Carl-W. Tubular

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carl-W. Röhrig (born November 12, 1953 in Munich - Schwabing ) is a German painter and scientific illustrator .

Life

Carl-W. Röhrig attended the Academy for the Graphic Arts in Munich and then embarked on a career as a freelance artist and illustrator. His painting can be assigned to naturalism , photorealism and fantastic realism . The first works that can also be assigned to Surrealism were created in the early years. Röhrig was interested in nature and pollution and has published several books on his art. An auction of three works was held at the Explorers Club's Annual Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City . In 2004 the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg acquired some of his works. Until 2018 or until now, Carl-W. Röhrig has over 4000 paintings , illustrations , wall paintings and sculptures . The artist has lived and worked in Switzerland since 2008. Roehrig stands on the pages of Scientology in a video itself as a Scientologist before.

plant

Scientific illustrations

Effect of penicillin on the coli bacterium , scientific illustration Ars Bacteriologica (1980)

Röhrig made a name for himself at the beginning of his work as a scientific illustrator with the book Ars Bacteriologica , which was created in cooperation with Bayer AG . In 1981 he received an honor from the Interior Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany for excellent scientific illustrations . Further awards and honors in the USA followed, including from the Museum of Scientific Illustration in New York. Röhrig has been a member of the National Geographic Society , based in Washington DC , since 1989

Photo-realistic animal paintings

Rainforest Animals (1992)

The beginning was with the animal painting cycle ancestral gallery of threatened animal species . The first originals were presented to the public together with the animal filmmaker and researcher Heinz Sielmann in Bonn . An award was given by the German Parliamentary Society for the extensive overall exhibition with the works of Carl-W. Tubular. The painting Snow Leopard was published in international magazines and specialist journals. Another major exhibition was in the Museum of Underwater Archeology in Bodrum . Röhrig's meticulousness , imagination and aesthetic sense are palpable in all of his animal pictures .

Journalistic illustrations

He was involved in a medical - scientific film for GEO magazine with the title War in the Body , directed by Volker Arzt . The film was broadcast on First German Television ( ARD ). This was followed by a study trip to the USA lasting several months and further work on medical illustrations for the book The Incredible Machine for the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. The work, previously written in English, was published in German as GEO magazine Der Mensch . He created hundreds of other publications of artistic illustrations and paintings for various clients, as well as cover images for the magazines GEO , Der Spiegel and the Stern .

Own imagery

La Montanara (2007)

The challenge he faced while working on covers for German-language magazines gave rise to his own visual language in the mid-1980s. He summarized this phase of his painting, which is still the most extensive to date, under the term Fantastic Naturalism . It was his own interest in topics about the destruction of nature and the environment that gave rise to this series and was documented in a book with the appropriate title. In the end it was Carl-W. Röhrig in his paintings is also essentially about inspiring people to the preservation and beauty of nature and earth.

Tubular tarot

Röhrig-Tarot - The Magician (1991)

In 1991 the artist began the Tarot series comprising 78 paintings . The Roehrig Tarot heard as the Dalí -Universal Tarot, the Osho - Zen -Tarot and the Margarete Petersen Tarot of the modern classics of the Tarot. His strength lies in the translation of the old tarot motifs into a modern visual language.

Awards

Exhibitions

painting

Fantastic naturalism (selection)

  • The goal behind the goal (1989)

  • In the Land of Dreams (1990)

  • Summer Wind (2014)

  • The Old Ship (2014)

  • Creating beautiful things together (2016)

  • Rainbow forest (2016)

  • Dream of Freedom (2016)

  • The World We Live In (2016)

  • Our beautiful world (2017)

  • People on the Water (2017)

Catalog of works (selection)

  • 1975: The socket , oil on cardboard , 80 × 120 cm, Horst Spata collection
  • 1983: In search of happiness , watercolor and airbrush on cardboard, 51 × 73 cm, private collection
  • 1983: Imagine ... , watercolor and airbrush on cardboard, exhibition on the Wall - Berlin Kreuzberg, Tabor Galerie, owned by the artist
  • 1986: I'm caught , brown series, watercolor on cardboard, 102 × 73 cm, private collection
  • 1989: The goal behind the goal , watercolor and airbrush, 102 × 73 cm, private collection
  • 1990: We all have in common madness , oil on canvas , 90 × 120 cm, private property
  • 1991: The Fool , Tarot series with 78 paintings, watercolor and airbrush, 51 × 34 cm, Horst Spata collection
  • 1991: Portrait Thea and Thomas Gottschalk , oil on canvas, 90 × 120 cm, private property of the Gottschalk family
  • 1991: Thea Gottschalk , watercolor on cardboard. 102 × 73 cm, private collection of the Gottschalk family
  • 1992: Snow leopard , watercolor and scraping technique on cardboard, 51 × 73 cm, awarded by Ringier Verlag as best illustration, private collection
  • 2002: Game of Life , White Series, watercolor and acrylic on canvas, 102 × 73 cm, private collection
  • 2004: Off to the future , Expressionist series, oil on canvas, 90 × 120 cm, private collection
  • 2010: Blue Rapsody , Expressionism series, oil on canvas, 80 × 180 cm, private collection
  • 2012: The blue planet , acrylic on canvas, 100 × 140 cm, private collection
  • 2014: Sommerwind , watercolor on cardboard, 102 × 73 cm, private collection
  • 2014: The old ship , acrylic with relief technique on canvas, 100 × 140 cm, private collection
  • 2016: The rainbow forest , acrylic with relief technique on wood , 120 × 200 cm, Renè Felix collection
  • 2017: Our beautiful world , acrylic with relief technique on canvas

Documentation

  • 1986: ARD television film Die Fantastische Zeitreise by director Uwe Schmidt about paintings by Carl-W. Tubular.

Art books

Web links

Commons : Carl-W. Röhrig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meet a Scientologist: Painter. Scientology , accessed April 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Röhrig, Carl-W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabing , Munich