The artist Alfred Hesse
Table of contents
Meeting with Alfred Hesse
Short biography (Alfred Hesse Archive)
Honors for Alfred Hesse (Alfred Hesse Archive)
50th birthday - in: Sächsisches Tageblatt, Vol. 9/1954 (B. Th.)
Obituary for Alfred Hesse - source unknown 1988 (Artur Dänhardt)
Obituary of Alfred Hesse - in: Sächsiches Neueste Nachrichten 1988 (E. Ulischberger)
90th birthday - in: Sächsische Zeitung from 18.05.1994 (Harald Schurz)
110th birthday - in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten from 13.05.2014 (Claudia Reichardt)
Symposium on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death - in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten from 24.11.2018 (Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections of TU Dresden)
120th birthday (Alfred Hesse Archive)
Reception in newspapers and magazines
Sommertag an der Elbe - in: Bildende Kunst issue 7/1949 - contribution to the exhibition "Mensch und Arbeit" in Berlin 31.05. - 30.06.1949 in the Great Hall of the Berliner Stadtkontor (near Spittelmarkt)
Aufbau Dresden - in: Bildende Kunst issue 1/1959 (Ullrich Kuhirt) - essay "The new quality of our landscape painting"
Portrait of a malleable iron foundryman (commissioned work) - in: Sächsische Zeitung of 02.03.1963 (Artur Dänhardt) - Contribution to the V. German Art Exhibition in Dresden 22.09.1962 - 06.03.1963
Mongolian encounters (travel report) - in: Bildende Kunst issue 7/1968 (Alfred Hesse)
The painter Alfred Hesse (artist portrait) - in: Sächsische Heimatblätter issue 1/1982 (Artur Dänhardt)
Time leap - Mongolia 1964 ./. 2005 - in: Time from 05.01.2012 (Antje Kakuschke)
Who created the pillars in the MAB Dresden-Klotzsche? - in: Sächsische Zeitung from 03.12.2012 (Antje Kakuschke)
Fähren-Hesse's rediscovery - in: Sächsische Zeitung from 04.11.2014 (Birgit Grimm) - Contribution to the exhibition "Alfred Hesse. Painter-Graphic Artist-Muralist" in Villa Eschebach Dresden 15.10.2014 - 09.01.2015
Views of a river - in: Sächsische Zeitung from 06.11.2014 (JBD) - Article on the exhibition "Alfred Hesse. Painter-graphic artist-muralist" in Villa Eschebach Dresden 15.10.2014 - 09.01.2015
Von schöner Malerei und Zerstörung - in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten vom 16.12.2014 (Siegfried D. Peter) - Article on the exhibition "Alfred Hesse. Painter-Graphic Artist-Muralist" in Villa Eschebach Dresden 15.10.2014 - 09.01.2015
Alfred Hesse - Portraits of workers and commissioned art for industrial companies (artist portrait) - in: Industrial Culture Issue 3/2016 (Antje Kakuschke)
Alfred Hesse's declaration of love to the Elbe ferries (artist portrait) - in: PotzBlitz 3rd issue August 2017 (Birte Urban-Eicheler)
An important and now very calm river: The Elbe (contains two Hesse pictures) - in: Industriekultur issue 3/2023 (Sven Bardua)
Advertising graphic Dresden curtain and lace manufactory - in: Industriekultur issue 2/2025 (S. B.)
Mural wanted in swimming pool - in: Archiv Badewesen issue 2/2025 (Antje Kakuschke)
Exhibitions and lectures
Alfred Hesse's works have been shown in around 235 exhibitions to date (as of 2025) and numerous lectures by Dr. Antje Kakuschke on his life and work have always found an interested audience. Here you will find a small selection:
Exhibition in the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg - in: Die Union from 25.08.1961 (Chr. U.) - "Monumental in form and color - watercolors and drawings by A. Hesse in the Lindenau-Museum"
Exhibition in the Dresden Zwinger July/August 1965 - Catalog (Artur Dänhardt)
Exhibition at the Zoological Museum Hamburg 25.05. - 28.10.2012 - Flyer
Exhibition at Dippoldiswalde Castle February - August 2014 - in: Sächsische Zeitung from 26.02.2014 (Gert Claußnitzer)
Exhibition in Villa Eschebach Dresden October 2014 - January 2015 - Catalog (Gert Claußnitzer)
Lecture "Alfred Hesse - Laubegast painter, graphic artist and muralist" - 01.07.2016 in the Volkshaus Dresden-Laubegast, flyer (Antje Kakuschke)
Lecture "Alfred Hesse - Life and Work" - 08.08.2024 in Städtische Galerie Dresden, poster (Antje Kakuschke)
Lecture "Nature as inspiration - works by Caspar David Friedrich and Alfred Hesse in comparison" - 03.11.2024 at StadtMuseum Pirna (Antje Kakuschke)
Exhibition in Villa Eschebach Dresden 16.04. - 27.06.2025 - Flyer (Thomas Klein, Dieter Hoefer) with"House in Sadisdorf" (watercolor Alfred Hesse 1929)
Exhibition in Städtische Galerie Dresden 10.05. - 28.09.2025 - in: Ansischtssache - Online-Medium der Städtischen Galerie Dresden with"Beräumung am Neumarkt" (Oil and tempera on hardboard Alfred Hesse 1949)
... and also
Mural Crane Mosaic - Engineering School for Aircraft Construction Dresden
Mural Man and Science - Dresden School of Engineering
The Elbe - a river of inspiration - Sächsische Heimat 2021 calendar, title page and text (Antje Kakuschke)
Life and artistic work of Professor Alfred Hesse - index card diploma thesis Kerstin Männich 1988
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