Claus Boehmler

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Claus Böhmler (born October 29, 1939 in Heilbronn ; † between February 20 and February 26, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German visual artist , draftsman and media artist . He lived and worked in Hamburg.

life and work

Böhmler first attended the Pforzheim factory school from 1961 . From 1963 to 1968 he studied art at the art academies in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf and was a student of Joseph Beuys . His first well-known work, Pinocchio, dates from 1969. From 1974 to 2005 he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Claus Böhmler was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge and from 1994 in the German Association of Artists .

Böhmler was one of the first artists in Germany to be interested in modern image reproduction techniques. By simply asking about the mechanisms of technology and by playing with the possibilities of the medium, he draws attention to rules and functions that otherwise usually escape perception. His use of the radio, cassette player, camera, film or video camera is ironic.

The use of language as commentary, explanation or play on words plays a central role in Böhmler's pictures and objects. For him, language as the basis of communication is the medium of highest authenticity. But here, too, his investigation aims again and again at the actual meaning of the words, sentences and concepts.

reception

“In his ready-mades made of screen fragments ('Electronic Notebook', 1993/94) and radio collages ('Stumme Pappen', 1993/94), Böhmler uses the principle of dismantling to reveal the mechanisms of suggestive media practice. He breaks them down into their constituent parts and combines them into new, sometimes comical-grotesque, sometimes profound-ironic multimedia objects. The supposed unambiguity of the familiar consumer item thus turns into surprising ambiguity, which the recipient is asked to mentally decipher. "

“The manipulation through and in the images, the relationship between being and appearance, which is clearly confronted here, the relationship between image and world, as well as between original and copy, is a subject of Böhmler's work in a variety of ways: writing, speaking, acting, drawing and constructing. The drawings, installations and objects show things as they really are or as they can be seen outside of their traditional use. With a smile, the viewer of the work becomes clear how the electronic media determine our perception, blur the relationship to reality and finally overlay the real. "

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1968 Düsseldorf, Schmela Gallery
  • 1970 Cologne, Art Intermedia Gallery
  • 1971 Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
  • 1973 Bonn, Philomene Magers Gallery
  • 1974 Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein
  • 1976 Berlin, Gallery Block
  • 1979 London, Goethe-Institut All good things come in two's
  • 1980 Cologne, Galerie Herta Klang
  • 1981 Hamburg, producers' gallery
  • 1982 Hamburg, pen art
  • 1984 Berlin, Yellow Music Gallery
  • 1982 Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 1986 Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
  • 1989 Cologne, Moltkerei workshop
  • 1989 Siegfried Sander Gallery, Kassel
  • 1993 Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer Society
  • 1994 Berlin, University of Fine Arts Berlin
  • 1995 Kassel, art association
  • 1995 Cologne, Galerie Hundertmark
  • 1997 Hamburg, pen art
  • 1999 Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2001 Kassel, Kunsthalle Fridericianum
  • 2004 Hamburg, Krobot Gallery
  • 2005 Hamburg, multiple box
  • 2009 Hamburg, Renate Kammer Gallery
  • 2012 Cologne, Warhus Rittershaus Gallery, ´Visual Music`
  • 2013 Cologne, Warhus Rittershaus Gallery, ´Video Cité`
  • 2017 Cologne, Gallery Warhus Rittershaus, ´Untitled # 3`

Former students

His students included u. a. Martin Kippenberger , Nicole Wermers , Albert Oehlen and Dirk Meinzer , Mrs. Kraushaar , Manfred Kroboth and Jutta Konjer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see media artist Claus Böhmler died ( memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Place of death in the FAZ on February 27th @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  2. ↑ artype.de: Claus Böhmler in the Heimbach Collection (accessed December 7, 2015)
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951/1994 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 7, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ^ Claus Böhmler at Museumsführer.de
  5. ↑ Bärthel, Regina: Claus Böhmler In: 40 Years: Fluxus and the Consequences: September 1 to October 13, 2002 / Red. U. Texts: Regina Bärthel. - Wiesbaden: Cultural Office, 2002.

literature

  • Claus Böhmler in: Artists - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art (Ed. By Lothar Romain ...). - Loose-leaf edition - Munich: Zeitverlag, 1990.
  • Claus Boehmler shows TraumZeitSchattenDoppel Hamburg: Achilla Press, 2001. ISBN 3-928398-74-1
  • Claus Böhmler: Instant - but immediately! ; April 1 - June 10, 2001, Kunsthalle Fridericianum. Kassel: Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2001 ISBN 3-927015-27-X
  • Screenplay / Ed. U. with e. Soundtrack vers. by Klaus Gallwitz. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1982. ISBN 3-518-11091-8
  • Claus Böhmler - Smart Artist / Ed. Michael Glasmeier, Naho Kawabe, Nora Sdun. Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3-86485-179-7

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personal data
SURNAME Boehmler, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehmler, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH between February 20, 2017 and February 26, 2017
Place of death Hamburg