Edward Ruscha
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
- 1999: Museu Serralves , Porto; Circa 1968 (group exhibition and transfer to the collection)
- Until November 26, 2006, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne held an exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum in New York under the title "Ed Ruscha. Photographer".
- 2011: Ed Ruscha: Road Tested , Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , Fort Worth , Texas , USA.
- 2013: Ed Ruscha. Books and pictures . Museum Brandhorst , Munich, catalog.
- 2013: Ed Ruscha. Los Angeles Apartments . Kunstmuseum Basel , Basel
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
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.
- Volume 1. 1958-1970. 2003, ISBN 3-88243-972-6 .
- Volume 2. 1971–1982. 2005, ISBN 3-86521-138-0 .
- Volume 3. 1983-1987. 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-368-6 .
- Volume 4. 1988-1992. 2009, ISBN 978-3-86521-833-9 .
- Volume 5. 1993-1997. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-251-5 .
- 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
- Edward Ruscha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Edward Ruscha in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ruscha, Edward: Official Website (English)
- Edward Ruscha on kunstaspekte.de
- Ed Ruscha in ArtCyclopedia (English)
- Ed Ruscha in the Gagosian Gallery (English)
- National Gallery of Art. Washington. DC. USA: Edward Ruscha (English, didactic introduction to his work)
- International Print Center New York: Edward Ruscha
- Media art network: Edward Ruscha
- Materials by and about Edward Ruscha in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Peter Plagens (February 1986), Ruscha's Landscape Vanity Fair .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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)
personal data | |
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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 |