Adolphe Lechtenberg

Adolphe Lechtenberg (born July 5, 1952 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German painter and draftsman . He lives in Düsseldorf .

Career

After graduating from the Grillo-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen, where Franz-Joseph van der Grinten from 1965 to 1971 and Johannes Stüttgen from 1971 to 1973 were his art teachers and which were of great importance for his further artistic career, Lechtenberg studied painting of the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf. His teachers there were Fritz Schwegler , Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich . In 1978 Adolphe Lechtenberg became a master student of Erwin Heerich.

He worked for many years as a project initiator and curator at the Paul Pozozza Museum . Since the early 1980s, his work has been shown and disseminated in numerous solo exhibitions and group projects in Germany and other countries.

Since 1980 texts have been created parallel to his pictures.

Since 2006 Adolphe Lechtenberg has been traveling to Mexico for a long time . The stays there had a significant and renewing influence on his work.

In this context he initiated an exhibition of four artists from Mexico and four artists from Düsseldorf in 2007/08 under the title “Imagen Nómada”. The exhibition was realized in May 2008 at the Goethe-Institut Düsseldorf.

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In the eighties, Adolphe Lechtenberg began to work with three-dimensionality.

In 1987 he realized a stage space at the Westphalian State Theater in Castrop-Rauxel.

A series of pictures was created to which three-dimensional painted pieces of wood, canvas and cord were attached. In general, the room was included in his work, such as B. in "Filling Explorer" from 1996.

The intensive examination of the effects of color on the environment is clear . In his pictures and objects, color as a material is retained in its immediacy, thereby also making itself a theme. It is both appearance and charisma. The color - matter and spiritual substance in one - radiates, creates space, defines space.

In addition to the painterly work, drawings also play a major role in Adolphe Lechtenberg's work.

Content of his pictures

Paradises, networks, masks, places and paths, points of intersection between meeting and leaving, staying and leaving are subjects of his pictures, drawings and three-dimensional works, in which process-like and the will to explore new ways of thinking become clear.

gallery

Blue shadow, 120 cm × 215 cm; oil and pigment on canvas; 1996/97
Small cross, 35 cm × 40.5 cm; Oil on wood; 1999
Mask 1, pigment on plaster
Universo, 11 cm × 8 cm × 3 cm; Acrylic, cardboard box, wooden ball; 2006
Puente; 155 cm × 53 cm; acrílico sobre tela, 2009

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1982: Painting, Kunstverein Bochum in Haus Kemnade, Bochum
1983: painting and drawing, art historian. Institute of the University of Bonn
Municipal Gallery Düsseldorf
1984: Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne
Planetary hike, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1985: St. Markus Nied, Frankfurt / M.
Stay, go, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen and
Mönchehaus Museum for Modern Art, Goslar
Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne
1986: Halbmenschen, Viertelmenschen, Galerie Symbol, Cologne
1987: Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
Municipal gallery of Oberhausen Castle
Art station Frankfurt / M.
J. Friedrich Gallery, Dortmund
Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf
1988: Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne
Gallery at the small market, Mannheim
WaschSalon Gallery, Frankfurt / M.
1990: Galerie Gudrun Boncz, Stuttgart
Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
1991: Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf
1993: Art-Ort, Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule Gladbeck
Art-Ort, Maria-Sibylla-Merian-Gesamtschule Bochum
Art site, Museum Bochum
Municipal Gallery Kaarst
Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
1994: Ali Jasim Gallery, Düsseldorf
1996: Multimedia Gallery Jürgen Hoog, Cologne
1997: Ali Jasim Gallery, Düsseldorf
1998: änderinnern-Ortfragmente, Kath. Hochschulgemeinde Wuppertal
1998/99 crossing points, satellites, hiding places, TZR gallery Bochum
1999: Painting and drawing, Kunstverein Brühl
Rheinstein, Düsseldorf
2000: special characters. Without borders, ARKA culture workshop / Zeche Zollverein Essen
2000/01: Colorings, expansions, skins, TZR gallery Bochum
2001: Ali Jasim Gallery, Düsseldorf
Gallery at the air salon and gallery in the winter garden, gardens of the senses near Gehren / Niederlausitz
Openings in shadow areas, floor 20, Düsseldorf
2003: Masks, mirrors and braids, Lorch + Seidel Gallery, Berlin
2004: Discoveries and the flow of colors, Hannelore Golkar Gallery in the Lindner Hotel, Wuppertal
2005: day red and silver light clean, Hermann Fischer House, Neuss-Norf
2007: Alfred Boettger Gallery, Bonn
2008: drawings; Santo Tomás Moro, Coyoacán, México DF, México
2009: Galerie Kümmel, Lüdenscheid
2011: picture, drawing, collage, Galerie Alfred Boettger, Bonn

Own projects and investments

1984–87: Organization of exhibitions at the Paul Pozozza Museum
1987/88: Image for the Heinrich-Heine-Allee underground station, Düsseldorf
1987: Stage project at the Westphalian State Theater in Castrop-Rauxel
1988: Wall work on a building on the Hanover exhibition grounds
1991: Six corner stones laid for the Paul Pozozza Museum in Central America
1992: Participation in the international painting weeks in Piran , Slovenia
1993: Working project with four artists from Havana , Cuba
1996: Foundation stone laid for the Paul Pozozza Museum in Berlin, in collaboration with the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
1998: Participation in the symposium Champs magnétiques, Gardens of the Senses, Gehren / Niederlausitz
2002: Participation in Zwischenstop, a project of the Museum for Developing Art (MWK), Kassel
2003: Participation in Eutropa, a MWK project, Berlin
since 2006: Long-term stays in Mexico

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

1982: "0211", Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
1985: Faux Mouvement, Metz
1987 "Ucronia", Turin
1988: Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg
1989: “BonAngeles”, representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Bonn and Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"Créateurs de l'Europe - Utopies '89", Grand Palais, Paris
1990: Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen
1991: Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander , Spain
1992: Ludwig Forum, Aachen
1993: "From Passion - Homage to Franz Joseph van der Grinten", Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, organizer Brühler Kunstverein and Wienand Verlag Cologne
1994: Galeria Aspecty, Warsaw
1996: Kemal Ataturk Cultural Center, Istanbul
2000: Bilgi University Art Gallery, Istanbul
2005: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , anniversary exhibition, 20 × 20
2007: "Paradies Premiere", Cabinett, Düsseldorf
2008: Imagen Nómada - Part 1, Goethe-Institut Düsseldorf
"Souvenir-Transfer imaginaire", Center of Contemporary Art Pyramida, Haifa / Israel
2010: "CVs - from here and back"; Art association in the art museum Gelsenkirchen
"In the field of tension between the expanded concept of art - Gelsenkirchen residents around Joseph Beuys", exhibition in the City Center of Gelsenkirchen

Literature (selection)

0211 - 22 artists in Düsseldorf , Stephan von Wiese, cat. Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1982
Planetary hike , Ulrich Krempel, cat. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1984
Everything is different . Franz Joseph van der Grinten, catalog for the exhibition of the same name by Adolphe Lechtenberg in Sankt Markus Nied, Frankfurt / Main, 1985
Stay-Go , Gisela Burkamp, cat. Kunstverein Oerlinghausen and Mönchehaus Museum for Modern Art Goslar, 1985
ARTikulationsen , Marie Luise Syring , theater project a. Exhibition. Cat. 1987
BonAngeles , Klaus Schrenk, cat. For the exhibition of 8 Düsseldorf artists in the state representation of North Rhine-Westphalia in Bonn and in the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1989

Association is the way of his appropriation of the world (Andrea Raehs: "About Adolphe Lechtenberg", contribution to the catalog for the International Painting Weeks in Piran, Slovenia 1992)

Reflections - Fine arts in and from Gelsenkirchen , Hans-Rudolf Thiel, Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen, 1993

Family tree , catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, 1996

Fifty years of the van der Grinten collection , Ron Mannheim on a work by Adolphe Lechtenberg, Museum Schloß Moyland 1999

Adolphe Lechtenberg , by Daniela Castillejos, Chakota Mag No. 19, México DF, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME	Lechtenberg, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gelsenkirchen