Erich Reusch

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Water relief (1973-1975). Forum place of the Ruhr University Bochum

Erich Reusch (born June 26, 1925 in Wittenberg ; † December 29, 2019 ) was a German sculptor and freelance architect .

Life

Erich Reusch studied from 1947 to 1953 at the Berlin School of Fine Arts with Georg Leowald, Richard Scheibe and Hans Uhlmann . From 1953 he was in a Düsseldorf active architectural firm, then from 1956 to 1964 as a freelance architect in Dusseldorf. From 1964, Reusch turned increasingly to sculpture. In 1977 Reusch was involved in documenta 6 in Kassel with a large floor sculpture .

In 1975 he was appointed professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and appointed to the chair of "Integration of Fine Art and Architecture". In 1990 he retired.

Erich Reusch was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lived and worked in Neuenrade . In 2010 the Art Academy Düsseldorf made him an honorary member.

honors and awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

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Erich Reusch undertook a number of attempts to activate the space in a plastic way. As early as 1954 he spatialized the picture by piercing the frontal field of vision with thin steel rods that protruded into the space from the “picture”. His kinetic and acoustic sculptures from the fifties and sixties were groundbreaking in their multimedia quality.

Reusch's floor sculptures , in which - years before Carl Andre - he detached himself from the sculpture on the plinth and the associated vertical orientation, were revolutionary . Instead, in Reusch's minimalist floor sculptures with a number of more or less flat elements that are asymmetrically scattered over an area, the horizontal becomes the determining factor. The elements stuck to the floor, out of their calm, invite the viewer to walk around and, out of their horizontality, reinforce his self-perception. Reusch's 1957 design for a memorial in the Auschwitz concentration camp remained a model; its sculptural substance consisted of the optically activated emptiness, of the invisible: Reusch thought of the location of the former selection ramp at the end of a long track system with a 50 × 40 m granite slab on which four approximately 1.30 m high cylindrical disks are intuitively distributed , to mark. Under the panes, he planned to install bell chambers with pressed reverberation, the sounds of which could only be localized at close range.

Reusch became known in the 1960s and 1970s for his "'electrostatic objects": glass boxes, inside of which - depending on the external climate and external friction - soot is deposited in layers, smears, shades of gray that evoke much of the atmosphere of the coal theft era and the Catch coal pots ”. (Georg Jappe)

In 1973 Reusch created a water relief , a deep well for the campus of the Ruhr University in Bochum . When the water flows between the floor slabs, the place invites you to meditate and linger. With forms such as cube and disk , he created accessible, open and dynamic ensembles of works at documenta 6 in 1977, which corresponded to the concept of decentralized sculpture. His life theme, space as an existential factor, he also realized in 1980 with the anti- monumental monument for the resistance of July 20 in Berlin's Bendler Block .

The art historian Manfred Schneckenburger Reusch described it as a “pioneer in decentralized space” . Reusch wanted to transform the open space, which today is often degraded to a space in between and residual space between utility buildings, into a place that can be perceived specifically. The autonomous sculpture is replaced by elements distributed over the area - often tubes, trapezoids or steles - which, in their reduced form, do not draw attention to themselves, but rather to the space between them, which in this way becomes a “filled field of tension between material objects »is transformed. Overman-high cross steles , tubes and other objects, for example, transform a green area into a modulated space that is experienced as a stage during his work on the Mainz University campus . Or spatial references and spatial structure can be experienced by pacing - for example during his work on the Munich Olympic site. "For me, it was primarily the gravitational relation of the shapes to one another that was important, not the pressure on the ground by the weight." (Erich Reusch)

Works in public collections (selection)

Working in public space (selection)

Illustrations

literature

  • Erich Reusch: limitless. Works 1951-2019 / infinite. Works 1951-2019, exhibition cat. Situation art (for Max Imdahl) , Bochum 2020.
  • Volker Adolphs, Christoph Schreier (conception and processing): Erich Reusch: Work 1954–1998 . On the occasion of the retrospective of the same name at the Kunstmuseum Bonn , January 29 to March 22, 1998. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1998.
  • Reusch. The space is the event / It is the space. Exhibition cat. Situation art (for Max Imdahl). Richter & Fey Verlag, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-941263-44-4 .
  • Reusch, Erich . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 184, 194-196 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Erich Reusch , FAZ from January 4, 2020
  2. ↑ Jens Dirksen: "Obituary for Erich Reusch" , Westfälische Rundschau from January 2, 2020
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Reusch, Erich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 December 16, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ LWL awards the Konrad von Soest Prize 2006 to the artist Erich Reusch ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2017 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. , Press release of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Münster, from November 29, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eee.lwl.org
  5. ^ Exhibition page no longer available , search in web archives: Erich Reusch - Other Horizons I , Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis, October 31, 2010 to January 9, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturbox.de
  6. ↑ Erich Reusch - OIE . Museum Schloss Moyland, 7 October 2018 to 12 May 2019.
  7. ^ Wall objects , Galerie Zaar, Hagen, exhibition from July 4, 2010 to August 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ Dieter Ronte in the preface to the Erich Reusch catalog . Works 1954-1998. Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1998.
  9. ↑ Martin Seidel: Erich Reusch. Works 1954-1998. Kunstmuseum Bonn. Kunstforum, Volume 140, April - June 1998, p. 395.
  10. ↑ Erich Franz: Beyond the visible. Notes on the art of Erich Reusch. In: REUSCH - new work from the past. Ed. Erich Reusch. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, p. 66.
  11. ↑ Georg Jappe: Düsseldorf: "Erich Reusch" (PDF; 7 kB) Die Zeit , June 1976.
  12. ↑ Georg Imdahl: On the death of Erich Reusch: Experimental Zeitgeist . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 26, 2020]).
  13. ↑ a b Erich Reusch, Wasserrelief (Forumbrunnen), 1973–75 ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Art in Architecture, Ruhr University Bochum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  14. ↑ Erich Franz: Beyond the visible. Notes on the art of Erich Reusch. In: REUSCH - new work from the past. Ed. Erich Reusch. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, p. 66.
  15. ↑ Erich-Reusch.de , official website of the artist, accessed on September 30, 2010.
  16. ↑ Erich Reusch: Plastik Finanzamt Mitte , artibeau - art in Bochum
  17. ↑ Erich Reusch: Plastik Frankfurt , artibeau - art in Bochum
  18. ↑ Erich Reusch: oT (1979) , SkulpTour Munich (Welt-der-Form)
  19. ↑ Erich Reusch: "Nasse Augen" , artibeau - art in Bochum
  20. ↑ Integration (1988/89) - Erich Reusch , in: Kunstlandschaft Campus ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2011 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. (PDF; 3.1 MB), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgeschichte.uni-mainz.de
  21. ↑ Green column , fountain - monuments - art in Göttingen
  22. ↑ The skybiker , painted in pink , caused a public sensation . It was attached to the sculpture by an unknown hand in 1994 at a height of several meters, “moving” upwards. Citizens and students publicly campaigned for the Skybiker to remain and perceived it as an embellishment of an unloved work of art. Reusch insisted on his copyright and forbade changing his work of art. The Skybiker was finally removed by court order and reinstalled on a light pole on the university forum (source: Göttinger appointment calendar 2007 ; PDF; 3.4 MB).
  23. ↑ Reusch sculpture - art in public space ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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. , City of Neuenrade @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuenrade.de

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personal data
SURNAME Reusch, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 29th December 2019