Eberhard Blum (flautist)

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Eberhard Blum (born February 14, 1940 in Stettin ; † March 5, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German musician ( flautist ) and visual artist.

life and work

Blum grew up in Stralsund and passed his Abitur there in 1959. He began studying music at the conservatory in Rostock . After moving to West Berlin in 1960, he studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet at the local music academy until 1964 .

He dealt intensively with experimental and new music . At the invitation of Morton Feldman , he was from 1973 to 1976 and 1978 "Creative Associate" at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo . In 1976 the formation "Morton Feldman and Soloists" was formed, consisting of Blum, the pianists Feldman and Nils Vigeland, and Jan Williams ( drums ). Even after Feldman's death in 1987, this ensemble went on tours around the world, often reinforced by other musicians. Blum was a sought-after interpreter of premieres of Feldman's compositions. Besides composing Paul Gutama Soegijo , Hans Otte , ernstalbrecht stiebler and Toshio Hosokawa pieces for Blum.

From 1975 onwards, Blum was increasingly concerned with onomatopoeic pieces of music that contain elements of language and vocal sounds. This made it easier to perform purely linguistic compositions - from Kurt Schwitters ' Ursonate to the composition Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham by John Cage , the performance of which lasts three hours. His artistic works consist of numbers, letters, words and geometric shapes that serve as the basis of a construction.

Since 1980 Blum was also known as a visual artist. In 2004 he was elected as a member of the Akademie der Künste .

Eberhard Blum died in Berlin in March 2013 at the age of 73. The burial took place on April 5, 2013 in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Awards

  • 1995: Friedrich Ferdinand Runge Prize for unconventional art education
  • 1998: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Yvar Mikhashoff Foundation for New Music

Exhibitions

Works

  • Graphic work
  • 2006: NULLA POENA SINE CULPA , black pencil on laid paper, 4 sheets, each 100 × 70 cm

literature

  • Eberhard Blum: CHOICE & CHANCE. Pictures and reports from my life as a musician, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88331-126-5 .
  • Eberhard Blum: From one to ninety-six, Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88537-118-9 .
  • Robert Kudielka, Michael Schoenholtz, Inge Zimmermann (Vorw.): From. drawn. to draw. An exhibition by the visual arts section . Akademie der Künste , April 25 to June 14, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88331-127-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Straebel: Funeral speech for Eberhard Blum . On the author's website ( http://www.straebel.de/ ). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2013
Place of death Berlin