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Adolf Buchleiter, 1999

Adolf Buchleiter (born December 11, 1929 in Heidelberg , † March 3, 2000 in Kassel ) was a German artist, draftsman, painter, sculptor and jazz musician. From 1971 to 1992 he was a professor at the University of Kassel , department of art, and taught Gestalt theory. He became known for his monumental drawings for Dante Alighieri's " Divine Comedy ".

Life

childhood and education

Adolf and his twin brother Wolfgang were musical and attended the Conservatory of Music in Heidelberg at an early age . From 1940 to 1945 they were students at the secondary school in Heidelberg. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , they were recruited into the Volkssturm with other 15- and 16-year-old boys . A. Buchleiter saw many terrible things during these weeks. These traumatic impressions later flowed into his oeuvre . He did not resume classes at the grammar school after the end of the war. From 1946 to 1951 he trained as a goldsmith and silversmith in Heidelberg. At the same time, both twin brothers played from 1947 to 1951 as jazz musicians in various Heidelberg bands and in American clubs.

Studies and teaching

Buchleiter moved to Pforzheim , where he studied from 1951 to 1955 at the Pforzheim Art and Crafts School. After completing his studies, he took up an assistant position at Carl Heinz Wienert (1923–1963) and from 1958 to 1961 was a lecturer in drawing and painting. In 1961 bookkeeper became a lecturer in Gestalt theory at the Staatl. Werkkunstschule Kassel, later at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Kassel .

In 1971 he was appointed full professor at the University of Kassel , department of art. In 1992, Adolf Buchleiter officially retired after teaching for 37 years.

Artistic creation

In the mid-1990s he read Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", which literally sparked an initial spark for him . The work had fascinated him so much that he devoted himself to it intensively until his death and created over 100 works on the epic himself .

For his last major exhibition “Between divine and human comedy” at the turn of the millennium 1999/2000 in the Kasseler Kunstverein and then in the Reuchlinhaus in Pforzheim, Buchleiter showed large parts of his magnum opus for the first time .

Private

He married Hannelore Miosga in Kassel in 1963 and had three children. The separation occurred in the early 1970s. For the last 18 years of his life he lived in seclusion in Kassel and Kaufungen with Renate Rothkegel, who is still in charge of his oeuvre today. After the end of his Millennium Exhibition, Buchleiter died on March 3, 2000 at the age of 70 as a result of an accident in Kassel.

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design

In the 1950s and 1960s, artists were sought-after designers for commissioned work in architecture and industry. Buchleiter's most important commissioned work is the 1960 designed facade with metal reliefs at the Reuchlinhaus / jewelry museum in Pforzheim. "The architectural jewelry, which was perceived as provocative at the time , caused quite a stir as a harbinger of pop culture ."

Move to Kassel

With the move to Kassel in 1961, he began a new artistic phase, a search for his own style , his own formal language , free of role models. No painting on the easel , instead a lot of works on / with paper, a lot of experimentation with various mixed techniques and materials. His teaching - comprehensive as it was - was reflected in his own artistic practice.

Homo ludens

Buchleiter lived as a “ homo ludens ” of aesthetics . Pedro Warnke , a friend of the bookkeeper, remembers in a conversation with him that “the playing field of art is like that of a soccer field ... Just as the sports field is clearly delimited and divided into play areas, where the rules of the game then enable the game to develop, it must always be recognizable in which room or on which surface an artistic game is being played. Only in this sense can you develop and determine the rules of the game yourself and then move freely in the game. The simplest rules in life are also the basis for artistic aesthetics. Their genesis must have a logic recognizable in the form . And the simpler the form, the greater the creative surprise, the creative fascination ”.

Magnum opus

In the 1980s and 1990s Buchleiter created his magnum opus : On the one hand, his kinetic objects (see illustration at footnotes 3 and 4) made of beechwood rods : The pendulum work - the silent machines, 1976–1995

The carousel of the roundabouts 1978–1999 and the bird machine 1999 as well as its monumental drawings.

In 1992, after finishing teaching, Buchleiter concentrated his work on extremely time-consuming large formats. He dealt philosophically and creatively with the phenomenon of time ( lack of time ) and repetition. He made drawings five square meters in size, on which he worked obsessively for 6–8 months .

“Exactly 700 years after Anno Santo 1300, the key year for Dante's Divine Comedy , at the turn of the millennium in Kassel we see the congenial images for this mighty epic . In gigantic formats that leave the usual dimensions of drawings far behind, Buchleiter populates the funnel-shaped hell with its bestiary and the many hundreds of sinners . In stark contrast to the meter measurements is the small-scale technology with which Buchleiter covers the area. It takes more than hours, days, weeks to fill the sheets with these small and small lines and scribbles. Months, even years, have been hot. Buchleiter's art has a lot of staying power, an epic one ”.

Exhibitions: (selection)

  • 1959, 1961, 1962 "Gruppe 59", Kunstverein Pforzheim.
  • 1960 German Art Prize for Young People, Kunsthalle Mannheim and 1963 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Städt. Bochum Gallery.
  • 1964 The Art of Writing, Staatl. Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
  • 1966 7 Jovenes Alemanes, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas .
  • 1967 Artistas Alemanes, Centro de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires .
  • 1974 project with students "Dragons and other aircraft", Initiative-GG eV, Groß-Gerau , then in 1976 Rhein-Main Frankfurt Airport, 1977 Kunstverein Kassel and 1977 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen , under the title “Flying a Dream”.
  • 1995 “I haven't drawn since yesterday”, solo exhibition, Initiative GG-1973 eV, Stadtmuseum Groß-Gerau.
  • 1999 "... and come with such an unusual shape", solo exhibition Galerie Monika Hoffmann, Paderborn
  • 1999–2000 “Between divine and human comedy”, solo exhibition, Kassel Kunstverein, then the arts and crafts association and the Pforzheim cultural office.
  • 2001 “The Drawn City”, solo exhibition, Galerie am Ratswall , Bitterfeld .
  • 2001–2002 “Drawings of the 1960s”, solo exhibition, Initiative GG-1973 eV, Stadtmuseum Groß-Gerau.
  • 2004–2005 "East-West Ikaros ", Winckelmann Museum Stendal, Castle Museum Gotha , Cubus Kunsthalle Duisburg.
  • 2005 “Pictures Between Times”, solo exhibition, Rothe Gallery, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2009 “In the time of incomprehensible events”, solo exhibition, drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy, Pforzheim Gallery , Pforzheim.
  • 2015 Paradise is a polonaise. Adolf Buchleiter's “Divine Comedy”, solo exhibition on the occasion of the Erlanger Poetenfest , Universitätsbibl. Attain .

literature

  • Dragons and other planes, exhibition catalog published by the working group for play and play / aspects of artistic formulation, Adolf Buchleiter, University of Kassel 1976 (with texts by Helmut Krauch , Adolf Buchleiter)
  • Games machines and all kinds of winged tricks, Ed. Working group Play and Play Space / Aspects of Artistic Formulation, Adolf Buchleiter, University of Kassel 1985 , ISBN 3-921976-10-3 , Verlag Moeller & Panick (with texts by Wolfgang Kemp , Lucius Burckhardt , Heiner Georgsdorf, Birgit Dreyer, Adolf book manager)
  • Adolf book manager. I haven't drawn since yesterday. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Initiative GG-1973 eV / Städtisches Museum Groß-Gerau, 1995 (with texts by Martin Warnke , Pedro Warnke, Adolf Buchleiter)
  • Adolf book manager. The drawn city. Heiner Georgsdorf: Topography Buchleiteriensis. Rothkegel Verlag Kaufungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806243-0-7
  • Adolf book manager. The silent richness of memory. Pictures from the Pforzheim period, Rothkegel Verlag Kaufungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806243-1-5
  • Adolf book manager. Between divine and human comedy, catalog for the exhibition of the same name Kasseler Kunstverein and Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim, 1999, ISBN 3-927941-26-3 (with texts by Bernhard Balkenhol , Heiner Georgsdorf )
  • Adolf book manager. In the time of incomprehensible events - drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy, catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Pforzheim Gallery, ed. Isabel Greschat, Christiane Kruse, 2009, ISBN 3-9806243-2-3 Rothkegel Verlag, (with texts by Isabel Greschat, Christiane Kruse, Rainer Stillers, Regina Fischer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Timm: Jewelry Museum. In: Architektur Reuchlinhaus Kulturerbe der Moderne, Pforzheimer Stadtrundzüge 3, 2011, published by Stadt Pforzheim Kulturamt, ISBN 978-3-89735-710-5 , p. 10 (p. 10–11 fig.)
  2. ↑ Pedro Warnke: Biographical with a few comments on Adolf Buchleiter. In: Adolf Buchleiter. I haven't drawn since yesterday. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Initiative GG-1973 eV / Städtisches Museum Groß-Gerau, 1995, p. 14
  3. ^ Renate Rothkegel: Adolf book leader. The pendulum mechanism - the silent machines, 1976–1995, poster Renate Rothkegel, 2005, PDF file (10 MB)
  4. ^ Renate Rothkegel: Adolf book leader. The roundabout carousel, 1978–1999 and the bird machine 1999, poster Renate Rothkegel, 2005, PDF (7.8 MB)
  5. ^ Heiner Georgsdorf : Adolf book leader. Between divine and human comedy. In: KUNSTVER ein + KUNSTH alle, Das Fridericianum Magazin No. 3, 1999, p. 16ff
personal data
SURNAME Book manager, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, draftsman, painter, sculptor and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2000
Place of death kassel