Bernd Hahn

Eleven years after his last major exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Dresden and on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which he would have celebrated in May, we presented a small retrospective of works by Bernd Hahn, which, with the exception of the photographs, encompassed all of the artist's groups of works: Paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, graphics and sculptures. The title of the exhibition is taken from a quote by the artist, who once said that the "agitation of poetry" basically describes the attitude behind all his work.

Bernd Hahn was born on 12 May 1954 in Neustadt, Saxony. After completing an apprenticeship as a skilled construction worker, he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 1975 to 1979. Together with his fellow students Anton Paul Kammerer, Andreas Küchler and Jürgen Wenzel, he founded the workshop community and artist group B 53 in 1984. After 1990, he became known for his work far beyond Dresden. From 1998 until his death on 10 March 2011, he lived and worked in Burgstädtel (municipality of Dohna) near Dresden.