Felix Droese

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Kalus Felix Droese (born February 19, 1950 in Singen / Hohentwiel ) is a German artist.

Life

Droese was born the son of an old Catholic pastor and spent his childhood on the North Sea island of Nordstrand near Husum . In 1966 the family moved to Essen , where Felix Droese finished school in 1969 without the Abitur and worked as a land surveyor . From 1970 to 1976 he studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf in the Peter Brüning class , but mainly worked in the Beuys class. In 1971/72 he did his alternative military service in the state psychiatric institution "Grafenberg" .

The artist, who was politically involved in the Association of Socialist Cultural Creators , was arrested at a Vietnam demonstration in Cologne in 1972 and sentenced to seven months in prison and three years on probation for a serious breach of the peace. After completing his studies, Droese initially worked as a temporary worker for a gardener, landscape gardener and cemetery gardener in Büderich and for the magazine “Spur” in Cologne. In 1979 he applied as a candidate for the Green Alternative List in the local elections in Düsseldorf . In 1986 he took over a professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main , which he resigned after a winter semester.

Droese has lived and worked with his wife, the artist Irmel Droese , on the edge of the Neandertal in Mettmann near Düsseldorf since 1990 .

"Basic supply campaign"

In his art, Droese had already dealt with questions of money, economics and economization for a long time, for example in the 1990s in "money" wood prints on newspaper pages that he had quickly sold for 400 or 1000 DM each, or in the 5000-copy edition of 5 DM notes with the title I gave my innocence for this . In 2003 he provided Aldi Süd with 20,000 copies of two offset prints with the titles Silberfinger and Wind, Wasser, Wolken, signed by himself , for an artist fee of one euro each. The framed works then went over the counter in the branches within a very short time for 12.99 euros each, so that many interested parties who did not arrive on time were left with nothing. Other artists also took part in the food discounter's marketing campaign with their works, such as Georg Baselitz with an unsigned remaining edition of his Puck motif , which he created for the 1993 ice hockey world championship . Droese called the campaign, which brought Aldi Süd an image gain and income of more than 200,000 euros, "Aktion Grundversorgung" and commented on it with the words "I have the customer and Aldi has the customers" and "Art is not what it brings in money, art is what it tells us. ”In 2004 he created a catalog for an exhibition at the Museum Goch with the title The Aldi-Multiple: a basic supply game . In 2014 he reported at a press conference that his colleagues had accused him of being a “destroyer of art” because of the discount campaign. About the art market he judged that it was a "building of lies" and seduced the artist into "giving the clown".

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Felix Droese's contribution to the Bertramstrasse picture wall , Hanover 1991

literature

  • Eckhart Gillen (Ed.): Pictures of Germany. Art from a divided country. Catalog for the exhibition of the 47th Berliner Festwochen in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, September 7, 1997 to January 11, 1998, DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4173-3 . (Catalog edition)
  • Karl Ruhrberg (Ed.): Zeitzeichen. Stations in fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia. DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2314-X .
  • General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 29. Munich, Leipzig: 2001. P. 477-480, KG Saur Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Norbert Jocks: Felix Droese: "Money is the tangible of the intangible" . Interview in: Kunstforum , Volume 149: Art and Money , p. 156
  2. ^ Jeannette Neustadt: Economic Aesthetics and Brand Cult. Reflections on the brand phenomenon in contemporary art . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1659-0 , p. 332 f. ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ Jürgen Hohmeyer: The dirt of the gods . Article from January 31, 2000 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on January 1, 2015
  4. ↑ Illustration in: Why are we afraid for money? - Money and Love in Psychoanalysis . Program flyer for the congress of the Freud Lacan Society, Berlin, December 4-6, 2015 ( PDF )
  5. ↑ What was right for Dalí, Aldi is cheap . Article from May 24, 2004 in the nzz.ch portal , accessed on January 1, 2015
  6. ↑ Aldi hits the bull's eye with discount art . Article dated December 1, 2003 in the handelsblatt.com portal , accessed on December 31, 2015
  7. ^ Gottfried Knapp: Felix Droese - committed artist and Aldi supplier . Article dated December 3, 2003 in the sueddeutsche.de portal , accessed on December 31, 2015
  8. ↑ Discount gallery: Aldi wants to sell art . Article from November 13, 2003 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on December 31, 2015
  9. ↑ Articles: Droese, Felix (2004/2010) , website from January 7, 2015 in the museum-goch.de portal , accessed on January 1, 2015
  10. ↑ Katja Blomberg: How art values ​​are created. The new market of art Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-938017-24-4 , p. 19 f. ( Google Books )
  11. ^ Felix Droese: The Aldi multiple. A basic supply game , website in the artax.de portal , accessed on January 1, 2016
  12. ^ Annette Bosetti: The angry speech of the artist Droese . Article from December 5, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on January 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Droese, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droese, Kalus Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Singing (Hohentwiel)