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16.08.2023

Documentary about Hans Ohlms

Hans Ohlms (1908 - 1988) - an exceptional artist with many faces. He was a caricaturist, commercial artist, portraitist, freelance artist, designer of religious spaces and a seeker of new forms of expression and pictorial inventions.

Throughout his life he retained the freedom to experiment and produced countless works - even to destroy some later, to start again and to reinvent himself again and again.

The urge to be creative was great throughout his life, and art was his driving force. But his instilled sense of duty stood in the way of his desire to devote himself completely to art. All the more remarkable, however, is the high quality and remarkable scope of his oeuvre.

The tension between necessity and freedom thus seemed to be much less of an obstacle than an existential source of his art. For Hans Ohlms, artistic creation was a permanent process of discovery and development.
And so, just like Picasso, he did not seek, but found.

The short documentary "Hans Ohlms - The Path of Fantasy" traces the life of the man Hans Ohlms and illuminates the numerous facets of his artistic work.

The documentary can be viewed on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlOBxnMUbQ

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