visual artist

Wolfgang Wagenhäuser himself writes about his visual working before an exhibition in the university in Trossingen:

"music imbued"
Characters, impressions, caricatures

In these "Pictures of an Exhibition" you will find a cross-section of almost 40 years of visual engagement with music. In my 75th semester as a university teacher, I was able to choose from over 300 pictures.

Since I had never planned to bring anything to the public, I drew on whatever came my way. Many sketches can be found on envelopes and boxes of empty parcels. However, I have to admit that the respective (unusual) material exerts a certain charm on me when forming my impressions.

The oldest works from the early 70s are rather strict - mostly made with all kinds of ink pens. Some light-footed collage works from that time are unfortunately no longer available (fabric works up to 200x150).

In the 80s I produced thematic calendars as Christmas presents. In a mainly humorous way, I dealt with the peculiarities of instruments and their performers in the different years: Clarinet, double bass, piano but also with the great theme of chamber music in the piano trio. These (mostly) pencil drawings were partly coloured by me.

Since the 90s until today, mainly sketches have been made during entrance examinations and concert situations, which aim to capture the charisma of the respective interpreters.

In the '00s I experimented more and more with wood collages, which were also sometimes "coloured" with different techniques. Preferably with scraps of wood, sometimes more sometimes less humorous representations of people with musical tasks but also with musical notation (staves, clefs, notes, performance drawings etc.) were screwed and glued onto wooden boards per se.

Since the mid-90s, I have increasingly enjoyed scanning the various works and processing them on the computer. Photos of larger woodwork also found their way into this new medium and were processed.

I hope that all those who look at these pictures can smile at one or the other...

Aixheim, den 1.2.2010                   Wolfgang Wagenhäuser

here a few cartoons- characters and later periods will follow...