Ekkehart Rautenstrauch
Ekkehart Rautenstrauch (born January 5, 1941 in Zwickau ; † January 3, 2012 in Nantes ) was a German-French artist who lived in Nantes in Brittany ( France ) from 1968 until his death .
Private life
Ekkehart Rautenstrauch was born as the second of three sons in January 1941 in Zwickau. The father Wolfgang, the only teacher's son from Borna, was a gynecologist and from 1939 to 1948 in the war or as a prisoner of war. He was very musically inclined and remained an excellent piano player well into old age. The mother Annemarie, b. Burgkhardt, the eldest daughter of five children, came from a wealthy, middle-class family in Zwickau. Both of the mother's brothers had died in the war. In the chaos of war, the three sisters decided to flee to the West in 1945. After that the family lived in small Swabian communities. Attending dwarf school, elementary school, Progymnasium and grammar school and several apartment moves reflected this post-war period. In 1948 the father returned from captivity, and it was not until 1954 that the family in Albstadt-Ebingen was able to create a permanent home for themselves . Despite all the privations, the youth and school days were felt to be carefree. From this time came a lifelong loyal and supportive circle of friends.
"Ekke" showed a strong musical talent early on, with music and piano playing in the foreground for a long time. But the visual arts came more and more to the fore. Painting became a passion; the first exhibition took place at the age of 17.
Rautenstrauch spent his youth in Baden-Württemberg . From 1948 to 1954 he and his family lived in Sulz am Neckar and from 1954 in Albstadt on the Swabian Alb. After passing his school leaving examination in 1962, he studied painting at the Art Academy in Stuttgart. Then he moved to Paris, where he moved into a small studio. (1967-1969). Here he met his future wife Ségolène, a photographer. He moved with her to western France in 1969. There, in the Loire Atlantique region , near Nantes, he found his new home. The marriage, which ended after 20 years in 1989, had three children: Alban (1972), Sylvain (1973) and Blanche (1982). The next few years were characterized by a housing shortage and shortage of money. His French friends and colleagues made new exhibitions possible so that artistic work could slowly come to the fore again. In 1992 there was a brief new relationship with Yolanda B. From 2000 until his death in 2012, he lived with his third wife Muriel L.
January 3rd. Ekkehart Rautenstrauch died in Nantes in 2012.
Artistic career
In 1962, after graduating from high school in Ebingen , Rautenstrauch began studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . Professors Heinrich Wildemann and Hannes Neuner taught him there . The Bauhaus artists Lázló Moholy-Nagy and Kurt Schwitters in particular became role models, but also the influence of Willi Baumeister , who had worked for years at the Stuttgart Art Academy, shaped him. In the years 1965–1966 study trips with painter friends to Tunisia and Morocco followed , after which he set up as a freelance painter in Paris . His future wife was a photographer, he was able to quickly familiarize himself with the various chemical processes involved in developing photographs. He began to experiment with light and the chemical reactions. The traditional painting utensils such as canvas and brushes were abandoned, music quotations were created on photo paper and light drawings with graphics. In 1969/1970 the company moved from Paris to Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine near Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). Rautenstrauch now worked a lot in nature, redesigned it and captured the change photographically. Joint actions with the neighboring farmers, the use of their farm equipment were recorded as well as sketches and drawings made in the studio on photo paper, aluminum foil and plasticized material. Ropes, threads, colored ribbons and pieces of wood in and in front of the object formed a newly created space. Many motifs were found as collages and as templates in his later works.
In 1972 Rautenstrauch received a teaching position at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, and a few years later the artist rediscovered stereoscopy . He was fascinated by the old technology and tried to integrate it into his work. The space in the three-dimensional technology and the holography did not let him go, remained immensely important for him. His catalogs such as Raumbilder (1985), Relief-Art (1994), Kl @ nghaus (1990) or also ZeichenRaumklang (2011) reflected this. For many of his works, he created “observers stereoscopiques”, head-high sculptures that were placed in front of the art object. The art object was fixed three-dimensionally with the prismatically cut glasses worked in at eye level and allowed the viewer a sensual visual experience. In the mid-1990s, digital media such as image processing and video sequences increasingly found their way into his work.
Space, sound, color, these are the main themes that determined his work. In 1982 he was appointed professor at the Ecole d'Architecture de Nantes. Important study trips to the European art centers followed. In 2007 he stopped teaching.
Space sign sound
The central artistic endeavor of the artist was to create virtual spaces with the help of form, color and sound. The inspiration from music played a major role for many of his pictures and art installations: For example for the large installation “Photo Tape” from 1975 and later for the video music work “Brachland”, the Winter Journey inspired by Franz Schubert's music and the Goldberg Variations after Johann Sebastian Bach . Contemporary composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen found an echo in Rautenstrauch's work through compositional quotations. Some of his pictures can also be understood as sound compositions that enriched his oeuvre again and again.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1972 Nantes, Argos Aide gallery à la première exposition Interpenetrations
- 1973 Aix la Chapelle (Cologne) New gallery, studion parts to one part
- 1975 Rennes, Maison de la Culture Le temps d'une journée
- 1976 Nantes, Musée des Beaux Arts photo book (Oeuvre acquise par le Musée)
- 1976 Decker, Rautenstrauch, Tripp: Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart,
- 1977 Les Sables d'Olonne, Musée des Beaux Arts
- 1979 Nantes, Galérie Convergence Partition visual
- 1982 Professeur à l'école d'Architecture de Nantes
- 1983 Nantes, Manufacture Double Vision
- 1985 Nantes, Raumbilder, Memory 1-X
- 1985 Munich, holography gallery anaglyphs, integraphies, stereoscopic objects
- 1988 City of Ostfildern for three eyes
- 1989 Paris gallery Convergence Perspectives insolites
- 1990 Berlin Birdo-Academie, binocular installations
- 1993 Rezé, Espace Diderot, Battement de cils
- 1993 Berlin artist for Europe
- 2001 Nantes, Maison de l'Avocat, Figures sonorespour une maisonde bord de mer
- 2005 Nantes, le Temple de gout, avec Jean-Luc Giraud, Les jours et les jours
- 2006 La Chapelle Basse mer Memorial pour le carré des fusillées espagnols
- 2006 Orvault, l'Odyssée, les modulations de la lyre
- 2007 Nantes BPA Iris Portland, 3D-Gallery Urbain Spaces
- 2007 Urbach, Museum am Widumhof Brachland
- 2008 Nantes Galérie Conflence art factory
- 2008 Nantes Galerie le Rayon Vert avec Jean-Luc Giraud Pixel / Brush
- 2011 Ebingen, Albstadt Gallery, ZeichenRaumKlang
- 2012 Nantes, Galerie Loire, ENSAN Debut inventaire
- 2014 Rezé, café des negociants Archis et Cie
- 2015 Nantes, Notre Dame de Lumières Variations
- 2017 Zwickau Gallery at the Cathedral Homage to Ekkehart Rautenstrauch
- 2017 Nantes, Maison d'Avocats Dessins lumières
literature
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: Life and Work . Catalog with articles by M. Löffler, A. Kühne, C. Sorger, H. and Th. Rautenstrauch, W. Schnerring. Dussa art print 2017 Steingaden, franz. Translation: M.-O. Buchschmid ISBN 978-3-00-056547-2
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " Goldberg Variations by JSBach ", theme with 32 variations; Contribution by Th. Rautenstrauch Self-published 2011 Munich
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " ZeichenRaumKlang ", between sound image and 3D with contributions by K.Müller-Helle and V. Mertens (catalog for the exhibition from November 6, 2011 to February 12, 2012.)
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " La troisième dimension` à travers la vision stéréoscopique " , 1981, Biennale de Cholet: Vous avez dit" Bizarre "
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " L 'espace secret" or "the view of space" , 1976–1982, 11 stéréograms, edition of 200
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " Nature structure son" with contributions by J. Sauvageot and C. Souviron, catalog for the exhibition in Nantes, 1977, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Ekkehart Rautenstrauch: " Interpénétrations" with a contribution by C. Souviron on the occasion of the exhibition at the Argos Gallery, 1972, Nantes
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le peintre nantais Ekkehart Rautenstrauch est décédé Ouest-France , le 06/01/2012
- ^ Rautenstrauch, début d'inventaire d'un artiste novateur à Nantes Ouest-France , le 06/12/2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rautenstrauch, Ekkehart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 2012 |
| Place of death | Nantes |