Location: Germany
Born Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 1939. As a child drawings of animals and cartoons, later book illustrations, metal works, figurative paintings in surrealistic stile. 1953 to 1954 private lessons in drawing by Maximilian Klewer, retired professor of Berlin Academy of Arts.1968 to 1970 in the US,
Madison (Wis), Southwest, New England. Back in Germany, 1971 to 1974 member of the Tübingen Artist's Association. Afterwards work in Switzerland, Heidelberg, Westphalia. Lives now in Freiburg im Breisgau close to French border.
Exhibitions in Tübingen, Bielefeld, Freiburg, Basel and in Halle i. W. in the Museum for the Art of Childhood and Youth of Important Artists. Works of the last years "Metallic Art", Paintings, Collages, Drawings.
I have been doing artwork since 65 years. As a youngster I did studies on animals and their biotops, book illustrations, and cartoons (see www.hal-jos.org). In the last years I did work shown in this portfolio: METALLIC ART designates the use of metal in collages and paintings. Many of my collages are in wooden boxes. Some of my paintings are on worn boards from old furniture or construction sites.
Hal Jos 2015 Carreer&Reproduction
Collage in wooden box 40cm x 40cm x6cm
This year's collage deals with HELL. It is composed of images imagined by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch around 1500, taken from the tryptic "The Garden of Delight", its right wing with the subtitle Hell (buildings on fire) and of internet documents from Aleppo, the real Hell of the year 2016. Original 15cm x 21cm.
I have been doing artwork since 65 years. As a youngster I did studies on animals and their biotops, book illustrations, and cartoons (see www.hal-jos.org). In the last years I did work shown in this portfolio: METALLIC ART designates the use of metal in collages and paintings. Many of my collages are in wooden boxes. Some of my paintings are on worn boards from old furniture or construction sites.
“ Remember where we came from: KENYA”
Hal Jos, 2008. Kenya. METALLIC ART: brass, tin, straw mat, soil from Nairobi, chromium green acrylic paint on solid tropical wood; figure carved in wood, oiled.
47cm x 62cm. (c) Hal Jos
Hal Jos (March 2022) Putin's war against the Ukraine: A collage. Putin's motivations, his weapons, their effects, destruction and devastation.
“Africa - where we came from”
“Carreer & Reproduction”
“OUR TIMES”
“PUTIN'S WAR. PUTIN'S LIES”
