Düsseldorf model maker
The Düsseldorf model makers were an artist group that emerged in the early 1980s in the context of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and exhibited together several times: Ludger Gerdes , Harald Klingelhöller , Wolfgang Luy , Reinhard Mucha and Thomas Schütte . The term refers to a discussion community rather than a permanent group of artists . At the height of Neo-Expressionism, their model objects and installations introduced architectural and allegorical elements into the language of sculpture . Her aesthetic considerations, which turned to the role of art in public and society, were closely related to the study of the sociologist Richard Sennett , Decay and End of Public Life (German 1983).
literature
- c / o House of Esters. Ludger Gerdes, Harald Klingelhöller, Wolfgang Luy, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Schütte , exhib.-cat. Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld 1984.
- Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen : The model builders are coming: artists as hobbyists. In: Westermannsmonthshefte - Das Kulturmagazin, No. 1, 1985, pp. 22-29
- Ludger Gerdes: About the model at Thomas Schütte. In: From here : Exhibition cat. Exhibition halls Düsseldorf, Cologne 1987, p. 24f.
- Manfred Hermes: Art Forum. Models in public space. In: Texts on Art, 4, 16, 1994, pp. 118–125. (polemical and easily readable review)