James Rizzi

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James Rizzi 2008 in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn
Happy RIZZI House in Braunschweig
Rizzi and the New Beetle he designed , 2006
"Rizzi-Bahn" in Weinsberg
James Rizzi's handprint in the Lloyd Passage in Bremen

James Rizzi (born October 5, 1950 in New York City , † December 26, 2011 there ) was an American artist and painter . It is assigned to Pop Art .

Life

James Rizzi was born to a mother of Irish descent and an Italian father and grew up as one of three children on East 8th Street in Brooklyn, New York . Rizzi graduated from Holy Innocents Grammar School, Brooklyn, and then attended Erasmus High School, also in Brooklyn. From 1969 he studied art at the University of Florida in Gainesville . Already during his studies he dealt with the combination of painting and sculpture and finally developed the technique of 3D graphics that he frequently used . After completing his studies in 1974, he had the first opportunity to present his work to the public in New York's Brooklyn Museum .

With increasing popularity, galleries and museums began to be interested in his works, but Rizzi also found a wide field of activity in addition to painting, where he produced, among other things, records / CD covers, animation music videos and a wide variety of everyday objects, from telephone cards to Rosenthal - Porcelain, crafted. Numerous solo exhibitions and awards were the result, James Rizzi was one of the most popular contemporary artists of Pop Art during his lifetime .

Rizzi has been involved several times in cooperation with German organizations for charitable purposes. For example, in a collaboration with the “ Lions Club Krefeld Rheintor”, the proceeds from a complete limited and signed edition of the lithograph “Gone With The Wind” went to the victims of the hurricane catastrophe in New Orleans . Rizzi sponsored a school project for the Lakota Indian tribe in the US state of South Dakota for Peter Maffay's “Encounters” project for the benefit of children in need under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Rizzi died on the night of December 26, 2011 in his studio in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York .

style

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Rizzi's works often focus on his hometown New York and its residents. The pictures are mostly of an almost childlike-naive simplicity and in very bright colors and radiate happiness, urban joie de vivre and optimism , which earned him the name "Urban Primitive Artist" from the art press.

In the three-dimensional construction technique that is characteristic of him , the image elements in the foreground are cut out from a duplicate of the image, which serves as the background, and placed in a second image plane using bridges made of foam or similar materials. This causes the observer, also through the shadows that are created, a 3D effect created by the two planes.

Projects (selection)

Rizzi-Bird
Handover of stamps in the Bundeskunsthalle 2008: Frank Appel , Peer Steinbrück and James Rizzi

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: Exhibition on the occasion of the publication of the special stamp series “Greetings for every occasion”, Museum for Communication , Frankfurt am Main , in cooperation with the Galerie am Dom
  • 2008: "World's largest James Rizzi exhibition", Rheingoldhalle , Mainz
  • 2008: Exhibition James Rizzi - Printmaking , Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig
  • 2010: James Rizzi exhibition for his 60th birthday in Bremen
  • 2010: Exhibition 60 Years of James Rizzi - The world's largest free exhibition by the New York Pop Art artist in the Centro Oberhausen
  • 2011: Exhibition James Rizzi exhibition in Kevelaer in the concert and stage building Kevelaer
  • 2012: Exhibition of the James Rizzi memorial exhibition in Heimbach / Eifel in the International Art Academy Burg Hengebach
  • 2014: Exhibition James Rizzi - The New Yorker Atelier in the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz
  • 2014: Exhibition Pop Gmünd, James Rizzi and the pioneers of Pop Art in the Gmünd city ​​tower in Carinthia
  • 2017: James Rizzi - The Atelier. New York in Neumarkt in the ballrooms of the residence in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , September 1 to October 15, 2017
  • 2020: James Rizzi - A life for art in the Balingen town hall

Books (selection)

Web links

Commons : James Rizzi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Rizzi. October 5, 1950 to December 26, 2011. In: Homepage of the artist. Art 28, archived from the original on January 7, 2012 ; Retrieved December 28, 2011 : "He was in the middle of preparing for new projects when death overtook him."
  2. ^ Rizzi Railway
  3. ↑ bundesfinanzministerium.de - special stamp series "Post", subject "Greetings for every occasion" ( Memento from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ BMF press release: "Alles Gute!" - Brand greetings to stick on ( Memento from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ metronom presents the world's first Rizzi locomotive to the public
  6. ↑ Essen's Kreuzeskirche has the world's only Rizzi church window , derwesten.de, August 20, 2016, accessed on August 22, 2016
  7. ↑ James Rizzi in Frankfurt
  8. ↑ Website james-rizzi.com
  9. ^ The Hundertwasser of Manhattan - Two months before Mainz - James Rizzi's cheerful art in Frankfurt in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz
  10. ↑ A phenomenon called James Rizzi - The do-gooder from New York is preparing his world's largest exhibition in Mainz on pressetext.de
  11. ↑ Pop Art at Hengebach Castle: First James Rizzi Memorial Exhibition
  12. ↑ James Rizzi - The New Yorker Atelier ( memento of July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) online on the Internet: July 17, 2014
  13. ↑ Stadtturmgalerie Gmünd in Carinthia ( Memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ James Rizzi - The Atelier. New York in Neumarkt
  15. ↑ Detlef Hauser: A retrospective with many highlights | Culture | Exhibition in the town hall with around 1200 works by James Rizzi has opened | Tours are already fully booked . In: Schwarzwälder Bote Mediengesellschaft mbH (Ed.): Schwarzwälder Bote R 2 . No. 188 , August 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Rizzi, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and pop art painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2011
Place of death new York