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Magazine Article

The Summer 2016 issue of CA Modern, a magazine published by the Eichler Network, features an article about Collage by California artists in the 1960's. Horst's Blues, 1961 is shown alongside works by Max Ernst, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, Schwitters, Jess Collins and others. About Horst they say

"Even some California collage artists whose art was more abstract, such as Horst Gottschalk, produced work with an ominous edge. Gottschalk who grew up in Nazi Germany and arrived in California in 1959, used paper, dripping paint, bits newspaper and wood, among other materials, to create work that could be jagged and tough, fusing collage with abstract expressionism".

The Eichler network is named for the well-known mid-century developer Joseph Eichler who purcahsed one of Horst's collages, Toledo in the early 1960's.

The Eichler Network and CA Modern

Updated Web Site

This Web site receives frequent updates, but we have made sufficient changes to warrant an annoucement.

We have made a clear separation between the scholarly work of professor Van Hoesen and her staff, and the Personal Memoire of Douglas Tuttle. Professor Van Hoesen's work is clear academic scholarship whereas the memoire is historical background material. The Memoire now has its first few sections. The Man, The War, School, Influences. This last section expands on the people and things that influenced Horst's life and art.

Video of Professor Van Hoesen's Lecture at BIMA
Eye on Artist, Visual Memories

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) has recently released the video of Professor Brett Van Hosen's Lecture from last year. The lecture extends the information and analysis in her essay Visual Memories: The Collages and Paintings of Horst Gottschalk.
Play the Video Here

Estate Announces Phase II of UNR Fellowship

The Gottschalk Estate is pleased to announce phase II of the Horst Gottschalk Research Fund at UNR. The first phase was very successful, resulting in an archive of photographs, documents, letters and journals from Horst's life. Additional research has increased understanding of the artistic context guiding Horst's early career.

All this new information became the basis for Professor Van Hoesen's essay: Visual Memories: The Collages and Paintings of Horst Gottschalk. This brilliant essay is the main feature of the BIMA show catalog, and was expanded upon in her BIMA lecture of the same name. The work done at UNR was a key contribution to the success of the BIMA show.

Phase II will raise Horst's profile in academic Art History even further. Professor Brett Van Hoesen and her staff have chosen to concentrate on Horst's' collage period, with the goal of preparing an article for a premier Art History publication.

Video of the BIMA Exhibit

The estate has produced a short video of the exhibit: Horst Gottschalk Personal Myths at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. It shows the beautiful Bainbridge Museum, a tour of the exhibit and opening night with photographs of Barbara Gottschalk, Greg Robinson, Cyntihia Sears, Hidde Van Duym and Lynn Brantley.

Play the Video Here

BCB Interview on Horst Gottschalk's BIMA Show

Channie Peters of Bainbridge Community Broadcast (BCB) interviews BIMA co-curator Hidde Van Duym, BIMA's Education Director Kristin Tollefson and Brett M. Van Hoesen professor of Art History at University Nevada, Reno. They discuss the recent show of Horst's work at The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Topics range over Horst's life and Art and how his status as an emigre affected his artistic evolution. Horst 'tried on' several styles of the day including American Neo-Dada in his collages. By the 1970's he had become more comforatble in his new country and developed an authentic personal style.

BIMA's Eye on Artist series Lecture: Visual Memories

The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art has invited Professor Brett M. Van Hoesen to give the latest installment in their lecture series: Eye on Artist. The lecture was given on the closing day of the exhibit, September 20th, 2015. It was based on the essay Visual Memories: The Collages and Paintings of Horst Gottschalk, but added new illustrations, historical photographs and explored additional historical conections that influenced Horst's art.

In particular, Professor Van Hoesen explored the connections between German Dada of the 1920's and the American Dada movement in the S. F. Bay Area. Kurt Schwitters had been featured in several Bay Area exhibits, and being from the same city, Horst had a natrual affinity for Schwitters work. As a recent emigre to the U. S. Horst was able to produce work familar to him that also was at forefront of Bay Area artistic sensibilities.

A video of the lecture was made, and will posted here as soon as it's available.

Horst Gottschalk and Visual Memories

The Horst Gottschalk Estate has published Horst Gottschalk, a catalog to accompany the exhibit of Horst's work at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. The 64 page catalog contains 40 color plates, a biography with historical photographs and Brett Van Hoesen's excellent essay: Visual Memories: The Collages and Paintings of Horst Gottschalk.

Click here for the essay

The full catalog will be for sale in the Museum's gift shop.

Estate Announces UNR Fellowship

The Horst Gottschalk LLC annouces the Horst Gottschalk Research Fund at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Fellowship will allow Brett M. Van Hoesen, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, to contintue research into Horst's life and work. Her student assistants, Lisa Cassidy and Kyle Kuczynski have already begun scanning historical photographs, and researching the early historical context of Horst's career.

Art Historian Brett Van Hoesen
Begins Horst Gottschalk Research Project

Brett M. Van Hoesen PhD., Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno, has recently begun a serious academic research project into the life and work of Horst Gottschalk. The estate is very pleased by this because it is the first critical step in establishing Horst's place in Art History. Professor Van Hoesen's expertise is in German Art, especially Dada and Merz of the 1920's and 30's. Professor Van Hoesen suspects that Horst, as an emigre from Hannover may represent a connection from Kurt Schwitters into S. F. Bay Area Neo-Dada movement of the early 1960's.

Professor Van Hoesen and her staff have begun collecting documents and photos and researching historical context Horst's life and art.

Professor Van Hoesen will also be contributing an essay to the catalog accompanying the upcomming BIMA show in June.

Professor Van Hoesen's Web Site

Exhibit at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
June 26th through September 20th, 2015

The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) has announced a one-man exhibit of Horst Gottschalk's works of art. The show will be curated by Cynthia Sears and Hidde Van Duym, and is entitled Personal Myths. The show will contain over 50 works featuring Horst's Bainbridge Island paintings, but also works from other periods including other paintings and some collages from the early 1960's.

Visit the BIMA web site for additional details.

View the BIMA Web Site Here