1942 born in Augsburg

1960 - 65 studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in München with E. Geitlinger

sincet 1960 exhibitions in international museums and galleries

1971 opens 7. Produzentengalerie Berlin

1972 editor of the arts journal 7. Produzentengalerie

1976 editor of VOLKSFOTO Zeitung für Fotografie (mit A. Seltzer)

1977 - 80 films for German television

1986 - 96 works for the theater (Bühne, Kostüm, Regie)

since 1990 professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin

lives and works in Berlin

Hacker's first paintings were born out of the idea that painting should cause anti-painting. When in 1981 his paintings are shown at the Royal Academy in London in the internationally acclaimed exhibition » A New Image in Painting«, he rightly considers himself to be the youngest artist, as only in the early 80ies Dieter Hacker moves from painting as a reflection about the problems of actual art to the painterly tradition. With this decision for him the principle of innovation comes finally to an end. This change is caused by , undesirable developments within the society and lead to new definitions of values. After a phase of revolutionary ideas there is by than the understanding that art is not so much about innovation.

Since than Hacker paints » awfully beautiful paintings«. As he likes to reflect upon what he is doing, he finds out that the principle of innovation was the motor of avant guarde art of the beginning of the 20th century, that in the meantime the limitations of innovation are obvious, which means that instead of invention there should be a contest of painterly traditions. Hacker is able to paint awfully beuatiful paintings, because he has thought about forms that represent his own time, not as a specialist, but as an ARTIST, »who visualizes the world, who by creating paintings becomes part of the world. Only after a long process I became aware, that art history offers a medium, that is limited in its representative possibilities ( as any other medium), however it offers creative means today and in an industrialized society. That medium is PAINTING.«

Exhibitions (selection)

1963 Nove Tentencije, Galerie Grada Zagreba, Zagreb

1964 Neue Tendenzen, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen

1965 EFFEKT, Deutsches Institut für Film und Fernsehen, München

1967 Modern Art Agency, Lucio Amelio, Neapel

1968 Galerie Schütze, Bad Godesberg

1969 Galerie van de Loo-Forum , München

1971 Experimenta, Kunstverein Frankfurt

1973 Kunst im politischen Kampf, Kunstverein Hannover

1974 Art into Society, Society into Art, ICA London

1978 Galerie Rene Block, Berlin, Eleven Artists working in Berlin, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1979 Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart , Eremit?Forscher?Sozialarbeiter? Kunstverein Hamburg

1980 Museum Bochum

1981 DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy, London , Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1982 Zeitgeist, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

1984 Marlborough Gallery, New York, Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Ursprung und Vision-Neue deutsche Malerei, Barcelona, Madrid, Die wiedergefundene Metropole-Neue Malerei in Berlin, Palais des Beaux- Arts, Brüssel

1985 Kunstverein Hamburg, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Marlborough Fine Art, London

1986 The Foundation Veranneman invites Marlborough, Foudation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgien

1987 Galerie Thomas, München, Momentaufnahme, Staatliche Kusnthalle, Berlin, BERLINART, The Museum of Modern Art, New York und San Francisco, Ich und die Stadt, Berlinische Galerie

1990 Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Ambiente Berlin, Biennale Venedig,

1991 Interferenzen, Riga, St.Petersburg

1995 Richard-Haizmann-Museum, Niebüll, Kunstverein Hamburg

2003 Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Raab Galerie Berlin

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