Otto Herbert Hajek (1927 - 2005) was a German abstract painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He attended the Gymnasium in Prachatitz and later went to school in. From 1947 to 1954 he studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart under Peter Otto Heim. In 1978 he was awarded the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1980, he was appointed head of a sculptor class at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. He taught there as a professor of sculpture until 1992.
Hajek exhibited, among other things, at documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964), in Kassel, thus achieving a high degree of fame. From 1972 to 1979 he was the first chairman of the German Artists' Association. In this capacity he campaigned above all for the social security of artists.
His works of art are exhibited worldwide, for example in Moscow, Adelaide or in the Vatican Museums. The works are mostly colored sculptures or Objects made of steel and concrete as well as interior and facade designs on buildings.
Hajek's early work is in the tradition of the first half of the 20th century. Since the mid-1950s, he has modelled non-representational sculptures, the so-called room nodes, as well as reliefs, which he designed for the church sphere. These often show rather filigree structures after the scooping out and dissolution of monolithic large-scale ]forms and are attributable to the then current informal8] movement.Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Venice Biennale wider attention. From the mid-1960s, Hajek used colour-formed geometric forms with which he approaches the visual language of concrete art, but without subordinating his artistic freedom to an impersonal and 'objective' design principle like this. This also applies to Hajek's small sculptures and graphic works as well as to the monumental city signs, colour paths, architectural and square designs that form his main work. With these, Hajek blows up the conventional dimensions of sculpture like no smaller than an artist of his era.
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| Räumliche Konstruktion 5, 1956 |
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| Raumknoten 87/II, 1958 |
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| Raumrelief 70/58, 1958 |
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| Untitled, 1958 |
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| Raumschichtung 107, 1959 |
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| Collage, 1964 |
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| Farbwege 64/10, 1964 |
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| Tagebuch, 1964 |
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| Untitled, 1964-66 |
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| Farbwege 67/7, 1967 |
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| Farbwege 67/20, 1967 |
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| Komposition 70/29, 1970 |
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| Kompositionen Nr, 1970 |
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| Hommage à Willy Brandt, 1971 |
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| Untitled, 1971 |
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| Untitled, 1972 |
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| Untitled, 1973-91 |
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| Untitled, 1976 |
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| Koos P 516., 1979 |
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| Zeichen Engelsburg, 1981 |
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| Eckzeichen, 1983 |
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| Leipeerinnerung, 1985 |
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| Imagination von Raum, 1987 |
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| Untitled 1989-90 |
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| Stadtzeichen III, 1990 |
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| Untitled, 1994 |
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| Untitled, 1998-2004 |
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| Hommage à Gropius, 2005 |
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