbach was located only in the Heyne factory, later in Isenburg Palace and moved to the larger premises of the last branch of the HfG in Geleitstrasse.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group exhibitions ( selection)

Publications ( selection of catalogs and texts)

• " On the run from the fear", Museum Bochum, Bochum 1979.
• Dieter glassmakers / Adam Jankowski "To Be No. Do", Medusa -Verlag, Berlin 1983.
• " What is still called design " in: hfg -forum # 13, Offenbach / M. In 1989.
• Adam Jankowski / Robert rood screen: " Cold radiation", Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt in 1990.
• "Techno * Logic ", Gallery Vorsetzen, Hamburg 1994.
• " There are not enough artists in Hesse " in: " trip to Poland, Offenbach School of Design in 1995.
• "Alpha Explorer ," 1822 forum, Frankfurt / M. In 1997.
• " Speech on the painting" in " cross-connections ", Offenbach School of Design in 1998.
• "Landscapes and other world dreams ", Gallery Hengevoss & Jensen, Hamburg 2000.
• " Always the most beautiful painting", in: Catalog k9 contemporary art, Hannover 2006.
• " Who wants to change the world all day ...? " Catalog Offenbach School of Design in 2010.
• Adam Jankowski, Robert rood screen, Burghart Schmidt: "Philosophy of landscape ", Jovis Verlag Berlin 2010.
• AM Freybourg, Hanz Zitko (Hg), " Adam Jankowski: Free view ", Jovis Verlag Berlin 2013.

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