Andreas Armin d'Orfey

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Andreas Armin d'Orfey (born May 5, 1961 in Rüsselsheim am Main ) is a German artist who works primarily as an illustrator and in the field of Christian sacred art .

Life

Origin and education

Andreas Armin d'Orfey grew up as the only child of Maria Christina, b. Neumann from Dalberg , and Clemens d'Orfey in Mutterschied in Hunsrück on. After finishing school he learned the craft of typesetting by hand in the Fedor Böhmer publishing house in Simmern (Hunsrück). In 1983 he began studying graphic design at the Trier University of Applied Sciences with a focus on manual font design and design book illustration. He also studied art history and theological studies at the University of Trier. He graduated in 1990 in book design on the subject of Carmina burana . In 1991 the pages for Carmina burana were exhibited in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main for international book and script art. In the spring of 1992 he founded the Calligraphy-Alpin artist group with Ingeborg E. Müller .

Professional activities

From 1991 to 1996 he was a freelance employee in the editorial department of the Bunte , and occasionally worked for the newspaper of the Catholic youth center in Simmern. In 1993 he was appointed lecturer at the Blocher School in Munich. Until 2011 he taught in the departments of graphic design and interior architecture, with occasional small teaching assignments at the universities of applied sciences in Stuttgart (1998) and Trier (2011).

Artistic work

His work includes book design, typography , calligraphy , illustration, decorative painting , sculpture, vestments , stained glass and mosaic art with an emphasis on sacred art in the broadest sense. The total number of his works so far comprises more than 1000 objects, including around 80 glass windows.

In the 1990s he worked as an illustrator for various journals and magazines, including print media for Burda Verlag , the Bauer Media Group (Playboy, Bravo, Cosmopolitan) and Gruner & Jahr Hamburg; The puzzle rat Charly appeared regularly in the Quix supplement of the Eltern for family magazine . He also illustrated numerous books from various publishers.

Andreas d´Orfey created the lettering for the fashion company Betty Barclay , which has been the company's trademark since 2001.

Art for the sacred space

Stained glass

Andreas d'Orfey's stained glass ranges from portrait accuracy to typing and figurative abstraction. The palette ranges from traditional painting in black solder to the use of fusing to the transfer of the design using contemporary printing techniques. Works such as the window cycle Christ in Encounter with People can be found in Neu-Ulm , others in the order headquarters of the Praemonstatensian Order in Rome or in the possession of the St. Lukasstiftung in Bad Wörishofen . In 2010 in Merkendorf (Middle Franconia) he added the stained glass by Alfons Abel that had been destroyed in the war .

Mass dress, violet, design by Andreas Armin d´Orfey
Paramentics

Since 2010 he has been designing vestments, stoles , dalmatics and other liturgical clothing as well as flags and velas for specialized art workshops in Bolzano , Linz , Cologne and Wallhausen .

Others

Together with the organ building workshop Siegfried Schmid in Knottenried (Allgäu) he realized the new organ of the parish of St. Elisabeth in Augsburg-Lechhausen . Between 2009 and 2010 drafts for a new church organ in the Robert Schumann House in Trier were made .

D'Orfey has created a wooden crib with life-size figures, which has been shown in different locations since 2011, including on the Kölner Krippenweg and in the Klüsserath Crib Museum Domus praesepiorum on the Moselle. Numerous crib backgrounds and crib structures come from his Obersendlinger crib workshop, which he founded in 2006 .

Award

Work (selection)

D'Orfey's works have been shown at numerous group exhibitions for script art, book art and sacred art.

  • 1988: St. Matthias Abbey Church in Trier, reconstruction of the Romanesque portal-9999
  • 1989: -9999St. Matthias, Trier, sundial on the south transept
  • 1995: -9999Stage design “The Moon” for the Carl Orff Festival in Andechs Monastery
  • 1996: -9999Art installation "Ikarus" on the 100th anniversary of Otto Lilienthal's death in the orangery in the English Garden in Munich
  • 1999–2000: Window cycle “Christ in Encounter with People” for the Michaelskapelle in Neu-Ulm
  • 2000: -9999Flag design for the Vatican City pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover
  • 2004–2008: Design and coloring of an organ of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Elisabeth in Augsburg
  • 2007: -9999Dreikönigsfenster for the St. Lukasstiftung Bad Wörishofen
  • 2009: -9999Redesign of the cloister and window cycle with religious saints in the center of the order of the praemostensian order in Rome
Entrance to the Klüsserath Nativity Scene Museum, glass painting

Essays

  • Time of pictures - time of signs. In: Illustration 63. Magazine for book illustration. 32nd year 1995, issue 3 (November).
  • The mill dispute of Muttersche: a contribution to the history of the mill in the Hunsrück after 1803. In: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kalender, 66th year 2010, pp. 86–91.
  • with Johann H. Schuller (Ed.): psalmen, suren, aphorismen. Catholic Adult Education of the Diocese of Speyer & Evangelical Adult Education of the Palatinate, Speyer 1995; Texts by Manfred Oeming, Marin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Stefan Egold, Reiner Kunze and Andreas Armin d'Orfey

Web links

Commons : Andreas Armin d'Orfey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spee yearbook. (PDF; 8.6 MB) Working Group of the Friedrich Spee Societies Düsseldorf and Trier, 1994, pp. 186–187 , accessed on February 20, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Two rulers before the end? In: Bunte. Issue 2, January 4, 1996, pp. 32-34, p. 76.
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Armin H. d'Orfey. (No longer available online.) Calligraphy alpine, December 13, 2012, archived from the original on August 22, 2011 ; accessed on February 20, 2013 (artist's own website).
personal data
SURNAME d'Orfey, Andreas Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüsselsheim am Main