Education
From 1934 until 1938, he studied at the Düsseldorf Arts School Werk.
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Hann Trier
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The Trier brothers spent their youth in Cologne. During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht, from 1941 until 1944 as a technical artist in Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to painting, setting up his studio in Burg, not far from Bonn.
The Group organised discussions, exhibitions, events and concerts between 1947 and 1950 in Alfter Castle.
From 1952 to 1955 he worked in Medellín in Colombia, subsequently studying in Mexico and New New York In 1955 he was appointed a guest lecturer at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Artist
From 1955 he exhibited in the first, second and third Documenta exhibitions in Kassel. From 1957 until 1980 he was professor and later Director of Berlin University"s Fine Art Academy.
In 1967 he began the monumental task of replacing the war-damaged ceiling paintings at the Charlottenburg Palace, completing the first section in 1972, and finishing a further ceiling between 1972 and 1974.
His auction record is $US51,000 for his 1958 oil on canvas "Alegria", sold at the Villa Grisebach auction house in Berlin on 23 November 1990. documenta 1 1955 in Kassel documenta 2 1959 in Kassel documenta 3 1964 in Kassel Hann Trier (1915–1999). Between Old and New Masters. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum, 2003.
Hann Trier: Pictures from 1948 to 1998.
Abdinghof Gallery, Paderborn, 2006.
Achievements
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In 1947 he, with other artists including Joseph Beuys, was a founder member of the group "Donnerstag-Gesellschaft" ("Thursday Group"). In 1950 he won the prestigious Blevins Davis Prize in Munich. He was awarded the 1966 Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize) and the Grand Cross of Merit of the German Republic in 1975.
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Germany