The Langheimers

"The Langheimer" are a German artist group from Düsseldorf .

history

In 1982 Robert Hartmann , Werner Reuber , Ulrike Zilly and Nils Kristiansen founded the artist group “Die Langheimer”. The group is named after the former Cistercian monastery of Klosterlangheim in Upper Franconia , where it was founded. Kristiansen left the group in 1985. The Langheimers produce works of art, actions , exhibitions, artist books and films together. Her figurative art ( painting , printmaking , drawing ) is characterized by irony and anarchic comedy.

Group exhibitions

• 1982 - “The level doesn't need an udder”, Kunstverein Euskirchen
  • "The Image of Deterrence", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1983 - "No Victory Without a Fight", Galerie Fuchs - Hardenberg Castle
• 1984 - “Langheim Apparition - The Guardians of the Erbstrom”, Magers Gallery, Bonn
• 1985 - "Stars in the Rhenish Firmament", Galerie Grüner, Cologne
  • “40 dreams”, Atelier Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf
  • "Giant Victory and Abulence (with Fritz Schwegler )", Galerie Niepel , Düsseldorf
• 1986 - "The Langheimers new: Objective - Steel - Romantic", Galerie Krings-Ernst, Cologne
• 1987 - "The Seer's Liability", Galerie Schübbe, Düsseldorf
  • "Werner shot his powder", Galerie Olaf Zimmermann, Cologne
• 1988 - "The Logic of Stupidity" with Bazon Brock, Kunstverein Dortmund
• 1989 - "The Königsee: Problems of the Elite", Kunstverein Siegen
  • "The orphanage of art", New Aachen Art Association
• 1990 - "GDR - German Democratic Revolution", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (participation)
• 1991 - "The Red Egg", Epikur Gallery, Wuppertal
• 1993 - “I've got lost a lot. Concentration camps after 1945 ”, German Historical Museum , Berlin
• 1994 - "From Kollwitz to Kluge", Spendhaus Reutlingen (participation)
  • “The shallows of happiness. Tarot-Tarock-Torocchi, Mind Games “, City Museum Ratingen
  • “Sleeping dogs. Concentration camps after 1945 ”, Museum Bochum and Gallery Epikur, Wuppertal
• 1995 - "Langheimer Sumptuous Crockery", BauHausFischer, Wuppertal
• 1996 - “From Immaculate Knowledge. Erotic Character Analysis ", BIS Mönchengladbach (Altes Museum)
  • "Brock, where is your sting, death, where is your victory?", Schauspielhaus Wuppertal
  • "The time of innocence - singing after the war, traveling songs", Kunstverein Radolfzell
• 1997 - "Neo-Nazarene in Tuscany", Galerie Klein, Mutscheid- Bad Münstereifel
  • “Got down to the dog - from people and animals”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • “Pure pleasure wherever the eye gazes. The Langheimer Sumptuous Crockery ”, Museum Ratingen
  • "The world is beautiful. The Langheimer Sumptuous Crockery ”, Mautsch Gallery, Cologne
  • “Beggar's Banquet - Princes in rags and curls”, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
• 1998 - “Liberation of Reason”, artist jokes from artists. Reading and exhibition, Galerie Klein, Mutscheid-Bad Münstereifel
• 1999 - "Does the foehn wind tear you over your limit - 14 helpers in need", Galerie Kunst im Gang, Bamberg
  • "We have the Francis Bacon word and second sight", artists' association Malkasten
  • “The power of old age” - academic life drawing, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
• 2000 - "Lonely Masters - The Langheimers copy masterpieces of the modern age", Städt. Museum Leverkusen / Morsbroich Castle
  • "Weltläufer", Grevenbroich, Hartmann House at the Old Castle and dispatch hall on Stadtparkinsel
  • "Face to face. Mimic - Signs - Emotions “, Städt. Museum Leverkusen Morsbroich Castle (participation)
• 2001 - "Cut in wood", Museum Bochum (participation)
  • “This is how nature wants it. The Bamberg State Crockery ", Ludwig Bamberg Collection (Old Town Hall, Obere Brücke)
• 2004 - "Hohe Tannen - Wilde Beasts", Gallery Klein, Mutscheid / Bad Münstereifel
  • “Blauer Reiter”, Gallery Art in Progress, Bamberg
• 2005 - Clock tower of the Harry Schmitz Society: "Time boxes"
• 2007 - "Lonely Masters - Part II: The people of Langheim copy the sunrise and sunset of modernity", Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

literature

• The Langheimer (Robert Hartmann, Nils Kristiansen, Werner Reuber, Ulrike Zilly): The art dog growls. The story of Langheim. The new spiritism in art. Düsseldorf: Atelier Schloß Benrath 1983 (Revelations and research in the gaping modern age, Volume 3)
• The childhood of the Langheimers. Robert Hartmann, Nils Kristiansen, Werner Reuber, Ulrike Zilly - new, factual, steely, romantic. Ed. Of the general Friend- u. Support group for young art in the Atelier Schloss Benrath eV Cologne: Ed. Franken-Zimmermann 1986 (series of revelations and research in the gaping modern age, vol. 6). ISBN 3-926141-05-0

Web links

• Homepage "The Langheimers"