Daniel Spoerri

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Daniel Spoerri at the 'Pasquetta 2018' in the Giardino near Seggiano

Daniel Spoerri (* 27. March 1930 in Galati , Romania as Daniel Isaac Feinstein ) is a Swiss visual artist , dancer and director of Romanian origin. He is one of the most important representatives of object art , co-founder of the artist group Nouveau Réalisme and is considered to be the inventor of Eat Art .

life and work

Daniel Spoerri in Milan (Photo: Lothar Wolleh )

Spoerri is the son of the missionary Isaac Feinstein and his wife Lydia Spoerri. The father had not only converted from Judaism to the Protestant faith, he also worked for the Norwegian Mission . When the Romanian fascists murdered his father in the death trains in the Iași pogrom in the summer of 1941 after the outbreak of war against the Soviet Union, his mother, a Swiss citizen, fled with her six children in 1942, including the actress Miriam Spoerri and the theologian Theophil Spoerri , to Switzerland. There Spoerri was adopted by his uncle, Theophil Spoerri , the rector of the University of Zurich . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Spoerri worked as a bookseller, fruit seller and photographer, among other things . During this time he made the acquaintance of Max Terpis , who advised Spoerri to take dance training.

Daniel Spoerri (1995), a picture of a trap in the background (Photo: Pantalaskas)

Spoerri studied classical dance and pantomime in Zurich and later in Paris from 1949 to 1954 . For some time he was a student of Étienne Decroux . After his return he was engaged as a solo dancer at the Stadttheater Bern , where he staged avant-garde pieces by Eugène Ionesco , Pablo Picasso and Jean Tardieu . During this time, Spoerri tried his hand at directing short films. In 1957 he worked as an assistant director to Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Landestheater Darmstadt . In Darmstadt, a group of specific poets was formed around Spoerri, Emmett Williams and Claus Bremer.

In 1959 Spoerri moved to Paris, where he soon made the acquaintance of Jean Tinguely , Arman , François Dufrêne and Yves Klein and founded Edition MAT , which published the first multiples . Spoerri's first object art and above all his tableaux pièges (Eng. Trap pictures; pictures or objects in which a piece of reality is caught like in a trap) was created in Paris . On October 27, 1960, the Nouveau Réalisme group - led by Pierre Restany - was founded with Spoerri's participation . Other founding members were Jean Tinguely, Arman, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains , Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villeglé and Martial Raysse . In 1961 Spoerri was represented in the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the New York Museum of Modern Art . His work Kichkas Breakfast I (Kichka's Breakfast I) was subsequently purchased by MoMA. In 1962 he was one of six participants in the Dylaby exhibition in Amsterdam.

In 1963 Spoerri founded the Dorotheanum - a non-profit institute for self- evacuation - in the Dorothea Loehr gallery in Frankfurt am Main, and in the same year took part in the FESTUM FLUXORUM FLUXUS at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1967/68 Spoerri spent a whole year on the Greek island of Symi . This year 25 objects were created under the title Gastronomic Diary - 25 objets de magie à la noix .

In 1968 Spoerri founded the Eat-Art Edition and opened the restaurant of the seven senses with the landlord Carlo Schröter (* 1935) at Burgplatz 19 (corner of Mühlenstraße) in Düsseldorf, which he ran until 1972 and in which, among other things, actions with Joseph Beuys , Robert Filliou , Dieter Roth , Ben Vautier and Emmett Williams took place. There was a beer and bar on the ground floor and the restaurant on the first floor. The palindrome signs by André Thomkins were hanging on the outer facade . In 1970 he opened the EAT-ART gallery , together with Hete Hünermann and Carlo Schröter, in which he subsequently organized EAT-ART banquets, such as Ultima Cena or Banchetto funebre del Nuovo Realismo . Spoerri initiated various editions and happenings at regular intervals with the participation of contemporary artists, the relics of which were also sold through the gallery.

In 1978 he was appointed professor for three-dimensional design at the Cologne factory schools and taught there until 1982. In between he founded the Musée Sentimental in Cologne. In 1983 he accepted a position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and taught there until 1989. During this time he also published several cookbooks, which actually contained more art than cooking.

The sculpture group Dead End , a bronze cast of mannequins, depicting the dead and victims of crimes against humanity, has been in the courtyard of the Lower Austria Museum since June 2015 .

In November 2015 and January 2016, opera director Bruno Berger-Gorski used Daniel Spoerri's Carrelino sculpture as a dramaturgical combination of two Israeli chamber operas in Bonn and Luxembourg. These were staged on the occasion of the German-Israeli Year 2015 and in memory of the November pogroms.

Spoerri has lived in Vienna since the beginning of 2007 . He's divorced three times, including from German photographer Vera Mercer .

Permanent exhibitions

Former Spoerri studio in Düsseldorf (2017)
  • Il Giardino : From around 1990, Spoerri settled in Tuscany. At the foot of Monte Amiata , Spoerri bought a large area on which he gradually built the Il Giardino sculpture garden. For this project, which Spoerri has expanded to this day, the artist himself created a large part of the sculptures.
  • Spoerri exhibition center : In 2009 Spoerri acquired two houses in Hadersdorf am Kamp on the main square. The old cinema (Hauptplatz 16) has been transformed into an eatery, Eat Art , and the former monastery from the 13th century (Hauptplatz 23) has been converted into an art storage facility and exhibition center. Spoerri named it Ab Art . In 2010 Spoerri set up a foundation in which the state of Lower Austria is designated as the ultimate beneficiary. The aim of the foundation is to convey contemporary art and culture to schoolchildren and young people. He donated 39 of his works worth 3.5 million euros to the State of Lower Austria.

Exhibitions

  • 1961: First solo exhibition, Galleria Arturo Schwarz , Milan
  • 1972: Retrospective in Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich.
  • 1990: Retrospective in Paris, Antibes , Vienna, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich, Geneva and Solothurn.
  • 1992: Expo '92, Swiss Pavilion, Seville .
  • 1995: Ulm town hall , Ulm
  • 1999–2000: ESSL COLLECTION - the first view , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2001: FALLOBST - joke irony art , Essl Museum - contemporary art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2001: Retrospective at the Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel
  • 2001: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe , Halle (Saale)
  • 2002: A review of his art objects, Greith-Haus , St. Ulrich i. Size
  • 2003–2004: Permanent 04 - Works from the Essl Collection , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2005: Esslsbrücke - Photographers in dialogue with works from the Essl Collection , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2007: Passion for Art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2009: Ludwig Museum , Koblenz
  • 2010: Municipal Gallery, Jesuit Church Art Hall, Aschaffenburg
  • 2010: Achberg Castle , Ravensburg district
  • 2010: do you know? Do you black Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen
  • 2011–2012: beauty and transience. Immendorff. Kounellis. Music. Quinn. Spoerri. Tàpies , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2012: daniel spoerri in the natural history museum. an incompetent dialogue? , Natural History Museum Vienna
  • 2014: Vanitas - Nothing is everlasting. , Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
  • 2015: To love and have - to love, lover, collectors. On the occasion of the 85th birthday. Hadersdorf am Kamp (Austria).
  • 2016: Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
  • 2018: Daniel Spoerri. every, day, life , Galerie Geiger, Konstanz
  • 2019: Vera Mercer and Daniel Spoerri. Dished up! , Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf , Marktoberdorf

Public collections

Australia

Belgium

Germany

Denmark

France

Iceland

Italy

Japan

Austria

Portugal

Sweden

Switzerland

Spain

Hungary

United States

United Kingdom

Awards

Works

Own writings

  • Anecdotes on a Topography of Chance , Neuwied and Berlin 1968.
  • Healing rituals at Breton sources (with Marie-Louise von Plessen ), private print Gredinger, 1978
  • Mythology & Maetballs, A Greek Island Diary / Cookbook , Aris Books, Berkeley 1982, ISBN 978-0-671-55812-3 .
  • Dogma I am God , Nikator Verlag, Dieterswil 1987.

literature

Web links

Commons : Daniel Spoerri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Stadler et al .: Lexikon der Kunst , 1994, p. 115.
  2. ↑ Theophil Spoerri: Searching for father's traces Report on a trip to the Romanian Moldova and Bukovina in May 2012 . Theodor Boder Verlag, Mumpf 2016, ISBN 978-3-905802-68-9 .
  3. ^ Fragments of a Life. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Markus Bauer: Pasts that do not pass . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 17, 2017 ( nzz.ch ).
  5. ↑ MoMA, inv. No. 391.1961 , accessed May 31, 2011
  6. ↑ René Block, Gabriele Knapstein (concept): A long history with many knots. Fluxus in Germany. 1962-1994. Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1995, p. 95
  7. ↑ Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945 1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , (National Gallery, State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, p. 435
  8. ↑ http://noe.orf.at/news/stories/2714892/ Spoerri: Remembrance of Verbrechen, ORF.at June 6, 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ BONN / Bundeskunsthalle: TALK WITH A STONE (Ella Milch-Sheriff) / GARDEN (Josef Tal). World premieres Online Merker on November 14, 2015. Accessed on February 6, 2016.
  10. ^ "Spoerri" ge art in Hadersdorf. In: oesterreich.orf.at. June 18, 2009, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Spoerri is giving away works to the state of Lower Austria on ORF Lower Austria from July 18, 2010; Retrieved July 18, 2010
  12. ↑ Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer: "It's about a questioning position for me", Daniel Spoerri . Interview with Daniel Spoerri and Barbara Räderscheidt in: Wiener Zeitung from August 21, 2010; Retrieved May 22, 2013
  13. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, p. 223 .
  14. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 28, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georg-kolbe-museum.de
  15. ↑ spoerri.at: From Type, Exhibition House Spoerri, Events
  16. ↑ Daniel Spoerri receives the Eckart Witzigmann Prize 2007 on January 15, 2008, accessed on July 18, 2010.
  17. ^ News from Daniel Spoerri from July 18, 2010
  18. ↑ The Lovis Corinth Prize 2016 goes to Daniel Spoerri on October 22, 2016
  19. ↑ eat art, restaurant spoerri, carlo schröter collection
personal data
SURNAME Spoerri, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feinstein, Daniel Isaac (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Romanian visual artist, dancer and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați , Romania