Alf Schuler
Alf Schuler (* 1945 in Berchtesgaden ) is a German artist (sculpture, objects, wall pieces, floor work, drawings, minimalist shapes) and university professor.
Live and act
Born in the former Salzberger district of Anzenbach , now Berchtesgaden , he studied from 1962 to 1963 at the Werkkunstschule Aachen and from 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , where he completed his studies in 1970 with Gerhard Wendland .
Alf Schuler was a member of the German Association of Artists , received a Villa Romana grant in 1975 and participated in a total of eight annual DKB exhibitions between 1969 and 1989. In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 and in 1987 in documenta 8 in Kassel. In 1977 he received (together with Peter Thiele ) the advancement award of the city of Nuremberg and in 1981 the art award of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen. In 1989 he was appointed to the Kassel Art College . His work is committed to minimal art . It addresses spatial perception and makes physical properties such as gravity and tension relationships visible.
Plan No. 8 , pipe-rope work, University of Augsburg campus , 1983
Untitled, stainless steel pipes on steel cable ( Marianne and Hansfried Defet Foundation ), 2004
Untitled, stainless steel pipes on steel cable, detailed photo, 2004
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1972: Alf Schuler , Galerie Walther, Düsseldorf
- 1977: Alf Schuler , State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
- 1987/88: Wall and floor pieces 1974-1987 , Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen
1990: KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
- 1996: Alf Schuler - Sculptures , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum , Aachen
Group exhibitions
- 1979: Michael Buthe , Sigmar Polke , Ulrike Rosenbach , Gerhard Rühm , Alf Schuler. Five in Cologne , Kölnischer Kunstverein
Collections (selection)
Germany
- recommended institution Daimler Contemporary , Berlin
- New National Gallery , Berlin
- Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
- Museum of non-representational art , Otterndorf
- Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
- DKM Foundation, Duisburg
- City Gallery Erlangen
- New Museum Nuremberg
- Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg Collection Peter C. Ruppert
France
- Regional art contemporain fund - Bourgogne, Dijon
- Espace de l'Art Concret , Mouans-Sartoux
literature
- Delarge: 2001
- R.Valenta u. a .: “Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists”. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, II, M./L., 2007
- Schuler, Alf . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 52-53, 76-77, 122-123, 230-231 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibition participations "Schuler, Alf": 1969, '70, '71, '73, '75, '76, '78, '89 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on 6. February 2016)
- ↑ nuernbergkultur.de: Promotion Prize of the City of Nuremberg (accessed on February 9, 2016)
- ^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 387 .
- ↑ Barbara Gaehtgens: Leverkusen: "Alf Schuler - Wall and Floor Pieces 1974-1987" , in ZEIT online: Art Calendar December 1987 (accessed on February 6, 2016)
Web links
- Materials by and about Alf Schuler in the documenta archive
- kunstaspekte.de Short biography, chronological listing of his exhibitions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuler, Alf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berchtesgaden |