Armin Baumgarten

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Armin Baumgarten (born September 25, 1967 in Wolfsburg ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Armin Baumgarten in his studio, 2015

life and work

Armin Baumgarten spent his childhood in Lower Saxony and began drawing and painting at an early age . He also learned the technique of etching through his art teacher Wilfried Wöhler . After graduating from high school at Humboldt-Gymnasium in Gifhorn and doing civilian service in Braunschweig , he began studying painting there in 1989 at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts . His teachers were Hinnerk Schrader, Karl Möllers, Arwed D. Gorella and Hermann Albert , whose master class he became in 1996.

In 1993 he found on the subject of the head: "The head as the head itself, as a timeless metaphor for people and as a metaphor for painting." circled. "Freed from having to undertake new art revolutions, so it is said in one of their manifestos, it is now a matter of painting a timeless order."

In 1998 Armin Baumgarten moved to Düsseldorf . From there he made many trips to neighboring France. In addition to studying architecture and sculpture of Romanesque churches, he also found the theme of the landscape: "In this process, the pictures of Georges Braque , who lived and worked in Varengeville-sur-Mer , where Baumgarten had drawn, were formative for Baumgarten ." From 2003 onwards, numerous sculptures were created, initially in plaster, which were then cast in bronze by the Rolf Kayser (art foundry) workshop in Düsseldorf using the lost wax technique . In 2007 Armin Baumgarten designed a cross for the Tersteegen Church in Düsseldorf. Bronze sculptures have been created in public spaces since 2012, for example a larger than life figure in the Munich cityscape (Nymphenburger Straße 22).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 Düsseldorf, BETWEEN WORLDS , with Adolf Bierbrauer , Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions
  • 2017 Darmstadt, head, figure and landscape , Galerie Netuschil
  • 2016 Wilhelmshaven, painting and sculptures , Foundation Burg Kniphausen
  • 2015 Düsseldorf, The Reality of Abstraction , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions
  • 2013 Leipzig, painting, sculptures, architectural models, salve art gallery
  • 2012 Wiesbaden, Pictures and Sculptures , Gallery Winter
  • 2012 Dresden, pictures and sculptures , galerie nütt
  • 2012 Munich, pictures and sculptures , mbf-kunstprojekte
  • 2010 Schweinfurt, painting and sculpture , Sparkassengalerie
  • 2009 Munich, painting and sculpture , mbf-kunstprojekte
  • 2008 Düsseldorf, painting and sculpture , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions
  • 2008 Düsseldorf, People Pictures , Tersteegen Church
  • 2007 Eltville, paintings and sculptures , Georg Müller Foundation
  • 2004 Wiesbaden, New Works , Winter Gallery
  • 2003 Basel, Armin Baumgarten, Neil Tait, Jim Delarge , Galerie Kämpf, Switzerland
  • 2003 Eltville, Winter Gallery in the Georg Müller Foundation
  • 2002 Leverkusen, Villa Romana 2003, Museum Morsbroich
  • 2002 Goslar, Junge Figurative , Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
  • 2001 Munich, Young Figurative , Carolinenpalais
  • 2001 Düsseldorf, New Works , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions
  • 2000 Rovigo, Due Dimensioni - Arte Giovane in Iatlia e Germania , Il Pescheria di Nuova, Italy
  • 1998 Miami, Young German Art , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions, Decoplage, USA
  • 1998 Venice, Due Dimensioni - Arte Giovane in Iatlia e Germania , Accademia di belle arti di Venezia , Italy
  • 1998 Düsseldorf, Armin Baumgarten , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions
  • 1996 Braunschweig, Convention , Kunsthalle Braunschweig
  • 1996 Gelsenkirchen, Karl Schwesig Prize , Gelsenkirchen Art Museum
  • 1989 Hornburg, District Museum Hornburg (with Peter Lindenberg)

literature

  • Martin Leyer-Pritzkow (Ed.): Due Dimensioni, arte giovane in Italia e Germania , p. 25 ff, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-926820-61-6 .
  • Christoph award: Armin Baumgarten. Heads and Mountains / Heads and Mountains , monograph, Wiesbaden and Basel, 2004, ISBN 3-9806316-9-9 .
  • Axel Wendelberger and Armin Baumgarten: Armin Baumgarten. Pictures and sculptures , exhibition catalog Galerie Winter / Wiesbaden, galerie nütt / Dresden, mbf-kunstprojekte / Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809559-9-7 .
  • Martin Leyer-Pritzkow (ed.), BETWEEN WORLDS, Armin Baumgarten and Adolf Bierbrauer, German / English, Düsseldorf 2019 ISBN 978-3-982-0895-15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph supplement, Armin Baumgarten. Heads and Mountains / Heads and Mountains , monograph, Wiesbaden and Basel, 2004, ISBN 3-9806316-9-9
  2. ↑ Christian Tröster, The center is where you are , in art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 10, edition October 1999, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsburg