RUDKØBING, LANGELAND

Hans Kjær er født I 1943 i Osted ved Lejre og flyttede midt i 70’erne til Langeland. Han er autodidakt.

Hans Kjærs arbejdsområder er maleri, skulptur, blandform og udsmykningsopgaver. Han startede med at tegne og male naturalistisk, men blev i 1970’erne interesseret i dadaismen og begyndte at lave collager og assemblager.

Fund fra strandture på Langeland gav han helt nyt liv ved at sætte dem ind i  andre sammenhænge, og alt kan finde sin anvendelse i helt nye former og figurer eller som del af et værk.

Hans Kjær udfører ofte udsmykningsprojekter sammen med børn, og hans arbejdsmetode går vældig godt i spænd med børnene uhøjtidelige adgang til kunst. Han har lavet udsmykninger på flere skoler, bl.a. på Langeland, og han arbejder sammen med børn i Ghana.

De senere år har Hans Kjær taget udgangspunkt i det religiøse og lavet bl.a. vejaltre og skytsengle.

Hans Kjær was born in 1943 in Osted near Lejre and moved to Langeland in the mid-70s. He is self-taught.

Hans Kjær’s areas of work are painting, sculpture, mixed media and decorative projects. He started out drawing and painting naturalistically, but in the 1970s he became interested in Dadaism and started making collages and assemblages.

He gave new life to finds from beach trips on Langeland by placing them in different contexts, and everything can be used in completely new forms and figures or as part of a work.

Hans Kjær often carries out decoration projects with children, and his working method goes very well with their unpretentious approach to art. He has decorated several schools, including Langeland, and he works with children in Ghana.

In recent years, Hans Kjær has taken religious themes as his starting point and has created roadside altars and guardian angels, among other things.