Emil Schult

Emil Schult (born October 10, 1946 in Dessau , lives in Viersen ) is a German painter , poet and audiovisual artist.

biography

After studying Sinology in Münster, Schult began to study in 1969 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the printmaking class at Diter Rot . He later switched to Joseph Beuys' class and completed his studies in 1973 as a master student of Gerhard Richter . Both Joseph Beuys and Diter Rot, as well as Rot's partner Dorothy Iannone, remain important to Schult's artistic development. In 1969, Schult lived in Rot's studio in Reykjavik .

Schult develops a wide range of prints, drawings and artist books that contain philosophical writings as well as poems, comics, collages and drawings. He begins to incorporate films into his work early on and also to paint; later he mainly devoted himself to reverse glass painting .

From 1970 to 1974 Schult collaborated with the Free International University founded by Joseph Beuys . From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a teacher at a grammar school in Düsseldorf, later as a lecturer at his former college of education in Münster. Schult publishes books on art education.

Together with Emma Nilsson, he founded the audio-visual project Transhuman Art Critics in 2017.

Cooperation with Kraftwerk

In 1972, Schult began his artistic collaboration with the Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider . As artist friends, they created the music comic for the album Ralf and Florian as well as the covers for Autobahn , radio activity and additional graphics for other albums. In the next few years they wrote texts and sound poetry for Autobahn , Radio-Aktivity, Das Model , Taschenrechner, Computer Welt and others. a.
In 1979 he deepened his studies in computer music at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, CA, USA. At the end of 1982, Schult moved to the Bahamas .

Works and exhibitions

In the Bahamas, Schult developed his distinctive style in reverse glass painting , which should define his future work. It is an old Chinese technique that gives Schult an up-to-date look at painting, as today the world is mainly perceived through glass - through the window, through the glass of the tablet, the television, etc. Since the mid-1980s, Schult has also been working with videos and computer-animated images.

Since the early 1990s, Schult has lived in Düsseldorf again, where he was commissioned to create a crypt for the Robert Schumann University of Music. The crypt has become a complex artistic space intended as a meditation opportunity for students and teachers. Karlheinz Stockhausen composed a work '50 Sound Pictures' for this room based on 50 photographs that Schult had taken of the crypt. It is published in the form of a DVD in the publication “Symbolik einer Krypta” (Droste Verlag, 2012).

In Schult's artistic work, themes such as the evolution of electronic chips play a central role, as does a series of homages to pioneers of electronic discoveries and developments. His focus is on the visual potential of art and his most recent paintings reflect the connection between humans, the electronic microcosm and the immeasurable expanse of space.

Schult has recently shown solo exhibitions at the Osthaus Museum Hagen, DE , Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA, Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida South Western State College, Fort Myers, FL, USA, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum , Paderborn, DE, Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, NY, USA, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

He was visiting professor at the Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University NY, USA.

He has participated in group exhibitions in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, DE , House of World Cultures , Berlin, DE, Galerie Buchholz , New York, USA, AC Gallery, Beijing, CHN, in the Zhang Zhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, China, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , DE, Hombroich Neuss rocket station , DE, Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE a. v. a.

Schult has been collaborating with Emma Nilsson as Transhuman Art Critics since 2017. Lothar Manteuffel and Max Dax joined in 2019 . Transhuman Art Critics look at the evolution of electronic music and art from the perspective of the extended human. The observations are presented as audio-visual works in which archaeological finds merge with the perception of the future.

Publications (selection)

• FLUXUS to FUTURE. Works 1967–2017, Ed. Emma Nilsson, Transhuman Art Critics Publishing, Düsseldorf (2017)
• Emil Schult, Karlheinz Stockhausen: Symbolism of a crypt, with dvd “50 sound images” by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf (2012)
• Emil Schult: Test Pictures 1999 - Test Cards 1999 (1999)
• Emil Schult, Peter Rech with the collaboration of Lothar Manteuffel, Katarina Jacobsen and Notburga Rech: Games with art - art games. Bergedorf funding programs 6, text by Heiner Müller, Verlag Sigrid Persen, Hamburg - Horneburg / Niederelbe (1981)
• Songbook. Good morning beautiful flower. 10 songs, Gute Zeiten Musikverlag, Edition of 100 (1979)
• Songbook. 10 songs, Gute Zeiten Musikverlag, Edition of 100 (1977)
• Emil Schult, Peter W. Rech: Didactic concept, with the assistance of Lothar Manteuffel u. v. a., Verlag für Lehr & Musische Bücher Emil Schult, Düsseldorf (1976)
• Emil W. Schult: Faces - Visages - Köppe - Faces - Capites - Heilabrot, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, Edition of 500 (1974)
• The other comic “Dürerchen's Mondfahrt” by Johannes Geuer, Emil Schult, Derrek Kremer, Young Voss, Christof Kohlhöfer, HP Wallner, published by himself (1972)
• A Book of Man. Connected memories. Finally. Part 3 B Tree, Fred Jahn, Munich, Edition of 500 (1970)
• A Book of Man. Connected Drawings, self-published, signed and numbered, Edition of 100 (1969)
• A Book of Man Second Part Two, unique manuscript, self-published in a modified version, edition of 200, signed and numbered (1969)
• Once upon a time there was a guest book, Published as: That was once a guest book, Galerie Fred Jahn, Edition of 1000 (1969)

Web links

• Emil Schult's website
• Emil Schult at Discogs (English)
• Emil Schult in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Transhuman Art Critics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TRANSHUMAN ART CRITICS. In: TRANSHUMAN ART CRITICS. Retrieved January 26, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Barbara Jakoby: A visit to the crypt of the Robert Schumann University . Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
3. ^ Osthaus Museum Hagen. Retrieved January 26, 2020 . 
4. ^ Emil Schult: Portrait of a Media Artist Pioneer ( English ) Burchfield Penney Art Center. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
5. ↑ ArtSPEAK @ FSW ( English ) Rauschenberg Gallery. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
6. ^ HNF - Chips of History. Retrieved January 26, 2020 . 
7. ↑ HYPER! - A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO ART AND SOUND. Retrieved January 26, 2020 (German). 
8. ^ House of World Cultures: bauhaus imaginista. August 13, 2019, accessed January 26, 2020 . 
9. ↑ an exhibition organized by Diedrich Diederichsen & Christopher Müller feat. Marcus Behmer, Stefan George, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hans Henny Jahnn, Lutz Bacher, Hans Kayser, Ludwig Gosewitz, Jordan Belson, Hapshash and the Colored Coat, The Fool, Rogério Duarte, The Red Krayola / Mayo Thompson, Walter de Maria, Sigmar Polke, Emil Schult, Isaac Abrams, John McCracken, Pedro Bell, Kai Althoff, Henrik Olesen, Öyvind Fahlström, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken, Albert Oehlen, Jack Goldstein, Jutta Koether, Isa Genzken, Palermo, John Coltrane, Tony Conrad - Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity - Exhibitions - Galerie Buchholz. Retrieved January 26, 2020 . 
10. ↑ 首页. Retrieved January 27, 2020 (Chinese (China)). 
11. ↑ International Exhibition Zhangzhou China ( English , PDF) College of Visual Arts & Design. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
12. ↑ Singular / plural collaborations in the Post-Pop-Polit-Arena - exhibitions / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Retrieved January 26, 2020 . 
13. ↑ THE REALITY OF THE UNBUILT. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .