Hans Juergen Diez

All 2-dimensional media that I create have one theme in common: layers or overlays, be it color, line or montage.
I use all the traditional art genres: drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. To view the different genres separately use the link to "Collections". The biggest part of my pictures shown here are the "Overpaintings". It is a method of painting over print media, with which I can unite the entire history of the pictures.. Historical or contemporary, all images combine the complexity and heterogeneity of life. Cultural history or images of everyday life are processed by me and fit together in the iginal pages of the print medium.

Juergen Wolfstaedter from the Wolfstaedter Gallery in Frankfurt am Main, said about my Overpaintings:

"The focus here is not on the recognizability of the motif, but on the analysis of the composition: the distribution of light and dark, the rhythm of the surfaces, as well as the color weightings that give the historical paintings their inner dynamism. Through overpainting, the focus shifts from the narrative pictorial space to an abstract reading, translating the painterly thinking of the Old Masters into a contemporary form. Diez’s works thus operate in the field of tension between ar...

1973 – 1979 Student for „Painting“ and „Theory of Fine Art“, at the Academy of Art HfbK-Staedelschule, Frankfurt/M., Germany, (Master Student of Painting)
1979 – 1982 Guest Student, „Art and Philosophy“, University Frankfurt/M., Germany

1986 – 1989 Assistant Professor, University of Art and Design, Offenbach/M., HfG Offenbach/M.

One man show:

1989 Galerie Thieme, Darmstadt
Friedman Guiness Galerie, Frankfurt/M.
1991 Auktionhaus Alte Oper (Kat.)
1992 Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville/Rh.
1993 „Kulturdezernat“, München
1994 Galerie Andreas Vogt, Wiesbaden
1995 Galerie Scherer, Miltenberg
1997 „Super bone machine“, Galerie Fruchtig,
1999 Ausstellungshalle 1A, Frankfurt/M.
2004 „L-ich-T“, Station 15, Kassel
2007 Altkoenigsstift Kronberg/Ts.
2010 Saint Gabriel, Galerie f. Kunst u. Design,
2012 Ausstellungsraum Eulengasse, .
2013 IPSE, Friedrichsdorf
Kunstforum Mainturm, Flörsheim
2015 Kulturforum Hattersheim
2018-19 Karmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt/Main
2021 "Synchronous optical world"
Ausstellungsraum Eulengasse
2022 Wolfstaedter Gallery, Frankfurt/Main
2024 Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt/Main (Kat.)
2025 Deutscher Werkbund Hessen, Frankfurt/Main
2026 Wolfstaedter Gallery, Frankfurt/Main

Group shows:

1985 Kunstverein Frankfurt /M.
1986 Kunstverein Zweibrücken
1988 Mercedes Frankfurt/M.
„Zwischennutzung“,Frankfurt/M
1989 ART Frankfurt, Galerie Thieme
„Appendix“, Frankfurt/M.
1990 ART Frankfurt, Thieme, ...