Cyrus Overbeck

Cyrus Overbeck (born June 1, 1970 in Duisburg ) is a German visual artist .

Life

The “Alte Brotfabrik” set up by the brothers Arnold and Wilhelm Overbeck at Arnold-Overbeck-Strasse 58 in Duisburg , where Cyrus Overbeck moved into his first studio

Cyrus Overbeck spent his childhood as the son of a Persian father and his German mother in Tehran until 1979 .

In 1986 he started his first studio in his grandfather's disused bread factory at Arnold-Overbeck-Straße 58 in Duisburg, which is now a listed building. In 1988 he bought his first own etching press . In 1989 he obtained his Abitur in Duisburg. From 1990 he worked at Haus Esselt in the Pankok Museum ( Hünxe - Drevenack , Niederrhein). From 1990 to 1995 he completed a teaching degree at secondary level I and II. Since 1995 Cyrus Overbeck has been working freelance in his studio in the disused rooms of the Alte Brotfabrik, Duisburg- Beeck . Until 1997 he specialized in large format etchings and woodcuts .

From 1997 to 1999 he had a teaching position for printmaking at the University of Duisburg . This was followed by stays in Carlsbad (California) until 2001 .

The listed "Becker House" in Esens

In 2000, Cyrus Overbeck opened studios in Neulouisendorf at Kalkar and in Dornum (Northwest Germany), in which a plurality of large-format landscape etchings and woodcuts created. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as a teacher for the subjects German, Protestant theology , art and history at the Lower Saxony boarding high school , the secondary and secondary school in Westerholt , and the Carl-gridmann-Realschule in Esens.

In 2007 a stay in New York , "City and Ornaments", followed, during which small-format oil paintings and watercolors were created. Since 2010, Cyrus Overbeck has been cooperating with the research focus on media convergence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Prof. Christian-Friedrich Vahl ). In 2011 he opened his open studio in Mainz Neustadt (Adam-Karrillon-Straße 4). This was followed by an academic examination of the subject of artists and the cultural industry. This resulted in multiple media presence in radio, television and print media. In 2013 the atelier in Düsseldorf -Flingern (Hermannstrasse 38) was opened. In 2013 the construction of the new etching press started, on which formats up to 240 cm in length can be printed. In 2018 Overbeck was appointed to the jury of the Gutenberg Museum Mainz.

In 2018 the artist initiated a historical and artistic confrontation with the lawyer and politician Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen in Neuharlingersiel. Overbeck demonstrated a völkisch and National Socialist sentiment, which Heiko Suhr confirmed in 2020 in a study commissioned by the community. The collaboration between Neuharlingersiel and Overbeck was unilaterally terminated by the community.

In May 2019, the artist was attacked in a restaurant in Esens for anti-Semitic motives. Overbeck fled to his hometown Duisburg, where he has been living since then.

Since 2018 the artist has been grappling with the virulence of nationalism, anti-Semitism and neo-fascism in the graphics from his cycle “Album of Memory”.

Works

• 1990 first bronzes on Gottfried Benn, husband and wife go through the crab barracks , Guss Schmäcke, Düsseldorf
• 1999 Nativity scene (three wooden sculptures) for the Lichtenplatz Chapel in Wuppertal
• 2000 Print of the woodcut cycle Fluss der Asche by Konrad Stüven (printer by Joseph Beuys , Goch)
• 2000 Eine Passion , large-format litho cycle
• 2000 Creation of the lithographic cycle Saxa Loquuntur ; Printing in the workshop of Jürgen Zeidler and Angela Schröder in Bergsdorf
• 2002 Naked Women and Dogs , bronzes; Guss Schmäcke, Düsseldorf
• 2002 Do you want total war again? , Exhibition Galerie Siegfried Blau, Palma
• 2010: House without a guardian , oil and acrylic on canvas
• 2012: Implementation of the guardian theme in the Women, Dogs and Ornaments cycle ; Creation of pencil drawings, scraped aquatint etchings, woodcuts, watercolors, oil paintings and bronzes in the Duisburg and North German studio
• 2012: Transformation of Hodler's landscape , dealing with the color and shape of the landscape (oil paintings and etchings)
• 2013: Continuation of the Hodler reception, further exploration of the ornament in art, artistic implementation in etching, lithography, woodcut, bronze and oil. Integrated into the media convergence research focus of the University of Mainz (C.-F. Vahl)
• 2013: Bronzes on the subject of the archetypal reception of feelings in space (Guß Schmäcke and Ara Guß), as well as artistic exploration: the human being in the ornamental space, dialogue of the environmental environment in relation to the transformation of the individual in a culturally divergent society, the merging ornament as Expressing assimilation, integration and irritation
• 2013: large format etching
• 2013: Implementation of the ornament in the lithography, Bergsdorf (Saalpresse, Angela Schröder, Jürgen Zeidler)
• The hermaphrodite (large-format bronze), integration, rejection and acceptance, in the artistic examination of sexual deviation from the norm, as a representative of cultural divergence
• 2017: The flap of a butterfly's wings. New bronzes and woodcuts. Broadcast on SWR on January 21, 2018
• ongoing project since 2018: "Album of Remembrance", dealing with integration, irritation and assimilation through portraits of Germans with and without a migration background through the combination with Arabic script.
• 2019: Graphic installation "The war" in the Alte Brotfabrik Beeck in Duisburg. Transformation of the idea of ​​liberation with the end of the Second World War in the visual arts.

Working in museums and collections

Participant in the Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2001 in the Museum Kunstpalast .

Group exhibition of the Lehmbruck Museum 1997. 75 years of the Duisburger Künstlerbund . Foreword to the exhibition catalog by Alfred M. Fischer, director of the graphic collection Museum Ludwig Cologne. Fischer names Overbeck as a direct successor to Joseph Beuys .

• Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr / Alte Post
• B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum , Washington DC (USA)
• Art collection of the city of Cologne
• Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• Donation house in Reutlingen
• Kunsthalle Emden / Foundation Henri and Eske Nannen
• City Museum Düsseldorf
• State Collection of Graphics , Munich
• Private collection Doris König
• Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf
• Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
• Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Mainz

Book publications (selection)

• With Oliver Müller: Otto Pankok. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. A biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-1045-0 .
• Freedom? Equality? Fraternity? Exhibition catalog with an introduction by Karl Düsseldorff, Poetenpresse 1997.
• River of ashes. Wood cuts, Goch 2000.
• Saxa Loquuntur. Prints in Stein, Goch 2000.
• With Christian Vahl: Jesus in Esens. 15 minutes for an ornament. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-89978-204-2 .
• New work. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-89978-202-8 .
• New woodcuts. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-89978-226-4
• Palpitations. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-89978-251-6 .
• Narrative realism. Grupello Verlag , Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-89978-270-7 .
• Right to the future. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-89978-269-1 .
• Between death and life. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-89978-261-5 .
• Walking through the 20th Century. Christian Vahl - Introduction. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-294-3 .
• Portraits. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-310-0 .
• Sweetys. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-293-6 .
• New sculptures. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-297-4 .
• Moon Cats - New Woodcuts. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-89978-298-1 .
• The 1990s - etchings on Haus Esselt and in Otto Pankok's garden. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-313-1 .
• The flap of a butterfly's wings. January - March 2018 Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-308-7 .
• Breaking out - in the beginning there was me. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-299-8 .

Awards

In 2014 he was elected a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts based in Salzburg in Class III "Arts".

literature

• Jochen Streiter: The crib of the Lichtenplatz chapel. Four sermons , Wuppertal 2003
• Overbeck, Cyrus. In: Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Volume 2 ML, Saur Verlag, Munich 2007.
• Birgit Lehr: I have the “madness” inside me. Cyrus Overbeck: an artist between New York, Duisburg, Esens and now Mainz. In: Mainz - quarterly magazine for culture, politics, economy, history. 31 (2011), 1, pp. 96-101.

Web links

• Literature by and about Cyrus Overbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Overbeck
• rp-online.de
• Cyrus Overbeck from Grupello Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Artist between the worlds
2. ↑ Martin Kleinwächter: Bread for the masses came from Duisburg-Beeck. DerWeste , August 15, 2012.
3. ↑ Anzeiger für Harlinger Land, April 4, 2018, p. 5.
4. ↑ Klaus Handel: He was a pioneer of National Socialism . In: Anzeiger für das Harlinger Land from January 28, 2020, p. 5
5. ↑ Hubert Gude: Anti-Semitic hate attack against artists in East Friesland "I'm scared." In: Der Spiegel. August 16, 2020, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Joanna Bercal, Katarzyna Domagała-Pereira: Historia Najnowsza Zginęli, bo ratowali Żydów. Brutalne morderstwo Ulmów. In: Deutsche Welle. December 13, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2020 (pol). 
7. ↑ Peter Klucken: Artist takes flight after hostility . In: Rheinische Post edition Duisburg . July 16, 2020, p. C3 .
8. ^ Artist Overbeck attacked: Duisburg artist Cyrus Overbeck attacked anti-Semitically. In: Rheinische Post online. August 16, 2019, accessed January 28, 2020 . 
9. ^ After attacks: artist fled to Duisburg. In: WDR news. WDR, August 21, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Dorothea Breit: Cyrus Overbeck - Art of Memory. In: WDR 3 radio. April 5, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 . 
11. ^ Ingo Plaschke: Cyrus Overbeck - The artist as a militant democrat. In: Westfälische Rundschau online. October 2, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 . 
12. ^ Siegfried Blau: Exhibition Düsseldorf & Palma. In: https://gallery-blau.com/ . Retrieved April 29, 2020 . 
13. ↑ The flapping of a butterfly , swr.de, accessed on February 4, 2018
14. ↑ Marianne Hoffmann: "Spatial Concept Graphics": Cyrus Overbeck exhibits in Mainz. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. November 2, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 . 
15. ^ Anne Horstmeister: Duisburg artist Cyrus Overbeck wants to stop time. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. April 5, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Olaf Reifegerste: Open studio with many guest artists. In: rp-online. Rheinische Post, October 7, 2019 accessed May 14, 2020 . 
17. ↑ exhibition catalog Great Art Exhibition NRW Dusseldorf 2001
18. ^ Exhibition catalog Lehmbruck-Museum 75 years of Duisburger Künstlerbund
19. ↑ Michael Jacobs: Cyrus Overbeck donates Cathedral Museum Christ woodcut. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. November 19, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 . 
20. ↑ collections.ushmm.org
21. ^ "Among Nobel Prize winners and scholars. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts recently elected the visual artist Cyrus Overbeck as a full member of its committee. He has his studio in the Alte Brotfabrik in Duisburg" Rheinische Post. May 9, 2014.
22. ↑ Special award for Cyrus Overbeck. Gazette for Harlingerland , dated April 1, 2014.
23. ↑ Lehr, Birgit: Overbeck, Cyrus / 1970-. Bibliography in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography .