ARTISTS
Otto
Sep 14, 2018 - Feb 17, 2019
Otto. The Exhibition is coming to Hamburg. Starting 14 September 2018, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) will finally be able to show Otto Waalkes’s pictorial oeuvre in the city where he first learned to paint. The legendary comedian, musician, draftsman, actor, and film director known simply as “Otto” will turn 70 on 22 July. Otto is a classic pioneer of German comedy who has earned cult status. Less well-known, however, is Otto the painter. In fact, though, he began studying art education in 1970 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK) with Hyperrealists and Surrealists such as Hans Tiemann and Konrad Hausner. This is where he learned his craft from the ground up: layered painting like the old masters, painting with oils and acrylic as well as watercolors, and above all drawing, with works that would later betray his close ties to the artists of the Frankfurt School.
Otto’s large-scale solo show in Hamburg features over 200 exhibits, including original paintings, many of his early drawings and picture stories, cartoons, cheat sheets for his stage performances, excerpts from the legendary Otto shows from 1974 to 1982, and stage props such as a replica of the Pilsum lighthouse and a huge stuffed Ottifant.
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Otto. The Exhibition is coming to Hamburg. Starting 14 September 2018, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) will finally be able to show Otto Waalkes’s pictorial oeuvre in the city where he first learned to paint. The legendary comedian, musician, draftsman, actor, and film director known simply as “Otto” will turn 70 on 22 July. Otto is a classic pioneer of German comedy who has earned cult status. Less well-known, however, is Otto the painter. In fact, though, he began studying art education in 1970 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK) with Hyperrealists and Surrealists such as Hans Tiemann and Konrad Hausner. This is where he learned his craft from the ground up: layered painting like the old masters, painting with oils and acrylic as well as watercolors, and above all drawing, with works that would later betray his close ties to the artists of the Frankfurt School.
Otto’s large-scale solo show in Hamburg features over 200 exhibits, including original paintings, many of his early drawings and picture stories, cartoons, cheat sheets for his stage performances, excerpts from the legendary Otto shows from 1974 to 1982, and stage props such as a replica of the Pilsum lighthouse and a huge stuffed Ottifant.
