Per Kirkeby

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Brick sculpture by Per Kirkeby in front of the Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt am Main (1999)

Per Kirkeby (born September 1, 1938 in Copenhagen ; † May 9, 2018 there ) was a Danish painter , sculptor , architect and poet .

life and work

6-arched sculpture at Lohtor, Recklinghausen (2017)

Per Kirkeby studied geology at the University of Copenhagen from 1957 to 1964 and completed his studies with a doctorate. In 1958 he went on an expedition to Greenland . In 1962 he joined the avant-garde artist group Den Eksperimenterende Kunstskole, newly founded by Poul Gernes and the art historian Troels Andersen . There he dealt with graphic work, but also with 8 mm films and installations. In 1965 he received a three-year scholarship from the State Art Foundation. In 1971 a trip to the Maya cultures took him to Central America .

While the trained natural scientist's primary theme was nature and he was primarily a painter, he took part in the happenings of the 1960s and worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys , Henning Christiansen , Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman . Under the influence of Andy Warhol's film theory, he made his first short film in 1968 , which was followed by twenty-three other films by 1989.

Rotterdam (2007)

At the beginning of the 1970s Kirkeby turned from Pop Art to informal painting of the 1950s, which he had previously sharply criticized and rejected. In 1973 Huset (Das Haus) was created, his first brick sculpture outdoors. The following year, the first was followed by oil paintings , since the early 1980s, he turned bronze - sculptures ago. In the 80s, monumental, monolithic brick sculptures were created alongside large-format oil paintings . In 1982 he took part in the exhibition zeitgeist , in 1984 in the exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf and in 1982 he played at documenta 7 in Kassel . Since 1995, Kirkeby has also increasingly occupied himself with architecture and designed several buildings for the Insel Hombroich Foundation .

Brick Sculpture , Sculpture.Projects Münster , 1987

In 1978 Kirkeby was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 1979, six of his students founded the artist group " Kriegfried ". In 1989 he went to the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main as a professor , where he taught until 2000. In addition to numerous exhibitions in the great museums of the world, he took part in the Venice Biennale several times and exhibited at documenta 7 and IX .

Kirkeby lived in Copenhagen, on Læsø , in Frankfurt am Main and Arnasco (Italy). At the beginning of 2015 he had an accident in a fall from a staircase in his house in Hellerup ; since then he has not been able to paint. Per Kirkeby died on May 9, 2018 in Copenhagen.

Awards and honors

Public collections

Exhibitions

Publications

literature

  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (ed.): Insights. The 20th century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0853-7 .
  • Olle Granath: Per Kirkeby - create a space . Edition Bløndal, Hellerup 1990, ISBN 87-88978-07-9 .
  • Walter Smerling (Ed.): Per Kirkeby. Painter, researcher, sculptor, poet . Wienand, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-101-2 .
  • Per Kirkeby - The known unknown. In: Markus Stegmann: Architectural Sculpture in the 20th Century. Historical aspects and work structures. Tübingen 1995, pp. 143-150.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (Ed.): Insights. The 20th century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, p. 510 .
  2. ↑ Per Kirkeby can no longer paint after an accident ( memento from August 10, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Der Nordschleswiger , January 31, 2015.
  3. ^ Entry on Kirkeby, Per at the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  4. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 246 .
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on May 6, 2016.
  6. ↑ #Werkschau: Per Kirkeby in Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum. In: glucke-magazin.de , February 19, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ Per Kirkeby. Construction and picture . Three chapels, Kirkeby-Feld, Insel Hombroich Foundation, 7 April to 6 October 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirkeby, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish painter, sculptor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2018
Place of death Copenhagen