Henning Christiansen

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Henning Christiansen (born May 28, 1932 in Copenhagen ; † December 10, 2008 ) was a Danish composer ; he is considered one of the first Fluxus composers . Christiansen rarely orchestrated his works in the usual way. His music is considered to be experimental music, which partly reaches into the atonal .

Life

From 1950 to 1955 Christiansen studied composition, clarinet and piano at the “Royal Danish Music Conservatory” in Copenhagen. After completing his studies, he worked as a clarinetist and composer from 1955 to 1960. In 1961 he made friends with the members of the "Eks-Skole" in Copenhagen, which was founded by Paul Genres and Troels Andersen in October of the same year as an unconventional alternative to the traditional Copenhagen art academy . This was followed from 1962 onwards, both in Eks-Skol actions, which were oriented towards American happenings, and in Fluxus festivals such as B. in the Nikolajkirche Copenhagen and in the Technical University Aachen.

In 1964 Christiansen took part in the Fluxus event Actions, Agit-Pop, De-Collange in Aachen. In collaboration with Joseph Beuys , Henning Christiansen frequently contributed the music to various Fluxus events in the mid-1960s, including the Manresa actions , which took place in the Schmela Gallery in 1966 , and Joseph Beuys's Eurasienstab . In 1985 Christiansen received a professorship in multimedia at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , and two years later he was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program . Christiansen lived on the island of Møn .

Works (selection)

  • fluxorum organum Opus 39 (1967)
  • 82 min fluxorum organum (1968)
  • Cross Music (1989)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984: I'm alone with my phone ; Eks-Skolens Verlag Copenhagen
  • 1984/1985: Phentesilea - score - pictures ; Daad Gallery Berlin
  • 1985: Ohrsalon I ; Galerie Riis & Givskov, Horsens, Denmark
  • 1985: Ohrsalon II The Yellow Castle ; Gallery Skt. Agnes Roskilde, Denmark
  • 1985: Freedom is around the corner ; Score exhibition, Galerie Yellow Music Berlin

Performances (selection)

  • February 26, 1993: At the opening of the Joseph Beuys exhibition . Main stream and fat space. An action in Darmstadt, 1967 ; Hessian State Museum Darmstadt

literature

  • Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Ed.): 1945 1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , Berlin 1985 (Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung); ISBN 3-87584-158-1 .
  • Do you want total life? Fluxus and agit-pop of the 60s in Aachen . Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 1995, ISBN 3-929261-24-3 .
  • Never again trouble-free! Aachen Avantgarde since 1964 , Kerber Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-602-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ifa - German Art Abroad; Biography: Henning Christiansen (Status: August 29, 2005) Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
  2. ↑ Chronicle 1993. Information from the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt 1, 1994, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Christiansen, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2008