Nikolaus Hirschmann

When Hirschmann paints
he dreams his inside out. He loses himself thoughtlessly in someone that he is … takes a white canvas … or, as he often does, one of his painted pictures … and paints over the yesterday in favour of a woven now … lives and puts picture over picture … feeling over feeling … moment over moment … as if there was no truth, as if a painting could be more than a picture. As if it were like in real life.
As if you could prove your belonging, your being alive by painting and perhaps give your existence what seems like a higher meaning … as if you could justify something original by painting it, by celebrating it.
In what category can you put Hirschmann‘s art? If you look at it from the art-historical point of view: obsessive dilettantism. The attempt to become something / someone. But another category would fit, too: universal, crossing borders / transcending.
On the one hand appreciating and admiring, on the other hand exposing. In his view of things he unites the both and the as well as, the yes and no. The duck-billed platypus that is taken out of its natural environment reflects perhaps, with its mostly undemanding natural naivety, our own egocentric, small world conditioning, but it also fills and decorates ...

Education:1973 75 Studium an der Bayer. Staatslehranstalt fr Photographie / Mnchen1975 79 Freier Fotograf / Mnchen1980 - 81 Theaterlabor / Wroclaw1980 82 Kunsthalle / Hamburg Organisation von Ausstellungen1982 85 German. Nationalmuseum / Nrnberg - Fotograf1985 88 Universitt Erlangen - Fotograf1988 90 Kameramann Bayr. Rundfunk / Nrnberg1990 93 Studium an der Akademie fr Werbung / Bonn seit 1993 Freie Malerei / Traben-Trarbach

1993 Galerie Applebeck – Dortmund
1995 Gruppenausstellung in der Städt. Galerie – Koblenz
1998 Galerie Gabriel – Wien
2000 Galerie Casa de Artes – Cas Concos / Mallorca
2002 Hahn & Jung – Wetzlar
2002 Graifen – Traben-Trarbach
2002 Stomach – Wien
2003 Sammlung Volpinum - Wien
2003 Schloß Pichlarn – Irdning
2003 Gruppenausstellung Galerie Luftsprung – Morbach
2004 Galerie Weinerei – Nürnberg
2004 Hahn & Jung – Wetzlar
2005 Galerie im Markusplatz – Eitorf
2005 UNICEF-Siemens – München
2006 Chiaia – Berlin
2006 Gruppenausstellung Galerie Incontro – Eitorf
2008 Artvent – Gruppenausstellung im Haus Metternich - Koblenz
2008 Stadtgalerie - Bernkastel-Kues
2008 Güterhalle – Bernkastel-Kues
2009 Michael Hoffee Gallery – Sacramento/California/USA
2010 Espacio Atlantico - Vigo/Spanien
2010 Baroon – Vigo/Spanien
2010 Stadtgalerie - Bernkastel
2011 Elephants for Peace – Gruppenausstellungen Schengen/Jerusalem
2011 WÜMEK – Würzburg
2012 STATION – Bernkastel-Kues
2012 Kunstmüllerei – Düsseldorf
2012 Moselschlösschen – Traben-Trarbach
2012 Buchveröffentlichung – Blutschuhtango Buenos Aires (mit Jürgen Lehlbach)
2012 Papatzikon Gallery – Veroia/Griechenland
2013 Galleri Passsagen – Arjäng/Schweden
2014 Gemeinschaf...