Edward Ruscha

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Edward "Ed" Joseph Ruscha (pronounced Ruschee , born December 16, 1937 in Omaha , Nebraska ) is an American painter , graphic artist , photographer and filmmaker . He was best known for his works in the field of painting and printmaking.

Life

He attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1956 and had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at Walter Hopps' Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

As early as 1962, he published photo books in editions of 400 to 2000 copies. For Ruscha u. a. American photographer Walker Evans was a role model. There are parallel tendencies at Robert Frank , successors are Bernd and Hilla Becher .

He was made famous in Germany in 1975 by the gallery owner Rolf Ricke and the gallery owner Ursula Wevers, who worked with him.

Private life

Ruscha was married to Danna Knege from 1962 to 1972. They separated and remarried in 1987. He has two children, Edward "Eddie" Ruscha Jr. and Sonny Bjornson. In the late 1970s he bought land near Pioneertown ( California ), where he later built his house.

Exhibitions

Awards

In 2001 Ruscha was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters , in 2004 an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In addition to a large number of national and international awards, Ed Ruscha from Germany received the German Society for Photography (DGPh) culture award on September 2, 2006 at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2014 Edward Ruscha was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

Works

photos

A chronological overview of all pictures by Edward Ruscha has been published since 2004 in a catalog raisonné , which now comprises five volumes .

Books

Cover: Twentysix Gasoline Stations , 1963

Ruscha wrote 16 artist books between 1963 and 1978 :

  • Twentysix Gasoline Stations , Los Angeles: self-published 1963 (400 numbered copies)
  • Various Small Fires and Milk , Los Angeles: Self-published 1964
  • Some Los Angeles Apartments , Los Angeles: Self-published 1965
  • Every Building on the Sunset Strip , Los Angeles: Self-published 1966
  • Royal Road Test , Los Angeles: Self-published 1967
  • Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles , Los Angeles: self-published in 1967
  • Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass , Los Angeles: self-published 1968
  • Business Cards , Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications 1968 (with Billy Al Bengston )
  • Crackers , Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications 1969 (with Mason Williams )
  • Stains , Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications 1969
  • Real Estate Opportunities , Los Angeles: Self-published 1970
  • Babycakes with Weights , New York: Multiples, Inc. 1970
  • A Few Palm Trees , Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications 1971
  • Records , Hollywood, Heavy: Industry Publications 1971
  • Colored People , Los Angeles: self-published 1972
  • Hard Light , Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications 1978

Movies

  • Miracle . 28 min., Color, optical sound, 16 mm: New York, Castelli-Sonnabend 1970
  • Premium . 24 min., Color, magnetic sound, 16 mm: New York, Castelli-Sonnabend 1975

literature

  • Edward Ruscha: Catalog Raisonné of the Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Steidl, Göttingen.
  • Ed Ruscha: Then & now. Hollywood Boulevard 1973-2004. Steidl, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-86521-105-4 .
  • Course of Empire. Paintings by Ed Ruscha. On the occasion of the Exhibition Course of Empire by Ed Ruscha, the United States pavilion at the 51st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, June 12 - November 6, 2005. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1654 -8 .
  • Ed Ruscha, photographer. Steidl, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-86521-206-9 . (Traveling exhibition catalog).
  • Fifty years of painting: Ed Ruscha. König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86560-703-4 . (Traveling exhibition catalog).
  • Ed Ruscha. Books and pictures . Museum Brandhorst, Munich, de / en. ISBN 978-3-941263-57-4 . (Exhibition catalog).
  • Various small books . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-262018777 .
  • Los Angeles Apartments . Steidl, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86930-700-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Leven, Ursula Wevers: The collaboration between the Ricke and Projektion [sic] galleries in the 1970s . In: Marianne Stockebrand (Ed.): Rolf Ricke . Texts by artists, critics, collectors, friends and colleagues written for Rolf Ricke on the occasion of his 25th anniversary in the gallery. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-88375-133-4  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 67-71 .
  2. ^ Peter Plagens (February 1986), Ruscha's Landscape Vanity Fair .
  3. ↑ German Society for Photography eV: Edward Ruscha ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgph.de
  4. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "R" / Ruscha, Edward, NA 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 13, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Ruscha, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruscha, Ed; Ruscha, Edward Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha , Nebraska