Enric Rabasseda

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Enric Rabasseda (born November 2, 1933 in Barcelona , † October 22, 2016 in Wuppertal ) was a visual artist.

biography

Enric Rabasseda was born in Barcelona in 1933 with the name Enrique Rabasseda Miró to Catalan parents. He attended regular school. Due to his talent, his artistic training began early. In 1946 (at the age of 13) he became a student of Sanvizens in the private academy "San Lucas" in Barcelona, ​​in 1949 he became a student of Muxart in Barcelona. From 1951 to 1954 he was a master student of Muxart and shared a studio with him. From 1954 to 1956 he did military service in Spain and immediately went to Paris for two years of study from 1956, where he married a German. Since 1958 he lived and worked in Wuppertal. He secured his livelihood in 1958, initially by working on the building and from 1968 to 1996 as an occupational therapist in a Wuppertal clinic ( Bergisch-Land Clinic ) of the LVA Rhine Province (in 1979 he passed the state examination for occupational and occupational therapists). Since 1951 he has exhibited his works in over 100 group and more than 70 solo and double exhibitions at home and abroad. Enric Rabasseda was a member of the Bergisch Kunstgenossenschaft Wuppertal (BKG), the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) , the collecting society Bild-Kunst (VGBK) and the trade union ver.di .

Artistic work

His education in Spain included extensive traditional academic training including printmaking, etching and lithography. After completing his training, he began his free work in Barcelona with participation in exhibitions at home and abroad (including Barcelona, ​​Biennale Hispano Madrid 1951 and Havana / Cuba 1953). After completing his military service in the Spanish Army, he went on a study trip to Paris . In Paris he did not get to know - as he had expected - the heights of contemporary art, but rather its permanent crisis. This gradual realization of the hopelessness of modern art was absorbed and compensated for by new social experiences with the French working class. The work on the building led to new ties and solidarities. This second period, actually a transitional period, consisted primarily of the theoretical discussion of the late bourgeois art movement of Tachism, which appeared with all exclusivity . While the friends who moved from Barcelona enthusiastically copied Tachism, he made the first attempts in the direction of realism . After moving to the Federal Republic in 1958, where he has lived in Wuppertal ever since, this turn to realism continued with ink drawings about the "Paras" (French elite troops in the Algerian war) to poems by his friend Francois Garnier.

Subject of the artistic works

The pictures deal with the question of the social purpose and mission of art, what man is, what he could be and what social constraints make of him. The feeling of being at the mercy of a society that calls itself democratic, but whose mechanisms and machinations man cannot escape - let alone that he could understand them. With his works Rabasseda asks questions, he gives no answers.

Rabasseda once put it this way:

“ You feel like you're living in a Kafka'an world, this feeling of powerlessness, of being at the mercy of this abundantly informed society. A feeling that we all more or less consciously or unconsciously carry in and with us. "

Voluntary and cultural-political activities

The studio talks between Willi Dirx and Rabasseda took place from 1969 to 1975 and included talks between workers, intellectuals and artists about art and society. Participants in the podium included Dr. Richard Hiepe (art historian, Munich), Liselotte Rauner (writer, Bochum), Richard Limpert (working-class writer, Gelsenkirchen), Erasmus Schöfer (writer, Cologne), Manfred Fiedler (cultural worker , Karl-Marx-Stadt), Armin Juhre (editor, Wuppertal ), Lea Grundig (co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO) , Art Academy Dresden), Hermann Schulz (Publishing Director, Wuppertal), Ruth Dirx (writer, Wuppertal), Horst Laube (dramaturge, Wuppertal), Gerhard Merting (member of the presidium of the German Cultural Association of the GDR , Berlin) and Dr. Dr. Revermann (Head of Cultural Affairs, Wuppertal).

The graphic work group was founded in 1971 by Rabasseda as the first workshop in Wuppertal. Workers and employees processed discussions and experiences from the world of work in pictures or graphics. Their books were illustrated in cooperation with the literature workshop.

Enric Rabasseda was admitted to the Association of Visual Artists in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 1, 1966 , which was transferred to the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) , from 1966 Rabasseda was chairman with Prof. Ernst Oberhoff for an initial two years. The 68 attempts to open the association resulted in new elections for the board of directors in the BBK. Enric Rabasseda was from 1971 to 1989 chairman with Hans-Jürgen Hiby , HK Pesch among others in the BBK district association Bergisch Land.

As part of his BBK work , Enric Rabasseda represented the professional and social interests of artists such as artists 'social insurance, art library in the Wuppertal city library, artists' social assistance based on the Kiel model in cooperation with the cultural office, competitions on art in buildings, the annually recurring Art market, own exhibition rooms, etc.

Purchases of works of art

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  • Enric Rabasseda, artist archive, Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal
  • Wuppertal artist directory, 2000, Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • Artist portraits in Wuppertal, 1983, publisher Kulturamt Stadt Wuppertal
  • Municipal Gallery Schloss Oberhausen, June / Aug. 1988, Jäger collection catalog
  • yesterday-today-tomorrow, 100 years of Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft, ISBN 3-00-016342-5
  • In our country, 1979, Weltkreis Verlags-GmbH, Dortmund, ISBN 3-88142-193-9
  • Tendenzen No. 107, May – June 1976, Damnitz Publishing House, Munich
  • From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Sept./Oct. 1975, catalog for the exhibition Enric Rabasseda / Udo Meyer
  • Small series of poetry and prose, Wulff-Verlag Dortmund 1977
  • “Democracy divided”, Hugo Ernst Buyer, Rabasseda, Industrielandschaften I - IV, ISBN 3-88090-053-1
  • "ALLA BOTTEGA" Rivista Bimestrale di Cultura el Arte Anno XX / Lucano Giuseppe, Via Plinio 38, 20129 Milano, issue no. 1 February, 2 March, 3 May, 4 July, 5 September 1982
  • XIA intelligent architecture, issue 92, 07–09 / 15 (page 016/017), publishing house Alexander Koch GmbH, 70771 Leinfeld-Echterdingen

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personal data
SURNAME Rabasseda, Enric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabasseda Miró, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2016
Place of death Wuppertal