Hans Sieverding
German
Hans Sieverding was born in 1937 in Oldenburg, Germany. Since 1997 he participated in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Sieverding was a member of the West German Association of Artists and the Darmstadt Secession. He lived and worked in Odenwald until his passing in 2019.
“Sieverding does not present the beholder with any homogeneous, clearly structured, one- dimensional world. Instead, he juxtaposes signs and realities, and spins veritable webs of pictorial content by means of over-painting, layering and superimposition. The literally multi-leveled picture planes are invariably abounding and often reveal wildly rampant landscapes, overflowing scenes to combine various levels of reality and artistic methods of portrayal in a single picture…The beholder follows the play with the various pictorial elements and begins to observe the process by which the figures are no longer to be reduced to any single contours but rather pictorially circumscribed in a plurality of variations… The artist continually includes the beholder in creating his layers and thus, by means of his artistic play, stages a permanent changing of perspectives.” Excerpt by Dr. Peter Joch, Director of Kunsthalle Darmstadt.
Awards
| 2002 | Jakob-Felsing-Artprize, Darmstadt |
| 1985 | Artprize from the City of Cloppenburg |
Notable Public & Private Collections
| Collection Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany |
| Collection Westdeutsche Landesbank, Duesseldorf, Germany |
| De Young Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI |
| Kultusministerium Nordrhein Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany |
| Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany |
| Museum der Stadt, Wesel, Germany |
| Museum van Bommel, Venlo, Netherlands |
| Regierungspraesidium, Oldenburg, Germany |
| Stadtmuseum, Tuttlingen, Germany |
| San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2017 | Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 2013 | Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 2012 | Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| Galerie Cornelissen, Wiebaden, Germany | |
| 2011 | Museum der Stadt Wesel, Germany |
| Galerie Veronica Kautsch, Michelstadt, Germany | |
| 2009 | Galerie Wild, Zürich, Switzerland |
| Galerie Dessers, Leuven, Belgium | |
| 2008 | Kunstverein (Art Association), Tuttlingen, Germany |
| Galerie Molina, Monterrey, Mexico | |
| 2007 | Galerie Rasmus, Odense Tondern, Denmark |
| 2006 | Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany |
| Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2001 | Athena Art Gallery, Kortrijk, Belgium |
| 2000 | Art Projects, Torroella, Spain |
| 1999 | ART Brussels, Athena Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1997 | Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 | Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1994 | Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg |
| 1992 | Galerie de Vreeze, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1987 | Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013-19 | Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 2006 | Niederrheinische Kunstverein, Wesel, Germany |
| 2004 | Galerie Rasmus, Odense, Denmark |
| 2003 | Museum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Galerie La Cité, Luxemburg, Luxembourg | |
| 2002 | KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Galerie de Lange, Netherlands |
| Galerie Kunstmann, Santanyi, Majorca, Spain | |
| 2001 | Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany |
| KunstRAI, Galerie de Lange, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Museum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| 1999 | ART Brussels, Galerie Athena, Kortrijk, Belgium |
| 1998 | Städtisches Museum, Mennen, Germany |
| 1996 | ART Knokke, Galerie Athena, Belgium |
| Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| 1995 | Butters Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1993 | The Seattle International Art Fair, Michael Dunev Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Museum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| ART Basel, Galerie Art actuel, Liège, Switzerland |
Selected Professional Experience
| 2001 | “Letters to Ovid“, Rome & Orlando |
| 2000 | “Et in Arkadia Ego“, Peleponnes, Greece; Giardini-Naxos, Sicily |
| 1999 | “Costeros“, Torroella, Spain |
| 1998 | Guest professor at the summer academy, Fachhochschule, Hamburg |
| 1994 | Cité International des Arts, Paris, France |
| 1993 | Participated in Art Basel (also 1981, 82, 85, 87, 88, 92) |
Education
| 1970-76 | Painted at the Duisburg under painter, Wilhelm Wiacker |
