Edgar Diehl

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Edgar Diehl (born April 29, 1950 in Sprendlingen ) is a German painter , artist , author and curator . He is a representative of Concrete Art .

life and work

Edgar Diehl studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1970 to 1972 . He then devoted himself to studying painting and art theory (until 1978) at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Raimer Jochims , who made him a master student in 1978 . Diehl lives and works in Wiesbaden .

Diehl reports in detail about his development as an artist in his book Color Times . He writes about his youth: “My career aspiration was always a visual artist. I just had never dared to say it. ”And refers to his bourgeois origin, to whom such“ crazy things ”were alien. He reports vividly about his art studies with Raimer Jochims and his impulses for his development. When asked: “[…] how much color is necessary to make it tangible?” He comes to the conclusion that the stronger the color, the quieter the form, and talks about his great love for landscape painting : “For a long time I have given up the recognizable forms of landscape, portraits and architecture in favor of working on free color. Nevertheless, inside I am still connected to the theme of the infinite in finitude and claim that my color reliefs today are actually still landscapes. "

He also reports the development away from pure color surface painting towards the design element of the relief in his book: “The relief is so interesting for me because it takes on a bridging position. It lies between image and sculpture, between the second and third dimension. [...] I find seams interesting, the transitions between dimensions and the change in the applicable laws. "

Edgar Diehl was nominated for the International Evard Prize in 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2018 .

In 2019 Edgar Diehl won the Otto Schaffner Prize for Plastic and Sculpture Mörfelden-Walldorf for his work of art Hemingway's suitcase . The three-meter-high sculpture made of perforated sheet steel gives the viewer surprising insights and visual references when circling.

Works in public collections (selection)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1985: Edgar Diehl , Appel and Fertsch Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1990: Abercrombie , Environment, Bellevue Hall, Wiesbaden
  • 1991: Abercrombie, Bleche, Hadra, Lion's daughter , legless , Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern
  • 2008: Color reliefs , Gallery Veronika Kautsch, Michelstadt
  • 2010: Surprise and Contradiction , dr.julius / ap, Berlin
  • 2012: Edgar Diehl , Sydney Non Objectivs (SNO 88), Sydney, Australia
  • 2013: Color exploration 3 , IKKP, Eugen Gomringer archive, Kunsthaus Rehau, Rehau
  • 2013: Healing Colors , Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  • 2016: Serendipity , Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
  • 2020: Palindrome , Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1983: Matter and Form , ETH Zurich , Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1989: Nonfigurative-essential-painting , Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 1993: Forms of asceticism , Ucher Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • 1998: Third generation reductive artists , Museum Modern Art Hünfeld , Hünfeld, Germany
  • 2007: The task of the self (with Reinhard Lättgen), Bellevuesaal Wiesbaden
  • 2009: Crossing the boundaries of concrete art , Walkmühle Artists' Association, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 2011: Color and Space , IS –projects Leiden, Netherlands
  • 2012: Reliefreduktiv , Walkmühle Artists' Association, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 2013: Doppler , Parallel Art Space, New York, USA
  • 2014: Reliefreduktiv 2 , Kunstverein Speyer,
  • 2014: Doppler Shift , Visual Art Center, New Jersey, USA
  • 2014: Reliefreduktiv 3 , Quadrat Dornbirn, Austria
  • 2014: The suspension of time , Hühsam Gallery, Offenbach
  • 2015: Territory of Abstraction , Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
  • 2015: Delicacy , Galerie Floss & Schulz, Cologne
  • 2016: Exploration in Visual Art , Kunstverein Erlangen, Erlangen
  • 2017: The small format , Galerie Haas, Ingolstadt
  • 2017: Oppler , Transmitter Gallery Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • 2018: White , Kunstraum Stoffen, Pürgen
  • 2018: Out of Shape , Kunsthalle Wiesbaden
  • 2019: Art – Games – Art , Kleinsassen Art Station, Hofbieber
  • 2020: 30 years of Galerie Hühsam , Offenbach

Art in public space

  • 1976: Prakash , facade Wittelsbacherallee / Habsburgerallee , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984: Staircase from company 6/0/7 , Darmstadt, 1st prize competition
  • 1986: einnegermitgazellezagtimregennie , showcase installation, Vierjahreszeiten, Wiesbaden
  • 1991: Nereus , stele made of colored concrete and stainless steel, Tetra-Pak Group Germany , Hochheim / Main
  • 1992: New moon , installation, Wiesbadener Volksbank , Wiesbaden
  • 1993: The appropriation of relatives by choice , installation, Airport Country Hotel, Bad Weilbach / Taunus
  • 1994: Please set , installation and performance, Kunstverein Volxheim / Nahe
  • 1998: Exterior facades and trompe-l'oeil painting on a late classicist residential and commercial building, Bad Schwalbach / Taunus
  • 1999: Florida , exterior facade of a residential building from the sixties , Riederbergstrasse 73, Wiesbaden
  • 2000: Declaration of love , overall exterior, renovation of the facade, entrance, color scheme; Spa, city and pharmacy museum Bad Schwalbach
  • 2005: Walter Debo 1955, Edgar Diehl 2005 , genre painting , at Kreuzgasse 23, Idstein / Taunus
  • 2006: You and Us = 1 , eleven temporary road spans, Wellritzstrasse, Wiesbaden (with Thomas Stolz), 1st prize in a municipal competition

Curatorial work

  • 1985: Het Apollohuis , Paul Panhuisen / Johan Goedhardt, sound installation, concert and documentation Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
  • 1989: 14 Hessian artists , permanent exhibition, Finanzamt Frankfurt-Höchst, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1991: Vom Röstigraben , exhibition by 13 Swiss artists, Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden
  • 1993: We are going slowly , exhibition by 4 young artists from Belgium, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
  • 1998: Third generation reductive artists , Museum Modern Art Hünfeld , Hünfeld
  • 2006: Crossing borders of concrete art , exhibition with 19 positions, artists' association Walkmühle, Wiesbaden
  • 2012: Reliefreduktiv 1 , exhibition with 15 international artists, artists' association Walkmühle, Wiesbaden
  • 2014: Reliefreduktiv 2 , exhibition with 16 international artists, Kunstverein Speyer, Speyer
  • 2014: Reliefreduktiv 3 , exhibition with 7 international artists, QuadrART Dornbirn, Austria
  • 2015: Reliefreduktiv 4 , exhibition with 18 international artists, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
  • 2015: Reliefreduktiv 5 exhibition with 17 international artists, Galerie Bunsen / Götz, Nuremberg
  • 2017: New Optics I , Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach
  • 2017 New Optics II , Claudia Weil Gallery, Augsburg
  • 2018 New Optics II , Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld
  • 2018 Edgar Diehl & Friends , Mariette Haas Gallery, Ingolstadt

Publications

  • Color times. How colors affect people. Socio-historical experiences with colors . updated new edition. Drachen-Verlag, Klein Jasedow 2011, ISBN 978-3-927369-57-3 .

literature

  • Artists' Association Walkmühle (Ed.): Reliefreduktiv. With contributions by Matthias Bleyl and Christian Janecke . Kunstverein Walkmühle, April 22 to June 17, 2012. Surface-Book, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-939855-27-9 .
  • dr. julius / ap (ed.): Color explorations. With a contribution by Johannes Meinhardt, dr. julius / ap, March 22 to April 21, 2013. Surface-Book, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-939855-29-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Color times. How colors affect people. P. 106
  2. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Color times. How colors affect people. P. 125
  3. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Color times. How colors affect people. P. 144
  4. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Color times. How colors affect people. Pp. 126-127
  5. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Color times. How colors affect people. Pp. 164-165
  6. ↑ 3rd Int. André Evard Prize for Concrete and Constructive Art, July 27 - October 27, 2013 ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ = 4. International André Evard Prize: The nominated artists. Kunsthalle Messmer , accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 5th international André Evard Prize for concrete-constructive art. Kunsthalle Messmer , November 2, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  9. ^ Sculpture park: Edgar Diehl wins Otto Schaffner Prize. In: freitags-anzeiger.de. September 5, 2019, accessed August 12, 2020 .
  10. ^ Derricks Collection Cultural Foundation , accessed on October 23, 2015.
  11. ↑ Edgar Diehl: Lions daughters get started: Sheet metal: Hadra: Abercrombie: (exhibition) . Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 1991, ISBN 978-3-89422-045-7 .
  12. ↑ Marc Peschke: Between the second and third dimension. How sensual concrete art can be is shown by an exhibition on the subject of relief in Wiesbaden's fulling mill. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 26, 2012, accessed November 11, 2015 .
  13. ^ Joanne Mattera: A Walk through Doppler Shift. February 10, 2014, accessed November 12, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Karlheinz Pichler: Reliefreduktiv - QuadrART Dombirn shows reliefs from the perspective of non-representational art. In: Kulturzeitschrift (Kulturzeitschrift.at). November 27, 2014, accessed November 12, 2015 .
  15. ^ Hannah Yudkin: Artists Find Common Ground in Language of Abstraction. March 4, 2015, accessed November 12, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, representative of Concrete Art
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jumpers