Hermann Falke knew very well how to reach the creative optimum using only a few tricks. The materials and techniques he used are very diverse; be it paper, cardboard, metal, zinc, aluminum, wood, ply-wood, stone, be it solding, etching, gluing, painting, spilling, spraying, sculpting, carving or doing pottery.
1988, „IMAGO – Artistic Carpet III“ based on the design of Hermann Falke,
2600 x 1980 cm, signed and dated, bottom right, pure wool, hand-made, loop pile fabric.
Execution: Mr Tigges
Commissioner: Falke Yarn Business Schmallenberg
Exhibited: 1994 Gallery of Falke Enterprise for Industrial Design and Applied Arts, Lippstadt, Hermann Falke „Death has become my Sleep – Painting and Water-Colors“, May 2 – May 27, 1994, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
„Rediscovery of Movement“is the title of the water-color which was chosen as a model for the carpet
1986, „IMAGO – Artistic Carpet II” based on the design of Hermann Falke,
1500 x 3000 cm, signed and dated, bottom right, pure wool, hand-made, loop pile fabric
Execution: Mr Tigges
Commissioner: Falke Yarn Business Schmallenberg
Exhibited: Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Hermann Falke writes the following explanatory notes for the folder about the carpet of the Falke Enterprise:
„The insight and the experience that the „Air of Life” that surrounds everything human and natural is threatened under the circumstances of modern existence in an unprecedented way, forced me to a conscious stepping back to the origins of Western history and culture very early on. Long forgotten stories and figures have crossed my path on my expedition into the unknown. They seem to promise me to rediscover “civilized-away” possibilities of humanity.”
1986, „IMAGO - Künstlerteppich I“ based on the design of Hermann Falke, pure wool, hand-made, loop pile fabric.
Execution: Mr Tigges
Commissioner: Falke Yarn Business Schmallenberg
Exhibited: 1994 Gallery of Falke Enterprise for Industrial Design and Applied Arts, Lippstadt, Hermann Falke „Death has become my Sleep - Painting and Water-Colors“, May 2 - May 27, 1994, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
In March 1986 Hermann Falke writes the following explanatory notes for the folder about the carpet of the Falke Enterprise:
“Our way of thinking and looking at things today is entirely characterized by the term movement. The urge to investigate movement, which means the ever-changing, in all its forms, has fundamentally determined our thinking and our way of expressing our feelings. It is not the one-dimensional, purpose-oriented movement that is being shown in my carpet design, but the unnecessary. And is not, faced with the difficulties we are having with movement, body and soul, the memory of the, in a very strict sense, un-necessary, unpredictable and unquantifiable movement what the human needs the most?”
1986 - 1988 „IMAGO – Artistic Carpets”, at the Falke Yarn business in Schmallenberg, 3 hand-made IMAGO artistic carpets are being manufactured based on the design of Hermann Falke.
1983, “Tree of Life”, Clay, 155 x 108 cm, each tile 23 cm x 26,5 cm, Tiled Stove, Location: Falke-House Loibach
Photos: Tomo Jeseničnik
1983, “The Schmallenberger Sauerland and its mountains during the Four Seasons”, Wvz.-Nr. 2071-2074, oil on aluminum, four aluminum plates, each of them 140 cm x 140 cm, total size: 140 cm x 560 cm, Commissioner: Town savings bank of Schmallenberg, Dir. Heinz Dieter Neumann.
Originally the four-part piece was put up in the customer’s hall of the savings bank in Schmallenberg, today’s location: South-Westphalian Gallery of the Museum of Shale Mining and Local History of Schmallenberg-Holthausen
1983, portrait “Franz-Otto Falke”, Wvz.-Nr. 2075, oil on aluminum, 123 cm x 120 cm, Commissioner: Wolfgang Müller and the employees of the Falke Enterprise on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Franz-Otto Falke, Schmallenberg
Portrait “Helmut Gonsenhäuser”, Wvz.-Nr. 1078, Commissioner: Josef Feldhaus, Schmallenberg
1982, planning and construction of the house in Loibach
1982, portrait “Sebastian Kemper“, Wvz.-Nr. 4126, water-color and pencil,
65 cm x 50 cm, Commissioner: Thomas Kemper, Schmallenberg
1980, “Cycle Shepherd’s Passion”, artistic design of the Ruckert cembalo, location: Falke-House, Loibach
1980, portrait “Sophie Falke”, Wvz.-Nr. 1067, oil on ply-wood, 98 cm x 73 cm, Commissioner: Gisela and Paul Falke, Schmallenberg
1979, portrait “Paul Falke”, Wvz.-Nr. 2037 , oil on aluminum, 100 cm x 100 cm, Commissioner: Wolfgang Müller and the employees of the Falke Enterprise on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Paul Falke, Schmallenberg
1977, “Ten Motives from Oberkirchen”, Cat. No. 0165 – 0174, five oak wood plates, painted on both sides, oil on wood, 67cm x 100cm. In 1994 the oak wood plates were split in the middle and have since then been put up in the halls of the rural inn “Schütte” in Oberkirchen/Schmallenberg, Commissioner: Anton and Gertraud Schütte
1975 - 1979 Pencil Drawings, motives from the Sauerland
1974 - 1976 Planning, renovation, interior finish and design of the “Old Mill” in Schmallenberg
1968, Tombstone, Karl-Theo Kevecordes, dolomite from Anröcht, location: old cemetery Schmallenberg
1967, Tombstone, Josefine Louise Falke, 1972 Paul Friedrich Falke, dolomite from Anröcht, location: old cemetery Schmallenberg, since 2001 cemetery of the village of Loibach
Tombstone, Didam couple, location: cemetery Grafschaft
Acquisitions
2016, Kärntner Sparkasse, Wvz.-Nr. 4080
1996, Town Community Bleiburg, Landscape Temple, 1983, Water-color on tub, 50 x 65,5cm, as well as five embossings and three etchings, location: Town Community Bleiburg
1988, Town of Schmallenberg, “Albrecht Wallenstein”, Trilogy, Wvz.-Nr. 2060-2062, oil on aluminum, each plate 121cm x 121cm, location: Townhall Schmallenberg
Works are owned by:
Town of Schmallenberg
Town Community Bleiburg
Galerija likovnih umetnosti Slovenj Gradec
South-Westphalian Gallery of the Museum of Shale Mining and Local History of Schmallenberg-Holthausen
Abbey Königsmünster Meschede
Falke Yarn Business Schmallenberg
Numerous works by Hermann Falke are part of private collections.