Cornel Wachter

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary celebration of "the CIVIL warS" in the Odeon cinema in Cologne, v. Left to right: Hannelore Lübeck , Cornel Wachter, Robert Wilson (photo 2014)
Homage to stationary traffic , a ready-to-drive red Mercedes-Benz A-Class with a concrete shell (for Wolf Vostell's 75th birthday ), Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (photo 2007)
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Cornel Wachter (born November 25, 1961 in Cologne ) is a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Cornel Wachter was born in 1961 into a family of doctors - father and grandfather both worked at the “Severinsklösterchen”, the Cologne hospital of the Augustinians, his great-great-grandfather was the ophthalmologist Albert Mooren . He graduated from high school at the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Cologne and completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and stone sculptor at the Bauhütte of Cologne Cathedral from 1985 , where he left at the end of September 1987. Since then he has been a freelance artist.

Wachter has lived in a house in Cologne's southern part of the city, the so-called Vringsveedel , since 1962 .

Art projects

Table sculpture Diary of an ennuyé - diary of a bored, Kunstmuseum Bonn

Cornel Wachter describes himself as a “style pluralist”. He mixes different art movements and connects them with his social commitment, as an “actor on the artistic-political, social stage”.

From 1983 to 2001, Wachter and Elmar de Saint Schmitt formed the artist duo UnterbezirksDada , which attracted attention with poster campaigns and performances.

In 1999 he organized the performance of the opera Alceste (1773) by Anton Schweitzer and Christoph Martin Wieland on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture Weimar and brought the piece 226 years after its premiere at the place of its creation, in Weimar in the Richard Wagner Hall of the Hotel Elephant Weimar back on stage. The Alceste is considered a milestone on the way to a German opera , to which Johann Wolfgang Goethe responded with his satire Götter, Helden und Wieland. Wieland responded in an urbane manner by advertising the print in his Merkur newspaper and praising Goethe's farce as a masterpiece of pastiche in the June 1774 issue of his magazine . Two years later, Goethe moved to Weimar near the "father of German classical music" Christoph Martin Wieland.

In 2003, Cornel Wachter placed the logos of his worldwide art project “Have a nice round” in 15 different languages ​​on the facade of the Weimar Hotel Elephant . It should call for “respect for life, the preservation of the environment and culture” and be shown at the 2004 Olympic Games.

As an artistic reaction from Wachter to the rampage at the Erfurt Gutenberg-Gymnasium in 2002, the table sculpture "Diary of an ennuyé - diary of a bored" was created; it has been part of the permanent exhibition of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since 2005 .

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of his colleague Wolf Vostell in 2007, Wachter poured his A-Class Mercedes in a concrete coat. The work, intended as a homage to the artist colleague who died in 1998 and whose sculpture Resting Traffic was created in 1969, stands in front of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn .

In the spring of 2006, Cornel Wachter and Timo Belger started the art campaign The 1 must stand! for the 2006 World Cup , which was presented on ecologically and socially certified textiles. The proceeds from the campaign went to initiatives that help drug addicts and homeless youth.

In 2008 Wachter showed an interactive installation in the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne and asked the question: “When did you first consciously experience art?” Numerous artists, including Robert Wilson , Marina Abramović , Desmond Morris and Kurt Masur take part in this work Results in the book I found art stupid and mean - my first art experience . flowed in. In the follow-up publication in 2014 ... when Paul McCartney called me - My first musical experience brings together the first musical memories of more than one hundred personalities.

On the occasion of the 275th birthday of the Weimar classic Christoph Martin Wieland on September 5, 2008, Cornel Wachter initiated the world premiere of the Stabat mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in the German text version written by C. M. Wieland in 1781. Under the direction of Alexander Eberle, the choir director of the Aalto Theater in Essen, the Munich baroque orchestra L'arpa festante played , the soprano Elisabeth Scholl and the countertenor Alexander Schneider sang in the church of St. Peter zu Oßmannstedt , the "Wielanddorf" Weimar.

A project that took decades in advance was the assembly of the Peter Hecker drawing (K) A hostel from 1929 with real heads for the protagonists Maria and Josef, for which Wachter was able to win over Cosma Shiva Hagen and Mark Benecke . He gave a first print to his home community, the Luther Church in Cologne's Südstadt district, the motif was distributed nationwide on “info screens” in public space by a sponsor during the 2015 Christmas season.

Social Commitment

Wachter focuses his social commitment above all on his hometown or his "Veedel".

In 1986 he initiated the first benefit record for the preservation of Cologne Cathedral - still as an apprentice at the Dombauhütte . Together with the Cologne dialect band Bläck Fööss , Wachter rewrote the title Mer losse d'r Dom en Kölle to Mer Helfe Dem Dom En Kölle . The proceeds went to the Zentral-Dombau-Verein .

In 1998, Wachter had the idea of ​​replacing the sponsor's logo on the player's jerseys at a Bundesliga game with an art, social or health project. After several years of negotiations with various partners, Borussia Dortmund implemented the concept with Otmar Alt and one of his works of art in the 2006/07 season. In 2018, Wachter's “homeland club”, SC Fortuna Köln , followed the idea at a game: Instead of the main sponsor, the jerseys advertised an AOK prevention campaign .

As a founding member, he has been involved in the “Open Hearts Club” since 2002, which has made it its mission to support homeless people.

In 2003, Wachter, together with Pastor Hans Mörtter, was the initiator and organizer of the “Cologne Signal against the Iraq War”, for which he won, among others, Günter Grass , Walter Jens , Dieter Wellershoff and many other celebrities as supporters.

In 2010, for the 150th anniversary, Cornel Wachter organized a temporary new installation of a historic locomotive as a climbing device on the playground for the Cologne Zoo, whereby it should be less about climbing as such and more about the nostalgic feelings of older zoo visitors as children had played on the original locomotive.

After surviving colon cancer , he and Timo Belger initiated an awareness campaign for colorectal cancer screening . a. with the magazine The wonderful world of Cornel Wachter . This was honored with the Felix Burda Award in 2017 and 2019 as “Engagement of the Year”, with which the “topic of colon cancer was brought out of the taboo zone” .

Works in public collections

Publications as editor

Awards

Web links

Commons : Cornel Wachter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marianne Kolarik: Through the southern city with Cornel Wachter. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 30, 2012, Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b "Style pluralist" and simply kölsch. In: TOP MAGAZINE. RHS Verlagsgesellschaft, December 2017, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Cornel Wachter - Vita. In: Inge Baecker Gallery. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  4. ^ Dombauhütte and Dombauverwaltung: exits . In: Willy Weyres, Arnold Wolff (ed.): Kölner Domblatt. Yearbook of the Central Cathedral Building Association . tape 52 . Verlag JP Bachem, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7616-0925-6 , p. 263 .
  5. ↑ a b Dieter Ronte : Positive power. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. August 20, 2005. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  6. ^ Rainer Hartmann: From Cologne to Weimar. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. April 2, 2002, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Have a nice round! Second installation by the artist Cornel Wachter in Weimar, August 25, 2003 - October 13, 2003, facade of the Hotel Elephant. (No longer available online.) In: Gallery ACC in Weimar, acc-weimar.de. November 17, 2003, archived from the original on April 4, 2018 ; accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  8. ↑ http://www.galerie-baecker.de/Wachter_vita.html
  9. ↑ Dieter Brockschnieder: Concrete poured over the car. In: Kölnische Rundschau. October 15, 2007, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Gabriele Woll: The one must stand. (No longer available online.) In: Katholische Landjugendbewegung Deutschlands. April 6, 2006, archived from the original on May 11, 2018 ; accessed on May 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ "K) A hostel?" Art project by Cornel Wachter for Christmas 2015. In: Lutherkirche Evangelische Gemeinde Köln. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Bläck Fööss benefit record for the cathedral . In: Willy Weyres, Arnold Wolff (ed.): Kölner Domblatt. Yearbook of the Central Cathedral Building Association . tape 53 . JP Bachem, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0958-2 , pp. 226 .
  13. ↑ Rhine football: New logo on the Fortuna chest . In: Rheinfussball . April 10, 2018 ( rheinfussball.de [accessed April 11, 2018]).
  14. ^ Helga Ramler: Artists help the homeless. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. August 1, 2002, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Hendrik Pusch: Because of security concerns. No climbing for the new zoo locomotive. In: Kölner Express. April 2, 2010, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Colonia brings the Cologne zoo locomotive back home. In: Colonia special vehicles. 2010, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  17. ^ Felix Burda Award: The winners of all categories since 2003. In: Felix Burda Foundation. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Wolfgang van den Bergh: Felix Burda Award. Maar does not give up defying the forces of inertia. In: Doctors newspaper online. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  19. ↑ My southern city: Motivation is everything. January 3, 2019, accessed on January 30, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ Kevin Cavanagh: Teutloff loved art - and how it looked on Brock's campus. In: The Brock News. Brock University, August 25, 2017, accessed May 12, 2018 .
  21. ↑ City of Cologne (ed.): Friedrich-Vordemberge-Scholarship for Fine Arts: Prize winners, scholarships chronologically . Cologne 2017 ( stadt-koeln.de [PDF]).
  22. ^ Judith Levold: Felix Burda Award 2019 goes again to Südstadt. In: meinuedstadt.de. May 20, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Cornel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne