HAP Grieshaber
Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber or HAP Grieshaber (15 February 1909 – 12 May 1981) was a German artist. His preferred medium was large format woodcuts.[1]
Biography
Grieshaber was born in
Grieshaber was a long-time pacifist and political activist, not only against the dictatorships in Greece and Chile, but also in the area of conservation and ecology, against nuclear plants, and in favour of a bridging between the two Germanies. His companion in his later years, from 1967 till his death in 1981, was the lyric poet Margarete Hannsmann.
Grieshaber was honoured with numerous prizes and retrospective exhibitions. He exhibited works at the
Relations
Grieshaber's daughter, Nani Croze, founded the Kitengela Glass workshop on the Athi-Kapiti plains adjacent to the Nairobi National Park. She is a muralist, experimenting in a range of materials. Her commissioned works can be found all over East Africa. Nani's son, Anselm Croze, has expanded the studio. Together, they create art glass pieces and a large variety of other glass.
Works
Grieshaber's work were influenced by works of Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger.[citation needed] He took a stab at industrial design in the 1970s with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Grieshaber decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie.[3]
See also
References
Exhibition Catalogue (1966, Auckland, New Zealand) - Some of the foregoing information is taken from the catalogue of an exhibition of Greishaber's held during the 1966 Auckland Festival. It is likely that the biography in that document was provided by the artist himself
- ^ "Helmut A.P. (HAP) Grieshaber". Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "HAP Grieshaber: Basel Dance of Death with the dialogues from the medieval frieze". Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ISSN 0004-3842.
External links
- HAP Grieshaber bei art directory
- Polish Way of the Cross on "All About Mary" The University of Dayton's Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) is the world's largest repository of books, artwork and artifacts devoted to Mary, the mother of Christ, and a pontifical center of research and scholarship with a vast presence in cyberspace.
- Works by and about HAP Grieshaber in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
- Biographie of HAP Grieshaber (in German)
- HAP Grieshaber, Registry at artfacts.de
- Freundeskreis HAP Grieshaber e. V. (in German) with woodcut
- Special events for the 100th birthday (in German)
- Nani Croze
- Kenyan Utopia
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