In our series on the art walk that is currently being offered in Poing, we are introducing the painter Norbert Haberkorn today.
He paints in Poing and Gotland.
Poing - someone who, like Norbert Haberkorn, grew up on a farm near Bad Tölz, later traveled around the globe as a qualified engineer for a technology company and now lives in two worlds - the Bavarian and the Swedish - can truly tell a lot.
For almost 20 years, Haberkorn has devoted himself to art in many variations, has devoted himself to painting as an autodidact and is now part of the informal group Kunst-Stoff.
Anyone entering his neat house in Poing immediately encounters a variety of art: For example, a light installation, once used as a Christmas tree ornament, next to a wooden frame with perforated sheet metal and countless acrylic pictures vie for the viewer's attention.
In this art box, as the 71-year-old artist calls his work space in a former garage, exciting works from many years of his very different work are stacked up.
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Two works by Norbert Haberkorn.
© Johannes Dziemballa
In the no longer used nursery of his daughter Caroline and son Thomas, both in their early 40s, he is currently working on the project “Nothing but Blue”.
Here he brings topics that are currently moving him, with all kinds of pencils, oil pastels or painters' paints on paper, the main thing is that the result is blue.
“I've never wanted to paint landscapes or portraits like many others.
Rather, I have always been concerned with politics and the environment - which have often become victims.
I observe them and then translate them into drawings. "
Poing: drawing in front of the television
Norbert Haberkorn likes to create contemporary documents, appreciates the reflection on inner thoughtfulness.
A white kerchief that he sees stretched across the planet as a reminder to the many dictators in this world then emerges as works.
The other day, while sitting in front of the television, he designed a woman with a blue vest as a symbol for the European Song Contest.
“I only recently returned to this type of painting.
I was sitting in our little house on the Swedish island of Gotland, where my wife comes from, only equipped with a white coloring pad and a pen.
After many years of using acrylic and oil paints, I rediscovered simple drawing, spontaneously by hand on paper. "
The stations and the artists
During the “Art Walk through Poing”, which the artist group Kunst-Stoff has set up, works can be viewed free of charge in the shop windows of local shops until July 10th. We introduce the artists in a loose series. The stations:
• Flowers Birgit (City Center 2) - Artist: Conny Boy
• Optik Seidel (City Center) - Conny Boy and Inge Schmidt
• Schuh Kern (City Center) - Conni Probstmeier
• Optik Wensky (Vauhaus) - Rosemarie Hingerl and Conni Probstmeier
• St .-Georgs-Apotheke (Bahnhofsstrasse 2) - Inge Schmidt, Karl Orth, Norbert Haberkorn
• Babalu (Hauptstrasse 3) - Rosemarie Hingerl
• Jeweler Mirma (Hauptstrasse 3) - Norbert Haberkorn
• Schuhforum (Neufarner Strasse 1) - Conni Probstmeier
• SchnickSchnack ( Hauptstrasse 11) - Conny Boy
• Imhoff funeral (Hauptstrasse 14) - Conny Boy, Rosemarie Hingerl
• EP: Wondra (Hauptstrasse 15) - Inge Schmidt
Actually, he came to paint by chance. “During a vacation in Tuscany in 1992, I met a couple of artists from Munich and made friends with them and their work. I also bought a picture of them and then took steps in that direction myself. ”The fact that he had time for this kind of leisure was thanks to an overhaul period in the company for which Haberkorn was on the road from 1976 to 2009. “It started with internships, followed by an exciting time in Munich, during which I learned a lot about digitization and chip technology. I did research on the automation of production plants and came to Japan to become familiar with the Kaizen method, a process of permanent improvement. Together with colleagues, I have brought these to our plants all over the world,We have developed a completely new, sensational team training program. "
Poing: Spread out in the house as an artist
As a boy, Haberkorn grew up very sheltered on an agricultural estate, his father was a milk teacher.
“Back then he knew every farmer in the area and sent me to school in Wolfratshausen.
When the family moved to Grub near Poing, I went to boarding school in Wasserburg, where I graduated from secondary school.
Since I always wanted to be an engineer, but my father had given me an apprenticeship at a company specializing in telecommunications technology, I finally came to the Technical University in Munich via the so-called second educational path and studied communications technology.
Lateral entry into art
In 1970 he met his wife from Sweden during Mardi Gras. A few years later, after marriage and the birth of his children, the family moved in 1987 to the house in Poing where Norbert Haberkorn has been an artist for years. He got in touch with the famous Schwabing artists 'regulars' table in the Gasthaus Atzinger, and was inspired by the Dane Asgar Jorn. This painterly free spirit, close to communism and a representative of figurative-abstract forms, impressed Haberkorn with his unconventional way of working. “I like not having to think in one direction. I myself am a career changer in art and like to take liberties. After all, this kind of personal expression should always come from within and be free.“Norbert Haberkorn wants to spend a few days on Gotland again soon.
Friedbert Wood