Bernward Frank

Bernward Frank (born September 7, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German artist.

Wind carriage

Life

Bernward Frank is a kinetic art artist . He grew up as the child of a scientist and a hand weaver. This artistic and scientific influence shapes his art. His work is characterized by cleverly applied knowledge of physics. His objects function without electricity and use natural forces such as wind, water and gravity. The multiple coupled rods and axes ensure chaotic movement, which plays an important role in his work. The simple titles refer to the respective physical effect: MagnusPendel, DoppelPendel, WasserDoppelKegel ... Bernward Frank is one of the traditional kinetics. In addition to his work as a kinetic artist, he organizes numerous artist meetings and from time to time gives lectures on kinetic art today.

Since the time of the first home computers , he has been searching networks for the relatively rare colleagues of his kind. This resulted in an ever-growing list of links and finally in 2001 the website Kineticus , which is now the largest international database of living kinetic artists.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2001: Environment. Fair, Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
• 2003: Art in Motion. Bos van Ypeij of Park Vijversburg near Leuwaarden, Netherlands
• 2005: Movement and Utopia. TU Dresden
• 2006: Metal City Style. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 2008–2010: Art in the face of climate change. Traveling exhibition

Works (selection)

• Water cylinder
• The Wind Pendulum, 2003
• Steel helix
• Wind cylinder

Web links

• Bernward Frank
• Kineticus
• Visual art

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cor Wetting: Kunstenaars. In: Art in Motion. 2001, pp. 20-21.
2. ^ M. Lohoff, Bernward Frank: Kinetic art - tendencies of the last thirty years. In: Art and Teaching. No. 295/297, 2005, pp. 52-55.
3. ^ Bernward Frank: Kinetic art and its current association. In: Movement and Utopia. 2005, pp. 19-20.
4. ^ Kineticus: Founder. In: Kineticus. 2001. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
5. ↑ Water cylinder (video) , on kineticart.de. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
6. ↑ Das Windpendel ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on vijversburg.nl, Dutch. Retrieved April 12, 2010.  
7. ↑ Gernot Huber: Art between and cacti. 2001, pp. 62-63.
8. ↑ Wind cylinder  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on musica.be, english. Retrieved April 12, 2010.