An Interview With Jürgen Höritzsch |
| Here at "Hand Pulled Prints" we want the potential clients,
as well as any one interested, to get to know the artists' featured
here. These prints are created by hard working folks and we try to
provide a little background on the printmakers and why they do what
they do. |
Photo curtesy of Heinz Hammer (www.hammer-fotografie.de) |
| 1. Where are you from?
JH: I live and work in Chemnitz in Saxony. It is in the East part
of Germany, formerly the area of GDR and the name of Chemnitz was
"Karl-Marx-Stadt". Chemnitz is situated between Dresden
and Leipzig. Both cities are well-known in USA too, I think.
2. When did you start printmaking?
JH: My first prints are from 1986. At the time I prefered the silkscreen
technique. Later I changed to etching and woodcuts.
3. Where did you learn how to make prints?
JH: For the most part I am self taught, though I believe it has
helped that I have visited a professional printer. He told me a
lot of things about printmaking techniques.
4. What is you favorite style of printmaking?
JH: It is a combined technique of etching and aquatint.
5. Can you describe this printmaking technique?
JH: I work on the printing plate in different ways (Reservage, Craquele)
and after, I etch the plate, again and again. Sometimes it needs
five or six etching processes, before the plate is ready for print.
6. Do you currently have your own printmaking "area", such
as a studio or class room?
JH: I do the entire work in my studio.
7. Who would you say is your favorite printmaker? Both living or dead?
JH: It is Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers (1590 - 1638, Netherlands).
8. How do you find your subject matter in your work?
JH: In the most cases I can find it in old books, in TV or the Internet.
Sometimes I am use additional quotations from art history.
9. Is there something in printmaking, whether it be a style or process,
that you do not like?
JH: No.
10. Are you a neat and orderly person or messy and like to "spread
out"?
JH: I am afraid to be the second type.
11. Was there any one person or artist that was the reason you started
printmaking?
JH: No, I can not remember me.
12. What would you say is your favorite print that you have ever made?
And do you have a picture of it?
JH: It changes from time to time. But I hope the best one I will
make is in the future.
13. How would you describe yourself as a printmaker?
JH: I like any kind of experimentation. It is a thrill for me to
see the first print of a plate after I have worked in a (for me)
new way. But I can also be patient and wait for an idea. Without
this idea, I may never start a work.
14. How often do you make prints?
JH: Sometimes, every week.
15. Do you think that your printmaking will change much in the next
five years? Why or why not?
JH: I think not. I hope to have my "own styles" and maintain
them.
16. Do you teach at all?
JH: No.
17. Are you active in any printmaking organizations or artist groups?
JH: Actually I am not.
18. What advice would you give to those people just starting to get
into printmaking?
JH: Sorry, I have no idea.
19. Is there something that you find fulfilling when you have finished
a print? What is it? or Can you describe this feeling?
JH: For me it is like the first step into an undiscovered area.
It is new every time and nobody is able to fully imagine a print
before the plate is pulled.
20. Would you say you have been successful in printmaking? Why or
why not?
JH: I think so, because my work makes me satisfied.
21. What other forms of artwork besides printmaking do you enjoy?
JH: Painting.
22. Who are your "heroes"? (they do not have to be printmakers)
JH: I don't believe in "heroes".
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