Background
Oskar Holweck was born on November 19, 1924 in St. Ingbert, Saarland, Germany.
Oskar Holweck was born on November 19, 1924 in St. Ingbert, Saarland, Germany.
Oskar Holweck studied at the State School of Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken with Boris Kleint from 1946 to 1949. From 1949 to 1951 he studied at the Ecole des arts appliqués à l'industrie, Paris, and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris.
Oskar Holweck was appointed assistant to the State School of Arts and Crafts in 1951. After that, since 1956, he was head of the teaching class at the same school, in addition he taught at the State Werkkunstschule in Saarbrücken and at the University of Applied Sciences of the Saarland in the Department of Design.
As an artist, Holweck participated in numerous exhibitions of the group ZERO. He gained international attention with his widely acclaimed Grundlehre exhibitions "Seeing", which were shown successfully in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Holweck refused in 1959 and 1972 invitations to the documenta in Kassel as well as several appointments to other art schools. In 1989 he finished his teaching career.
He died on January 30, 2007 at the age of 82 years in his native city of St. Ingbert, Saarland, Germany.
5 VIII 77
23 IV 61
14 IX 59
13 III 77/3
Motiv 74/6
24 III 88 (Reißrelief)
13 IV 82 (Buchobjekt)
28 II 58
21 IX 94 (Reißzeichnung)
21 II 80 (Buchobjekt)
16 BV 57
1 B 16 IX 56
23 III 88/5 (Reißrelief)
2 X 84/1 (Reißrelief)
7 VIII 74/6
16 IV 96
4 VIII 85 (Buch-Objekt)
2 III 82/2 (Reißrelief)
Ohne Titel
14 II 94 (Reißzeichnung)
D-VIII 60
Reißobjekt
Quotations: "My main concern is to extract forms of its own kind from the material and to concretize - not to imitate - the effects of light on surfaces, in cavities and by the material properties."
Oskar Holweck joined the artist group ZERO in 1958. He was also a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund.