Hassan Haddad

Biography

Hassan Haddad

The painter Hassan Haddad was born in Balad, Iraq in 1962. From 1980 to 1986 he studied graphic design and painting at the Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts. In those days, the Academy was modern, structured in line with western standards, and with leanings towards Europe, France, Great Britain, and the USA.

For the last ten years, Hassan Haddad has lived and worked in Leipzig. His paintings can be described as graphic on the one hand and as photographic and inspired by film on the other. This is not only perceptible in their quasi photographic structure, but also in the fact that his paintings often seem like film sequences or filmed still lifes. Photography is so important to Hassan Haddad that he integrates his camera into his paintings at times. However, this does not mean that he sees his work as photorealistic or as based on his photographs. On the contrary, he believes that his photography should be seen as his sketchbook, his collection of material that safeguards and records certain details. Another unusual aspect is that Haddad employs various printing-technology elements in his painting technique.

In other paintings, Hassan Haddad uses characteristic western European imagery to create human lives in harmony with each other and with nature. In those paintings he encapsulates concepts such as ‘romantic’ or ‘idyllic’ - at times critically and at others ironically.

Hassan Haddad is a modern-day painter with his origins in a culture and history that contrasts with European culture and history, who lives and works in a European country. He shares his problems and connects with them, and that produces material and offers inspiration for his work.

Expositions:

2008 2nd international artexhibition
Ostrale Dresden
2008 MK21 Galerie Hamburg-Bergedorf
2008,2007,2006 Big artexhibition
Halle (Saale)
2007 Exhibition Kulturstiftung der
Sparkasse Karlsruhe
2006 2.Werkschau Spinnerei Leipzig
2006 Nord Art Carlshütte Büdelsdorf
2006 Exhibition Kulturstiftung der
Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen
2005 Grosse Sächsische Kunstausstellung
Leipzig
2005 6th KunstKreuz Berlin
2003 'Expose' Leipzig
2002,2003 Exhibition Bund Bildender
Künstler Leipzig
2002 Exhibition 'Artist between
Cultures' in Leipzig
2001 Vienna and St. Petersburg
1995 Bucarest (Rumania)
1991-1994 Bagdad (Iraq)