Albert Hettinger

Albert Hettinger
sculptures
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Voyage with the whale / Basalt / Length 350cm / 2010 / Private
Collection
Ocean / Basalt Boulder / 155x115x70 cm / 2010-15 / Private Collection - South of France
Polierter dunkler Granit - Modell
Transformation / Korean Granite / Length 430 cm / 2008 / Icheon - South-Korea
Cell Stone / Mural relief / African granite / 43x43x6 cm / 2011
Waves / Mural relief / African Basalt / 52x95x5 cm / 2010
Wall Pillow / Mural relief / Labrador Stone / 18,5x27,5x3 cm / 2013
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„Sign of Africa“ / Mural relief / African basalt with fragmentary identiication marking of the rough block /
27x96x9 cm / 2011/ Private Collection - Germany
„Code from Africa“ / Mural relief / African basalt with fragmentary identiication marking of the rough
block / 26x96x9 cm / 2015 / Private Collection - Germany
„Seal of India“ / Mural relief / Indian Basalt with fragmentary identiication marking of the rough block /
71x79x8 cm / 2011
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„The actual working into the stone here becomes a dissection, a peeling away of the most
diverse lines and edges that leads to a complete transformation of the surface.The stone
has, like a butterly, left behind the larval state and now reveals itself in new-found beauty
and afectivity.“
„Precisely the fact that even the monument-like sculptures of Hettinger appear to be torsi and
thereby aim at a higher completeness and perfection points to Hettinger’s comprehensive
artistic statement. He is concerned, not only with the individual object, the treatment
of natural material or the placement of a work, but in the inal analysis with relections
concerning the current ”state of being” of nature, which can be seen in no other way than
in its relationship to humanity.“
Dr. Beate Reifenscheid - Ludwig Museum Koblenz
Untiteled / Basalt / Hight 270 cm / 2012
Basaltstele / Höhe ca 270 cm / 2011
Innererer Drache / Basalt / 133x72x47 cm / 2007
Innerer Drache / Basalt / 133x72x47 cm / 2007
OT / Basalt / Höhe 215 cm cm / 2009 / Privatbesitz
Untiteled / Basalt / Hight 167 cm / 2014 / Private Collection
Hidden Dragon / Granite Boulder / Hight 190 cm / 2003 / Kyongnam Art Museum, South-Korea
Basalt / 34x15x14 cm / 2013
Hidden Dragon / Basalt / 210x120x80 cm / 2007
no title - natural basalt stone - „opened“ with a grinder - 38 x 17 x 17 cm - 2015
no title - natural basalt stone - „opened“ with a grinder - 39 x 9 x 11 cm - 2015
no title - natural basalt stone - „opened“ with a grinder - 9 x 27 x 18 cm - 2015
Basalt / Length 73 cm / 2000
Frutta di Pietra / Basalt / 16x15x28 cm / 2013 / Private Collection
Basalt / 21x20x70 cm / 2014
OT / Basalt / L 70 cm / 1999
Basalt / Hight 56 cm / 2013 / Private Collection
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Rhizome / Mural reliefs / Basalt / 2013
Rhizome / Mural relief / Indian Basalt / 16,5x22,5x3 cm / 2013
Rhizome / Mural relief / Indian Basalt
/ 23x23x3 cm / 2013
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Untiteled / Basalt / Hight 250 cm / 2013 / Private Collection / Germany
Untiteled / Basalt / 20x50x235 cm / 2014-16 / Private Collection / South of France
Untiteled / Basalt / Hight 235 cm / 2015 / Private Collection / Wuppertal - Germany
Japanese Komatsu Stone / Hight 90 cm / 2002 / Private Collection / Japan
Indian Madonna / Basalt / Hight 215 cm / 2004 / Private Collection / Zürich - Switzerland
Untiteled
/ Basalt/ /Höhe
37x45x170
Basaltstele
ca 270 cm
cm // 2012
2013
Basalt / Length 220 cm / 2003
Untiteled / Basalt / 41x16x180 cm / 2014
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Sculpture in Front of the Parliamant Building of Rheinland-Pfalz / Basalt / Hight 300 cm / 2003 /
Mainz (Germany)
Untiteled / Basalt / One Cut / 56x60x15 cm / 1999
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Untiteled / Two Japanese Basalt Stones - White Colour / Length 240 cm / 2002 / German Cultural Centre Tokyo
Verschiebung / Sand Stone, Hight 6m, Eifel (Germany) / 2003
Richtungswechsel / Basalt / Hight 4m / Trier (Germany) / 2008
Warten auf / Two conical formed columns of Sand Stone, Length 6m / One Hill, Hight 2 m /
National Fire Brigade School - Koblenz (Germany) 2005
Entwurfsmodell für einen Grundschulhof - Sandstein, grün-blauer Gußasphalt
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Sirius / Steel, polished Inox / Hight 10 m / Roundabout on
the former US-Airbase Bitburg (Germany) / 2012
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„Holy Lava Circle 2 - for J&G“
19 Piece of volcanic lava / Diameter 93 cm / 2015 / Private Collection - South of France
The irst loating lava circle I made in the year 2009 in my studio in Bitburg. The following photos show some of the lava works I created
between 2009 and the summer of 2010
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Dr. Beate Reifenscheid - Ludwig Museum Koblenz
„The actual working into the stone here becomes a dissection, a peeling
away of the most diverse lines and edges that leads to a complete transformation of the surface.The stone has, like a butterly, left behind the
larval state and now reveals itself in new-found beauty and afectivity.“
„Precisely the fact that even the monument-like sculptures of Hettinger
appear to be torsi and thereby aim at a higher completeness and perfection points to Hettinger’s comprehensive artistic statement. He is concerned, not only with the individual object, the treatment of natural material or the placement of a work, but in the inal analysis with relections
concerning the current ”state of being” of nature, which can be seen in no
other way than in its relationship to humanity.“
Rhein Main Presse
...... Den Farbhäuten in der Malerei, den Verdichtungen in der Fotograie
antworten die quasi gehäuteten Basaltsteine Albert Hettingers. Gestalthaft liegen sie am Boden, stehen in schlanker Silhouette aufrecht oder
bieten eine lügelähnlich-lache Flanke. Manchmal sieht man auf den ersten Blick gar nicht den Eingrif: Eine feine Linie ist es da mitunter nur, die
dem Basalt ein Geheimnis verleiht, den Blick irritiert. An anderen Arbeiten seziert Hettinger den Stein förmlich - aber ohne ihn zu verletzen. In
gewisser Weise adelt er ihn mit seiner Parallelschrafungen hinterlassenden Flex, legt damit seine „eigentliche“ Form bloß, und das immer nur
an einer Seite, so dass man fast vermuten könnte, dass sich unter der
schrundigen Schwere dieses leichte, glatte Eigenleben verbirgt.
Das sind ungemein eigenständige, spannungsreiche Arbeiten.
International Herald Tribune / Asahi Shimbun
Now through March 3, OAG Haus Tokyo (German Cultural Centre) introduces a series of works by German sculptor Hettinger. His artistic path
was determined by his irst encounter with stone, speciically basalt. The
artist is concerned with two themes in his works: the relationship beween
the completed sculpture and the original material and the reciprocal play
between the object and its surroundings.
The show features Hettinger`s masterful monuments which involves the
viewer in relections concerning nature and space.
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Studio on the former US-Airbase Bitburg (Germany)
Albert Hettinger
Several exhibitions and participation at sculpture symposiums since 1997, thereby:
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2014
2012
2009
2007
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
De la Ligne au Point - Fondation Pierre et Poppy Salinger - Le Thor (France)
To the Point - Raum 2810 - Bonn (Germany)
Edition Rhizome bei Youngcollectors - Swisttal-Miel (Germany)
„Herausbefördern“ Einzelausstellung in den Werkshallen der
Firma Geppert Band GmbH - Jülich (Germany)
“The other side” Haus Beda - Bitburg (Germany)
gkg Bonn
Stadtmuseum Kaiserslautern
Ube Sculpture Biennale (Japan)
Snow Sculpture Symposium in Winnipeg (Canada)
Kyongnam International Sculpture Symposium, (South-Korea)
Solo Show in «Schloß Waldthausen» (Germany)
International Sculpture Symposium in Bitburg (Germany)
Solo Show in the German Cultural Center - Tokyo (Japan)
Solo Show Kunstverein Trier
Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale (Japan)
International Sculpture Symposium in Oberbillig (Germany)
Chinese-German Artist Symposium in Weidingen (Germany)
Realized public sculptures:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1996
1994
1989
2012
Sculpture for “Haus Beda” Bitburg
Sculpture for Airport Bitburg
Sculpture Park - Schönecken
Renewal of the front court of Public Bank in Bitburg
Sculpture for city of Queidersbach
Outdoor sculpture for Petrisberg in Trier (Germany)
Sculpture for Icheon City (South-Korea)
Sculpture for Prefecture Administration of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
1.Prize: Sculpture for the National Fire Brigade School in Koblenz
Sculpture for the Parliament Building of Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany)
Sculpture for Kyongnam Art Museum (South-Korea)
Sculpture for a bicycle way between Germany and Luxemburg
1.Prize: Fountain Sculpture for the University of Mainz (Germany)
1.Prize: Fountain Sculpture for the Public Swimming Pool in
Thalfang (Germany)
1.Prize: Sculpture for the New Juvenile Detention Centre in Wittlich
Sculpture at the Mosel River in Oberbillig
Installation for the General von Seidel Barracks in Trier
1.Price: Fountain for the Public Swimming Pool in Bitburg
Memorial for the victims of the Nazi Regime in Bitburg
Curator of the international sculpture exhibition „The other side“
Haus Beda in Bitburg. (Jan van Munster – Christoph Dahlhausen –
Bodo Korsig – Klaus Schmitt – Albert Hettinger – Martine Andernach –
Nicolas Bayens – Sigrun Olafsdottir – Bertrand Ney – Christoph Mancke –
Hyun Ju Do – Morio Nishimura – Jean Gabriel Coignet)
since 2001 several working stays in Japan, South Korea, China, Canada, Saudi-Arabia
Kontakt:
Albert Hettinger - Denkmalstraße 3 - D-54634 Bitburg
+ 49-1785549818
www.a-hettinger.de
[email protected]