Günter Haese

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In the early 1960s, Günter Haese, a masterclass student of Ewald Mataré, discovered brass wire and parts of disassembled clocks as construction elements for three-dimensional objects, and in 1964 he was granted a solo exhibition of these metal objects at the museum of Ulm, Germany. The exhibition proved so popular that Haese received a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that same year. In the following years, he was invited to participate in documenta 3, in the Venice Biennale, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York awarded him its prestigious prize. Haese's works of art are transparent objects made of brass and phosphor bronze. Balls, wheels and other filigree parts are lined up on very fine spirals in soldered wire mesh, adding up to uniquely two-dimensional kinetic works of art. Unlike members of the ZERO group such as Heinz Mack or Günther Uecker, Haese needs no drives for his kinetic sculptures. Even a gentle puff of air can set these delicate structures vibrating.

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Galerie Thomas has been managing the artist's estate since 2019.

Günter Haese at Galerie Thomas

In 1964, the year he opened his gallery, Raimund Thomas visited the documenta in Kassel and saw works by Günter Haese for the first time. He visited the artist in his studio, and over the years a friendship developed. Exhibitions at Galerie Thomas included single works by Haese, who at that time was represented by the prestigious Galerie Stangl. The first solo exhibition of Günter Haese’s works at Galerie Thomas was presented in 1989, followed by solo shows in 1993 and 2006. The major exhibition of 2019 became a retrospective of his oeuvre. Since the 1980s, the gallery was able to place many of the highly desired filigree works in collections all over the world.