Dieter Villinger

Dieter Villinger (* 1947 in Bad Bergzabern ) is a German painter. His work consists of large-format, monochrome pictures.

Life

Dieter Villinger studied graphics from 1968 to 1971 at the Basel School of Applied Arts and at the Darmstadt School of Art . He then completed a painting degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and became a master student of Günter Fruhtrunk . 1978–1999 Villinger received numerous scholarships, residency grants and art prizes. From 2000 to 2001 he realized the installation Yellow.Blue at the Landshut University of Applied Sciences . In 2012 Villinger was accepted into the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design and the German Association of Artists . Dieter Villinger lives and works in Munich.

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In his oeuvre , Villinger examines the type of paint application and the moving, relief-like surface. He works with a brush and viscous paint that is worked into the unprimed canvas from the edges to the middle. Sometimes Villinger applies so much paint that it is set in motion by gravity. Vertical color gradients arise and break through the horizontal traces of movement. The painting process remains visible on the canvas and illustrates the power of color, which is both a means of representation and an object of representation.

Awards and grants

• 1978–1979 postgraduate scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ) to New York City, NY
• 1980 Grant for fine arts from the City of Munich
• 1980 award for etching from the city of Salzburg
• 1982, 1985 scholarship from the Prinzregent Luitpold Foundation , Munich
• 1985 Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
• 1989 Residence grant Cité Internationale des Arts Paris by the Free State of Bavaria
• 1989 Prize for Fine Arts from the City of Munich
• 1989 Prize for painting from the " Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie"
• 1992 Palatinate Prize for Fine Art from the Palatinate District Association, Kaiserslautern
• 1999 Art Prize '99 for painting from Sport-Toto GmbH Rhineland-Palatinate

Public space and collections

• Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
• Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, NY
• Museo Oscar Maria de Rojas, Cardenas, Matanzas
• Ege Art and Culture Foundation, Freiburg (Breisgau)
• Karl Ernst , Osthaus Museum Hagen
• Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
• Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
• State Art Gallery Karlsruhe
• Landshut University of Applied Sciences
• Benhaus, Lübeck
• Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
• Art collection Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz
• Bavarian State Painting Collections , Munich
• Gasteig , Munich
• Postsparkasse, Munich
• Computer center of the Stadtsparkasse, Munich
• Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus , Munich
• Munich City Museum
• Clemens Sels Museum , Neuss
• Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
• Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
• Daimler Art Collection , Stuttgart
• Baden-Württemberg Art Collection, Stuttgart
• Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
• Collection of IBM Germany, Stuttgart
• Collection Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
• Daimler Research Center, Ulm

Literature and Sources

• Reinhard Ermen, Helmut Friedel , Marcia Hafif: Dieter Villinger. Color as color . Published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 1989.
• Heinz Höfchen, Matthias Bleyl: Dieter Villinger. Painting . Published by the Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1993.
• Michael Hübl: Dieter Villinger . Published by the cultural department of the City of Munich, 1989.
• Michael Hübl (Ed.): Dieter Villinger - Yellow. Blue. Installation for the Landshut University of Applied Sciences . Nuremberg 2002.

Web links

• http://www.dietervillinger.de/home.html?language=de/
• http://www.stiftungkonkretekunst.de/
• http://www.galerie-mueller-roth.de/

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt: Artists / Dieter Villinger (accessed on May 24, 2016)
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "V" / Dieter Villinger (accessed on May 24, 2016)