Carl Emanuel Wolff

Carl Emanuel Wolff (* 1957 in Essen ) is a German sculptor and university professor who lives and works in Essen and Dresden.

Carl Emanuel Wolff, fountain figure in Essen-Kettwig

Life

Wolff studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1978 to 1984 and was a master student of Gotthard Graubner . In 1981 he received the PSI scholarship in New York and in 1986 the scholarship from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn. After the Villa Romana Prize in 1991, he was visiting professor at the HBK Braunschweig . Since 1999 Carl Emanuel Wolff has been Professor of Three-Dimensional Working and Sculpture at the HfBK Dresden .

In his sculptures and installations, Carl Emanuel Wolff often deals with topics that are based on familiar stories. Dwarfs were repeatedly the subject of an installation. After making his debut at the Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil in 1996 as a German representative, curated by Karin Stempel , Wolff last showed "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" in 2011 in the Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum with 7 sculptures and a young actress. In earlier installations he also combined sculpture with living actors: bronze wild boars and billiard players in Düsseldorf or himself in the midst of his sculptures, disguised as a dwarf nose. The sculptures themselves are often representational, but combine not only bronze or aluminum but also unusual materials, such as red fireworks or ordinary rags. In 2011 Carl Emanuel Wolff received the first prize for the design of the south courtyard of the extension of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in Berlin by the German Bundestag. The sculpture is currently provided with privacy barriers and is not publicly visible due to serious structural problems around the extension. Wolff's works can be found in private collections and museums. He is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Awards

1995 Agnes Gaetz Prize
1991 Villa Romana Prize
1986 Art Fund grant Bonn
1981 PSI scholarship in New York

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

2020 Drummers and Fish, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
2014 "Drummer Bear & Friends" Gallery Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen
2011 "The Axis of Evil" Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
2008 Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz; "Deer" Gallery Schübbe, Art Amsterdam
2005 "Becoming what one is", Galerie Schübbe, Düsseldorf; "New Sculptures Carl Emanuel Wolff", Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
2004 Book presentation "Herbal War", Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
2003 "Zwerg Nases Küche", Luitpold Lounge, Munich
2002 "Zwerg Nase im Schiffchen", Kaiserswerth; " Dwarf Nose ", Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
2001 "Round Table", Richart, Maximiliansforum, Munich
1999 "Drawings", Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1997 Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
1996 São Paulo Biennial , Brazil, German representative "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", Daniel Fusban Kunsthandel, Munich
1995 "Cigars" exhibition room Thomas Taubert, Düsseldorf
1994 Kunstverein Düsseldorf
1993 German Blade Museum, Solingen
1991 Backhaus Gallery, Düsseldorf; Luis Campana Gallery, Cologne
1990 Luis Campana Gallery, Frankfurt; "Frankfurter Hof, room 152", Portikus, Frankfurt
1989 "Imagination creates reality", Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf ; Forum Bilker Strasse, Düsseldorf
1987 Wanda Reiff Gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1985 Galerie Strelow, Düsseldorf
1984 producer gallery, Hamburg
1982 Galerie Becker, Bochum Galerie Schöttle, Munich
1981 "Women Robbery" PS1, New York, USA

Group exhibitions

2011 A lot helps a lot, Kunsthaus Essen
2008 "New Art in Old Gardens", Gehrden Lenthe; "Regrettable Ingredients", Aachen; "Idylle" Kunstverein Remscheid
2007 "Sculpture, Sculpture", Alte Post Art Museum, Mülheim / Ruhr; "Idylle", DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca; "Unter Löwen", Saxon State Chancellery, Dresden; "Family ties", Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation
2006 "Idylle", Falkenberg Collection, Hamburg; "Made in Germany", Galerie im Park, Burgdorf
2005 "For the 100th anniversary of the Villa Romana", Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne; "Arkadien der Moderne", Museum Weimar; "Sculpture la tentation de la Figure", FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2004 "All Creatures Great and Small", Salon de Art, Cologne; "Un conte d hiver", FRAC - Limousin, Limoges
2003 "Lives and works in" Kunstverein Aschaffenburg; "Fama", Kunsthaus Rähnitzgasse, Dresden
2002 Malkasten , Düsseldorf
2000 Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf; "The animal in man", Uni Art Days, Münster; "Cabinet of Drawings", Düsseldorf, Lingen, Chemnitz, Kunstfonds Bonn
1999 Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
1998 "House of the Holy", Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
1997 "Center Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva
1996 "Last Aufguss", Düsseldorf; Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
1995 "Sculpture and Drawing", Daniel Fusban Kunsthandel, Munich; Bochynek Gallery, Düsseldorf
1994 "At your own risk", Bonn
1992 "Diagonale" Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1991 "Salon Villa Romana, Florence
1990 Kunstmuseum Bonn ; Art Museum Solingen ; "Art Mines", Art Museum Düsseldorf
1989 Luis Campana Gallery, Frankfurt
1988 "My time, my predator", Düsseldorf
1987 "Marsna'87", Netherlands
1986 3rd Fellbach Triennial; "Paper and Sculpture", Bremen
1985 "Perfo 3", Rotterdam, "Furniture that has become independent", Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
1984 "Germinations II", Hassel, Mulhouse, Edinburgh
1983 "Modern Art" F. Berger, Düsseldorf, "Diagonale", Antwerp
1982 "Old World New Works", Clocktower, New York; "Hall 6", Hamburg; "Exhibition B", Munich

Publications

Knut Wilhelm (Ed.): Herbal War. Kunstverlag Gotha, 2004, ISBN 3-931182-70-3 .
Sao Paulo. German contribution to the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennale, 1996, ISBN 3-931182-56-8 .

Catalogs (selection)

The animal in man, Senate Committee for Art and Culture of the University of Münster, 2001.
Cabinet of Drawings, an exhibition by the Art Fund, 2000.
Carl Emanuel Wolff, São Paulo, 1997.
At your own risk, Bonn, 1994.
Carl Emanuel Wolff, Solingen Art Museum, 1993.
Villa Romana Prize Winner, 1991.
Holz, Stadtlohn, 1990.
44th Bergische Kunstausstellung, German Blade Museum Solingen, 1990.
Art mines, acquisitions of contemporary art 1973–1990
Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1990.
CE Wolff in Frankfurter Hof, Portikus Frankfurt, 1990.
Imagination creates reality, Carl Emanuel Wolff in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1989.
Furniture as an art object, artist's workshop, Lothringer Strasse, Munich, 1988.
My time, my predator, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1988.
Marsna 87, Netherlands, 1987.
Galerie Wanda Reiff, Exhibitions 1985-87, Maastricht
Paper and Sculpture, Society for Contemporary Art Bremen, 1986.
The furniture that became independent, Wuppertal, 1985.
Perfo 3, Rotterdam, 1985.
Carl Emanuel Wolff, Producer Gallery Hamburg, 1984.
Walter Kütz, Michael van Oven, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Düsseldorf 1983.
Montevideo Diagonale, Antwerp 1983.
Hall 6, In the Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg May / June 1982.

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personal data
SURNAME	Wolff, Carl Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat

[1] Carl Emanuel Wolff's biography

[2] Art Fund 1986 Carl Emanuel Wolff

[3] Villa Romana

[4] Information about Wolff on the website of the HFBK Dresden

[5] Art and Architecture - Three competitions on bundestag.de

[6] So dilapidated are the buildings of the federal government

[7] uenstlerbund.de: Members "W" / Carl Emanuel Wolff (accessed on November 22, 2016)

[8] ttp://www.german-modern-art.com/r%20wolff2014.html