Eberhard Kranemann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eberhard Kranemann (born March 7, 1945 in Wismar ) is a German artist and musician . He was one of the founding members of the Kraftwerk electropop group .

Life

Eberhard Kranemann grew up in Dortmund , received double bass training at the Dortmund Conservatory and, after graduating from high school, studied painting , graphics , art history , philosophy and pedagogy with first and second state exams at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

In 1971, at the suggestion of Rupprecht Geiger , Eduard Trier made Kranemann a master class student at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . He has been a freelance artist and musician since 1967. In parallel to his experiments with color tones in abstract painting, he experimented with tone colors in music.

In 1967 he founded the experimental music group Pissoff and was their bassist until 1969. Shortly thereafter, he became a member of Kraftwerk, where Kranemann played the cello, Hawaiian guitar and bass from 1970–1971 . Also in the group Neu! Which was founded by Kraftwerk members in 1972 . Kranemann was there as bassist and Hawaiian guitarist.

In 1973 he started the multimedia project "Fritz Müller Rock" with Conny Plank . Numerous CD productions, concerts, exhibitions at home and abroad followed, including performances and collaborations with Joseph Beuys , AR Penck , Faust , Yoichiro Kita, Yukino Nono, Nurse with Wound , Critical Art Ensemble ( Documenta Kassel), Paul Amlehn (Sound Art World, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), Philip Glass Ensemble, Kronos Quartet , Brian Eno , David Bowie , Laurie Anderson , John Zorn , Lou Reed .

Works, exhibitions, concerts, performances, actions

  • Winter exhibition Kunstpalast Ehrenhof Düsseldorf, 1967
  • First sound recordings with Florian Schneider - Esleben , Kraftwerk, 1967
  • Action with Joseph Beuys and PISSOFF at Creamcheese , Düsseldorf, 1968
  • "Experiment 70" - Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1970
  • Member of the electro-pop band Kraftwerk , 1970–1971
  • Member of the electro-pop band NEW! , 1972
  • Fritz Müller Rock - multimedia project with Conny Plank , from 1973
  • Sound machine, from the Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal, 1982
  • Painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, light - sound - performance in the National Museum in Wrocław, Poland, 1991
  • Prague City Museum, Czech Republic: painting, graphics, sculpture, photography, sound performance, 1991
  • Romanian National Gallery, Bucharest, 1997: Painting and sound performance
  • Night of Museums, Düsseldorf: “How does the rabbit get into art?”, 2003
  • “72 hours of multimedia art” with BrindlArt in the Elba factory, Wuppertal, 2008
  • "Art - Time - Space" Düsseldorf - competition winner 2009
  • Art Cluster - Factory Elba Wuppertal - Color Sails - Color Space Installation, 2009
  • Faust + Fritz Müller live, BootBooHook Festival Hannover 2009
  • Nozart Festival Cologne, sound art - performance, 2010
  • Stadtgarten Köln, concert with Nurse With Wound, 2010
  • Onomato - Sound - Art - Video - Scholarship, Düsseldorf, 2010
  • Shanghai, China, Trash Art, exhibition participation with BrindlArt, 2011
  • Experimental laboratory, Galerie Kunstkomplex Wuppertal, 2011
  • Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen Zollverein Media Art Fair, 2012
  • Documenta Kassel, Critical Art Ensemble, Performance, 2012
  • Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, Cyberfest, New Media Festival, Sound Art Works, 2012
  • Berlinale Film Festival Berlin, Video Art, Performance, 2013
  • Berlinale Film Festival Berlin, Video Art, Performance, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marko Schmidt: Germankraft.de News-Archiv 2002 Kraftwerk Chronik Eberhard Kranemann part of the history of Kraftwerk. In: archive.org. May 1, 2002, archived from the original on April 29, 2004 ; accessed on May 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kranemann, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar