David Rabinowitch

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Metrical (Romanesque) Construction in 5 Masses and 2 Scales , sculpture by David Rabinowitch in Immanuel-Kant-Park Duisburg

David Rabinowitch (born March 6, 1943 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian sculptor and draftsman .

life and work

David Rabinowitch was born in Toronto, Canada in 1943. Joseph Rabinowitch's father was a lawyer, painter, non-professional cellist and actor. He introduced the son to philosophical works at an early age. David Rabinowitch read Spinoza's Ethics between 1951 and 1955, i.e. from the age of eight. At sixteen he began reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason . This philosophical interest is of central importance for his development and flows into his art. Ruthe Calverley Rabinowitch's mother was a painter, not a professional architect. She also supported the son's artistic beginnings with craftsmanship. This is documented especially for his series of "Carved Woodblock Monotypes" from 1962. The twin brother of David Rabinowitch is the sculptor Royden Rabinowitch .

David Rabinowitch studied natural sciences and English literature at the University of Western Ontario from 1963 to 1966 , while doing painting at the same time . The first solo exhibition took place in 1968. In 1972 he moved to New York and was a lecturer at Yale University from 1974 to 1975 . From 1984 to 2007 he was a professor of sculpture at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

Rabinowitch has been making works from solid rolled sheet metal since 1968 and works directly on the ground.

Fascinated by the architecture of Cologne's Romanesque churches, Rabinowitsch produced 46 draft sketches and 280 workbook drawings ( Church Drawings ) between 1973 and 1978 , which he gave to the collector Willi Kemp , who bequeathed them to the Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast as part of the donation of his extensive collection .

“In addition to the sculpture, the drawing marks a formally completely independent area in Rabinowitch's work. Like the sculptures, they claim to thematize perception. (...) He strives to deal with volume and explores the relationships between mass and measure in a variety of ways in order to fundamentally research the "construction of vision". In the process of viewing the principles of our perception should become comprehensible or recognizable. "

- Quote from the NRW museum platform

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Works in public collections

Awards (selection)

  • 1974 New York State Council Art Prize
  • 1977 Canada Council, Victor M. Lynch Award of Distinction

literature

  • Heike Endter: The artist's story as a young man , Munich, Galerie Wittenbrink 2019
  • David Rabinowitch Metric (Romanesque) constructions Exh. Cat. Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster, Munich 2000
  • David Rabinowitch tree drawings. Drawings of a Tree 1972–1979 artist book, Düsseldorf 1993
  • Situation art for Max Imdahl . Gotthard Graubner , Norbert Kricke , Maria Nordman , David Rabinowitch, Arnulf Rainer , Jan Schoonhoven , Richard Serra . Düsseldorf 1993 ISBN 3-928762-12-5
  • David Rabinowitch , exhib.cat. State Art Gallery Baden-Baden, Stuttgart 1992
  • Neiman, K. (Ed.): Tyndale Sculptures . Sculpture for Max Imdahl 1988, New York 1990
  • Bernd Fäthke, Klaus Rinke and David Rabinowitch , exhib. Cat .: 9th action in "Room 27", Museum Wiesbaden, Sept. 30th - Oct. 4th 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chinati Collection David Rabinowitch ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 10, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ without author: "Lebensdaten" in: David Rabinowitch (catalog) . Kunsthalle Tübingen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf 1987, p. 344 .
  3. ↑ Davic Carrier, Bomb 124, 2013: David Rabinowitch accessed on June 29, 2013 (English)
  4. ↑ The Brooklyn Rail: David Rabinowitch accessed on June 29, 2013 (English)
  5. ↑ Kenneth Baker: David Rabinowitch. Carved Woodblock Monotype 1962 . Peter Blum Edition New York, Annemarie Verna Edition Zurich, Richter Verlag Düsseldorf, 2003, p. 84 .
  6. ↑ Roald Nasgaard: David Rabinowitch ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia ., Accessed January 20, 2020
  7. ^ Willi Kemp (ed.): David Rabinowitsch: Church Drawings. Drawings of Romanesque Churches 1973-1978 from Wookbooks. Exhibition catalog. Düsseldorf 2015 without ISBN.
  8. ^ Museum Platform NRW: David Rabinowitch , accessed on June 29, 2013.
  9. ^ Situation Kunst: David Rabinowitch , accessed June 29, 2013.
  10. ^ [Bruno Russ], Einsame Kreise, Die Aktion Rinke / Rabinowitch, Wiesbadener Kurier, Thursday, October 2, 1975, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Rabinowitch, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-German sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto