Bertram Weigel
Bertram Weigel (born April 27, 1950 in Steinach , Thuringia , † October 8, 1976 in Florence , Italy ) was a German avant-garde draftsman , object and concept artist and musician .
life and work
Bertram Weigel studied music and art at the Pedagogical Institute in Fulda from 1967 to 1969 and was also in the violin master class with Klaus Assmann in Frankfurt am Main . He then worked as a casual worker, street vendor, teacher, waiter, bartender and soldier.
From the winter semester of 1971, Bertram Weigel became a student of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In parallel to his artistic training, Weigel also studied music at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf in the violin master class with Sándor Végh , which he broke off in 1972.
Weigel had his first exhibition in October 1969 at the Alexa Gallery in Düsseldorf. In January 1971 he took part in the Eat-Art campaign in the Spoerri gallery and the hunger campaign on the occasion of André Thomkins' exhibition in Düsseldorf.
In 1972 Weigel was invited by Harald Szeemann to take part in Documenta 5 . At the documenta in Kassel, he performed an action that was part of the long-term working time project initiated together with Anatol Herzfeld . In front of the Museum Fridericianum , Weigel also installed a huge “ wheel ” (3.0 × 3.0 × 2.50 m) made of wood with steel tires (2 wheels with axle) as an eye-catcher on Friedrichsplatz as a contribution to the Individual Mythologies : Self-Presentation department - Performances - Activities - Changes . In 1974 Bertram Weigel was also involved in the Cologne » Project '74 « in the » Sound Forms « department .
In 1976 Weigel was awarded the Villa Romana Prize.
During a stay in Florence, he died at the age of only 26 in a car accident at the Palazzo Pitti .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Examples of his art
- Literature by and about Bertram Weigel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Bertram Weigel in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigel, Bertram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German draftsman, object and concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinach , Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1976 |
| Place of death | Florence , Italy |